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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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[Pfft. So straight-faced:]

It's not my problem if you can't get the joke, Inuzuka.

[He snorts.]

You kidding? I have a mad sense of humor.

[He smirks.]

Sooo, if I'm lazy and don't show up to the meeting, would I be pulling a Shikamaru?

Unlikely, since I plan on being there.

But if you send Akamaru in your place, it'd be like pulling a Kiba, so you can do that if you want.

Unlikely, since I would never make Akamaru go somewhere I wouldn't. We're in this together, man.

[Woof!]

Keep up that straight face of yours, Nara. We all know you're laughing on the inside.

I'd prefer to be snoring.

[He is so fucking drained. First Asuma, then Madara shows up. And then after everything that's happened today...]

But you'll both be there, then? Hate to say it, but your insight and Akamaru's will be especially important.

You would.

But yeah, we'll be there. Figured it'd be mostly about that mask-wearing moron, anyway.

You are going to jot that down in your mental notes, right?

That is the point of doing this. [So. Yes.]

[dat face.]

Long day, man?

...that obvious?

Obvious enough.

You definitely want to do this thing tonight?

It's bad enough we've taken this long.

Eh, I guess.

I don't like the bastard. At all. Don't get me wrong, I want to shove the bastard off a cliff and watch him scream and drown personally, but he'd be pretty stupid to try anything here right now. He's probably been just as neutralized as we've been. Loser's probably been genin-zoned and doesn't know what to do about it.

[Sucker.]

So if you, uh, wanted to sleep for like a week straight or play shogi with Asuma-sensei or something, I don't think anyone would mind.

[...he finds it ironic he's hearing this from you of all people, Kiba.]

So long as I'm not wasting time watching clouds, right?

[Testing things, here.]

What?

Hell, if you want to go off and watch clouds instead, that's just f—

.....

[There is something nuanced going down here.

Give him a minute.]

[Annnnnnnd he's got it.]

Oh.

[Well. Shit.]

Heh. [He really shouldn't be amused by that, but he's tired. Everything's funny.]

I'll take you up on that tomorrow, Kiba. Right now I still got work to do.

...Shit. Look.

You can watch the clouds whenever the hell you want.

[That makes him snicker again.] It's not like I don't appreciate it, man. But you had a point the first time.

[...well sorta. He wasn't slacking off, but the fact that all of them are still stuck here is proof that he hasn't been doing enough.]

And I told somebody as soon as I found Akamaru I'd get us all out of here in a week.

[And he had meant it at the time.]

...And that worked out just as well as the last time I thought it would be a good idea to try and lie to my mother about where I'd been.

Know what else I didn't do, Nara?

[Sobered some, he waits for Kiba to make his point.]

I also didn't go and gatsuuga the barrier like a freakin' dumbass and crawl home a mess of broken bones and shit just because maybe it would get us home sooner if I hurried up and did it.

[And whose fault was that?]

[Lovely mental image, there. Enough to make him wince.]

This isn't the same thing, is the difference.

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