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[ Letter written thanks to Shikamaru ]

Dear Temari,

Hello! My name is Ikki and I am not writing you on account of the Hyrda Social Project but instead because I have a friend who said that I should ask you my questions because it is the nice thing to do! I do not know you but I know people from your world who are very nice and interesting and cool and amazing!

A little about me is that I am seven years old and live in House 56 and am an airbender, which is someone who controls the air and uses it for things!! I am also now a pokemon trainer although I am not as good at that as I am at bending since I am still in training, but I am trying very hard and I hope I will be able to help Soren properly someday. Soren is my partner who is a swellow which is a kind of flying bird pokemon!

He kind of wanted to go look at the tornado yesterday, but instead we went in the basement with my Uncle Sokka and Aunt Toph and everyone and we waited for the storm to end. Storms can be very dangerous!! But according to other people there have been worse storms here because apparently one of them burned our house down????? But our house is okay!!! Is your house okay??

Also what ninja village do you come from? Do you use genjutsu or ninjutsu or taijutsu? I have heard from Lee that he cannot use one of those types at all!!!!! He thought I was using a jutsu when I used airbending but I was not, and we talked about that a bit.

Also I decided to draw you a picture of your favourite animal!

[ INSERT SAID PICTURE HERE ]

I hope to hear from you really soon!

Love,
Ikki

[What.

The. Hell.

Insta-suspicion is a go. She remembers talking to Ikki... once. Maybe it was once. Certainly not more than twice and she knows she didn't tell her all that. (Lee, you have a giant mouth -- but it's probably not all Lee's fault.)

She thinks about not answering but that thought is shoved aside almost as soon as she realized that she's been approached by a seven-year-old. Even Temari can't kick a puppy -- and whoever did this to her probably knows that.

Well, definitely not Ten-ten, then.

She has her suspicions. Definitely has her suspicions.

... Cute picture. She's not going to be won over with a purple weasel and a flower. She won't, damn it. Won't.

... It's really cute.

It takes a minute or fourteen to answer. For most of the intervening time, Temari is staring at her journal with equal parts befuddlement and irritation.]

Ikki,

One question before I answer any of yours: how did you know what my favorite animal was?

-Temari

[ Well, Shikamaru didn't say "don't tell her I told you so", so surely that's something she can reveal, right? Ikki's dilemma doesn't take more than a few seconds to go over. After all, even if it was some sort of ninja secret Temari is also a ninja and therefore allowed to know ninja secrets. ]

Dear Temari,

I asked Shikamaru! He also said I should give it an eyepatch so I did. Shikamaru is nice and smart and fun and strong and plays with me sometimes! He is one of my favourite friends!

Love,
Ikki

[Suspicion confirmed. As if she really had to think about it.]

So Shikamaru put you up to this? [Well, if that's true and it probably is, there's probably no harm in it.

She'd definitely hear from Shikamaru if she didn't go along with it. And he calls her troublesome.] I get to ask a question first, though. You called Sokka your uncle; you know Katara, then.

Now, what question do you want answered first?

[ since Temari drops the format, she does, too. ]

Well, he said it would be nice to ask you instead of him telling me things and then he wouldn't tell me anything and said it was a moral lesson. [ She wasn't about to argue the point, either. ]

Yep!! Katara is my grandmother except from seventy years before when I'm from. I live with Katara and grandpa and Uncle Sokka and Aunt Toph and Uncle Roku and Momo and Appa and Hawky and Petunia and Soren!

[ Aw man. She has to pick? ]

Which ninja village are you from?

[Temari has no use for format.

Also, she not even asking about the seventy year thing or touching that list of names. Good Lord, Ikki, but she's kinda glad she's not hearing this. She might start worrying about you breathing sometime.]

Suna. There's no one else from my village here right now.

[ Ikki is a breathmaster in the sense that she can get every last inch of air to carry a million words. No, that doesn't have to make sense. ]

Which land is that in? I know there's one for each of the elements and then an extra one.

[Temari would actually be a little impressed by that -- and probably somewhat worried as well.]

It's the Land of Wind. [Okay, airbender. She's waiting for the parallels you're going to try to draw.]

What's it like there?? Do you use lots of wind jutsu? I'm an airbender, so what I do is kind of like that but not really!!! I live on Air Temple Island back home which is kinda similar don't you think?

I specialize in wind jutsu. I take it Lee told you about different jutsu.

He explained a bit, and I have seen people use jutsu before!

What is your village like?

[Well, on the one hand, she doesn't have to explain anything. On the other, learn to shut up sometimes, Lee.]

It's in the desert. Some people think it's boring but I think it's gorgeous.

[ Lee could use a gag order of some sort, probably. ]

I've never seen a real desert before! What did it look like??

[... Now she has to describe the desert? How to even...]

It has a lot of sand. Tell you want, look up some pictures in the library. That will give you a better idea than a few words in a journal.

Will you draw me a picture??

[... Hell no.] Just look it up. You'll find better pictures than I can draw.

I bet that's not true!!

Hey, if you're from a different village from everyone else, how did you meet?

The villages gather for training and exams. [Better to be vague than to talk about how she was actually an enemy first. It's not the proudest moment of her life, seeing as how she spent most of that time absolutely uncertain of herself.] Shikamaru and I fought.

You fought for training?

More like an exhibition match.

How did it end? Did you win?

... Well. That's a long story, but I guess I did.

I don't mind long stories!

It's kind of boring. It was pretty much a draw.

But you just said you won!

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