[ shouldn't she know better by now? that those words will only serve to incite his curiosity even further!! pretending to be placated but otherwise thinking about how he'll get his grimy hands on it, it's another point to add onto his exponentially growing list of things he needs to accomplish this summer.

which, he'll probably forget half of… details. ]

I get that a lot. [ the brief flash of a memory of his relatives calling him unbecoming for an uzumaki much like this mother; there's an incoming child on a bike that he swerves away from the last second, appeasing their worrying parent that there was never any danger and not to worry with a laugh. ] Mom and dad tell me it's better this way, but… I dunno.

[ what is it with these un-summerlike tangents? ] Better than turning out like the jerk I guess! [ he returns a shrug. ] The 'rents think we should experience as much of the world while we can. So, wherever. [ purposefully vague… it's weird, sometimes, not feeling like he particularly belongs in one camp or another. ] There a place you wanna go?