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[ Oh, no, so awkward ... so cute ... ]

What kind of question is that?

A very straightforward one, I thought.

It's not like there's a certain quota I'm trying to meet, here. That's not how getting to know someone works.

[Fuss, fuss.]

Well, if there was something else you wanted to know, I would tell you.

You shouldn't say that, I'll ask all of the questions.

I don't have anything else to do right now.

[ You have no idea what you've just enabled, Caesar. ]

Hmm, okay. You can ask me stuff too if you want to.

You don't come from Eng-land like Jojo does, right? Your voice doesn't have the right sound to it.

No, I'm from Italy. And you're from somewhere that doesn't have either of those countries in it.

That's right. But I've been to America and France before.

What is Italy like?

More like France than America, I think. Older than both of them. It was founded thousands of years ago, and it's changed a lot, of course, but we use a lot of the same architecture, the same streets. There's a lot of history there.

[Which is important to him, of course.]

We believe in staying close with family. And personal strength. And good food.

Thousands of years ago ... wow. I guess everything in France was pretty old like that, too ...

I can't say I disagree with believing in any of those things.

That's why I was angry with him at first. Because he didn't understand why it was important to me.

Family, you mean?

[ She's guessing it probably wasn't the food part ]

That's right. He never knew his father, so he never really got the stories. The history.

Right ...

But what about his grandma? Or is that person not related to him?

She is. But she never fought like they did, and she didn't tell him about it, either. I think she wanted to keep him out of it.

Oh. So she was worried, huh ...

Either way, I can see why that would be frustrating. The place I come from is a lot like Italy in that way, I think -- our families and names are all very important, and the history behind them too.

You told me a little bit about that when I first got here. It was good to hear something familiar.

That's right. Well, glad to help, I guess ... it's kind of annoying how little that sort of thing matters around here, but I've gotten used to it by now.

How long did it take you to get used to it?

[ There's a pause. Not because she doesn't know the answer, but because the answer involves a lot of explaining.

But. She'll put it out there, and he can ask if he likes. After all, she did say he could ask her things, too. ]

I guess after a year or two I stopped expecting anyone to care about that sort of thing.

[That wasn't what he was expecting. But then again, he couldn't pinpoint what he was expecting, exactly.]

Do you know why they didn't?

Just not the same for them, I guess.

Like, obviously most people care about their family, but it seems like most places there's just not the same type of structure. I guess that's the best way to put it.

And in a place like this, people are more interested in you instead of the family you come from - not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it's just that I grew up with people immediately knowing a lot about me just based on my name, you know?

I know. It's strange not to have that shorthand. Even though most people growing up didn't know what my grandfather had done, they knew my father, the kind of man he was.

Yeah, exactly. My dad was in charge of one of the major departments that run the village, so everybody knew him. And like I said before, a lot of specific chakra techniques are passed down through families, so in general, when people ask for a Yamanaka -- it's for a certain reason.

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