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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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Sometime in the next few days--you know. When I get around to it.

[Which of course, he'll make sure to do it sooner rather than later.]

[He'll bank on that.]

Bring me up to speed the day after, I guess. We can meet at the library.

Library it is. And I'd tell you--once again--to bring something sweet, but I'm beginning to feel like that's a pretty futile effort at this point.

What do you know - he can be taught.

[They find out anything good from this endeavor, he might just bring something. MIGHT.

But no need to let him know that.]

[Tony would be so delighted and surprised. And probably never let him forget it, either.]

By the way--what do you make of Bil's little offer he threw our way?

[Rapidly, his mood turns serious once again.]

Way too many risks involved. I hear the last time that he tried something like that, it didn't work out well.

[...it wasn't until three days ago that he even started considering the idea.]

[Oh, hold the phone.]

Come again? 'The last time'?

There's something in the journals about it. There was a portal everyone was supposed to jump into that would take them home. [Handwave, like that went well.] Just dumped them back here, talking like animals instead.

[Huh. Well, that's good to know.]

At least that was all. Seems to me like things could be much worse in a situation like that.

[Exactly his point.]

What he intends to do now is far more complicated.

Sure it is. Put the payoff--could be worth it.

[Yes, he's very seriously considering it.]

[It could. That's the hard part.]

To be completely honest--I'll probably do it. Opportunity is worth the risk, in my opinion. And I'm all about reckless decisions.

Your world, or someone else's?

My own. I know someone there who I'd be very interested in talking about Luceti to.

Brainstorming, then. [Thinking over this, he tries to pop his neck.] There could be worse reasons.

On the off-chance that he knows something, it'd definitely be worth going.

No pain, no gain. So the saying goes.

[He huffs a little, thoughtful, before turning away from the droid and making his way back over to the other side of the room.]

[Tony starts heading towards the doorway.]

I'm not normally one for leaps of faith--but I'm not exactly a risk-free individual, either.

I'd never guess from that flying suit of armor you boast about.

Sometime I'll regale you with the tale of how I test-drove that. Pretty thrilling.

[He nearly takes him up on that now, shockingly enough. He could use the distraction.]

I'll hold you to that someday.

I've got a whole series of near-death experiences--thinking about going into lecturing, actually.

[...ha. He keeps his calm demeanor going.]

An opportunity for you to talk all day. [.....] I can see it.

See? Not that hard to picture, is it? And I think everyone has something they can learn by listening to me.

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