16autumnroad | [Voice / Action: CH1 Floor 4, 5/1] Birthday Party (Joint post with Ino)

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[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.

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[So Masaomi had robots hands, was evil, and was killed at a party he was at yesterday. Awkward, all things considered. So being at a different party he just decides to... roll with the punches. So he settles into the room and wonders if it might be better to take this to the kitchen again. He scooted some of the beanbags out of the way and spends his time lurking around there and. Yeah. Lurking.

He'll get a reunion with Linda later. He'll apologize to Chouji for not having a gift later. But he's around]

Back from his mission, with Linda on his shoulder, Shikamaru blinked when he stepped off the elevator to see the fourth floor decorated with butterflies. Blinked, and then promptly moved on with a snort. Ino, no doubt... It's really no surprise at all, knowing her.

He doesn't bother with any formalities opening the door. "I'm back." He kicks his shoes off by the entrance, smirking a bit. Same decorations inside, too, huh. "That's enough of a present, right?"

From there, Linda will no doubt be in a hurry to reunite with Masaomi as soon as she sees him. For his part, after some initial greetings Shikamaru will duck into his room for a change of clothes, and - since he's not a total cheap skate - the real present he procured for the birthday boy in question. He's tired from Jungle Patrol... oddly not as much as he should be, though. He'll stop by the kitchen and hang out with the rest of their friends that show up too.

[There are two situations wherein you'll find this great friend by the name of Yamanaka Ino:

One, you'll chance upon her decorating the place with either flowers of butterflies. She's busy and has a lot on her hands, may it be more flowers, streamers, pins, cutout butterflies etc. She doesn't seem to mind any of this, however, as a smile's plastered on her lips. She's even humming a singsong tune to herself while she works.

Two, Ino will be found handing over chips to guests once the party starts (or when guests begin pouring in). She'll also probably be a busy body in the kitchen and will be serving food to anyone who will come to celebrate with them.

This mostly serves as her closure, despite saying goodbye to her father formally days ago, as the tears she once shed are now replaced by a beaming smile. This will also serve as her 'thank you' for Chouji, for always being such a reliable and nice teammate/friend to her. For years, it had always been her and Shikamaru. Having him here is already worth celebrating.]

[...Riku had to laugh at Ino's enthusiasm. After knowing her for so long, it didn't strike him as surprising, but such an open invitation? It made him wonder what Chouji would even think.

But, hey, Ino being in brighter spirits sure beat her earlier tears. And besides, he probably needed to meet the guy, anyway.

So, after following the butterfly trail, Riku slips inside glancing around for familiar faces as well as the birthday boy himself. He may help himself to a handful of chips as well.

Oh, and please don't mind the overly friendly bat traveling with him. He's all smiles and chirps, really, fluttering every which way like an overactive child.]

If dinner is going to be provided, then Temari isn't about to try to either cook something for herself or go forage for food elsewhere. She's been keeping somewhat to herself of late, which is her default mode when things change. She knows it, recognizes it, and rolls with it. There's a part of her that thinks she's more than ready to deal with multiple conversations at once.

Hopefully.

For the sake of food, she'll court disaster. (At the very least, court a headache.) She slips into apartment and goes straight for the food. Social niceties can come after a bite or two.

Ino's announcement in the morning had surprised Kankuro, mainly because he didn't know that any birthday's were so close to his own. Deciding that being friendly with the leaf nin's couldn't hurt, Kankuro left his apartment only to stop and stare at all the butterfly decorations.

After a brief 'What the hell' moment Kankuro shakes his head then heads to the kitchen. Of course, Chouji is already there. Kankuro grins and heads towards the other nin.

"Hey, I heard it's your birthday so, Happy Birthday I guess."

As he is still affected with his lovely shift, these words bring forth a waterfall of multi-colored beads which he easily catches in a pouch that had been at his waist.

Lee had been unusually reclusive since his return from home. In the last few weeks, he's perhaps been a bit more social, but with some hesitance. Still, he could never miss the birthday party of a Konoha comrade.

