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022 -- [Action || Voice]
[Filtered to Konoha Shinobi and Temari || 100% Unhackable]
Meeting tonight, at sundown. [What about goes without saying - most of them should know already.] Fourth floor's kitchen. Try not to pull a Kakashi.
[And thus starts off the long to-do-list of Shikamaru's day. The filter goes up in the morning, giving - hopefully - everyone time to see it.
He's decided he needs to talk to Naruto before then. On his way out the building he'll stop by his apartment, or send another filter off to him if he's not around. With everything going on he would be surprised. After he's tracked him down, it's off to the other side of the village to find Tony Stark at his casa, to hand over a project he's been working on for the last several nights. Playing delivery boy again, ugh. No notice this time, though. He's acting like a functional human being again, but he's not up for the sarcastic banter. Once he's done there, it's over to the school to find Katara in the thirty minute window he has after classes let out. Apologies are an order.
Specific things attended to... wow, without Masaomi around this week, he has a lot of time on his hands, huh. Well okay. He goes off to the forest with a bag of coconuts of all things and lines them up at head level when he finds a good spot to sit them for tanto practice - or more precisely: strength training. He's never used his short sword much. The one time he did, he wasn't strong enough with it to do as he intended, so he should work on that now.
And okay, surely by then the sun will be going down... or okay, nope. With a few hours to kill, somehow he winds up at the Seventh Heaven restaurant. In part because he figures it could be a good place to drop off some of the coconuts, and also because he realizes on the way over he hasn't actually eaten yet. Or done much of anything this past week, besides getting Asuma up to speed about Luceti, or working on various projects.
Sooo. Might be nodding off there at the restaurant. Might be napping after he eats, if he doesn't get kicked out for it. SITTING DOWN WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA. Fine, he'll pose a random pointless question to the masses, maybe that'll keep him occupied.]
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Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything?
Meeting tonight, at sundown. [What about goes without saying - most of them should know already.] Fourth floor's kitchen. Try not to pull a Kakashi.
[And thus starts off the long to-do-list of Shikamaru's day. The filter goes up in the morning, giving - hopefully - everyone time to see it.
He's decided he needs to talk to Naruto before then. On his way out the building he'll stop by his apartment, or send another filter off to him if he's not around. With everything going on he would be surprised. After he's tracked him down, it's off to the other side of the village to find Tony Stark at his casa, to hand over a project he's been working on for the last several nights. Playing delivery boy again, ugh. No notice this time, though. He's acting like a functional human being again, but he's not up for the sarcastic banter. Once he's done there, it's over to the school to find Katara in the thirty minute window he has after classes let out. Apologies are an order.
Specific things attended to... wow, without Masaomi around this week, he has a lot of time on his hands, huh. Well okay. He goes off to the forest with a bag of coconuts of all things and lines them up at head level when he finds a good spot to sit them for tanto practice - or more precisely: strength training. He's never used his short sword much. The one time he did, he wasn't strong enough with it to do as he intended, so he should work on that now.
And okay, surely by then the sun will be going down... or okay, nope. With a few hours to kill, somehow he winds up at the Seventh Heaven restaurant. In part because he figures it could be a good place to drop off some of the coconuts, and also because he realizes on the way over he hasn't actually eaten yet. Or done much of anything this past week, besides getting Asuma up to speed about Luceti, or working on various projects.
Sooo. Might be nodding off there at the restaurant. Might be napping after he eats, if he doesn't get kicked out for it. SITTING DOWN WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA. Fine, he'll pose a random pointless question to the masses, maybe that'll keep him occupied.]
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Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything?
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Like I was explaining to Itachi, the longer we can go without Madara catching on to what we know about him, the better. [Pointed glance at Naruto.] But there's someone here who wouldn't think twice about cluing him in.
Should he find him, of course, that's the least of our problems.
[You guys aren't dumb, he knows you know who he's talking about.]
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[The subject makes Itachi look suddenly tired. He hasn't spoken with Sasuke in some time.]
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No, not even a bit. I barely managed to get him to speak to me before he closed the journal on me.
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Even he's not as immune as he'd like to be... especially given what Naruto told him earlier today. He keeps reigning in that anger.]
He was in the village that day. We had a brief encounter, and I didn't get far in tailing him.
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[It's a little depressing that he can't always be certain in this place.]
I'm afraid there will be little I can do to keep them from convening at this point.
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Can't you just shoot him a message over the journal?
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Right after Madara shows up? That's not suspicious at all.
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As he's avoided me, I could not tell you what his current feelings are. But, if Madara is aware of my brother's presence at all, he'll be monitoring him closely.
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What should we be doin' then? Tryin' to keep an eye on one or both of them?
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[Okay, he may actually be biased, but it is still a legit concern. At least he thinks it is. Itachi would have a better idea.]
But you have more insight here.
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Not to mention that, sadly, such actions may serve to just push my brother closer to Madara.
There is a team of tracking nin here, correct?
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Yeah, Kiba's pretty good at it.
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[Discounting Naruto, she's the next capable person they have, with Shino and Hinata gone.]
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Is he as good at remaining unseen as he is at tracking? The task of following a Sharingan user without them realizing is very difficult. Though this world itself may have limited some of Sasuke's natural abilities, we can't rely on that.
Ino is of the Yamanaka clan, yes?
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[Naruto relents after that to let Shikamaru handle any other details. And Ino, since she was his teammate.]
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They're both about as quiet as Naruto here. [Needs to be said.] But they know how to do their jobs. I have every confidence in them.
[...oh right.] Hell, if memory serves, Kiba's done this twice already.
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[That's something, if true. The good news is that here the other lacks Zetsu.]
Then I expect you to get in contact with them, if you haven't already.
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Should be easy enough, right Shikamaru?
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[Because at this point, he's not about to underestimate either one of them. If it's easy, something has gone wrong.]
I'll tell them tonight.
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Thank you.
...And thank both of you, for being willing to meet with me in the first place.
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Goes both ways. Your insight is gonna be helpful... you weren't obligated to give it.
[He wasn't even sure until Itachi contacted him if he would give it. He's content to let everyone continue thinking of him as a traitor; he didn't have to help them.]
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But the story has changed, and I apparently still have a part to play here.
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If it means anythin', I'm really glad to you're on our side for this, part to play or not.
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