Day 30: Cafeteria, Dinner

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The cafeteria was all but empty when Zelnick got there. He was a little disappointed; he had gotten the impression that patients usually ate dinner in their rooms, so he hadn't arranged to meet anyone, and there really wasn't anyone to sit by and engage in conversation yet.

Quietly, he collected dinner and a big glass of orange juice, and chose a seat near the food-serving counters. Talking for so long had made him thirsty... and, well, fruit juice was a luxury he had missed.

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Zabuza nodded. "The boy and I will meet you outside the men's bathroom in your block tonight to give you a map. In order to meet your idiot you'll have to go around the main men's block to reach the one that shares space with the women's block." He grinned slightly as he looked at Fai. "And judging by the looks of your idiot, that's not surprising."

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"All right," he agreed first, then shot Zabuza a mad glare.

He'd understood Zabuza's meaning with his last comment well enough, but though he himself was aware of just how feminine his traveling partner could act, getting told so by someone he'd just met did not sit well. He wouldn't have cared if someone had said it to Fai's face - that idiot probably liked the attention anyway - but when it was directed his way, he definitely cared. It was like associating him with that perky idiot. Something like that was... it just didn't... for an warrior to have to...!!

Kurogane couldn't even find the words to express just how annoyed that association made him, so he instead took to growling low like a dog while keeping his red glare on Zabuza.

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Zabuza didn't care about the glares. He had gotten much worse before and in places far more dangerous than this so called hospital during the day. Plus, he was offering Kurogane some important information. It wasn't as if the guy could just outright kill him. He pushed his empty tray away from him and looked at Kurogane.

"You're lucky they put all these drugs in my system today. Usually I'm not so generous."

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There would have been a problem if Zabuza couldn't handle some glaring, whether intended or not. Glaring was Kurogane's default expression after all. And really, Zabuza was earing these glares for how he kept pushing the wrong buttons where the magician was concerned. He should have expected they'd get increasingly worse if he kept aggravating him, especially after how Kurogane had responded earlier.

Teasing the Shinobi never ended well.

Except for today. Kurogane didn't see Zabuza as the type to go running just because he was getting glared at, and Kurogane in turn didn't feel like doing much more to get his point across either. Like Zabuza was saying himself, getting drugged earlier had been a lucky thing. An annoying thing, but still a lucky one, and apparently for the both of them.

"You too?" he asked before he could stop himself, glare calming back to his normal sour expression. Giving away that he had gotten drugged by these people was a fact he'd rather have kept secret. It did reflect his ability here somewhat, after all. His curiosity had been getting the better of him all day though and precisely because of that fact. Apparently it was still going so. Maybe he wasn't over the drugging effect just yet. "What'd you do?" Or, possibly, what hadn't the man done? Kurogane had ignorance to blame for his own sedation, but for someone who had been here longer than a day, he had to assume Zabuza was more familiar with how things went here. He would have been smart enough not to earn a drugging had he been aware of the possibility. So, whatever he'd done, it must have been intentional.

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"There was a riot." Zabuza said. Of course he had joined, how could he not? Despite how futile it was, a fight was a fight and he had loved every second of it.

Just then the intercom piped up and Zabuza stood. "By the bathrooms," he repeated. Then the orderlies he was with saw him out, making sure he didn't cause any more trouble.