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[haruno]

Ca-chick! Sure, maybe cameras weren't meant to make that noise. The ones she was used to had been more of a puff of air, a soft click, and then a bright flash of light when the bulb went off. This still had the flash, if it didn't always go, and some option that recorded video. Armed with a new toy she could actually sort-of almost work, Sakura

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[i_am_the_bafo]

How about photographic proof of people running around as a studly teenage demon? Because Zetta has been doing that and he knows it.

Which is possibly why he was posing for the camera.

"Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! That's right! Drink it in!"

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Sure, why wouldn't it be?" Zetta looked at her for a moment, then added, "I am a demon."

[haruno]

"Being a demon doesn't mean you couldn't have ever changed." Not to mention, the "demons" of her world were animals, by and large. They were also entirely manufactured by a forefather of legend, which meant they had no idea where they'd really originated. Not for sure.

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Nope. I DID get more awesome with power and age, of course," he said, immodestly as ever, "but these magnificent looks have always been mine."

[haruno]

She blinked, quirking an eyebrow up yet again. "Of course." Looking down at her camera, she asked, "You didn't want copies of these or anything, did you?"

[i_am_the_bafo]

"I dunno," Zetta said, coming around to look at the thing with her. "How'd they come out?"

[haruno]

Moving the dial that brought up the photograph's taken, the first image on screen was a shot of his calf and part of the ground. "The flash didn't go off for that one," she said in surprise, eyes narrowing as she pressed back and moved onto the intentional shots. She'd cut down on accidental takes by now, but apparently she had further to go.

Most the shots were fairly decent, or at least caught most of Zetta on camera. The series attempting to snapshot one of the bats from his hair were hit and miss (mostly misses).

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Hey, these aren't bad," Zetta said, as the ones that actually was true of cycled by. "I'll autograph one for you sometime, but..."

He pondered a moment. "You been on the receiving end of this thing yet, or just the taking?"

[haruno]

Sakura shrugged, twisting the dial back to camera mode. "Not intentionally," she admitted. "Mostly when trying to figure out why the camera isn't working like I expect it to."

She had a handful of surprised, irritated, and concentrating expressions taken upside-down and at awkward angles.

[i_am_the_bafo]

He held out his hand for the camera expectantly. "Then you need the experience! You can't be great until you've been the subject too!"

[haruno]

After a moment, Sakura handed the camera over. She was reluctant, not that sold on needing to be the subject of photographs without some greater meaning behind them. Without her team here, without anyone, it was documenting what? That she'd managed to live for months on a ship with strangers from all different worlds? That she had a demon overlord taking her photograph with a camera that couldn't have existed on their world?

"As long as I don't need to be able to do anything more than smile," she allowed, pushing a strand of hair back behind her ear.

[i_am_the_bafo]

"It's all in how you smile and how you present yourself," Zetta said, as he took a few steps back. "Once you see that, you'll be better at taking pictures too!"

He lifted the camera to his eye. "Now. Smile for me."

[haruno]

She smiled -- stilted -- for Zetta.

This was mildly awkward.

[i_am_the_bafo]

He took the picture anyway, figuring it'd be informative for his purpose.

"Now, stretch. I don't care how, just stretch!"

[haruno]

Sakura raised an eyebrow, then awkwardly stretched her arms above her head, fingers interlocking as she turned her palms upward. Aaah, that felt nice!

[i_am_the_bafo]

He waits till she shifts from 'why am I doing this' to 'ahh, stretching!' before he takes the shot.

"Now, strike an action pose!"