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[second_first]

[Rei is sitting on the roof with a book. It's sitting to the side with a pencil laid across the open pages. She's busily typing a messages into her device, then taking a few moments to look into the distance and enjoy the sun and the breeze before typing a new message.

She'll be up there all day. It's too crowded inside, but she won't be bothered by company.

I mean, is she ever bothered by anything?]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

I know.

[Minato slightly furrowed his eyebrows, something he did so rarely. It was hardly noticeable.]

But... not all of them are. [Judging from her response.]

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She still notices, but doesn't comment.]

Mine isn't.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

Mn. I'm glad.

[He did sincerely mean that. It meant that it was true that not all mirrors were the same.]

What is she like?

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

She talks.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He could picture what the other mirror was like just from her answer.]

It doesn't bother you, does it?

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

No.

[She indicates the device resting on her book.]

We talked.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He looked down at the device as he spoke.]

She contacted you?

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

Yes. We are similar.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[If only it had been that easy.]

You are? How, if I may ask?

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

We have the same understanding.

[Without making a show of it, she closes her book around her pencil, and moves both book and device to her other side.]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

You mean the same ideals, views, or memories?

[Or was it... understanding. He tried to understand that himself.]

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

....Yes. [Her answer is cautious. That's kind of what she means.]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He nodded. If he did run into her, then perhaps it wouldn't be a terrible thing. He looked down at the now empty space the book had been occupying.]

Mn. That's a relief.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

Who did you meet?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He looked up at her then back out toward the scenery.]

Someone whom I thought was a friend.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

But it was a mirror.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He nodded once more.]

Yes. I think so. I doubt he would do that.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

Good.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He let some silence pass before speaking again, and realized how comfortable it was just to talk to her.]

He took something of mine.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

Something important.

[She assumes. Minato doesn't seem like the type who would care if someone took something dumb and little.]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He wondered how this could have happened. Or he knew. Should have known better? But it was too late, and hardly worth regretting now.]

Enough for me to chase him for it.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

You can get another one.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

... I know.

[Somehow.]

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

What will you trade?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

I know what I don't want to trade.