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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 16, 2006 23:30:41 GMT -5
Seto muttered something as he hit his head on the roof of the overly sandbagged humvee. He glanced out the window. “Bahh..Nothing but sand for miles. I’ve got enough of this crap from listening to one of Yuugi’s little Egyptian Fairytales.” He growled. Sugi laughed. “Well, you’d better get used to it. This isn’t going to be just a weekend vacation.” She said. Jounouchi and Honda were busy arguing, and boasting about who would make enemy contact first. Ryou was just sort of zoning out, a thing he tended to do when he was either bored, or anxious. The friends’ company had been deployed in Iraq. Them, along with many other soldiers would be spending the next year in a base in one of the smaller towns.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 16, 2006 23:39:58 GMT -5
Kiba, for lack of anything better to do at the moment, had joined in Honda and Jounouchi's argument. Anna was simply sitting there, trying to make some sort of conversation with Akilah. She as well as Akilah were starting to get annoyed by the argument. If they don't cut it out in thirty seconds...
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 16, 2006 23:44:27 GMT -5
"You just watch! I'll come up with a signal! That way, no matter where you are, you'll know that I just killed some Al Sadr bastard, or whatever, right away!" Honda said laughing. Jounouchi shook his head. "Ahh, there's somethin' wrong with that head thing a yours! I'm sooooo going to get one before you! We all know I'm a better shot, so they'll send me out on a raid or whatever first!" he said proudly. Seto just grunted and shook his head as Sugi laughed at the trio. Ryou turned to Anna. "It's times like these when I wish I could find my bloody ear plugs..." he said, laughing a little.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 16, 2006 23:59:59 GMT -5
"What makes you think they'll send you on a raid before me? I've had more experience and I'm older. So, ha!" Kiba said in a tone of superiority. "Looking at Ryou, Anna replied, "There'll be no need for earpluggs." She then looked at the guys that were arguing. "The next person to brag about something that hasn't happened yet will be thrown out of the car and I'm sure you all know that Akilah would be more than willing to do it."
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 0:04:51 GMT -5
Ryou laughed quietly. Honda shut up then and there, but Jounouchi just gave Anna a smirk. "Yeah? Tell that to the commander! I'm sure you'd be glad to explain how we're all MIA before we even get to base!" he said. Ryou sighed. "He's sort of right." Seto laughed a bit. "Hey, that's one thing I might gain from this...Rank! I'm sure I'll get to being an NCO quicker." Sugi laughed and patted Seto on the back. "Right, I'm sure you'll end up as Sergeant in a few months here!" she said somewhat jokingly.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 17, 2006 0:08:19 GMT -5
"Whoever said it'd be all of you?" Anna asked with a smile. "I'm sure we can make up some sort of excuse if there's just one missing."
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 0:10:33 GMT -5
Jounouchi shrugged. "That might be even harder ta believe. Can't say it was due to an IED or RPG if we're all inside the vehicle, and nobody else is hurt!" he said. "This is true..." Ryou said.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 17, 2006 0:17:03 GMT -5
"We could say you were being stupid and looked into the the barrel of your gun because you thought it was clogged or something. I'm sure they'd believe that if it was you we were talking about," Anna replied with a smirk.
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 0:21:21 GMT -5
Jounouchi growled and was about to get up, but Honda stopped him by putting a hand on his shoulder. "Oi. Knock it off! There's plenty of time for you guys to kill eachother later. Just calm down for a while?" Seto blinked, turning his attention to the others. "Was that Honda who just said that...?" he asked quietly. Sugi nodded, also somewhat surprised. "Wasn't he a part of all this to begin with...?" she whispered back.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 17, 2006 0:27:09 GMT -5
Anna simply shrugged and went back to how she'd been before. Kiba said nothing more about the subject. (I've gotta go. 'Night)
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 0:36:57 GMT -5
About three hours later, the Humvee had gotten the group to their base.There, they were corralled into a large mass of soldiers from their company waiting to hear some sort of speech before they would all be allowed to go about the base as they pleased. Seto sighed. "Damn, I hate these stupid things! We're going to be standing around here for hours listening to some repetitive sh--ow!" Sugi had whacked him good-naturedly on the back of the neck. "Oh, hush. You'll have plenty of time to whine later." she said. Jounouchi and Honda were once again making a nuisance of themselves, and were now conversing and arguing with several of the other young soldiers. Ryou sighed and smiled. "Time for the long winded speeches to begin..." he said aloud, but not particularly to anybody.
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 17, 2006 20:07:04 GMT -5
Anna had her arms crossed and seemed to be in her own world. By her expression and the way she was moving her head slightly, you'd think she was listening to some sort of invisible set of earphones. Kiba nudged Seto slightly with his elbow. "Hey, Seto. Betcha five bucks that half the people here won't be ably to pay attention for more than two thirds of the speech."
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 20:10:54 GMT -5
Seto chuckled and shook his head. "No deal. I don't want to loose my money." Sugi laughed quietly and nodded. "What do you expect from grunts? Most of these guys aren't even out of highschool yet! Glad I took one of those self-paced things and got a real diploma. Still wish I could've finished collage, though." Seto just nodded as the speeches began...
(You can skip through the talking in your post, if you want.)
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Post by Anna Isumu on Jan 17, 2006 20:18:09 GMT -5
(Gladly) As Kiba had predicted, almost no one lasted through more than 2/3 of the speech and everyone was glad when it was over. Yawning, Kiba said, "Well, glad that's over. So whatcha wanna do?" Anna shruged. She'd almost fallen asleep during the speech.
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Post by Sugi Kusari on Jan 17, 2006 20:22:16 GMT -5
Both Jounouchi and Honda had at some point fallen asleep, but were awake now. "Well, don't know about you people, but I'm going to go check out this whole place and get familiar with it." Sugi said, stretching. Seto shrugged. "Sounds like a good plan. It's not like somebody will take our beds, we've all been assigned one, anyway." he said, looking around.
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