endgames | 023 -- [Accidental Post]

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023 -- [Accidental Post]

[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]

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Yotsuba can keep guessing! Yotsuba knows lots and lots of names! It iiit... Sally?

[She will keep saying random names until by some miracle she lands on Shikamaru or until she's told what his name is. How long do you want to suffer for?]

[Hey, this beats suffering through everyone and their mother finding his baby picture cute. He'll let her try for a few rounds.]

I think that's a girl's name. I'm definitely a guy.

Right, you're a dude, yo! Yotsuba knew that! Does that mean your name is Taiyaki?

[She'll be jumping right back onto the cute train just as soon as she's done throwing out more ridiculous guesses.]

[That sounds like the kind of name he'd expect a relative of Naruto to have, if he had a brother.]

Nope. I'll give you a hint: it has nine letters.

Nine letters... That's almost ten! Is there a 'u'?

[Guessing Shikamaru's name has become a game of hangman.]

There is.

[Hey no, that's a fun idea. Though the actual hangman part may come later. But there is a series of dashes, with the 'u' in place for her.]

Hey there's the u, Yotsuba was right!!

[And that earns her a round of applause. From herself.]

How about 'Y', like Yotsuba!

Nope, no 'Y'.

There should be one of those, it's a good letter. [...] A, for apple. And amputate.

You have quite the vocabulary, you know. 'A' was a good pick too.

I know lots of words, Yotsuba is really smart! ... Your name is Aau! Aau aaaaau~ [So smart.] R for Rapunzel! And red. Red things.

Heh. [He draws the 'r' in.] A friend of mine's favorite color is red. Yours too?

Red is nice. But so is green! Oh, oh, and yellow! Yellow like the sun and sunflowers, they're so pretty! Do you like flowers? ... Oh, F! Is there any of those?

Guess again. And I'm more of a cloud person, myself.

Clouds look really fluffy, Yotsuba bets they taste nice on sticks. C for cloud? And candy!

Sorry. Those 'c's are funny though, huh? They don't sound right in words like cloud or candy.

Huh? C... Seeeeee. Oh, but clouds don't sound like that, if they did they would be slouds! And sandy, we're not at the beach!! They sound like king, right?! [Oh, there's an idea.] Is there a k?!

[Muah. It worked.]

You're good at this. Definitely more like 'king'.

But is that king supposed to be as in royalty, of the game piece?

Yotsuba is good, another letter! [Yaaay~]

Ohhh Yotsuba meant the king like the king who has a prince and a pretty queen and rules over places. And he might have a beard too. There are games with kings?

Again with the beards...

Aa. A 'king' is the most important piece in one of my favorite games: shogi.

Yotsuba has never played that game before, if it has kings then it must be fun. Tell me more about it! [As for a letter:] Sho... Oh, it's a shhh sound like sheep! S! Is there a s somewhere?

Heh. All right, sure. But only since you got another letter.

It's a strategy game. It's a lot like... aa. There's a game similar to it, but you probably haven't heard of chess either, huh?

Nope! Yotsuba hasn't heard of either of those games. I've played snakes and ladders though, that's fun and a little scary.

[Hmm, what letter to pick now.] S for snakes. [...] Ohhh Yotsuba already said s. Uhm, z! For Zoo.

No Z. And hmm. In that case, you might not like shogi. To a kid, it might feel long and boring.

Boring stuff isn't fun, it's boring. Yotsuba might like it though if there are kings in it, queens too.

[As for letters:] L for long and b for boring, that's it! Your name is Slbkalaru. [How she even pronounced that is a mystery.]

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