16autumnroad: (young - concerned / considering)
Akimichi Chouji ([personal profile] 16autumnroad) wrote2013-09-22 01:13 pm

[Action, 9/21-9/25] Level 1 Event

[The 21st]
Anything but a morning person, Chouji wakes up slowly. When he finally stretches and pulls himself out of bed, he freezes. This isn't his room. "Tou-chan! Kaa-chan!" He claps a hand over his mouth after the yell, realizing that if they aren't here, he isn't sure he wants to know who is. Chouji looks around the room, seeing a forehead protector placed on the dresser, right in the middle as if waiting to be put on. It's a ninja's room, then. He picks it up, looks at the symbol, a kanji rather than the Konoha leaf. Not a good sign, given that Chouji has absolutely no idea what village uses a symbol like that.

Things deteriorate from there. If anyone heard the yell and comes to investigate, they'll find a very apprehensive six year old, possibly armed with a kunai if he's found his older self's weapons stash.

When he does get up the nerve to leave the room and explore the floor, he tries to sneak around unnoticed, but it's the equivalent of playing ninja. On a floor of fully fledged ones. None of his attempts are likely to be successful. Anyone in Community Housing 1 is welcome to catch him out during his lackluster attempts at stealth.

22nd-25th
Other days, now that things have been explained to him, Chouji looks for food and will be pleasantly surprised by any new friends. He can probably be found at the convenience store and bakery for snacks, Seventh Heaven for a meal or two, and at the playground by the school playing on his own.

Or pretty much anywhere as long as it isn't in someone else's house. He stays out of the residences. He's open to tagging along after people he met on the first day so handwaving first meetings is also okay.

((Responses will come from [personal profile] caterpillarninja))
caterpillarninja: (time to eat)

22nd, bakery

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-09-25 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Which building is the grocery? I like vegetables too. [Never met a food he doesn't like.

Chouji nods, but the mouthful of cupcake makes it difficult to answer out loud for a moment.]


I'm not a ninja yet, but I will be someday.
yourhatred: (in this silence)

22nd, bakery

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-09-26 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[There are times when Itachi forgets that most ninja didn't train from as early an age as he had. And really, he considers that for the best.

He gives Chouji a small smile and then, awkwardly, a light pat on the head.]


It's a larger building than this, close by. You should be able to smell it once you get near enough.
caterpillarninja: (wide-eyed)

22nd, bakery

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-09-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Good! Only... [and the problem now occurs to him...] I don't actually know how to cook.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | Linefacing so hard)

Somewhere else

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2013-09-26 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[In a kitchen not so far away, Law feels a twinge go down his spine. A premonition... almost. A disturbance in the Force air; like many stomachs rumbled in hunger and refused to be silenced.

And he puts down his knife from where he's preparing their next meal. Okay, he's making extra now. He just has that feeling that it's going to be needed.]
yourhatred: (restraint)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-09-26 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
[And... his fiance's premonition would be correct.

Once upon a time, Shikamaru and Chouji had taken care of Itachi when he'd been returned to the village as a seven year old. The least he can do now is make sure that Chouji gets a decent meal.]


...Well. How about I invite you back to my place for dinner, then? You won't have to worry about cooking much here.

[There's a restaurant too, but is he wrong for wanting to make sure the kid's dinner is a properly balanced one?]

It's all right. [He holds out a hand.] I'm an Uchiha.

[And it's... sort of a painful thing to say, as Chouji at this age would have to be from before the massacre. They would still be peacekeepers to him.]
caterpillarninja: (happy)

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-09-26 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chouji would never turn down a meal. He nods and takes Itachi's hand, happy to have found someone else from Konoha.

He has no idea, now, what the words cost Itachi.]


I'm going to learn to cook before I become a genin. My parents say it's part of properly appreciating food, but I'm still a little short to be able to see into pans on the stove. That makes cooking hard unless I find something to stand on.
yourhatred: (sigh)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-09-27 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't let it bother him for long. He can't. It will always be there regardless, and as far as masks go this is one of his more benevolent ones.

Also Chouji is making it easier by being incredibly adorable. He'd had a similar issue with the stove and counter in the apartments when he'd been de-aged.]


I'm sure you'll be good at it. Akimichi, correct?

[He asks out of politeness only, to make the boy more at ease, and they begin walking.]
caterpillarninja: (a little hopeful)

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-09-27 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! That's why it's so important to appreciate food. [He doesn't wear the kanji on his chest, not yet, but he's seen the word adorning enough clan members that he knows he will. He knows what he'll owe to it.]

But why do you live here? How long have you been here? [After all, an Uchiha should be in Konoha, right?]
yourhatred: (thoughtfulness)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-09-27 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I was brought here, just as you were. It's been around three years now, so I've made it my home.

[He tries to give what he hopes is a reassuring look.] You're too young for them to keep, I think. They should send you back to Konoha soon, so you can just consider this a vacation.
caterpillarninja: (...what? / stare)

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-09-27 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Three whole years!? [In three years, he's supposed to be halfway through the Academy, and his parents would be so worried. What about Itachi's family?]

What do you mean, too young? Do they only want fully trained shinobi? Why? [...It's been a very confusing day and a half, Itachi. There's too many questions and not enough answers.]
yourhatred: (i saw everything)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-09-28 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's best not to worry about that right now.

[Sorry, Chouji. His answers won't make anything easier for you.]

I couldn't tell you why they make the choices they do, but I can promise you that you won't be here nearly as long.

[He hopes. At least not as a child.]
caterpillarninja: (wide-eyed)

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-10-07 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
What was it like, being here for so long?

[And then it occurs to Chouji that they never actually introduced themselves past clan names.] I'm Chouji. What's your name, Uchiha-san?
yourhatred: (look down upon you)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-10-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Itachi.

[He gives his answer a moment of thought.] ...It hasn't been unpleasant, aside from a handful of instances. But we all have our troubling times no matter where we are.
caterpillarninja: (happy)

[personal profile] caterpillarninja 2013-10-17 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that's true. [Chouji has actually been very pleasantly surprised by just how friendly people are here, but he's still been taken. By a powerful jutsu he doesn't understand, and his family isn't here. This isn't Konoha.]

I'm glad you're happy here, Itachi-san!
yourhatred: (look down upon you)

[personal profile] yourhatred 2013-10-17 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Itachi returns the smile, then reaches down to give the boy a light pat on the head.]