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]
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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[He thinks he did well on that jutsu here, even if--
...oh. There's an idea.]
Speaking of that. You free on time?
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Wanna meet me by the bridge outside in a couple hours? There's something I want to show you.
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[Lazy salute at the journal window, and then he's off. Apparently he owes a little girl some shrimp. After that though, he'll be at the bridge.]
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Yo.
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We should drag her to that restaurant. It's no Yakiniku Q, but they still have good barbecue.
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[But he knows she secretly does not hate it, in fact, and is plotting to get her to admit it anyways.]
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Well, then, it's settled.
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Let's get away from the bridge some. [Said as he angles his shoulders towards the river.] I need you to pick a target for me.
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Whatever it was, he was interested. ]
How far away from the bridge should we be?
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So it's something like that, huh?
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[ Action ] LOL it's ok!
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How's this?
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[Let's just stick it closer to the river. He'll drag it over. Asuma can pick out a cool place to spectate.]
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Snake. Rat. Snake. Tiger.
If Asuma's seeing those, he may have a good idea of what's coming next.]
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Seriously, color him impressed. ]
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Almost too focused. While he carefully measures just enough spewed ash to surround the log, he doesn't catch the light breeze coming in until the last second. He sparks the flint to ignite before it can spread it anywhere, but that was a close one.
BUT HE GOT THE LOG.]
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