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022 -- [Action || Voice]
[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.]
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Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything?
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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Is everything okay?
[Because he'd make small talk too, and just as easily, if he needed something that wasn't urgent. And she kind of has somewhere to be.]
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For the moment. [Headscratch.] Can I walk with you? I want to apologize.
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Okay...
[And she starts walking. Maybe he just wanted to get farther away from the school before he decided to tell her what was really up - she didn't think he'd honestly come to see her in this small space of time to have an emotional conversation. Unless, of course, he wanted the time limit, and unless, of course... heh, that was the extent of his apology.]
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Last week... what happened was troublesome. [His hands get shoved into his pockets... one's emptier than it usually is. But somehow it makes him smile. He makes sure to keep his eyes off the path and look at her now, as they walk.]
I know you were trying to help me, and I just acted like an ass. I'm sorry. I had a lot on my mind, and I let that get in the way.
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I wasn't trying to help you. I knew that there wasn't anything I could do to help. I was just... trying to be a friend.
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...it's okay. I came out there for you, not for me. I'm just sorry I wasn't able to help.
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You did.
[And it's there, fiercely open before he can take it back (doesn't really want to) or say it better.]
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[A small smile and most of the tension leaves her shoulders.]
Good.
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So thank you. For being my friend.
[He owes her that too.]
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You don't have to thank me for that
[Since you're her friend too.]
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[Thank you.]
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Oh, right. I brought your blanket too. [He reaches to flick the latch of one of his vest's front, slender pockets with his thumb, and a scroll comes sliding out.] Cleaned it. If you don't have time to stop by your house, I can run it over for you.
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You brought my blanket and you put it in there. How am I supposed to get it out?
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So is everything all right? Are you okay?
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This was the only time he had for his apology, and he didn't want to put it off any longer.
This week has been very troublesome...]
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[He has no choice, really. With Madara here, he has to have his head in the game. He measures his words carefully.]
...some troublesome things have come up. I can't talk about it to you right now, because I need to speak with the rest of my comrades first. But I'll let you know soon.
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You mean some troublesome things besides the troublesome thing that I tried to talk to you about before.
[It's a question, but it sounds more like she's looking for confirmation.]
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[Much more troublesome.]
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So she holds out her hand.]
Why don't you give me the blanket for now. You can take it out of the scroll when you talk to me later, and it will be one less thing for you to carry around.
[Simple confidence, that he'll come talk to her later.]
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