paradisalost | Holograms?

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Holograms?

Who: Kaiba, Ino, and Sakura
What: ~~"Use your imagination!"~~ Hanging out in the game room.
When: After this post.
Where: Game room.
Rating: PG? Maybe PG-13 for language?

Ino made her way down the stairs to the bottom floor, carrying her pack with her journal and a few weapons. She tried to breathe normally and maybe get a little of the red off her face -- after all, she couldn't be seen looking like that, especially if stupid Sakura was going to come along and ruin the whole thing. She exhales loudly.

She opens a few different doors on the bottom floor, unsure of where the game room actually was. She didn't see any signs for the rooms or a map or anything, so the next thing left was trial and error. She finally opened a door that had some strange looking machines in it and some other game-y looking things. She looked both ways to see if Sakura was following her before shutting the door behind her, sighing quietly.

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Unknowingly following the example of the blonde, Sakura headed downstairs with her pack, weapons, journal and other supplies. She wondered what Kaiba was going to show the girl from her world. Her eyes fell upon a closing door with a flash of yellow hair behind it. Gotcha, she thought.

Turning the handle, she opened the door and stepped inside and began to look around. Green eyes widened a little at all the flashing light and cyber sounding voices from the games.

"What on earth is this?" she managed to ask no one in particular.

Ino glared at Sakura. She was hoping that the other girl would get lost on the way down, or not actually come ... or something! But nooo. She just had to show up and mess everything up. She stuck her tongue out angrily (and not very subtly) at Sakura before catching up to Kaiba and walking next to him.

"So, uh. You're gonna show me what these hologram things are? ♥" She made sure to put some emphasis on 'me' so Sakura would know she wasn't wanted. If she didn't catch the drift already.

Rolling her eyes at Ino's very mature display, Sakura whispered to her before she ran off, "Best watch that your big ass doesn't knock him over." She grinned to herself and started behind them at a comfortable pace, fast enough to keep up and catch the conversation, yet slow enough not to make her seem overly eager like some people.

"Are you going to explain to us what they are, or are you just going straight to the main attraction?" she asked, curiously, ignoring Ino's attempt to gte her riled up.

Ino was still blinking at the (now-gone) hologram. It was like a shadow clone, she thought. She glanced at Kaiba, who looked like he was ready to move on. She wanted to ask how on earth he DID that without any handseals, but she figured she could ask him later. When Sakura wasn't there.

"... Virtual Reality??" she repeated the phrase. "Sounds interesting!" she exclaimed, and; taking a bit of a risk, lightly held on to one of Kaiba's arms.

Sakura had been watching closely, attention split between the hologram, Kaiba and the introduction. "So you put that thing on, it launches those," she stopped and indicated the four things that had shot out from the disk, "the card is set down, and the image appears? How does that work exactly?"

Her eyes traveled back to him, and she nodded her head, indicating that she was ready for whatever virtual reality was.

Ino frowned at the shove, but wasn't thrown off guard -- after all, she was a ninja -- but she was still confused. Hadn't he been the one who had ... well, you know. It just didn't make any sense. Ino made a note ask about that later, too.

Focusing on the task at hand, she followed Kaiba through the door. She looked around in awe at what was inside. "How ... how do these work?"

She watched all of this unfold, but said nothing as she watched Ino get shoved off. Sakura had forgotten all about this girl and shouldn't have any feeling for her, so why did she want to yell at Kaiba all of a sudden? Figuring it was just because he was being a jerk, she followed him into the next room.

Her eyes traveled around as she tried to make sense of what she saw.

Ino eyed the door, feeling the pouch on her leg to make sure she had something in there to pick a lock with. She felt a few needles in there, and relaxed a little. She was sure Kaiba ~~probably~~ had a reason to lock the door, so she focused on the stack of whatever it was that he had given her.

