Hikari continued singing softly until the boy appeared. She felt his arrival, but didn't bother to stop until he spoke. She stopped singing once she'd finished the words that had been leaving her mouth at the time, and opened one eye and eyed him, her expression giving away nothing of whatever she might have felt. She shrugged casually and stood, wordlessly dropping from the tree and landing ever so gracefully on the ground below. Of course he would be boring. Most people liked her singing, whether or not they liked her. Still, the blunt words didn't bother her. She didn't care what he thought, so she didn't even let the words, which many would have found insulting, register in her mind. It would take a lot more than that to hurt or offend her, especially given that being hurt by words required that one care about the opinion of whomever was speaking, and she did not.<br/><br/>"Yes." She replied simply when asked if she was ready to go. Her tone remained light and airy, the nonchalant air about her giving away that his blunt words hadn't bothered her, but beyond that she was next to impossible to read. Of course, she wouldn't have been sitting here waiting for him if she hadn't been ready, but she didn't bother to voice this. It didn't matter, so it was pointless. She held the scroll out for him to take, waiting until he had taken it before heading off in the direction in which they were to travel. "This is going to be terribly boring, isn't it?" Her tone was light and casual. It was a rhetorical question, not requiring an actual answer, but it gave him an opportunity to speak to her, should he wish to. She had a feeling he wasn't terribly talkative, which was generally fine by her, but this would be a long and even more boring mission if they were completely silent practically the entire time.<br/><br/>Still, she fell silent after her question, giving him some quiet in which to read the scroll. In the meantime, she thought briefly about the mission, resisting humming or otherwise making noise. She didn't really care what he thought, but that didn't mean she wasn't courteous. If noise bothered him that much, she wouldn't intentionally go out of her way to annoy him. She would even at least consider avoiding making any unnecessary noise, so long as he didn't get on her bad side. She could be spiteful when she wanted to be, but she would try to be nice until given a reason to be anything else.<br/><br/>She may not necessarily like a lot of people, and she may not always be the most outgoing and friendly person, for her own reasons, but she was generally a nice person. She'd be nice enough to him, even if he was blunt and cold to her. She would keep him at arms length just like she did everyone, but that didn't mean she had to be rude, or appear cold. At the very least she'd be courteous. Now, depending on how he acted, she may be less inclined to be nice as time went on, but she'd at least try for now.