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[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.]

[Voice]

Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything?

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Like the guys you fight in there.

At least I can hone my skills. There's a complete difference in sight-seeing and training.

[Such as:] One isn't useless.

Edited 2012-03-19 01:28 (UTC)

The other won't come back to bite you in the ass.

I don't see how it would bite you in the ass. Unless you're an idiot who can't manage the controls.

It's the people who can manage it that you have to watch out for. Everything's monitored in there, after all.

What, you mean like sabotage?

[He counts them off his fingers.]

Sabotage, spying. You may as well be handing over your fighting style for study.

[He didn't think of that. But he doesn't particularly care. Sort of.]

That won't stop me from kicking whoever's ass. Just because they've seen me fight doesn't mean I can't do it, either.

[He shrugs. He could go on, but he sees no point in arguing.]

To each his own.

[..........]

What would you do with that kinda surveillance, though?

It's not rocket science.

Throw me a bone.

[Sigh. Okay, he'll try to make this stupid sample.]

How do you get to know a person? How they fight, how they talk - whatever.

So some kinda extensive studying bullshit. [Or spying, like Shikamaru already mentioned.] Who do you think would even use that?

The Malnosso, for starters. Other people maybe, if they thought they could learn something from it.

I'm pretty sure those bastards have other ways of keeping tabs on people. Dunno how anyone else would use that kinda stuff, though.

There a way to do that?