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[Misaki, in sweats with a massive punching bag. She has gloves on and is whaling away at it, and from the coating of sweat shining on her face it looks like she's been at it a while. Her hair is damp and starting to come loose from her ponytail. She strikes the bag once more, setting it swinging, and then pauses to shed the gloves and stretch a bit. She takes a drink from the water bottle near the bag's base, tugs the gloves back on and resumes.]

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[She grins and shakes her head.] Batting cages? I haven't been... well, since I brought them, I think.

What, like for baseball? [laughs] I've never learned how to play that.

You should show me, if you like.

Never? You and Li both, then. [She smiles to herself, then looks a bit surprised, then pleased again.] Well. Come on. We'll see if you're as hopeless as he is.

I'm definitely not hopeless. Sam Tyler isn't hopeless at anything.

[Amused!] We'll see. [Annnd batting cages. Misaki checks that everything is still in working order before starting up two of the machines.]

Give it a try. [She takes her own place, waits for the pitch, and cracks it straight into the net.]

[oh my god, baseball bat. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT? HOW DO YOU HOLD IT?

It can't be that hard! Just imagine how it's done in the movies! YOU CAN DO IT, SAM!

Except Sam can't. Sam is fail. In his defense, it is the first baseball back he's ever swung in his life. But, still: fail.]

[Wow, this is a familiar scene. Misaki leans against the side of her cage and--yes--starts giggling.]

[IT'S A GOOD THING SAM IS USED TO PEOPLE MOCKING HIM!

It's also a good thing Sam's very, very stubborn, ~~particularly~~ even when people laugh at his failure. Because he tries it again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And somewhere along the line, all that hand-eye coordination from excessive gaming kicks in.

Someone along the line he starts hitting the baseballs with the bat.

And at that point it is a point to Sam's self-control that he doesn't do a happy little victory dance. Though he does give Misaki a, ":D Seee? I can do it!" grin. 'cause he's lame like that]

[A grin which she happens to find adorable.] You caught on much faster than he did.

Playstation's what it is. Tell him to pick up on a bit more of that gaming.

[okay so he misses the next one which kinda takes the air out of his victory. But he does get the one after that!]

[Still doing better than Hei did--Hei, who canonly spun around and fell on his butt.] Oh God. Not Playstation.

[She cracks another one into the net.]

[Fail, Hei] What's wrong with Playstation?

[consistently missing fewer pitches!]

Nothing, I suppose. [Watches him for a moment, trying to smother a grin and not doing very well.] Kanami is obsessed, that's all.

Kanami? Have you mentioned...?

Hmm? Oh. Kanami Ishizaki--I've known her since middle school.

I think I've heard you mention her before, but I can't be sure. Old friend, then?

Oldest friend. [She smiles as she cracks another ball into the net.] Got me in so much trouble when we were young.

Tell me a story?

[She falters, missing the next ball as she remember the last time someone asked her to do that. She steadies herself and tries again, and hits the next one, though not as well as before.

The skinny-dipping story pops into her head, and she bites back a grin and decides to save that one for.. well... never.]

There was the time with Alice, when we kidnapped her from her body guards for a day at Yomiuri Land. She'd never been to a water park. [She facepalms a little bit, grinning.]

You kidnapped a copper from her own body guards? Swell copper, you are.

[baseball bad SWING]

No, we... [Trying to hide the grin behind her hand.] It was in high school. We kidnapped a mobster's daughter from her own body guards.

You what?

[Giggling again now.] Alice Qinlongtang. We met her in high school--she was a classmate of mine. Daughter of one of the most powerful Chinese mafia families in Japan.

And you kidnapped her.

We did. [Grinning and not looking at him~ She cracks at another ball and realizes her machine is empty.] I thought we were going to die when they finally tracked us down.