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"[Name]-chan, can you help me memorize these hand signals?"
[Name] looked up as she heard the familiar voice of her best friend, his footsteps quickly approaching. He was waving around a sheet of paper, the fluttering noise coming from it intensifying with his movements. She could already tell that it was crinkled well beyond repair from his constant waving and she wondered if he had left it in his bag for a week like he did with many of his class notes.
"Sure, Hinata-kun," she chirped happily, reaching out for the paper when he finally made it to her side.
As Hinata settled himself into the seat next to her, [Name] looked over the different hand signals and their meanings that were depicted on the paper. It was obviously written in Sugawara's hand writing, she noted, and briefly she wondered if the kindhearted third year had given a sheet like this to every one of his teammates at one point. The pictures of hands were expertly drawn in her opinion, getting their point across clearly, and the meanings for each gesture were neatly scrawled underneath each hand. It was a fairly simple sheet to read.
"How should I help you memorize this, Hinata-kun?" [Name] asked, not quite sure how to proceed with the hand gesture quizzing. She wiggled her fingers a bit, wondering if she should try making the gestures herself.
"Just try drawing them on something else," Hinata suggested.
Nodding briefly at the solution, [Name] fished through her school bag for a pen and her journal. She flipped to the very first page—the title page—and started doodling a gesture in the margin of the page. Doing her best to copy Sugawara's picture, she was eventually able to draw what she thought looked like a hand with its pointer and middle fingers extended into an upside-down v.
Hinata took one glance at it before his face contorted into confusion. "You're really bad at drawing, [Name]-chan…"
Huffing angrily in response, [Name] shoved the journal and pen in his direction. She no longer felt the need to help him as her generous mood was suddenly carried away by his insult.
"If you want to critique my drawings skills, then go ahead and draw it yourself," she harrumphed.
Pouting a bit at his friend's sudden behavior, Hinata grabbed the pen and flipped to the next page—the one with all the instructions. There wasn't much room there, but he tried his best to draw the hand signals he could remember in the spaces provided. As he drew, he would mumble to himself what he thought each symbol meant. Upon completion, Hinata placed the pen down and looked at his work.
"They look like badly drawn squids," [Name] commented teasingly.
Groaning at his own lack of artistry, Hinata scribbled through the drawings of hands and tried again on a different page; however, each attempt only resulted in failure.
"Never mind," he grumbled, "Just make the stupid hand gestures. That's faster anyway."
…Doodle over the top of 1) the cover; 2) the title page; 3) the instructions; 4) the copyright page.