So there he is, doing his best to try to enjoy the atmosphere. With a smile that seems just a bit forced- and occasional laughs that seem even more so. He samples the food as politely as he can and makes sure to smalltalk with everyone else around, but he spends a good amount of time just leaning against a corner with a cup of protein shake.

But he's also afraid of others catching onto his reluctance to be social. So every half hour, he abandons his corner and makes several great, leaping bounds across the party, with just bits of his drink spilling in the process, in order to move himself to a different corner. That way, they will never detect his sorrow.

[ Tenten brought her very own legendary Authentic Chinese Cooking™. Or, as authentic as a Chinese themed character can make it anyways. She has sesame chicken, her specialty, wrapped up in a bowl as she walks out her and Ino's door and into the common area. Tied to her back is a neatly wrapped present, with the words "To: The Sixteenth Head of the Akamichi Clan". ]

Happy Birthday Chouji! [ There's a scroll dangling from the left side of her hip and on the side there's a tag on it that says PARTY FAVORS.

You might wanna ask her about it Chouji. This is Tenten after all. ]

Given the low mood that had been hanging over much of the Konoha enclave for the past few weeks, Sakura was glad to see spirits brightening with a party -- especially Ino's spirits, truth be told. After all, at the end of the day, they were best friends, and seeing Ino so unhappy was difficult.

Once the party starts, she'll be rolling in with a flat rectangular present for Chouji that's easily identified as a cookbook -- one with recipes she's never seen before, and he probably hasn't either. She picked it up from the item shop and is pretty confident that it's not anything from their world. (Enjoy a 1950s French cookbook, Chouji; there's gotta be plenty of interesting things to make from that!)

"Chouji! There's the birthday boy!" She greeted him with a bright, cheerful smile. "Happy birthday!"

[Okay, so Saori didn't know Chouji but she'd seen him around a few times. But that was zero excuse for avoiding a party. Birthdays were something she considered to be highly important, and after the annoying troubles the Malnosso had put everyone through she was in a baking mood. A flurry of baking, in fact. So...what was one more thing on top of everything else? And who would turn away a free pie? She certainly hoped not.

So, completely unannounced, and knowing only Lee and Shikamaru, Saori wandered by bearing a rather large, expertly cooked, apple pie. Still warm, too.

She knocks on the door, ready to drop it off and leave, but with a big smile on her face all the same.]

[ Ikki obviously accepts this invitation - and she shows up nicely turned out, in a child's red party dress and a red ribbon in her hair, which is for once down.

Soren, the bird pokemon, is similarly well turned out, if you count a pokemon wearing a red ribbon matching his trainer's dress to be "well turned out".

She obviously also has a present, and will be trying to find Chouji soon on, although she'll also make an effort to speak to some of the others, if she recognizes them. Or even if she doesn't. ]

[Aang may not have met Ino first, but Chouji was already considered to be a good friend by Aang, so he was very excited that it was his birthday. He shows up within an hour of the message, after preparing some treats at the bakery that he brings. Most of them are whichever ones Aang noted Chouji seeming to enjoy the most at the "bake sale" event.

He goes around excitedly in his formal yellow robes, ready to mingle with the various guests - and maybe get some dancing going on!]

Korra was at the party too, enjoying the food - all of the food. She had a plate piled high with a little bit of everything, eager to eat her fill, but she was open to socializing, too. And of course, she wouldn't miss the chance to wish the birthday boy a happy birthday.

Neji wasn't exactly the life of any party, even back home, but now he's especially loath to draw too much notice to himself. But Chouji is a kind person, and has been kind to him during his recent... difficulty, so Neji doesn't feel it right to snub the party, either.

So he slips in, hanging back to the edges of the room as he searches out the guest of honor. He can go give him well-wishes in a quiet moment, and otherwise hopes he simply won't be noticed.

[Kiba and Akamaru show up eventually. It smells great, if nothing else, though Kiba has to admit the butterfly décor is a bit on the cheesy side, and he hopes it was Ino's idea, since Birthday Parties are Her Thing.

He melds into the crowd once he slips inside, keeping an eye out for Chouji as he starts to browse the food table.]

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