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Characters: Kuroro, Kurapika
Location: Egypt
Rating: PG
Time: January 14, morning
Description: Kuroro and Kurapika go on a mission to test their resonance after the rather turbulent month they've had.

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If Kurapika had his way he'd stay at the city and make himself available for as long as it seemed to him that things between Sasuke and Naruto hadn't been completely resolved yet--or perhaps it was his sense of responsibility, of knowing that once he'd begun, he must remain that anchor until an anchor wasn't required anymore. His actions two days ago had broken through Sasuke's defenses, and he wasn't going to remove himself from the scene until those defenses had been rebuilt properly. He could turn irrationally overbearing, perhaps even suffocating, with this mindset, so it was probably a good thing that Kuroro had other plans. Besides, that debacle he'd witnessed at the park earlier during morning training--as alarmed and distressed as he'd been to see it at first (when he'd suggested that Sasuke should apologize he'd only meant a verbal apology, delivered in private, much like what he'd done back in September, not a full-blown kowtow in public)--he eventually came to realize that Naruto couldn't fail to acknowledge Sasuke's

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If Kuroro knew what Kurapika was thinking (which wasn't unlikely, given how Kuroro liked observing his partner), he'd probably laugh at the blond's fussiness. In his experience, people like Sasuke or Kurapika, who had some great and terrible pain loaded on their shoulders, didn't do too well with overbearing fussing. It worked the first day or so, but long term was a problem given the way their thoughts seemed to go

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Stepping out into the warmer Egyptian weather had been sufficiently distracting, at least. The sun was no different here, and it leered down at them with the same huge grin - or perhaps with more vigor than back in Death City, which was still struggling to regain its post-winter desert temperatures. Now, here was a proper desert clime, arid and depressingly yellow, and Kurapika would immediately hate it if not for the structures he could see out the windows of the building that housed Shibusen Egypt--interesting architecture, the influences visible even in a seemingly secular compound such as this one. A stray thought, disjointed, about Sasuke possibly benefiting from a mission to a place as radically different from Death City as Egypt was floated through his mind even as he eyed a bust of an Egyptian pharaoh long dead.

"Where do we find this kishin egg?" he asked distractedly. The eyes on the colourless, flat-faced bust stared back at him.

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It was a lot more interesting seeing the place up close than on books. The stone structures were quaint, and there was a hint of the famed sphinx in the distance. Idly, he wondered how people managed to construct this without technology or nen, and if Kurapika would have an appreciation for such details. Possibly. He was a Hunter, after all, even if he was a blacklist one.

"It'll find us," he answered with a grin. "Borrowed a little something to help us with the tracking part."

Now all they needed a good place to turn his borrowed meister ability on. It was a low thrum at the moment, necessarily active for Kuroro to keep it through the trip to Egypt. It would be no problem to fuel it with his soul wavelength to call the kishin egg over, though Kuroro's next problem was how to make sure that only their target came, not a flock of them.