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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"Could be either." Dezzi said, dryly, "We'll have to go over that." and she made a note.

"And probably neither is correct," Shino noted drily. "His mind is a mystery."

"He is very, ah...dedicated?" Hinata winced.

"Reliable." That was a good quality that didn't rely on brains there!

"Determined." Dezzi offered.

"The question was 'who is pictured on Mount Rushmore'," the pair finally admitted. A complete softball question there!

"...very Kiba," Shino blinked.

"Oh, Kiba." Dezzi made another note, "Gotta love him, but...man. It's a good thing he's a good ninja."

"Ahno, m-maybe if we ran on that mountain?"

Shino snorted very, very quietly, "then it would be 'the guy with the nose' and 'the weird hair guy'."

"Maybe if we told him about the people who pee on the carvings?" she mused.

That just got both ninjas staring at her for a long moment, before, finally Shino shook his head slightly, "no." They did not need to have to fight to keep the marking down on public monuments.

Just no.

It only took a few seconds longer for Dezzi to make the same connection, and she nodded firmly. "You're right. Never telling him about that."

"Another camera out," Shino noted. Look a wild subject change!

"A flying one," Hinata blinked after a check. "Sprained wing maybe!" she was grabbing more supplies to prep!

"Right..." she nodded firmly, "okay. I think that the flying students had more war questions, for the most part..."

"He remembers those b-better!" Hina was trying to stay positive! The fact he remembered them because of strategy arguments was beside the point!

"That's why we gave the easy questions to the harder to catch students." Dezzi agreed.

"How l-long did it take to think of all this?" she smiled.

"Started thinking about it after midterms." she admitted, "I've been refining for a while. I even got some time with your teacher from home," somewhere in the last year, home stopped being Chicago. Even if she still lived here most of the time, "and she helped me with some tactics."

"Ah," she winced. Yeah, Kiba's marks in some classes had not been ideal after that point. "I knew Kurenai-sensei was working with you..." but she'd thought it was tutoring on their world or some such!

Shino on the other hand, well, "there will be ramen later." He'd ensured catering for the evening.

"I want him to succeed." Dezzi said, knowing that success was possible for him but that he got in his own brains way like she did in her bodies. "So does Kurenai-sensei. So... this."

"Shino, you're the second best friend in the world, but only because Hinata comes first." Ramen! She practically had hearts for eyes.

"It is a very well c-considered plan," she smiled. "I'm sorry I didn't help s-sooner!" That was a failing on her part since Shino had noticed!

"Perfectly justified ranking." He shifted to catch the inbound winged student; wincing slightly. This one was not nearly as okay with being thrown.

Dezzi blinked, "Hinata...sweetie, you have your own studies going on. Kiba's my fiance. It's my job to help him out, too."

The student had one wing held out at an awkward angle and said, "Bad landing. On my shoulder. Ow."

"Yes," she blinked, "but we are a t-team!" So yes she was feeling a little bad.

Shino nodded and shifted immediately to set the kid on a table, "Hinata?"

"...heavy sprain," she noted after a moment of staring. "We can reduce swelling and bind to allow it to rest."

"Yes," she said, patiently, "and sometimes people have to do separate tasks to make the pack work. I got this."

The kid grinned at Hinata and said, "Good thing I don't have hollow bones, huh?"

"We will speak later, Dezzi," Hinata noted, in pure medic mode now. She couldn't divide her concentration when working with something new like a wing! "Hnnn? Yes, I could align all bone shards if your bones were but I would prefer to medivac you to Tsunade-sama in that case," she admitted, fingers working at the joint already.

Dezzi nodded and went back to studying. Hinata was busy, and Dezzi wasn't going to get in the way of work!

"Eh, my sister does have hollow bones? She sees a healing wizard when she breaks something."

She nodded absently to that information, filing it away, "Tsunade-sama is not a wizard as your world defines it, but the premier med-nin in the world. I am new so sealing breaks is not fully in my power yet."

"Fair enough!" he grinned again and sat still so the nice medic could finish fixing his arm.

Dezzi oooed over a near-miss Kiba had. She knew he'd get the girl, but that was a miss.

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