you're not my real dad
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And then Hisame returns with a stack of board games! In one, you draw and play cards, which represent commands you can give little toy soldiers on a battlefield strewn with assorted stylized hazards (everyone decides orders at the start of the round, without seeing each other's orders or hands, so there's a lot of chaos; Hisame likes this one best). In another, you try to solve a murder mystery, with the culprit randomly determined, by guessing what clues everyone else has. In a third, you claim territories and then have your armies fight over them, and you can gain new armies at the start of every turn depending on how much territory you hold.

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Elieyha is better at the second than the other two.

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Then they can play until Hisame starts yawning and drifting off to sleep.

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Should they move her to a bed?

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"Probably, yeah. I should sleep, too..."

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"Okay. Can I stay here or do you want me to go somewhere else?"

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"You can stay here. Do you want a bed?"

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"That would be nice."

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He nods. "You can take that one near the window. I'll sleep with Hisame."

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"Thank you."

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"You're welcome. Books are over there but they're mostly for us, and I dunno how much of a kid you are, and I can't get adult books without someone waking up and wondering what I'm doing. Still, there's a couple like really dry shinobi guides dad put in our books hoping we'd be smarter."

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"I will take a look."

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"Alright. Night."

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"Good night."

She takes a selection of books, including one of the "really dry" ones to the bed to read.

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And he and Hisame go to sleep.

(The dry book is, in fact, remarkably dry, and the other 'children's' books are disproportionately about history and science - it's possible their father's not selecting for intelligence but diligence or obedience with the boring stuff, since at least one of these children is reading way out of their age range.)

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That might make sense. And is not exactly a hopeful observation for her chances here. But, she'll leave tomorrow's problems until tomorrow gets here.

Which it eventually will.

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Hisame's the first awake, though she wakes up her brother in getting up.

"Morning, Elieyha!" she chirps.

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She closes the book carefully.

"Good morning."

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"Do you wanna talk to our family today or keep hanging out here?"

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"I should probably talk with your family."

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"Okay! Got a way you want us to introduce you, a story you want us to tell - ?"

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"Maybe leave out the future part. If you can."

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"We'll try! Why us then? I can help make something up, I'm good at stories!"

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"Maybe because the Uchiha are the largest single faction in Konoha and you're close to my age?"

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"How'd you know about me and Sasuke, though?"

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