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[ When the feed clicks on the camera is skewed slightly, poorly focused and clearly not actually intended for filming. No, this is very much an accident. ]

I'm… I am. I'm… I am. [ Sasuke is seen hunched over on his bed, eyes trained on a notebook scribbled with various English words he's studying and his mouth set in a grim line. Seems he's on contractions at the moment. ]

You will… You… ru. You ru. You'll… くそ! [ That notebook is suddenly flung away, his head sinking into his hands as Sasuke sighs out heavily. Such hot-headedness from a normally calm and collected person… Luckily for him that video cuts off before he can unwittingly reveal anything else he doesn't care to share. ]

( ooc: edited to add that this is backdated to just a few hours before the furniture event begins. )

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I hear you, if I didn't have to, I would not have learned English either. Even so, it's always good to know more than one language, at least where I come from.

Hn. And where I come from I've only ever heard one language spoken commonly. For me it's a waste of time, but what else is there to do in this place? Especially given that I don't know how long I'll have to stay.

I've apparently been here twice before, but I don't remember any of it, except for the Christmas I spent with my... girlfriend.

[It felt so weird to type such a word, but that was what Stocking was.]

And I didn't even remember that until recently.

I see. So it's possible then, for a person to leave and then be dragged back to this place? [ Well, that's the last thing that he wants to hear. Or read, rather. ]

Afraid so. Annoying, isn't it?

"Annoying" doesn't begin to cover it. I was in the middle of some important business in my world.

You're not alone. Though, I can't really say mine was a matter of life and death, it's just that there was an extremely important holiday coming up.

A holiday? [ Well, that's intriguing. A holiday can mean a lot of things. ]

Mine was a matter of life and death. This is all just a distraction.

Chinese New Year.

I am sorry to hear that, truly I am. I'm sure that when I was pulled here in the past two times, I was in such a situation due to the wars.

I don't know anything about that.

There are wars occurring in your world?

It has a date that changes every year, but that's not the important point of the holiday. It's a time where everyone welcomes the new year in hopes of good fortune, and families come together to enjoy some Chinese cuisine.

Of course there are, there are wars in every world, are there not? But, at the moment, my world is at peace, for the most part. We haven't had a World War for nearly eighty years now.

Edited 2012-02-04 20:57 (UTC)

Seems like a worthy celebration, then, even if you saying "Chinese cuisine" also doesn't mean anything to me.

I don't claim to know everything about worlds that aren't my own. We frequently have conflict but we haven't had a Great Ninja War in some time either.

It is what it is. Cuisine that originated from my home country, China.

From what I've seen, it doesn't matter what being you are, a human or a nonhuman, there's always conflict, along with good and bad people.

There's no "China" in my world.

Agreed. Though there's an important distinction between that and war.

Really?! Yet the language you were speaking awhile ago was Japanese, the language of the country of Japan. Unless... you're from a different world where they speak the language, are you not?

It's still easier to start a war than it is to keep peace. At least, that's how things are in my world.

I've heard people talking about Japan several times now, but I'm not familiar with that land either. It's just a strange coincidence, if anything...

[ Oh he agrees. He agrees so much. ] Sometimes avoiding war isn't worth it. That's how difficult it can truly be.

It is. I haven't met anyone from another world that can speak Mandarin yet.

There's a Chinese proverb that says: "The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war." Not too many people are willing to sweat more, though.

And that's your language?

The problem comes when war is avoided at the cost of one group of people while another continues on in peace. It isn't just.

Yes, Mandarin Chinese. I also know Cantonese, but my younger brother is more knowledgeable with that language.

Of course not. My people and I were doing just fine without the Westerners.

I see. I'm assuming he's someone that's also here, then.

The Westerners?

You're correct. Quite a few of my siblings are here, as a matter of fact.

It is what we, those who live in the East, call the Europeans since their homelands are west of our own. Though things have settled down due to working with a world-wide economy, I still hold some grudges.

Perhaps I know him, then. Name?

Even if peace can be attained on a global scale it doesn't cause tensions to vanish. Only one person or group is needed to provoke conflict that can escalate to outright war, regardless. Your grudges are probably well-founded.

My brothers are Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau. Then my sister present here is Taiwan.

Exactly, on all of those things.

I see. Japan gets mentioned often and I talk to Hong Kong frequently.

Glad we agree.

Yes, I talked to him a few days ago, Japan, I mean. And Hong Kong lives close by my own apartment.

It is always nice to find people who share similar thoughts. I'm Wang Yao, or China, as most people call me by.

Edited 2012-02-08 08:43 (UTC)

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