1 ✻ I.... don't want a lot for Christmas [Action/Text]

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[ A - Action. Morning. Tenten, Ino and Riku's apartment. ]

[ And, so it's Christmas. After a valiant struggle with elves, their ridiculous requests and their oddly judgmental and hypocritical methods, Tenten is left with a single gift. She wasn't sure if she was naughty or nice, because she kinda broke even with them or compromised, but, she did get a gift. She hastily unwrapped it, hoping it'd be a brand new swiss army weapon.

She did not get the swiss army weapon. Her mouth drops the floor quicker than a bunch of kids after an ice cream truck. She shrieks. In her hands is one, giant portrait of Guy-sensei, in really tight green spandex. He mimics a famous pose, and there's a similar message adorned on the picture. However, it states "I WANT YOU.....TO BE MORE YOUTHFUL". She stares at it in horror. Had she not been nice enough? Did her previous aids of babysitting children during the draft go unnoticed? All of these questions where swirling around her head as she took a breath out and accepted her fate as naughty. ]

[ B - Action. Morning. Community housing one, floor four's hallway ]

[ Well, residents (or passer-bys) of complex 1, four floor apartment can see the picture of Uncle Sam Guy-sensei in skin strangling green spandex with the command that "I WANT YOU.....TO BE MORE YOUTHFUL" hung on the end of the hall, right above the entrance to the kitchen. His eyes seem to follow around the looker, making for quite an unsettling portrait. Yeah. Tenten can be seen staring at it from her door, her mouth still agape in horror. ]

[ C - Action. Morning - Later Afternoon. Library. ]

[ Maybe there was a mistake in the system. There had to be a mistake, right? Tenten, dawned in her Christmas Outfit, which is actually the only article of clothing she has available, per the elf's ridiculous request, marches her way to the library. You're free to encounter her on the way there, but it looks like she's on a mission as she madly mutters about tight green spandex and youthfulness.

You can catch Tenten at the library reading an army of books about Santa. She seems to have multiple notes on a nearby piece of paper. Some of which read the obviously helpful, "WEARS RED SUIT", "HEAVY SET AND JOLLY", "HAS DISEASED REINDEER?", "HAS CONNECTIONS TO COAL", and, "ELVES? CREEPY, AND SIMILAR LOOKING BY GENETICS?" and other types of brief, unintentionally hilarious, notes. A couple of times, she gazes to her notes and talks about how something just doesn't make sense, but, for the most part, she's pretty enveloped in her studies about the jolly old man. ]

[ D - Text. Evening. ]

Question, how can Santa make it down a chimney if he obviously can't fit down there, given numerous depictions? How about homes that don't have chimneys? Do the elves take into a general account of your behavior, or just your behavior during Christmas time?

[ Someone is taking this way too seriously. ]

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D - Voice

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[Writing is too troublesome, so. 8|]

Some kind of jutsu? If he's real.

[Somewhere offscreen, the elf in his room shouts in indignation, "Of course he is!"]

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I think he's real. I mean, I'm sure there'd have to be some sign of his existence or else he wouldn't have such a notable reputation! [ ....She's been studying this, okok. She sighs at the elf. ]

So they're still with you, huh?

[endgames]

Just the one.

[And he'd argue, if not for that one. In some reality, a Santa might exist, so he supposes that one came to this world between this Christmas and last.]

[weaponry]

Hmm.. I haven't seen mine all day today. I suppose it might be following Ino, or it found someone new to harass. [ Or maybe it got caught in one of Tenten's apartment booby traps to prevent theft and/or tomfoolery. If this was the case though, she'd try her best not to acknowledge it. ]

The supposed ultimate evidence of his existence has me conflicted, and kind of doubtful, to say the least. His "gift" seems like something that the Malnosso would produce.

[endgames]

It's free stuff, at least.

voice -> video

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Yeah. Free. [ Hey, Shikamaru. She's just... going to turn on the video feed. Just to show you her abomination of a portrait of Guy-sensei. Even if he tries to avert its gaze, it still feels like it's staring right at him. ]

[endgames]

[WOW WHY WOULD YOU BURN HIS RETINAS LIKE THAT.]

Free stuff you can burn?

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Please, I don't want any sort of crisis on my hands if I burned it. Imagine how Lee would react? [ Not that she cares or anything. ] Or what Guy-sensei would think when he came here, knowing my luck. [ Her heart kinda breaks at this thought. She figures the entire community house might just go down in a morning peacock in punishment for burning his likeness! What insubordinate student would ever burn a photo of her sensei?! ]

[endgames]

Give it to Lee then.

[weaponry]

I just hung it over the hallway. I'm sure Lee would place it there, anyways, since he thinks Guy-sensei's gaze should be seen for all. Besides, it could probably halt any burglar in his tracks.

1/2

[endgames]

Or visitors.

[endgames]

[...oh.]

Heh. Good job.

[weaponry]

Someone you're trying to repel, Shikamaru? [ She's curious. It's just her nosy nature, okay? ]

[endgames]

You bet. That floor was empty when I moved into it.

[But with Hidan gone? No one seriously, really.]

[weaponry]

It was? So I guess it makes sure it's for the Konoha-nin only! [ OCCUPY COMMUNITY HOUSING. 1% of the total worlds in Luceti control 99% of that floor! ]

[endgames]

Ha. Or drives anyone else from our world out, ironically.

[weaponry]

Please, I'm sure it'll drive them crazy but I doubt it'll be that bad. They'll get used to it. They'll have to by the time he gets there. If an image drives them crazy now, it's hopeless when he comes back here and takes the portrait into his possession.

[endgames]

Who? Lee?

[weaponry]

Guy-sensei! [ She groans. ] If they don't learn to tolerate his presence in their life now, how are they going to cope when he's here and has free time on his hands! [ There's a sense of urgency in her voice. ]

[endgames]

--why would you think he'd show up here, though? You make it sound like a definite.

[It could happen, of course it could. But a 'maybe' is a stark difference from certainty.]

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Because, this is Luceti. His teammates are here. And this is Luceti. [ She doesn't have much faith in the Malnosso. ] It'll happen one of these days, and preparation is the key to the future. Or something like that.

[endgames]

How defeatist of you.

[As lightly as he says everything.]

[weaponry]

It's not defeatist! it's just preparation for what's probably going to happen. There's nothing about this that's accepting failure!

[ She almost wants to say something about Shikamaru being easily turned over, but, since he's in the hospital after fighting an Akatsuki member, now wouldn't be the most appropriate time to turn the accusation. ]

[endgames]

Failure, no. Maybe I just don't like to think that others showing up to be as trapped as us is inevitable. Will is a whole different thing from if.

[It's one thing to be prepared - he'd been preparing for years just in case Hidan showed up before he actually did - in case of something, and another to anticipate it.]

[weaponry]

Eh, wherever his team goes, Guy-sensei follows. Most of the times he leads and exhausts everyone of us except Lee. I mean, no one can say for certain what comes next but I won't be surprised if he shows up here. I consider it pretty likely, you know? I mean, every sensei except him and Kakashi has appeared, and only after the team has been completed, for at least a brief period of time.