"[color=00746b]Did you know,[/color]" said Haruka matter-of-factly, eyes still focused upon the book he was currently flipping through, "[color=00746b]that kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cauliflower are all variants of the same species of plant?[/color]"

The green-haired teenager was sitting in a wooden chair next to the wall, dressed in a nondescript white jacket and baggy grey trousers. His dark-green locks flowed down across his shoulders, accentuating his calm, almost-cherubic face. A hint of a smile ghosted across his lips as he snapped his book shut, warm blue eyes rising to meet those of the others in the room. Usually, he would have stayed out of whatever the younger ninja had been arguing about, but he couldn't resist taking advantage of the silence to make a snappy (in his mind of course) comment. It wasn't really one, he knew, but no one else had seemed willing to break the ice in any way.

Ah, kids these days.

"[color=00746b]They're all cabbages,[/color]" he elaborated, moving from the chair to stand at his full height of one point eight metres. "[color=00746b]Kale is the closest to the standard wild version.[/color]"

His right arm seemed to be slightly awkwarder to use than his left. There was a reason for that. An ill-advised experiment during a mission a mere month before had done quite a bit of damage to himself, and he had only recently recovered from the injury. It was why he was attending this party in the first place - to rest and enjoy himself instead of throwing himself out into the field once again.