7th Social Link ▫ [Text + Audio]

[jivitadana]

[That nightmare was... different. Not new, as the stuff of nightmares was something Minato was used to. But different. He had been taking a nap at his desk while working on testing something. Something had been bothering him for a long while already, and it would be a way to distract him from thinking about the dream. The nightmare was the sign of something to come. Like those event announcements. He would just be prepared for it whenever it came.

Thus once he was ready again, he began writing, solving this math problem, then the next math problem and others like it.]

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[Done. Answers checked out. But what about something... simple?]

42 - 17 = ______
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........ What's forty-two minus seventeen?

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[Blank. How could he not know this? Something had to be wrong. (And it isn't cheating to ask the network!)]

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[jivitadana]

[Count. Minato again sees what you did there.]

More important things to think about?

[Hence the red marks. Some people just didn't do well in school for one reason or another. Minato didn't judge.]

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[sorta_cinderella]

Such as the air conditioning in summer school.

[Priorities, man.]

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[jivitadana]

Was it working while you were there?

[He had to ask.]

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[sorta_cinderella]

Occasionally.

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[jivitadana]

Did you have to go to school when it wasn't working?

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[sorta_cinderella]

I'm not one to play hooky.

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[jivitadana]

You go because you have to or because you want to?

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[sorta_cinderella]

Both.

I have friends there, if you're surprised.

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[jivitadana]

Should I be surprised?

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[sorta_cinderella]

I think you already proved you're not. My heart warms.

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[jivitadana]

I do my best.

[He was teasing, and was comfortable enough with her to do so.]

For what it's worth, you warm my heart too.

[That he really did mean and wasn't teasing.]