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[haruno]

Closing the last document she'd pulled up to read on stone masonry, Sakura sighed. She was pretty sure she had everything in place to start on repairs to the damage she'd caused, even if she wasn't sure there was anyone on ship who had a vested interest in caring. If it felt right to her to help remake what she'd unintentionally made a crater in

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[radiantcourage]

The conversation she had with Zetta triggered Hoshi's curiosity on the exact origins of beyblading. She knew it was a complicated form of beigoma, where the roots were, but how much more was out there to know about her sport that she loved so much?

Well, there was only one thing to do and that was to investigate! And that was what she was doing in the media library, just puttering about.

Seraphiel was perched on one of the shelves, watching his beyblader with interest. It seemed that she was really focused on something, which he found to be nice. Maybe that Phillip human had something to do with it...

[haruno]

Sakura sighed, putting her omnicomm away for the moment. At least she'd found her answers regarding wall construction, if she couldn't do much with the knowledge now. She stood and started moving through the media library.

What gave her pause wasn't so much seeing someone else using the library as seeing someone else with odd accompaniment. "Are they with you?" sounds like an odd question, but from Sakura's point of view, looking between Hoshi and Seraphiel, it was valid enough.

[radiantcourage]

By now, Hoshi already had a few things to sort through regarding what she came here to do. She turned around to search more when she noticed Sakura.

And, well, she decided to walk right over to her, a pleasant smile on her face. "Hey there! How are you?"

Her holy beast was right beside her and was perched on her shoulder for now.

[haruno]

She glances between Hoshi's holy beast and Hoshi herself. "I'm well," she said, smiling. "How are you?" It wasn't a lie -- Sakura really was well, all things considered -- if it politely ignored any of the countless things she actually felt. Tired, useless, frustrated, irritated, curious; there was a laundry list of possibilities.

[radiantcourage]

"Oh, taking each day here at a time," replied the beyblader, still smiling herself. Even though worry for her friends kept her mind occupied most of the time, as well as the small smidgen of hope that she'd be reunited with her team, friends from home and her family, she still maintained her sunny disposition.

"Oh, hey, I'm Hikari Hoshi, last name, first. Nice to meet you," she stated, extending her hand out for her.

[haruno]

"Hikari Hoshi?" Sakura smiled, shaking her hand. "Haruno Sakura. We've just been speaking over the omnicomms," she said, pleased. "What've you been looking up here in the Media Library?"

[radiantcourage]

Similarly, Hoshi shook Sakura's own, her beaming smile still on her face. "I remember you!" she said, equally as thrilled. "Oh, just stuff relating to a sport I play. I'm really interested in the origins of it just because."

[haruno]

"Learning the origin behind the things we do can be fascinating," she agreed. "It's something I liked spending my time doing back home, if it's changed scope since waking up here." And it was waking up, more than arriving. Believing what had been said meant they'd arrived goodness knows when.

If that story was true. "What sport do you play?"

[radiantcourage]

"It really is, especially if one has a healthy thirst for knowledge," the beyblader commented. She nodded next, definitely being able to relate to that. "I believe you can still do that here, actually! My friend Phillip does it all the time."

She paused before taking her beyblade out of her pouch. "It's called beyblading! It's more or less a complicated form of beigoma."

[haruno]

"Phillip?" She didn't doubt there could be multiple people with that name on ship, but it did make her curious. "Who lives in the Atori Teahouse?" Seemed like a simpler qualifier than anything else.

"It is?" This sounded a step up from card games that made little sense. At least she recognized what a beigoma was, if not so much what Hoshi was taking out of her pouch. "How do you play?"

[radiantcourage]

"Yeah! His hair has this motion going on," said Hoshi while she demonstrated with her free hand in a wave-like formation on the right side of her head.

"Well, normally I'd have someone to practice against, but I can show you," she said as she put her materials down and took out her launcher. She attached her beyblade to it just so and turned it over so that the top was right side up. Her fingers curled around the end of the rip cord.

She mentally did a countdown and then turned her beyblade over, pulling on the rip cord as tight as she could. "Go shoot, Seraphiel," she said, keeping her voice quiet. It landed against the ground, spinning right in front of her.

[haruno]

"Yes, that'd be Phillip," she said, amused at Hoshi's demonstration. "I'm actually one of his housemates." Which was interesting to say, even after all this time. Sakura had been so used to living either with her parents, or on her own, that living as a collective unit with others (people who had started out as strangers) was an odd feeling.

She found, over time, she actually enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, she watched Hoshi's actions curiously. The apparatus for release is a lot more complicated than anything Sakura would have imagined, if the basic idea was the same. Take top, make top spin.

Watch top spin on the ground and wait to see if anything else happened. "Would this normally be when your practice partner would release their own?"

[radiantcourage]

"Oh, wow! It's a small world, or in our case, small ship, isn't it?" joked Hoshi with a small smirk tugging at the corners of her lips at her own amusement. She was a bit different in those aspects, having grown so used to living with her parents, or her team when they'd stay in a hotel room together. It helped her acclimate better when she just woke up here.

When her beyblade was spinning, she moved her hand back and forth to demonstrate it moving. She made it raise up in the air before bringing it back down again against the ground.

"We'd launch at the same time, according to a countdown of three. And then there would usually be sparks and quite a bit of shouting going on," she explained. It was a lot more action filled than it was at its' present state right now.

[haruno]

Sakura grinned, shaking her head. "Small and large, all at the same time."

Watching Hoshi's demonstration, her curiosity in aerodynamics made a lot more concrete sense. "This is what you meant about your scientific research, isn't it?" She blinked. "Sparks due to contact between your device and an opponents?"

[radiantcourage]

"Exactly," Hoshi said, unable to help grin more. (Those cheeks of her's will hurt one of these days due to the amount of grinning she does.)

She shrugged a bit before giggling a bit. "It goes beyond that, actually! I try to match individual exercises with my teammates' strength, endurance in order to last as long as you can, and various other things!" she explained, happy to be able to talk about what else she does as a beyblade captain.

[haruno]

"You compete on teams, in that case?" Sakura looked interested in hearing this piece of information. "Self-chosen, or assigned?"