Chuckling, Yul sat up, shaking his head; his ponytail scattered a bit of dust. "Thanks. You give 'em pretty well."

Still sitting, he brushed off his hands, then, grimacing, brushed at his jacket. "Yeah... sometime I picked up from a young age. I was always jumping off things, falling off things, running into things..." He smiled. "It's a good thing I got more coordinated as I got older."

He looked at Shoan. "You know, I'm trying to imagine young Shoan now. I'm not having an easy time. Help me out."

Yul smirked. "Matsu Hide is you but shorter." The smirk faded. "Only... not really, at all." They were both strong Lion women, but there were oceans of difference besides that.

He shifted, resting his elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands. His expression was interested as he listened. "That does sound like you, just shorter." He murmured with a smile. Then he blinked. "What what kind of trouble did you get into? You?" The corners of his lips turned up, just a little.

Yul snorted. "Yeah. She's cool, though."

His lips twisted as she described staying up late, and an eyebrow was cocked, not at drinking sake, but at ending up in the stables. "Okay, getting better..."

The last one made him laugh. "Wow, okay. A whole dojo food fight okay." He nodded to her. "Well, I hope you're not gonna keep me in suspense all day, are you?"

"You'd better not." Yul grinned. He gave Shoan a curious look. Digging a little deeper under the exterior was a pretty good sense of humor. Huh.

His eyebrows went up. "Wow. Okay. Noodles and pudding. Two foods that are definitely gonna get all over the place. But hey, it seems only fair." Grimacing, Yul shook his head. "I've dealt with that type before. A facefull of pudding sounds like the right thing to do to them."

After a moment, he smiled again. "So... what disciplinary action did you face?"

"Double secret probation?" Yul frowned doubtfully. But, well, if it was Murame Shoan saying it, she probably meant it. "Well, that's good that no one would break. That's the way it should be."

He snorted. "Yeah. Me. Never get into trouble. That's right." He pursed his lips, considering. "Okay, a funny one, right?"

Finally, he nodded. "So, back in the Academy there was this big fountain out front. I kept saying it was big enough to swim in. My friend kept saying no. So I stripped down, and jumped in..."

Yul shrugged. "I was right. But she stole my clothes and ran. I didn't realize until she was already out of sight. So, I jumped out of the pool, and made a run for the dorms." Yul grimaced. "And just happened to run into the training unit's XO coming the other way."

"Well, I stood at attention." Yul considered that a moment, and then cleared his throat. "Uh, what I mean is, I bowed formally."

His cheeks reddened. "So, she just looked me up and down. Definitely down. And smirked. And then she just said... oh yeah, her assistant was right there behind her. She said 'Gunso, make a note. The latest batch of trainees has some very obvious shortcomings'. And then she just... went on her way."

Yul sighed. "Next morning, I was on kitchen duty, too. I'm not sure which one was worse." He tilted his head, then nodded. "No, actually, I am sure."

As Shoan laughed, Yul found himself laughing as well. Hard enough that he fell back, lying on the ground.

"Actually, she was pretty hot. I was definitely thinking about cold showers and, well, baseball." Slowly, he straightened again, once more brushing just from his fine uniform.

"So, yeah, there was that." Yul said. "There were other things, too, but I definitely remember that one. Hmmm..." Yul frowned, rubbing at his chin. "I guess there were a few times I got in trouble after I graduated, too." A shadow passed over his handsome features, but he shook his head. "Nothing that good, though."

"Sounds good to me." Yul said. He rose easily to his feet, brushing himself off... somehow, it seemed that not much dirt was clinging to him.

"Xeno-sushi?" Yul was willing to let Shoan take the lead, walking along with her. "It sounds like something I'd be willing to try, anyway."

Yul's eyebrows went up. "Iced tea, thank you. You've come very well-prepared, Shoan-san. I suppose that makes sense, from " He smiled. "I wish I'd... well, never mind." He shook his head.

"That sounds good." Then Yul frowned. "Wait, how big of a spiny fish creature? Are we talking..." He spread his hands apart as far as they could go, "-or, like, one makes a hundred servings of xeno-sushi?"

Yul caught the can easily, giving him plenty of time to focus on Shoan's words.

"Yeah..." He smiled wryly. "She told me you guys talked about that. I don't know if she told you the whole story, but she saved my life." Yul looked briefly away, a whole swirl of emotions crossing his handsome features ever so briefly.

He looked back to Sloan. "I feel I should apologize that I've never managed aquatic monsters any of the times we've seen each other." He joked. Mostly.