[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

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

[She takes the streamers, shakes her head.] Nothing I can't put off.

[...She was cleaning. Definitely can put that off.]

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

[Ino gives Temari a smile as a response to that. Sort of like an "I see" comment. Finished with one streamer, she goes to hang the next. There's a bit of silence before she speaks up again.]

I appreciate you helping, by the way. I'm sure Chouji would be happy when he finds out.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

[Temari follows, handing her the streamer.] He's made me dinner. I can hang a few streamers in return.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

[She receives the streamer and hangs it.]

Touche. Compared to the dinner he's going to make, I think this won't compare.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

[She shakes her head.] Why is he cooking for his own birthday dinner?

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

[She pauses a little in thought.] Hm, well, he's the only one who can cook his favorite dishes so he might as well cook his own birthday dinner. That, and he insisted.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

[Temari shrugs.] Chouji insisting on anything strikes me as a dangerous thing. [Because she has a feeling that denying an insisting Chouji is rather like kicking a puppy and even Temari has problems doing that.]

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

[Ino feigns an expression of resignation as she sighs and slumps her shoulders.]

You really can't say no.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

[Temari answers with a slow smile.] Exactly.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

If he insisted on you cooking, would he have won? [Just curious here.]

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

I would have paid someone.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[floralogy]

[And that got Ino laughing.] I hope that someone's worth your money, then.

[action; HURRICANE INO - one;]

[dangerouswind]

They'd know better.