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Austin smiled as Kia slept, then continued on to lightly play his guitar. Eventually, he became sleepy, and fell to his bed with a light thump. He wrapped his arm around his guitar, and pulled the sleeping bag over himself to fall into slumber.





RING. RING RING.
Austin's phone set off at 8 that morning, causing austin to stir to conciousness. He quietly turned off his phone, then placed his guitar back up on the rack. He gathered his things, dressing for the day ahead. He moved quietly to Kia's bed, then lightly placed a hand on Kia's arm to wake her. He smiled slightly when he noted her body warmth, which meant she'd slept well.
"Kia...Kia. Wake up. Time to get going."
He very lightly shook her arm to wake her, hoping he wasn't being too brave by touching her arm.

Unaffected by the deathgrip Kia'd just employed on him, he smiled.
"Morning, Kia. You sleep okay after the second time?"
Austin pulled up his sit-and-spin chair, opening and closing a few documents on his computer before signing off and shutting down his computer. He turned back around to face Kia, still smiling.
"If not, you can sleep in the car on the way there. I'll be careful not to wake you up, if i can. Mhmm."

"Oh, Okay. Unfornately, i have a matter to attend to regarding transportation, so i'll have to miss out on breakfast. I'm sorry, Kia, but you'll have to eat alone this time. I'm taking the cases down to put them in the car and such, and i'll be at the entrance of the school when you're ready to go. okay?"
Austin was picking up his case, as well as Kia's while he headed towards the door.
"Just follow your nose and remember which way i led you before, and you'll make it. I'm sure of it."
And with that, he disappeared through the doorway.

Austin opened the door to his room happily, humming a tune. He'd reached the dorm first because he knew the way better than kia did. He flipped on the lightswitch, expecting to see large piles of dust all over the place.

What he saw instead was a disaster zone. His room was wrecked, every bit of it. His bed, Kia's bed. His desk. His window. His wall safe where he kept his painting..All of it was destroyed. and his painting was gone, too.

"When i find out who did this, theyre gonna wish they HADN'T decided to take an interest in Monet."
Austin clenched his fist tightly. He walked into the center of the wreckage, already making a damage report in his head. Luckily, Kia's plant had remained unharmed. Which was ironic, in it's own way.

The answer was obvious.
"The same person who wrecked the room next door. My guess is the person got the wrong room number the first time around, then came back and gave it a second shot after failing."
Austin pulled out one of his gloves, slipping it on. The Array built into the palm glowed slightly.
"If anything is missing, be sure and let me know."
Austin then commenced to transmuting everything back together. He'd even managed to remove a minimal amount of unnescessary wood from Kia's bed, and combined it with his cot to make an actual bedframe.
For 10 seconds, at least. The wood was plywood and the knots from Kia's bed. Meaning they were both brittle, and it came apart rather easily.
"Great. No cot now.."
Austin mumbled slightly as he fixed the window, then the safe. The room looked mostly clean at this point, besides the scattered clothing.

"I can only guess that it's the handywork of a natural thief. I used to steal alot when i was a child, for the thrill. Then when it became incorporated into ninjitsu, it became one of my greatest subjects. You see, the thief made it look like a ramshackle burglary made by some regular thief. But you see, a regular burglar is too worried about other people hearing him. So he wouldn't be breaking things to find something precious. A natural, or expert thief, would break things as a sign of defiance. He's taunting us by saying we have a cruddy security system that he can overcome to the point of wrecking our room, and STILL get away with stealing something. It's very psychological indeed.."
It almost made absolutely NO sense if you'd never studied investigations like he had. And Austin didn't expect Kia to understand it, so he simply went on.
"I have an idea who mightve done it..There's an infamous thief out there, whos a mere child..He's listed in the bingo book for stealing the scrolls from the Kage's personal collection. He could've pulled this off. But i have no way of finding him, and the thing he stole from me wasn't rightfully mine to begin with. So I'm gonna let it go. If you want, i'll pay to replace lost clothing."
Austin took a restful seat on the bed, sighing.

"He won't come back. assuming it's a he..They won't be back. they only came for the painting."

Austin cracked his back by pushing out his spine.
"Anyway. It's best not to worry if there's no threat. If the problem pops up again, we'll deal with it. Till then, i think we should just relax..."

"I don't know myself. Some thieves have codes that they abide by..I guess not killing plants was one. Or maybe you got lucky? either way, it's the only plus to this situation. So i'm thankful for it."
Austin collapsed quietly, falling back on the bed to rest.
He plucked a pillow from beside him shortly after, and playfully flipped it onto Kia's head. He pulled the second pillow out, then laid his head down on top of it with a playful, relaxed smile.