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Show of hands if someone tried to prank you yesterday.
[Annoyed as he sounds, he's mostly gotten over it. Simply put, Shikamaru is just too lazy to hold a grudge when it comes to most things. He's still curious, however.
...but no longer orange, thankfully.]
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[Later on, just before evening, Shikamaru can be found on his way back from the Item's Shop to CH 1, a certain book in tow. And for a book that stands at half his height and is nearly two feet thick when closed, we do mean tow. He'll be taking frequent breaks along his way back, dropping the book with a loud thud before sitting beside it on every bench he comes across.]
Damn thing weighs more than Temari's fan...
[Yeah, yeah, he's pretty weak for a ninja, he knows, but hey. The book does weigh about a hundred pounds or more. 8|
A passerby might catch him during one of those breaks, looking over it's contents in curiosity while the light is still good outside. But from there it's back to lugging it home.
The Nara Clan's medicine manual... the old man would kick my ass if I just left it lying around.]
[Annoyed as he sounds, he's mostly gotten over it. Simply put, Shikamaru is just too lazy to hold a grudge when it comes to most things. He's still curious, however.
...but no longer orange, thankfully.]
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[Later on, just before evening, Shikamaru can be found on his way back from the Item's Shop to CH 1, a certain book in tow. And for a book that stands at half his height and is nearly two feet thick when closed, we do mean tow. He'll be taking frequent breaks along his way back, dropping the book with a loud thud before sitting beside it on every bench he comes across.]
Damn thing weighs more than Temari's fan...
[Yeah, yeah, he's pretty weak for a ninja, he knows, but hey. The book does weigh about a hundred pounds or more. 8|
A passerby might catch him during one of those breaks, looking over it's contents in curiosity while the light is still good outside. But from there it's back to lugging it home.
The Nara Clan's medicine manual... the old man would kick my ass if I just left it lying around.]
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Hey, Shikamaru! Whatcha got there?
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[Shino may have to watch out for his hard earned 'Captain Obvious' title today. But sue him, he doesn't currently have the breath for a more detailed answer. @__@]
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It's huge.
[Poking at it.] What are you doing with it?
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You're going to lug this thing all the way up to the fourth floor? It's half as tall as I am!
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[He leaves out the fact that it took him an hour to get this far and that he'll probably have to take rest stops between floors on his way up. DETAILS. HE CAN DO IT.]
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[Like experiments, or- dammit, he was trying not to think about this.
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Too busy to help --
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Shit.
And for a moment her hands clench tightly at her sides.]
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It's a manual. I think. ...I don't actually know for sure - I never got the chance to look at it that closely before.
[He traces his fingers over the symbols drawn on the book, one of the many variations of the crest of the Nara Clan.]
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[Katara's oblivious to the fact that she's been found out - but if he wants distractions from his thoughts, she has no problem pouring out dozens of curious questions.]
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Yeah. From my old man's library, to be exact.
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Are all the books in your world this big?
[Go on. Laugh. You know you want to.]
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[It's so huge.]
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Ha, ha.
[And then the look slides into something more neutral.] But seriously, wouldn't it make more sense to use a couple of books instead of one really big one. One... really, really big one?
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So it's more stuff that your clan was guarding?
[Like your shadow jutsu?]
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