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[onlymortal]

[Attempted Filter from SEES. FAILED - PUBLIC]

Anybody out there able to keep something under control if the person it's inside has trouble doing it? I don't really know what I'm asking for. I don't even know if it can be done, but - Hell, just forget it.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[It really was.] I know. I'm glad you're okay.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

Yeah. [He nodded.] You too.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato nodded as well, grateful for that. The last event was harder than he thought it would be. Since he decided not to talk about that locked message, whatever it might have been, he thought he should bring up something else.]

... Have you met Minako-san?

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He nodded again.] Yeah. Don't know what to make of her.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He seemed to get that same feeling from Mitsuru too.]

She's just in my place in her world. Most everything else is the same.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't buy it.] But she's nothin' like you.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

Only in personality, perhaps. Is that what you mean?

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

Hell if I know. [A pause.] She's pushy.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

... Pushy?

[That was interesting, though he thought maybe he could understand why Shinjiro felt that way.]

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

She keeps talkin' shit about "starting over". Not likely.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

You plan on avoiding her then?

[Not accusatory, just curious.]

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It's damn creepy.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[If it had been the other way around and he had been the supposed "alternate" then he could see how it was creepy. He wasn't sure either how he would have reacted to his friends not knowing who he was.]

It might be better after meeting with her as a group.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

Mitsuru said you knew about her.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

Yes. [It was true, after all.] Why?

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

She been here before?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

Yes. Before the three of you arrived. [Sort of. It was going to be way too complicated to explain that he saw Mitsuru during that short period too.]

Did you have questions about her?

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He gave one short nod.] What's she like?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

More extroverted. [From what he could see.] Speaks her mind more. What you see is what you get.

She saw it through to the end. I trust her.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He's quiet for a long time before he finally nods.] You trust her, then so will we.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato nodded in return. He hadn't wanted to push them into doing it, doing something they didn't want to. Though they were older than him, they trusted his judgment. He could only hope he didn't ever let them down.]

Thank you. But I understand if you don't like her.

[Not now, anyway. But they needed all the allies they could. It made him wonder too about her memories. Somehow if the four of them all forgot a word or two, would she be the only one who remembered instead?]

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[A scoff.] Tch. Good.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

It'll take time. As long as we're all acquainted, it'll be better in the end.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[A shrug.] If you say so.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato nodded, a little more confident now.]

It'll have to be. [Eventually. If he has to make it so.]