softer_strength | College...

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College...

Who: Team 8, Dezzi, her world
When: End of first college year.
What: Exams

"...so we can't just find the answers?" Kiba groaned, flopping on the rooftop with his lunchbox on his chest. "I mean, that's the best answer right?"

"Things are different here," Shino noted, glancing at him briefly, judged by the shifting of his glasses! "Cheating is not a skill here. You should know these things from class."

Kiba lifted his head enough to glare at his teammate, "I know where the teacher keeps shit."

"Ahno..." Hinata winced.

"Ugh! I'm going to FAIL! Does that mean I'm kicked out of college and have to wait on the sidewalk all day?!" Kiba moaned, flopping his head back.

Hinata winced and patted his leg gently, "no, but you will need to repeat a c-class if you fail?"

"THAT'S WORSE!" Earth America History was so BORING. The others yeah he could scrape by without cheating but there was just no focus for him there. Even when there were battles he made his notes on how stupid it was and zoned back out! And they had so many leaders in so short a space!

"We will mourn your failure," Shino noted drily.

He lifted his head to glare at Shino again then groaned, "that's fair. Fuck I'm screwed. Could one of you clone technique me?" Take his test for him?

"That's cheating!" Hinata yelped.

"Team integrity!" he countered. He knew it wasn't going to fly but hey, he had to try. "I'll see if challenging the teacher to physical combat helps," he grumbled. It might? Who knew?

"Don't do that," Hinata sighed, "please. The teacher is a civilian!"

"Yeah yeah," he grumbled. "Sorry guys."

Shino snorted, "try reviewing notes before the test."

"I'll consolidate some notes for you!" Hinata beamed, launching from the roof to go find his classmates.

"...fuck," he grumbled.

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Bliiiink. "Am I suppose to put them somewhere after I find them?" Because at least game rules were interesting? He was not looking forward to the test questions but hey, maybe the chasing people around would be worth it?

"We can ask Hinata to tend any bruised participants," Shino added, smiling slightly.

"The gym." she said with a laugh, "We're setting up a buffet in there for people who don't manage to hide. Their win condition is to hide well enough that you can't find them by dawn tomorrow."

"Lone hunting or is Akamaru running with me?" he grinned sharply. Because it was far too much time either way but hey at least people should have fun?

"I'll wait with Hinata there," Shino decided, setting the test back down on the note pile.

"Just you." Dezzi said, fanging at him, "Akamaru will be confusing people's trails."

"Ah, you subverted my partner," he snorted, fanging up at her a moment. "Evil woman." Bah.

But seventy-five students, that was a lot of questions about history. Bah.

"You adore me." she said, wrinkling her nose, "Besides, how would there be any chance if I hadn't subverted your partner?"

Some of the questions were duplicates! She did try to stick with the mock test!

"Well yeah," he agreed easily, "but you're not going to get bored sitting in the gym?" And he meant sitting! Not attempting gym things when...oh wait, "okay Shino and Hinata will be there not just sitting but." Well, boring.

"I need to revise my physics," was her response, "which is less bored studying and more frantic attempts at remembering enough to not lose another shirt. I liked that one."

He blinked? "YOU upset him today? I thought that was idiot other students!" That was far more concerning yes!

"Huh? Oh! No. I was just in the blast radius and it reminded me that I do not like being in the blast radius." she assured him, "I ate like a dozen cookies and someone's sandwich, I'm fine. Should I start growing out my hair?"

"Maybe Akamaru should start going to class with you," he growled softly, considering. She wouldn't have to fear blast zones then! "Especially since you got hurt at all!" Which wasn't okay!

"Huh?"

"Akamaru isn't as fire-resistant as I am." Dezzi said somberly, "It's for the best that he not. Dr. Lee has never killed a student."

She ran her fingers through her short hair, "You know. Since we've been engaged for a while now I thought I'd ask your opinion. Most werewolves have long hair, I just kept mine short because of stupid kid reasons. So. What do you think?"

"But his reflexes beat yours by a lot." Just. Saying. "Not dead isn't the same as not getting hurt at all." And he got very annoyed when people hurt his Dezzi!

"...oh." Blank, panicked staring! Was there a right answer here?! Was there not? Shit was staring bad?! "I like you." Um. Anyway she enjoyed being?

"Thank you for worrying about me, but this really isn't a problem...but I guess if it worries you enough I can ask if Akamaru can audit the class."

Then she placed a kiss on one of his tattoos, "There isn't a wrong answer, Kiba."

"You have to heal burns again and he goes to class," he nodded firmly. That was just...yeah. Much firmer ground there!

He tilted his head at that, amused, "yeah, but there's no real wrong way to do hair either?"

"If he gets permission to audit." Dezzi corrected, "I'm not risking my education."

"Well, yes, but...I don't know if I should? Or not. I'm used to short hair, but I cut it short mostly so Jonathan wouldn't pull on it when I was a kid. Then I just...kept it short, because I don't get tangled up. But you keep me safe."

"It's Akamaru or Shino," he shrugged simply. One of them would manage!

Huh, well, that was that asshole guy right? "Why did you let him keep his hand?" he growled. Right, right, not a him problem but FUCK THAT GUY. "Well...try it and see how you feel?" he offered. "Then you'll know?"

"I'll ask for both." she said with a sigh.

"Because I was six and afraid of being killed." she said simply, "Okay. We'll try it out."

"If it happens again to that degree," he grumbled. Just saying, she snacked all the time yes, but having to after a class was bad!

"Yeah, and what did your alphas say about him?" he sighed, ruffling her hair.

She almost kept arguing, then decided that it would be stupid to do so when he was just worried about her. She snuggled in closer at the grumbling instead, "Ahhh...well. Gram and Grand weren't around, so they didn't ask, so I just. Didn't offer."

He...blinked? "You were afraid for you life and didn't tell them?" That was the tone that meant he miiiight shake her.

Probably.

"Ooof." she sighed and dropped backwards onto her elbows. Which slid out from under her, so her head cracked against the roof. "It's...okay, things are better than they used to be, Kiba, but the majority...which in this world is human white males for the most part, in that order...aren't good about the rest of us. The farther you get from that triad the more dangerous your life is. I've known my whole life that there are people who would kill me for existing."

The facepalm was because he was learning that he couldn't save her from EVERYTHING and hadn't caught her head? And she truly did put definition to the word klutz some days. "You had a specific though, Dezzi. You had a specific person that made you afraid since childhood."

"After a while it was just..." she shrugged from the ground, "I don't know. Just part of the background noise."

Yeah he was reaching out to grab her shirt gently and shake her slowly. Not enough to bonk her on the ground but hey, "fear for your life is not something you should be used to."

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