16autumnroad | [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.]

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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.))

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[There's definitely a part of her that would love to punch him in the face. Just because. She's trying this new thing, though, for a reason she's so not going into: civility.]

Yeah, okay. We met through Shikamaru. Kinda hard not to meet his teammates when I'm working with him.

Yeah, I bet. It's kinda hard to miss this fellow too. [With a sidelong nod over in the direction of the birthday boy]

He does have a bit of a presence.

Too true, too true. [And he then glances over in the direction of food, and other people, then back to Temari.] Sooo, you have any preferences for food here?

Edited 2013-05-21 22:21 (UTC)

[What a mundane conversation. But she's trying -- and not smacking him upside the head or anything.] Eh, soup. But that's not exactly food you carry around when you're socializing.

You're that into the soup, huh... [This is boring. But he's trying, anyway. Dancing around topics and... stuff. It's not that he doesn't want to get along with her.]