023 -- [Accidental Post]

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[Earlier, when looking through his father’s book for the first time in several months, Shikamaru found some pictures he’d never seen before being used as bookmarks. It was… nostalgic, to say the least.

He finds another bookmark to replace them; puts the photos in a drawer to look at later. Because haha, he knows how this works, right? He leaves them out, and somehow his journal accidentally records it. Yeah. Hell no. He’s smarter than that and doesn’t leave his journal anywhere near them. On top of that, he takes it with him when he leaves to assist with a chakra training lesson. Crisis averted!

Guess what he sees when he opens up his journal two hours later.



Where’s the nearest wall. He needs to beat his head softly against it while he attempts to figure out how this happened. Feel free to action it up when he’s back at CH1 too, if you like.]

[ooc: original artwork from here]

Comments

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[He can tell. He... thinks. It's hard to be certain.]

...baby fan?

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I haven't seen a whole lot of them before. But I think this one in particular looks really cute despite that..

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Really? There's babies everywhere, where I come from. Or at least little kids.

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[etudes]

Hmm. They're around a lot where I come from too.

[ Kotomi is just the one who never.. goes out.. and thus never sees them. ]

Not in my house, though. And not at school either..

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And not much here. It's troublesome, sometimes.

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[etudes]

Troublesome..? So you like it better with babies around?

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Not a lot of them. This place is dangerous - I'd be worried about someone losing track of them. Besides, they'd poop and be noisy all the time, and having to deal with that much at once would be a pain.

...but a few would be good.

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[etudes]

[ There's a pause - even a light hum along with it. She's thinking.. ]

You only say bad things about them, but you'd still like to have a few around. How surprising.

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Is it? Kids are really important.

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... Will they be as cute as that?

[ she's referring to the picture.. ]

[ voice ]

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[Pfft. He should've known that would be a concern for a girl.]

Probably cuter. [Given what everyone's said about how he turned out after getting older. 8|] At least for a while.

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I don't think they could be much cuter than that.. I'm trying to think what it would look like, but it's difficult to imagine.

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Maybe you need to see it to believe it. I don't have a lot of examples. Most of these pictures are just of me.

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[etudes]

... Ah.. that baby is you?

[ yes, it didn't hit her until just now, since she's just that oblivious.. ]

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It is. I was starting to suspect you might not know... [Confirmed. 8|a]

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I didn't know until you told me just now. [ at least she's honest. ]

But in that case.. you were a really, really cute baby.

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Heh. I still think you need to see some other babies.

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[etudes]

After I see other babies, I can't think this one is cute anymore..?

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I meant in general.

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I'd like to see some other babies, but I don't know if any other people in Luceti have pictures of them as babies.. maybe I should ask my friends.

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Aa... it doesn't have to be of people here. I'm sure you could find pictures in the library.

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[etudes]

In a book about babies, for example..? I might have to look for once of those then.

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That'd be your best bet. I'm sure there's something.