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Training begins.

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*fond roll of eyes* At this point, I think I have to be grateful almost all the time now, Lang, because you have really good timing. Even when I’m reading this almost 24 hours later, the story still warms my heart because of how funny and enjoyable it is.

Reviewing, here I go. I’m a bit more well-rested, with not so many classes today, so I can do this. Though, I’m starting to think I can only do one ramble a day now, considering my stamina when it comes to words and how writing anything seems to take something from me every time. *shrugs helplessly* I’ll try to sleep more in that case if it means giving something, because gosh, the workaholic in me wants to do more. Buuuuut I know that would just give off so many alarm bells because I’m not a robot.

*waves hands in the air* Anywho.

Training! That’s certainly one way to go about things. Half of me wants to giggle at the antics between Shinso and Kei when it comes to the trade-off between the two; the other half of me wants to just feel bad for Shinso because I’ve been in his shoes plenty of times. The number of moments that I’ve had to (1) either exercise with my exercise-junkie family, who can do a lot more than me in push-ups and so on, or (2) stick along with them for a bike ride back when I had more free time meant I was trying to hold back groans and complaining as much as Shinso is doing right now. Like, gosh, Kei, I know you’re used to ninja-standards, but bring it down a little. =-= *speaking from experience being on both ends of the problem*

On a more positive note, this chapter certainly gives a lot of background and (possibly coincidental or not, I’m not sure) foreshadowing as to how Kei became a Jounin-sensei to the Dragonlings later on in CYB! I’ve been reviewing a lot of the earlier chapters for the sake of S&S research, so to get some extra idea on how Kei conducts herself when training others is kinda sweet. Though, then again, Tomoko and Shinso are two very different people. The way Kei is patient when correcting Shinso’s posture and her trolling him all the same, it is endearing.

Any last notes… Obito! Obito, I missed you! I know it’s only been a chapter or two, but hey, resident Uchiha who didn’t get corrupted by Madara, welcome back! It’s good to see you be an oblivious doof as always to Shinso’s thought process, and to finish a run like it was nothing… pfffft. That emoji was also really cute, since I have yet to actually figure out how to do those emojis. I’m just limited to smileys and things like =-= since I don’t know much else with my keyboard. Though, seeing Kei correct Shinso on Obito being her best friend and not her boyfriend is already having me giggle a bit inside, because we both know who’s getting that title in the next few in-story years. Hee hee. But at the same time, it’s good to see the characters in their teenage years again, because it’s only these times where sillier moments can happen, at least in my opinion. Adults can still be silly and dorky of course, I mean, my dad recently bought a drone to play around with, hah, but maybe I’m just too used to being serious almost all the time. Oh well. Friends say I’m easy to tease as a result of that, but eh. I ramble, and this is working as a review, I hope. 

🙂 You did good on this so far, Lang. Nothing bad to note as always, and I enjoyed the read. Keep up the good work. I’ll make sure to rest as much as I can to give more rambles when necessary. *salutes* 

I’ll see you at the next update for the next ramble!

It is hard to get in shape! If exercise was easy, it’d be a lot more simple to persuade kids to actually do it. Kei is just spoiled by her ninja upbringing, since she never really got a chance to be anything but a tiny warrior. Means gym class is a cinch, though.

Poor Shinso. He’s in hell now.

And Obito likes being able to help! And his presence let me obliquely point out that the ninja-verse characters are substantially more casual with each other than Kei is with anybody in Tokyo. Even her narration doesn’t ever call Shinso by his personal name, and she hasn’t changed “-san” to “-kun” or anything.

Thanks again for your kind words!