023 -- [Accidental Post]

[endgames]

[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

[markofthewise]

No. I'm the only one that I know of.

[endgames]

Aa. How long you been at it now? I remember you had that book on it a while back, that time at the smithy.

[markofthewise]

Since about October? [Since that time Ed was a girl, basically.] There's a lot to memorize.

[endgames]

Heh. The learning part is always so tedious, no matter what you do. I can see why you wouldn't want to take up more of it.

[markofthewise]

Two hours of training at five in the morning and an hour of alchemy research in the afternoon, not to mention all the other stuff I do at the smithy. Pretty sure it's plenty. [And yet he's not half as busy as Katara!]

[endgames]

Oh, is that all.

[markofthewise]

Well I do like my free time. So does Suki.

[endgames]

Aa. Say no more.

[NO REALLY, DON'T.]

[markofthewise]

You sure? We did just spend our engagement anniversary together.

[endgames]

I'm sure you had a wonderful time.

[I DON'T NEED TO HEAR IT.]

Welcome back, by the way.

[markofthewise]

Thanks. I'd say it's good to be back, but we had a lot of fun up there... [LIKE THE FIRST NIGHT WHEN THEY...]

[endgames]

Uh-huh. [SUBJECT CHANGE NO JUTSU.]

Heard you might be doing some fishing.

[markofthewise]

Already went, today actually.

[endgames]

They bite?

[markofthewise]

Yeah. And I bit back. They were very tasty.

[endgames]

Ha, good.

I thought about taking you up on your offer, but fishing is about all I did in the past two weeks myself. You might try the mountains sometime.

[markofthewise]

Yeah? Is the fishing good up there?

[endgames]

No. I'm recommending it for kicks.

[markofthewise]

Well you could be, for all I know.

[endgames]

Tch. Have some faith.

But yeah. Caught a lot of trout up there. Good size, good eating.

[markofthewise]

Well it won't be as easy getting up there, but maybe I'll try it next time around.

[endgames]

I cheat and take the teleporter to the hot springs. Shaves some hours off.

[markofthewise]

Well, that part goes without saying. But it's not like you can fish in the actual hot springs. At least, I hope not.

[endgames]

[Never going back there again, if that's the case.]

Nah. But it's not far from the lake up there, is what I meant.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, I guess so. According to the map, anyway. I've never been up to that lake.