[Voice / Action: CH1 Floor 4, 5/1] Birthday Party (Joint post with Ino)

[16autumnroad]

[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.]

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[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.))

Comments

[savedtheworld]

Team 10? That's a good number! And yes, I am! I really like this party so far. Did you set up a lot of it!

[floralogy]

I did! [She looks around.] All the decorations were made by me and some of the food, too. [Chouji did most of the cooking, though.]

[savedtheworld]

You really did a great job! Like a... ninja decorator! [He says with a soft chuckle.] Chouji definitely looks like he's enjoying himself.

[floralogy]

Thanks! [She snorts, evidently amused.] I like that title. I think I'll keep that. [Upon mentioning Chouji, though, Ino looks around and smiles upon seeing the birthday boy somewhere enjoying himself.]

He does, doesn't he? And honestly, that's all I need.

[savedtheworld]

[He gives a proud smile at her acceptance of the title.]

I think I know what you mean. In a place like this - whenever you can make a friend feel happy, especially someone who's really close to you... It really feels great. I know it helps me to get by, here.

[floralogy]

Oh, so you have some similar experiences [She smiles a tad sheepish because she doesn't know if it's alright to pry. But welp, small conversations are a-go!]

[savedtheworld]

I guess lots of people do when you've been here long enough. When I first got here, I did notice that in my friends who've been here longer... They weren't happy like back home. But whenever I can make them feel some kind of joy like that happiness, it's rewarding. And it's the same for the friends you make here. [He did arrange that big birthday party for Rapunzel the other month.] I think of it as the real best way to fight back against this world. By finding ways to still be happy and still be ourselves.

[floralogy]

[Aw, those are such wise words, Aang! Ino can't help but smile wistfully at those words because they're nothing but true. When she can, she'd like to make her friends happy too and it's something she won't mind doing over and over again. This place might not be the vacation she wanted, but it's not terribly bad.]

Very well said, Aang. I really couldn't agree more. You know, for a kid, you're really mature. [HAHA IT'S BECAUSE HE'S 100 YEARS OLD but yes, she doesn't know that lalala.]

[savedtheworld]

[Rude he's totally a teen now.]

Thanks, Ino. I guess it's cuz I got a few hundred extra years in my soul. All part of being the Avatar!

[floralogy]

[He doesn't look it, okay!!]

You're welcome, but... a hundred extra years? [Okay, what the hell. Ino's surprised by this.]

[savedtheworld]

Uh... Yeah! Well, I got the Avatar spirit! I've kind of lived a lot of different lives before, but I don't really remember them myself. And I got frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years.