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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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[...yawning.

~~Challenge accepted.~~]

[ ~~best cr in which nothing is said is go.~~

Either way, she's idly playing with a corner of the journal.. ]

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[~~who will win??~~

And drumming his fingers on the table. What a troublesome girl. 8|a]

[ ~~ALL OF LUCETI HOLDS THEIR BREATH.~~

It's okay, she's already taking out another book to read now while she waits for an answer. She's patient! ... And doesn't seem to find the lack of answer weird at all, either.. ]

[~~Only to be disappointed when he gives up. Sorta.~~

Testiiiing his theory again.]

Kotomi?

[ ~~sorry, Luceti.~~

And yeah, no response to this either. Wow, this book sure is interesting! ]

[So she takes it that seriously. He wonders...

Test #2!]

Huh, what a cool book.

[ Negative! Until the mistake is corrected with 'Kotomi-chan', the mode remains on! ]

[Damn, he'd hoped he'd had something with that one.

But okay. Before giving in, he decides to test one more thing, and thus begins rattling off a string of random subjects.

The meaning of life as he sees it. Malnosso conspiracy theories he holds no stock in. How many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

And when none of that gets a response...] Kotomi-chan?

Ah, good day.

[ She's saying it as if the silence never happened, really. Or rather, him talking and she not answering.. ]

What is it?

Good book you're reading there?

Yes. It's a really nice book.. I really, really like reading books. [ as if she didn't already say that earlier.. ]

Must be. I mentioned some other books, but you were really into that one.

Mentioned other books..? [ headtilt. ]

When did you?

You really didn't hear a word, did you?

[Or she did and she's an incredibly good actor. Either way, it's fascinating.]

I don't know what I'm supposed to have heard.. Shikamaru-kun was just quiet for a bit, that's all.

[ It all sounds genuine, either way - since it is, she really didn't hear it. ]

Actually, I started talking about a bunch of other things. Mostly inane stuff, so you didn't miss much but some interesting conversation.

How strange, I didn't hear anyone speaking at all.. I wonder if the journal isn't working right. [ shaking it a little now. ]

More like you have selective hearing, perhaps.

[Just an observation; there's nothing in his tone to suggest he's being mean-spirited about it.]

... Selective hearing..? Me?

[ her tone suggests she's thinking about it, but she's mostly surprised, really. considering she doesn't realise it herself. ]

Mhmm. I propose an experiment.

[ science, is it? she's in!! ]

What kind of experiment is it?

[Technically he already tried it, but! Maybe the results will be different if she's aware of it.]

A simple one. We'll see if there are certain conditions to this selective hearing of yours.

I'll say your name and talk about something, and then you tell me what it is that I said. Got it?

[ she nods, sure, she can do this!! ]

Okay. I'll try my very best.

All right. Kotomi-chan, the sky is blue today, and I can see a bunch of clouds.

What did I say?

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