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[1wing]

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Tsubasa has put up posters for the Japanese Culture Appreciation Club. Most of them are fairly innocuous, with pictures of sushi, ninja, and various other archetypically Japanese things. There is one that stands out more than the others though. It has a crude drawing of what is probably a samurai flanked by impeccably brushed text. Tsubasa's bad at drawing, but excellent at calligraphy.

"Join the Japanese Culture Appreciation Club Today!" It says, followed by "For more details, please contact Miss Kazanari at the staff room" in smaller text at the bottom.

Because Tsubasa really wants her club to do well, she's going to be sneaking around the grounds watching for people who seem interested.

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An email is sent to everyone in the school. Those who dare to open the video attached get to see Tsubasa and Maria's mugs filling the screen as they set up. For a former pop star Tsubasa's surprisingly terrible at dealing with the camera.

"Ahem, ahem. Good day everyone, the Japanese Culture Appreciation Club and the Cooking Club are organising a joint event next Friday. We will be watching the classic period film Seven Samurai. For the Cooking Club, Miss Cadenza- zav- Miss Maria?"

"The cooking club will be making snacks for everyone to eat and enjoy while watching the movie." Maria tried to hold it together and look like a teacher, trying not to laugh at Tsubasa failing to say her last name correctly.

"And if you like what you see, you are always free to join either club. Or even both, if you're really dedicated! Please consider it!" Tsubasa nodded seriously before turning to her partner with a "Maria, don't laugh!"

"Saying not to laugh isn't helping." Guess it was one of the silly perks of having a dense sword partner.

"If you can make it to the joint event it will be a lot of fun. Any leftovers food wise you can bring home as well." Maria was mainly interested in the last part since having tasty food always made her feel happy. Meaning everyone was going to make a lot of food even if they didn't really notice right away.

"Your name is just really difficult, okay?" Tsubasa's more than a little embarrassed as she reaches for the camera to turn it off.

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Tsubasa and Maria can be found in the staff room, chatting and waiting for anyone who wants to join their clubs.

((If you want Tsubasa or Maria specifically feel free. Brackets and prose are both fine.))

Comments

[1wing]

"That's correct. I am the club advisor." Tsubasa answered with a proud nod. It's her first club! And she really likes it! It's a good thing!

"We're always looking for more members. I believe it would be good for the rest of your studies, too."

[ms_perfection]

"Well I am kind of enrolled in Fundamentals for Japanese," said Kamala with a sheepish grin.

"I guess I should join up, see what I can do, right? I'm Kamala by the way."

[1wing]

"Excellent," Tsubasa nodded. She liked what she liked, and the more people liked it the better. (Unless it means all the stuff gets sold out.)

"Kamala Khan, right? I am Tsubasa Kazanari, I'm one of the PE teachers here, and the club advisor, but you already knew that." Why did she know the names of all the students? She just worked too hard.

[ms_perfection]

"Ah yeah." She wasn't weirded out that her teacher knew her already. Did that fight in the streets a few days ago really get that big?

"Miss Kazanari right? I guess thanks for having me."

[1wing]

"No, thank you for showing interest. We meet twice a week. I have yet to decide what our first activity will be, but I'm considering teaching everyone Shadow Binding." Tsubasa nodded with a smile. She was trying to hold it together, but she was really excited to have someone show interest!

Now to reel her in with something cool? Maybe?

[ms_perfection]

She had her at Shadow Binding. "Wait what? Shadow Binding? What is that exactly?"

She wasn't aware of anything of that nature coming from Japan, unless it was a secret magical girl thing...?

[1wing]

"It's an ancient Japanese technique, mainly practised by ninjas." Tsubasa explained as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a pen.

"What it does, is that by pinning a person's shadow to the ground, I can stop their movement entirely." And with a flick, she tosses the pen hard enough that it goes tip-first into the ground, stabbing Kamala's shadow.

"You shouldn't be able to move now."

[ms_perfection]

"That's the silliest... wait... I can't move..." Kamala tried to lift her legs and arms, and her eyes went wide with surprise.

"Well I'll be...! That's... really cool actually."

[1wing]

"Ufufu. It really is cool." Tsubasa's really proud that she managed to impress the student, and it shows on grin on her face.

"And if you remove it," she explained as she plucked the pen out out of the ground, "the curse is broken and you should have no trouble moving again!"

[ms_perfection]

"So anyone can learn this?" asked Kamala as she was freed.

"Not just magical girls?"

[1wing]

"My own ninjutsu teacher is a man, so I think he would be quite surprised if it was a magical girl trick." Tsubasa giggled slightly, trying to imagine Ogawa in a frilly magical girl's outfit.

"Anyone with the passion and at least a passing level of physical fitness can start to learn this, but hopefully by the time you're done it won't just be a passing level."

[ms_perfection]

"That is pretty cool. Back in my world, there's ninja of course but I've never actually met one before." Considering how weird her world was, it wasn't a big stretch.

"I suppose becoming a magical girl might have some effort in the fitness thing."

[1wing]

"Ninja that reveal themselves easily tend not to be very good ninja." Tsubasa points out. It sounds hypocritical, but it's not really. She learned ninjutsu, but she would never call herself a proper ninja. If anything, she's a sentinel. A defender.

[ms_perfection]

"Well, the only really ninja who work for the Japanese supervillains though, I can't think of any off hand at the moment to count for superhero ninja." Admitted Kamala.

[1wing]

"Now you can be the first you know to use ninjutsu for justice!" Tsubasa declared. Where she came from, ninja were typically under the employ of the Japanese government, for good or for ill, as they had always been. But if they were good, Kamala wouldn't know of them.

"Admittedly, I'm no master myself. The skills I can impart to you are limited, but it's not a ninjutsu club. That just happens to be a part of our activities."

[ms_perfection]

"Well as long as I'm learning something cool, I think I can go with it," said Kamala with a grin.

"All right, I'll make sure to arrive in plenty of time!"

[1wing]

"Excellent. I'll see you there." Tsubasa grinned, and pat Kamala on the shoulder in an attempt to be teacherly.