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[haruno]

Ca-chick! Sure, maybe cameras weren't meant to make that noise. The ones she was used to had been more of a puff of air, a soft click, and then a bright flash of light when the bulb went off. This still had the flash, if it didn't always go, and some option that recorded video. Armed with a new toy she could actually sort-of almost work, Sakura

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[darknight_rider]

"I think they've got a switch for that," Ren said. "To set up the timer." He'd never actually had to use one, but he'd known they'd existed for most of his life.

[haruno]

"Any idea what it looks like?" Sakura examined the back of the camera, looking for something that might reference time. Time they were running out of, part of her thought, if she avoided looking at Ren as it came to the forefront of her mind. They'll have it destroyed in time.

She glanced back at Ren. "Want to take a look for yourself?"

[darknight_rider]

Ren didn't notice the way Sakura avoided looking at him--after all, she was still having trouble with her camera.

"Okay," he answered, taking it.

The camera was a lot more complicated than he thought it would be, but he was used to technology from the late '80s. After fiddling with it for a little while, he finally brought up the self-timer setting. And the video recording option.

"Looks like it's here," he said. "But I think it's stuck taping."

[haruno]

Sakura moved to better get a look at what he was pointing out. "It's been recording video this whole time? How do you make it stop again?" She hesitated, then pointed to one of the buttons she saw. "Is it this one?"

[darknight_rider]

"I don't know," Ren admitted, fiddling with buttons. Now he'd managed to get stuck on the menu and couldn't seem to find a way out of it. When did they start pulling all this stuff in cameras? Or was it because Sakura had gotten it on another planet?

He finally handed it back, admitting, "Maybe you should figure it out. I'm not used to cameras like this."

[haruno]

Possibly it was all of the above. Sakura accepted the camera back, flashing Ren a smile. "Thanks for trying. You might not be used to it, but we don't have things anywhere close to this where I'm from. You'd think I'd know more by now in using all the things on ship, but..." she trailed off, shrugging and trying not to look as sheepish as she honestly felt.

Manuals should have made everything better! Though what had Rob told her not that long before? He pointed this out to me, I swear he did.

After a minute of intense scrutiny, and several creative button and menu scrollings later, Sakura had officially turned off the recording option. It did mean she had several fragmented minutes of video footage of herself and Ren, and most especially Ren at the end, but it was something she figured she could live with. Her memory card was apparently not yet full, and the battery still showed charge. "Ha! I've got it, I think. We're not recording anymore."

[darknight_rider]

Ren couldn't help but give the camera a slightly suspicious look.

"Cameras for photos and video cameras are completely different when I'm from." Well, when he was presently from. A lot changed in fifteen or so years. "Even regular cameras are a lot bigger than that." And didn't have menus or any of that digital stuff. Where was the film?

[haruno]

She wondered the same thing. "We don't have hand-held video recording where I'm from, actually. Video systems, and some you can use for long-distance video communication in case of emergency, but the idea of having your own personal video camera? I'm not sure it'd even be possible." She paused. "Not for a while, at least."

[darknight_rider]

"It's pretty expensive," Ren admitted. "My dad thinks it's a waste of money, if you don't need it for work."

[haruno]

"What do you think? If cost wasn't an issue," she added, considering it was a pretty valid one. "Do you think video cameras have a worth to people who don't need them for work?"

[darknight_rider]

"I don't know," Ren admitted at first. He'd always thought it was pretty dumb, but he'd never really had any time with his family that would have been worth recording. His dad was always working and his mom was always pushing him in school, and he didn't have any friends. What would he have had on a video camera?

But this whole thing with the Melting Clock was changing the way he thought about things, and he said, "Maybe. If you have something worth remembering."

[haruno]

"Do you?" She watched him, for a moment trying to remember what it'd been like to be his age. The things that had concerned her, on a world so completely removed from her current reality. Doing well in Academy, striving to catch up with her first and best friend, before she'd broken off and away.

Would Sakura even want video records of her life? Of the times when she and Team Seven had laughed, r fought, or just plain been together? Of anything else? I don't know.

[darknight_rider]

He shrugged. "Nothing right now, really. Unless it helps to remember how many kids I got in a fight with." Ren, not well liked and picking fights on the playground? Why didn't this sound surprising again?

[haruno]

"What about around here?" She gestured to the general area, a mixture of amused and (more-over) sad to hear his childhood had been like many of those from home.

[darknight_rider]

There were still vague memories and that sense of fear running in the back of Ren's mind, but it was getting easier to deal with.

"I don't want to forget anything else," he admitted. "I like being here. I like the people I've met--my friends." It was a word he'd have been hesitant to use as an adult, but he was much more honest with himself as a kid. "That's the kind of thing I want to remember."

[haruno]

She considered Ren, wondering if the idea of a proposal in the back of her mind might possibly appeal to him. "Tell you what," she said, "Medical is keeping me running on shifts that keep me overnight more often than not." An odd concept, where night and day were such artificial creations as it was. "I don't get as much time as I'd like to try and figure this camera out. Do you think you'd be able to help me out with learning? I leave you with my camera, so you can figure out how to make it do whatever it actually can do. Then you help teach me what you figured out, in our time off?"