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[ Legos on your floor, Legos in your bunk, Legos in your food, Legos everywhere, Garrus. ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

Garrus.
I don't have some stupid secret crush on Jean.
It would be pointless anyway.

[Rude.]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

And you're not friends with Haruno.

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

That's different!!!

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

Easy, Ino. Not gonna blame you for having feelings, not gonna tease you about what friends you've got.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

You've got where I'm at, you can meet some of my friends. There's no judging going on. It's all right.

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

I swear, I don't know why I put up with you.

[ There's a long pause here. She stares at her screen for a bit, brow furrowed. One minute becomes five, and she gets up to walk aimlessly around her room. Five minutes become ten. Finally: ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

Look, I know you're just convinced something's going on because of that stupid kiss.
But it was just a kiss. I mean, that kind of thing doesn't have to mean something all the time, you know? I just felt bad.
For him. I felt bad for him.

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

Besides—I told you, it would be pointless anyway.
I have Sasuke, and Jean has Mikasa. It's pretty obvious I'm not his type.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

You have a traitor and he has someone who isn't interested back. Traitors are never worth it. If you don't have any interest in Jean, that's one thing. But holding out for a traitor is a bad idea.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

I've been betrayed, Ino. It's brutal. And all anyone a traitor thinks about is themselves. They don't change. They don't grow. There's nothing to redeem.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

You could do so many billions of times better.

[ In all the years she's held onto her feelings for Sasuke, nobody has ever told her that she's too good for him. Not Asuma. Not her teammates, even though they'd always rolled their eyes at her fixation. Not even her dad, though he'd sometimes said that his baby girl was too good for any boy.

But this and now—it's not about Jean. It's not even about Sasuke or her slowly-dawning suspicions that she'll never be able to win over his heart no matter how hard she tries—it's about not wanting to.

And Garrus believes in her. ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

But I love him.

[ If they were in person, it would be quiet and weak. Half-hearted, from a girl who always puts her whole heart into everything. ]

[If they were in person, she'd be getting a hug right about now. He's never been in love, but he's entirely ready to believe that it hurts.]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

He doesn't deserve your love.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org<

You are strong, competent, capable, loyal. You are a warrior and a true friend. And you deserve someone who is loyal and dependable, someone who loves you back.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

It's not even just about deserve. It's about need. You need someone who will respect you, value you, and will be someone you can trust. A traitor can't ever be that.

[ It goes against everything she'd always thought she'd wanted—or needed. Someone cool and handsome, a genius ninja from the most prestigious family in Konoha. Even if Sasuke never cared about her, if she could only—

She could fix him, she'd told herself, and it would be an even more romantic love story. She would beat Sakura, even if the other half of her never wanted to hurt her best friend. Everything would end happily ever after, somehow.

Respect, loyalty, and trust—that had somehow never factored into her visions of her future life with Sasuke. Now, she doesn't know if it'll ever factor in. ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

I don't

[ She stops. Wipes her eyes with the back of her wrist and breathes. ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

I don't know.
I don't know how to stop.

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

I don't know what to do.

[Oh, Ino.]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

You start by coming to the room. I'm here.

[ Oh, Garrus.

It's his kindness that makes her heart hurt the most, but at least it gets a watery smile out of her. She sniffs, pulls her sleeves over her hands and wipes her eyes. Picks herself up and heads over to Garrus' room, where she doesn't waste any time pulling him into a tight hug. ]

Thanks, Garrus.

[He'd had a feeling a hug is exactly what Ino needs, and therefore there's no surprise when she comes in and initiates it. Garrus embraces her back.]

You're welcome, Ino.

[Somehow there's now about a half-dozen human young that he's come to care for and feel protective of... which means sooner or later he's going to have to message Sasuke and deal with this, too.]

Someone's gonna come along and blow Sasuke out of the spaceport. Just watch and see.

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