endgames | 036 -- [Voice]

((Backdated to February 4th))

[It's been a long time since Shikamaru's failed a mission. All right. Failure might be too strong a word for this one. He can actually laugh at that. This isn't like when he was twelve. It's a personal embarrassment, not something that's going to keep him up at night, sick to his stomach.

A failure is a failure though, and that makes it a pain in the ass. He'd apologized to the MSF personnel profusely, and requested to be put on a different mission to make up for the screw-up. They'd looked nonplussed about the whole thing and stuck him back in Luceti, but eh. Shikamaru decides to keep his journal close to him anyways, in case they take him up on that. It's for this reason he doesn't go out to do any of the things he probably should. He passes the time by flipping through the journal instead, and thinking over the last mission.]

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When I first came to this village, I remember going out. Left or right, it seemed anywhere I looked someone was using that so-called "filial magic". ...Haaa. [He scratches his head, and there's a smirk in his voice.] That's an exaggeration, but you get it. That was years ago, though. It seemed like it was becoming less common until that incident last year, when everyone got possessed.

Anyone learning anything from those guys now? Seems like the kind of thing that would spark interest, especially with one extra spirit hanging around.

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There's no point asking a question no one else can answer, let's say.

[That's not helping with her curiosity.] Don't know unless you ask, right? [Maybe.]

If I can't, I can have good confidence of it. [She's being patient with him, he understands. For whatever qualifies as patience in Temariland, anyways.] Are you busy right now?

[Patience of a saint, right here.] No. What do you need?

Let's meet up.

When and where?

The river. Whenever you feel like it; but be warned I'm gonna lounge around here for another hour or so.

[Here being his apartment.]

I'll be there. [In an hour or so. No sense rushing. This is Shikamaru she's dealing with.]

[Thus in an hour or so, Shikamaru heads out. They never said what part of the river, but he's certain Temari's smart enough to know he meant the area where it's closest to their building. Hands in his pockets, he'll stroll along casually up the bank until he encounters her.]

[That's where she's hanging out, walking the bank and idly throwing rocks into the water here and again. When she sees him, she stops, rocks back on her heels, and nods in greeting.]

Yo. [There's a hand halfway out of his pocket before he seems to think better of some action. He casually slips it back in.] I keep you waiting long?

[She shakes her head.] Didn't have much else to do anyway.

That boring of a day?

Just slow.

Tch. That's any day around here, when the Malnosso aren't making things weird.

I have noticed. [Been around long enough, you know.]

Heh. It makes even me itch for some action. [Which is a damn shame. :T] I dunno what you do to pass the time.

[He folds his arms behind his head, and kicks a pebble into the water.]

I take a hell of a lot of walks.

...ever go up to the mountains?

Sometimes. Now and again.

Remind me to show you a spot I know up there, sometime.

Yeah? Where is it?

Secret.

Until you show me. [No, really. She'd like to see it sometime.]

[Until you show me. He grins, because yes. Exactly.]

There's an easy and a hard way to get to it.

[Doth the lady have a preference?]

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