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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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I always thought so. [ Even when he was more interested in trouble than much of anything else. ] The drama's only really got appeal to people who watch too much telly.

Or women.

[ fffffff wow kid ]

Careful who hears you saying that.

[Normally he'd be more mindful but screw today. They can DEAL WITH IT.]

Eh. They'll let me live. [...] Hopefully.

I haven't met any particularly murderous-seeming girls here yet, so you might be in luck.

[It'd be the one thing going for me.]

Maybe. I know a few that could murder with a look.

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Takes your chances down a bit. Sorry I can't offer police protection if it gets to that.

Well it's the thought that counts.

Keep to that mentality, son. Just don't strictly live by it. [ "The thought that counts" was not a wise string of steps in his own marriage, one can only assume. ]

[.....

When he speaks again, it's with some subdued amusement.]

...heheh. [He's spent half his life learning that lesson the hard way.] Preaching to the choir, old man. Preaching to the choir.

[Does he really want to go down that road again?]

[ ...Shikamaru he can't even. ]

You calling me old man just feels a bit pot and kettle, doesn't it. [ You are

the oldest teenager he has ever met.

Fact. ]

[HAHA. Okay, that gets a real smirk this time. You wouldn't be the first to say this, Lestrade.]

I don't have the looks to match it yet, is the difference.

More's the pity. You'll have trouble accessing any of the get-togethers for thirty years yet. [ And they would be really fantastic if they got started up. Sit around and smoke and complain about... whatever merits complaining about.

... Luceti is full of a lot of really young people. He has no idea how he got roped into the place. :| ]