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026 -- [Voice || Written || Action]
If I see another mountain again, it'll be too soon. Did any of you know that sirry means "ridiculous"? [He snorts.] Explains a lot. Avalanches. Yetis. More freaking snow. Man, that mission was a pain...
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Anyways. I'm back. [Technically has been for two days albeit not in town, so he'll make it official.] Anything interesting hap- [His disinterested tone gives way to irritation as he turns his attention to something off-screen.] Oi that's not for you-
[The journal snaps shut with a sigh. He never finishes speaking, but about an hour later the post is transcribed... minus the interruption, and now with complete sentences.
If you're out today now that the heavy rain of the few days is finally letting up, you might spot Shikamaru coming back into the village from the North... closely followed by a deer much larger than Luceti's usual fare ((think five feet at the shoulders, six at the head, and eight feet with antlers)). The stag seems pretty content to follow him around - even into town or just standing around when he sits - despite sticking to the tree-lined paths when he can. Shikamaru talks to him sometimes.
Yes, talks, shut up.]
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[Hell he would take that over the snow any day. 8|]
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Might need a little more, uh, training before that.]
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So twenty, or twenty-two?
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Huh?
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[Actually it's in four days. For all his skills in memory, he loses track of the days easily. HE GOT THE MONTH RIGHT AT LEAST.]
I was wondering how you would count it.
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[She doesn't look at him as she answers, instead caught up in looking around the place -- and intensely missing home as she looks at the trees.
She misses the harsh desert vistas.] Choosing the younger age seems to negate experience, don't you think? [Pause] But then what woman likes to admit she's older than she actually is?
[Sure she answered the question. Absolutely. Give her a second; she'll look back over to him.]
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It's unlike her. It makes him feel oddly at peace, that they can have these kind of conversations again. Simple, quiet, thoughtful.
Temari is a woman he thinks of in harsh edges, but once in a while he can find this softness in her.]
Tsunade-sama is perhaps a bad example, but so long as she appears younger she minds it less.
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We're different, Tsunade-sama and I. I wouldn't mind a few wrinkles here and there. They speak of experience.
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Like a badge of honor.
[He's never gotten why women are like that - even if that was his default reaction to bringing up the subject with her. He's used to being around girls who focus so much on their appearance.]
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He smirks and pauses in their walking.]
Wait here for a minute.
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Okay. Do what you gotta do.]
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Shikamaru disappears around one corner, himself, having remembered the bakery wasn't far from here. He'll return a few minutes later -- with a large slice of chocolate cake on a plate. Hopefully the deer has been a pal and distracted her, so it can still be a surprise by the time he gets back over there and taps her on the shoulder.]
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... He's quite the animal, Nara. She's almost impressed.
When he taps her shoulder, she does start, her hand drifting toward any number of kunai on her person at any given time. Rikumaru hadn't given anything away -- shown no sign of threat. It's a half-second before she registers it's him.
She goes from startled to blinking at him a bit dumbfounded to slow, easy grin in the time it takes to look at him and the plate in his hand.]
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Confident he won't be stabbed now, as that would surely put on a damper on this wonderful gesture, he holds out the plate and smiles.]
Happy birthday. However old you are.
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She doesn't even know what to say. You ass, rendering her almost speechless.]
You're early. [Pause] But it's close enough.
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I mean. He knew that. Totally. Or watch him try to play it off like so.]
You get two slices this way, might as well enjoy it.
[ ^the smoothest ]
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