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[ Let's pretend this was back-dated to like noon ok. The NV is positioned on a shelf, displaying a rather curious-looking interior. Ino's standing with a hand on her hip, donned in her usual purple attire complete with her insanely long ponytail, a smile on her face. ]

Can you believe that somebody just let this place rot? The flowers were brown and wilted when I got here and I'm pretty sure I smelled some rats in the back room. It was gross. [ Her nose winkles slightly. ] And of course the wallpaper will be changed soon, too.

But it's amazing what a girl can get done over the span of two days! Thankfully there were already a lot of seeds in the backroom to plant, and most of the flowers only needed a little help to get back to their prime. So guess what that means? [ Her shoulders shift back and forth and her grin grows. ]

That's right! Yamanaka Flower Shop - formerly known as Siren's Flowers, but this has a nicer ring to it - is now open for business! You can't miss it, really, it's right on the corner of sectors 4, 7, and 2. Orders can be given to me in person or over the NV. Here's the list of prices. [ She holds up this for a few seconds. ]

We have everything from azaleas to primroses, and in a few weeks we'll even have some of the more unique flowers from the greenhouse, like blue roses and chocolate cosmos.

Oh, and if anybody's looking for a job, talk to me. I'm sure I can find something for you to do. A woman's work is never done, as they say.

[ She leans forward to turn off the feed, feeling rather smug and self-satisfied. ]

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What's your point? I'm just trying to advertise my flower shop.

And I'm not stopping you. [Honestly. He didn't say anything about the advertisement. Quit being obtuse.]

It wasn't so long ago that the place was in business. Saying it was that bad is an insult to the previous manager. [Which he will have issues with forever. You do not insult the BFF.]

It isn't my fault the storage room had cobwebs in every corner and the flowers on the back shelves were wilted.

And is that all? Because that's hardly as bad as you claimed earlier.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

Just don't make it sound worse than it really was. She put a lot of effort into maintaining that place when she was here. [Hm. That sounds like a bit of a slip.]

So you knew the previous owner?

[Crap. He hadn't meant to let that slip. Well, it's out there, now.] She's a friend. [No past tense. Not ever. That would be wrong.]

I figured. You seem to really like her, yeah?

[And his look goes even flatter than before.] I said friend, and I meant friend. Don't imply it's something it's not.

I'm not implying anything, I'm just asking a question.

[Yeah, right. Just a question. Why ask if he "really likes her" when he's already said she's a friend, if she doesn't mean anything by it? If he didn't like her, she wouldn't be a friend. It's just logic.] It's not "just a question" when I've already said she's a friend. The question is redundant if you're not implying anything.

Jeez, are you always this sour?

I'm not being sour. [For him? This is mild.]

I know sour when I see it.

Not when it comes to me, you don't.

So this is you being friendly?

No. [There's a huge middle ground between sour and friendly, thank you. People just have a hard time telling, with him. Except Momo. Which is one of the reasons why they're friends.]

Edited 2012-07-17 15:55 (UTC)

Then what is it, just slightly grumpy?

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