[And the PA system crackles...]

[stop_principal]

MY DEAR STUDENTS OF LAST STOP GAKUEN ~

It's been a while, and again, you've been boring me awfully. Even dinosaurs provoked hardly interesting reactions! Why not feed one another to a T-Rex to save your own life? There's no need to help one another. It's not going to make the whole ordeal easier for any of us. Where is this disgusting moral code

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[vindicatum]

[is quite willing to test this death theory.]

[vindicatum]

Flirt with it somewhere else, then. With Naruto.

[groundsplitter]

I would think of it as a birthday present.

[vindicatum]

...

1/2

[groundsplitter]

No wait, that came out wrong again!

[groundsplitter]

I meant to say, not that you dying would be a birthday present, because I would...definitely win...but. But, you. Spending time. With me.

That part.

[vindicatum]

... You would win?

[groundsplitter]

Psh--obviously.

[vindicatum]

[well, clearly it is on like Donkey Kong]

[groundsplitter]

[GOD IT'S SO GOOD YOU'RE EASY, SASUKE.

stands at the table, opposite of you.] Unless you prove me wrong. That would be a victory not even I would resent you for.

[vindicatum]

[because a challenge has ever failed to work before

not making the first move, anyway] There are victories you resent, then.

[groundsplitter]

[fine, fine. see the sake in this cup? now you see it, now you don't.]

Let's just say there are certain things I've failed at and resented myself for it. [POINTED LOOK.]

[vindicatum]

[likewise, after a moment of inspection. It can barely be called hesitation. Really.]

Pointless.

[groundsplitter]

[twitch. you know what I'll take that second cup now.]

It's not, from my standpoint.

[vindicatum]

The resentment, that is. [matches you plus another cup]

[groundsplitter]

[oh no you don't. I'm going to so win. in the name of Tsunade! and all that is good and alcoholic--

fourth cup now. slams it down on the table.] You think so? Because, let me explain:

I couldn't win against your will to leave, I couldn't win the promise to bring you back--so far--and I am most definitely not winning in Konoha right now.