[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

[generalflirt]

[And him and Linda are having... honestly, what could be considered something like a lover's reunion. There's a lot of face nuzzling going on with them on the couch here, and it looks pretty silly to be doing this in the midst of a party. Still, it's a thing]

[endgames]

[It's as bad as watching Kiba with Akamaru. Point, point.]

Oi. Your room's that way.

[generalflirt]

Shut up man, it's been weeks.

[Linda actually says the exact same thing, in unison, with both of their cheeks together]

[endgames]

Tch. Believe me, I know.

[Looking put-upon, here. He heard the same in less words the whole time he had Linda with him.]

[generalflirt]

What, miss me? [ Okay, okay, Linda, why don't yet-

Let you pet me? Yes, do that? I will curl in your lap]

[endgames]

[Smirk.] Her actions speaks for itself.

[He's toning it down, but he really does understand how much she missed him, and was probably worried for him. They went together, after all, only when Masaomi still hadn't shown up days after he said he'd be due back.]

[generalflirt]

I meant you, chief?

[Petting - yes, there is some petting going on for him on her]

[endgames]

[He leans against the couch with a shrug.]

She definitely didn't go looking for you on her own.

[Yes.]

[generalflirt]

So how'd you do for finding me?

[Heh]

[endgames]

Those office ladies are touchy about their records.

[generalflirt]

See man, no charm at all.

[endgames]

I had someone pretend to be your brother and made up a sob story. She at least let us know you were alive, but wouldn't let us know where. I had an idea, given that.

[generalflirt]

Yeah, so what was your conclusion about that?

[endgames]

Dunno. [He tilts his chin up, looking down his nose at his friend.] What experiment did they wind up sticking you with?

[generalflirt]

Honestly, not sure. I showed up just in time for a weird village wide one. [Folding his arms behind his head]

[endgames]

[Oh, so there was one here? He turns his head to regard the others, but they look fine. Between that and Masaomi's words, it's clear it's already over.]

Haven't been feeling anything weird sense?

[generalflirt]

Embarrassed? [With his head tilted to the side. Linda looks at him curiously]

[endgames]

[He looks back to him again. Oh, so it was a weird one, then.]

[generalflirt]

Crystal-chan was pregnant and I was... Gold's twin. And a robot.

[endgames]

[...what. An eye twitches.]

What the hell kind of experiment is that?

[generalflirt]

Some sort of weird story system, maybe...?

[endgames]

Like out of a crappy manga?

[generalflirt]

Crappier, but yeah. I'm thinking straight K-dramas here - bad ones.

[endgames]

[Wow that bad.]

You think your personal shift stopped at the same time as the village-wide one?

[generalflirt]

Yeah, or I just never had one.