Flipping through the cards, she saw several cards with monsters and people and strange bottles and other things very unfamiliar to her. She quirks an eyebrow in Kaiba's direction. What on earth was he planning to do with these things? Unless she were infused with a special kind of chakra or something, Ino didn't see how this would be fun.

Eying the pods warily, she glanced at Ino, who was now looking through cards, and shrugged. She followed Kaiba into the corner and looked on as he opened the briefcase. There were rows and rows of colorful creatures and even more cards than she could count.

"A theme..." she trailed off a bit. She could easily make it predictable such as medicine or strength, but what about her as a whole?

"I'll choose balance," she stated, simply.

Nodding, she took the deck and starting looking through it at a rather quick speed as was her style of learning. When about halfway through, a card caught her eye, and she grinned. This one would suit her quite well.

When she had gone through the deck about three or four times, she stood up and went to the room where Kaiba was and cautiously stuck her head in. "I think I'm about ready. Would you like us to just get in the pods then?"

Ino had scanned through the deck a few times now, and was still mostly clueless as to how the game was going to work. She put a card with a strange woman on it on the top and wandered towards the door Kaiba went though, studying it closely. She flinched when the pods opened, but continued on her path. When she spotted Kaiba, she waved her deck in his direction.

"Hey, uh, just one thing," she said, pointing to the bottom of the card. "What do these numbers mean? The really big ones at the bottom." She hoped he was actually paying attention to what she was asking.

Nodding in return, Sakura went back out and caught Ino's eye as she passed her. "Ready for this?" she asked, seriously. There was no hint of a challenge or sarcasm in her tone; it was what it was meant to be, a question. Even if she couldn't remember the girl, Sakura was able to care about people she had just met. She figured she had picked it up from Naruto along the way.

"If we're supposed to be friends, something tells me this is the part where I either taunt you or check up on you. I'll choose the kinder of the options for now," she stated truthfully.

Ino looked at Sakura, down at the cards she was holding, then back at Sakura. "Yeah, I hope so," she said, sighing. "This is all just so ... weird," she said, staring at the pods.

She laughed a little at that. "Yeah, very funny. Thanks," she said, smiling. "You always were the nicer one," she said, quietly enough that nobody else would hear her. She looked back at the room where Kaiba had been and tapped her foot impatiently. There was something wrong with that guy, seriously.

Ino wasn't a pervert. Really, she wasn't. But that just came out so wrong and she was in the right mood to take it the wrong way. Lay down and he'll do the rest, huh?, she thought to herself, her cheeks reddening slightly. She was ~~pretty~~ sure he didn't mean it that way, so to cover it up she leaned toward Sakura and whispered, "Jeez, he's grumpy as ever."

She obeyed Kaiba's order, though, and got into the pod. She shifted a bit until she was comfortable. Before setting the deck down, she said loudly towards the room Kaiba was in, "What are these going to do to us?" She was pretty sure she trusted Kaiba, but a ninja could never be too safe. And she wasn't so sure she liked the idea of being stuck in one of these, basically helpless.

Normally Sakura would have over looked that remark, but after spending time with Naruto, well...

Nodding hastily at Ino's observation, she followed the blonde to the pods then proceeded to follow suit. Instead of getting comfortalbe, she sat forward, pretty on edge. Without knowing it, her thoughts were echoing Ino's almost identically, minus the bit about trusting Kaiba.

Rather than repeat after the other girl, she decided to add her own inquiry, "Has anything ever gone wrong with these?"

Ino glared at Kaiba, annoyed, before fixing her hair and setting the cards down. She looked over at Sakura and whispered, "I'm pretty sure he's telling the truth; even if he is acting like a jerk."

She was a little nervous, though. He still hadn't said what would happen once the pods shut. She felt the pack on her leg again to reassure herself she'd have some way of getting out of this thing. Yup; good, looks like she had some kind of explosive tag in there. She took a deep breath and waited for ... something to happen, whatever that something was.

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