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16autumnroad) wrote2013-05-01 11:16 pm
16autumnroad) wrote2013-05-01 11:16 pm
[Voice / Action: CH1 Floor 4, 5/1] Birthday Party (Joint post with Ino)
[VOICE, INO]
[A loud, familiar voice would be heard throughout the network today. Good thing it's not so early in the morning when it hollers or there'd be a lot of ruined mornings today despite the important announcement.]
Hey, Luceti! We've all had a lot of drama these past few days so, what do you all say about a little party? It's Chouji's birthday today and, of course, that needs celebrating!
Come by the first community building and you'll find the happenings on the fourth floor. See you there!
[With a little giggle, the announcement ends there.]
--
[ACTION]
It was only a little bit of a surprise to Chouji when he received an invitation to his own birthday party, delivered to the apartment door. These were things you just had to expect and accept with Ino as a teammate. Everyone on the floor along with Kiba and Asuma received paper invitations. Then he heard her network post, inviting pretty much everyone in the village. Ino.
He'd laughed and grinned when he woke up to a knock on the apartment door and the smell of chips that morning, a purple whirlwind demanding entrance to the apartment so she could decorate it. A glance down the hallway showed a trail of butterfly decorations, marking the path of Hurricane Ino.
Chouji gladly spent half of his birthday in the kitchen, likewise decorated with butterflies, cooking for his own party. He'd always been the team's cook, and there was no reason for that to change just because it was his party.
By dinnertime, the common areas as well as Chouji, Shikamaru, and Masaomi's apartment held enough potato chips to feed an army even without all the food Chouji cooked. Barbecue, of course, along with vegetables, rice, fish, chicken curry, miso soup, and one or two desserts. He made sure to include pudding, his thanks to Ino for her thought and effort.
Now they just needed some guests to help eat it all.
((OOC: I am very close to done with the semester and will be back to full tagging speed ASAP! I'll match whatever format you tag me in, prose or brackets.
Open to anyone! Threadhopping and mingling highly encouraged! It's a party.))
[A loud, familiar voice would be heard throughout the network today. Good thing it's not so early in the morning when it hollers or there'd be a lot of ruined mornings today despite the important announcement.]
Hey, Luceti! We've all had a lot of drama these past few days so, what do you all say about a little party? It's Chouji's birthday today and, of course, that needs celebrating!
Come by the first community building and you'll find the happenings on the fourth floor. See you there!
[With a little giggle, the announcement ends there.]
--
[ACTION]
It was only a little bit of a surprise to Chouji when he received an invitation to his own birthday party, delivered to the apartment door. These were things you just had to expect and accept with Ino as a teammate. Everyone on the floor along with Kiba and Asuma received paper invitations. Then he heard her network post, inviting pretty much everyone in the village. Ino.
He'd laughed and grinned when he woke up to a knock on the apartment door and the smell of chips that morning, a purple whirlwind demanding entrance to the apartment so she could decorate it. A glance down the hallway showed a trail of butterfly decorations, marking the path of Hurricane Ino.
Chouji gladly spent half of his birthday in the kitchen, likewise decorated with butterflies, cooking for his own party. He'd always been the team's cook, and there was no reason for that to change just because it was his party.
By dinnertime, the common areas as well as Chouji, Shikamaru, and Masaomi's apartment held enough potato chips to feed an army even without all the food Chouji cooked. Barbecue, of course, along with vegetables, rice, fish, chicken curry, miso soup, and one or two desserts. He made sure to include pudding, his thanks to Ino for her thought and effort.
Now they just needed some guests to help eat it all.
((OOC: I am very close to done with the semester and will be back to full tagging speed ASAP! I'll match whatever format you tag me in, prose or brackets.
Open to anyone! Threadhopping and mingling highly encouraged! It's a party.))
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[There's a pause on her end. This sadness he's displaying isn't entirely because her father or Shikamaru's father died. No, it's something that hits closer to home and it grips something within Ino because she, too, can't believe it and she doesn't know what she's going to feel if it also happened to her. Does Tenten know now, too?
She hasn't seen Neji in days, primarily because she's secluded herself inasmuch as Neji might have done the same thing. If she knows Lee, it wouldn't be a secret kept from Neji for long.]
I'm aware of some other things, too, and I think you already know what I mean.
[She's not going to say it out loud here, in a party where everyone's having fun.]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
I understand. I-Ino-san...
[action; HURRICANE INO]
She doesn't even want to imagine it. Here in Luceti, Shikamaru was too close dancing with death and the memory stings. Inasmuch as knowing Neji, the one who helped him alongside her that fateful day, was the one in that place. It's sickening and she almost wants to throw up.
But Ino shakes off these images and gives Lee a lopsided smile.]
Now, wipe off that gloom on your face and let's have a good time, okay?
[They can grieve some other day, but not today. Today, there's no other choice but to be merry and drive away all anguish. Today, they forget.]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
It got him to smile again.]
Thank you, Ino-san. I anticipate having... a wonderful and youthful time.
[But he can't help stepping forward to give her a hug.]
[action; HURRICANE INO] 1/3
That's the spirit. How do you like the-
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
She returns the hug, then, and the steady smile earlier turns into a softer, more wistful one.]
-Hey, we're all going to get through this. Even you. [Then softer:] Even Neji.
[action; HURRICANE INO]
Thank you, Ino-san. Your words... They shall be reality! I wouldn't believe otherwise of us. We comrades of Konoha!
[action; HURRICANE INO]
Good to know! I mean we're indestructible that way. Come on, enjoy the party!
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[And he immediately channels this new dose of youthly energy by turning in another direction to pubch and kick at the air. But one swift kick, instead of hitting the air, destroys a lamp.]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
Sometimes, Ino doesn't know why she tries.]
A manner that won't destroy half the furniture here, hopefully.
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
Alright, alright. It's not as if I have any other choice.
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
[action; HURRICANE INO]
I solemnly swear to do so, Ino-san! [From anyone else, this would look sarcastic. But coming from Lee, it's completely genuine.] I shall channel my youth less destructively!