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

[weaponry]

Unless you trapped us here, you shouldn't feel guilty. [ Although, Shikamaru, if you trapped us here, you should feel horrible! ]

[endgames]

Yeah. You'd be right.

[He's sure people could do without the reminder, is all.]

[weaponry]

You know, this photo makes me want to start some scrapbook type of thing. [ It'd be a cute collection of memories! Especially with this as its first entry! ]

[endgames]

Why, you taking up photography?

[weaponry]

Nah. I just want a little momento of all the good times here. In case one day they stop.

[ She smiles. ]

It'd be pretty nice if we could have something we could all look at as Konoha ninja and bond over it. Like an emotional centerpiece of sorts.

[endgames]

[ > good times
> here ]

Wouldn't that hold more meaning elsewhere?

[weaponry]

Well, we seem to enjoy our lives at home and we aren't always together or see each other as often as we are here. And we need to have some sort of good times thing for when the really bad times come. I mean, it's not all terrible. Remember... [ ...Oh. huh. She can't really think of anything specifically involving Shikamaru and fun. OH WELL. TIME TO FAKE IT. ]

waking up with all of those pineapples? That was a fun memory! [ Compared to the moon crashing into the world and everything. ]

1/2

[endgames]

Yeah. A fun memory preluded by memory loss.

[endgames]

[...]

Aa. That's cynical even for me.

[weaponry]

[ There's a faint grumble on the other end of the feed. ]

Yeah. That was rather cynical. Has this place never really made you smile once?

[endgames]

Hell no. [And he raises a finger. Trick question, that.] The place is shit. If I want smiles, I look to the friends I've made. Don't confuse the two.

1/2

[weaponry]

[ Whatever. She rolls over for now. There's a look that definitely shows just how she's irritated. She suppresses her impulse to bring up that without Luceti he wouldn't have met some of those friends. ] Don't talk to me like that! I'm wide aware there's a difference between friendship and a location.

2/2

[weaponry]

[ Clearing her mind. Clearing her mind. She needs positivity to market this idea!!! ]

Either way, it'd be nice if we had something to tie us together that shows all the vaguely positive times we had with our friends. The Hokage is really big on memories for a reason, you know! [ Tenten plays the Hokage Card! Insert vague yugioh reference here. ]

[endgames]

[Man, it says something that he's really starting to miss Tsunade.]

Hey, no one's stopping you.

[weaponry]

Okay, Shikamaru! That means this is going in the book! I'll start looking for a book with empty pages tomorrow. If you want to view it, it'll be on our community floor's kitchen table. [ A conversation starter! ]

[endgames]

Oi, oi, oi. I didn't give permission for that.

[weaponry]

Why not?! If I find photos like this from others, you know they're going in there!

And, everyone else has already seen it anyways. It's on here. [ forever. ]

[endgames]

[WHICH IS TROUBLESOME ENOUGH.]

It's not mine to hand out like that. Have some respect for my parents.

[weaponry]

All right, all right, fine. [ You win against tactless Tenten this time, Shikamaru!!!! ] I wonder what caused this to appear in the first place. It seems so out of place amongst the usual items...

[endgames]

I think it came with something else I found from home a year back. I just didn't come across it until now.

[weaponry]

Do you know what that something else was? [ Nosy Tenten is nosy. ]

[endgames]

No. I only picked it up and brought it back to where I'm staying.

[weaponry]

Aw. [ There's no trivial information to be had here ): ! ]

If you find anything that might ping my interest, let me know! I've been searching for a couple of specifics in the shop recently.

[endgames]

[lmao he was being sarcastic >>

But it's just as well - what he found is for Nara Clan eyes only, so he wouldn't be able to share.]

Yeah? Like what?

[weaponry]

[ OH WELL. SARCASM FAILURE ICLY WOO.....

Fair enough! ]

Well, it's a fan. [ The Bashosen. ] I'm not sure if it's going to be found with the weapons, or the actual items. [ Cause it's a fan. ]