Office Hours, All day Thursday

[mouthy_merc]

After spending the rest of the night wandering around town after his date because he didn't want to go home and walk in on Yuki and Cotton Candy having sex on the kitchen table or something, Deadpool was tired.

So tired, in fact, he was sleeping on his desk as he waited for his new minions to show up.

Good thing he's such a light sleeper that someone coming in his office would wake him up.

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"No Ratman! Don't put that there! What would the boy wonder say?!"

Wade blinked a few times as he woke up and rubbed the side of his face. "Come in," He replied, yawning at the end of it.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna drew in a deep breath, going over the list in her head. You will not outwardly threaten him. You will not go into theatrics about how the salle's not far from here at all so it won't take long to fetch Yuunagi. You will make elaborate claims of beheading and disembowlment.

...unles he really deserved it. Which he probably did.

She opened the door and stepped into the office, remaining dramatically in the doorframe. "Deadpool, I assume?"

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Wade raised his arms over his head and stretched out, causing small popping noises as he went.

(I need to get a pillow in here.)

"Well, normally I would tell you that assumptions make you an ass, but in this case, you'd be correct."

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Setsuna quietly glared at him for a moment before crossing her arms over her chest and explaining why the hell she was there. "My name is Setsuna Sakurazaki; I've come into the knowledge that you are to be my faculty mentor. Which I do not feel I need. Especially one of such...questionable caliber."

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Taking in the pissed off expression and the insults, Deadpool tilted his head and grinned happily. "Aww, you're much more adorable in person."

"An my caliber isn't in question! I have a twenty two, a forty five, a thirty eight..."

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Setsuna let out a grunt. "I'm not adorable," she muttered, but at least he hadn't called her a lesbian yet. "And I wasn't speaking of guns, I was speaking of caliber in the moral sense."

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

"Well that's a given." Deadpool rolled his eyes. "What kind of mercenary would I be if I had morals?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna opened her mouth to argue that point but, being a mercenary herself, her jaw quickly snapped back into place and her shoulders slumped a bit. Damn. He had her there.

"Well," she said, finally, "the moral ambiguities that go along with being a mercenary don't necissarily have to bar you from the rules of simple common decency outside of the mercenary field. Like, say, a school setting, where rather innocent young nubile girls don't particularly appriciate having their name slanderously associated with a title that is constantly refering to the supposed nature of her sex life."

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"What? That you're a lesbian? Don't worry about it! I accept you as you are, there's no need to hide your love away."

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"I am not a lesbian!" Setsuna shouted, with a shriek that rang sharply with the sound of denial. Her arms crossed tightly over her chest again as she muttered, eyes rolling to the side, "Last night, if anything, proved that...."

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Lesson one: Never mention your sex life around Deadpool. Only bad things can come of it.

"Oh?"

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Setsuna's eyes snapped toward him and narrowed. "Not that it's any of your business, of course."

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Deadpool grinned like a loon. "Hey, you're the one who brought it up!"

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"Out of self defense!" Setsuna insisted, with an expression that was half-pout, half-glare, as she gave Deadpool a long, cold, hard look. "Ugh." She finally turned her head in disgust, lifting her chin. "What exactly are the expectations involved in this whole mentor system, so I can meet the minimal requirements and not have to deal with you any more beyond that?"

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"Awww, don't be like that!" Wade pouted through his mask. "Don't let your inability to come out of the closet get in the way of the opportunity for me to teach you valuable things! Like, shooting people! Or stabbing people! Or picking up chicks!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I don't need help stabbing people," Setsuna looked at him with the suggestion of proving that to him personally if she had to in her eyes. "Or...'picking up chicks.' I don't need to pick up chicks, thank you very much, because I have a lesbian lover in Japan boyfriend." Who turned into a chick...shut up, brain.

There was a pause. A slightly embarrassed shifting of her eyes.

"Maybe on the shooting part, though. I'm...m'not good with long range quite yet...."

Dammit! If it wasn't such a valuable skill...

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"Ah, sniping. It takes a lot of practice to get good at." Deadpool sighed fondly, thinking back on the days in the military. Ah, emotionally scarring.

"And a sword fighter, huh?"

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Setsuna nodded, hating the sudden pull she was feeling as the conversation veered toward something she knew she couldn't help loving to talk about. "That's right. Shinmei Ryuu School, Tokyo division, going on almost twelve years now. Specializing in nodachi, although I have experience with katana and have also recently started learning to use a Western style blade as well."

There was the start of a smile but Setsuna very sharply pulled it away. No. She hated Deadpool. She would not be wooed by talk of steel into thinking he might actually be an acceptable advisor.

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Like there was a swordsman born who could resist talking about blades and fighting styles.

"Nodachi? Pretty big weapon for someone your size," Deadpool replied. It wasn't even in a mocking tone, just curious. "Nakamura Ryu Happogiri Battodo for me. Studied it waaaay before you were born."

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Setsuna nodded slightly, reluctant to allow a common ground to surface. "Shinmei Ryuu techniques work best with nodachi; my exposure to a sword since before I could even walk has aided in my overcoming my disability of height."


[[ *ahem* and that's Kyoto devision. damn major cities being made of the same letter is hell on dyslexia ]]

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Give in to the swordplay! dirty

"We'll have to spar sometime. I'll even go easy on you."

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"Well, that would be stupid," Setsuna said, "because then you'd be dead."

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"Oooo! Someone is confident!" Deadpool leaned forward and grinned in a way that could not be considered friendly. "You should be more careful when you don't know what the enemy is capable of."

He followed that with happy little nod. "And there we go. My first piece of advice as a mentor. I feel all tingly."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna really didn't want associate the word tingly with Deadpool ever.

"Perhaps you should consider your own advice as well, Deadpool."

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

"I've been doing this longer than you've been alive, It's a safe bet that I can handle whatever you dish out."