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( boss ninja introspection stuff )

[ Very-slimmed-down-ninja boy can be found on the various walks of town today. Mostly meaning the square, getting his clothes back, or getting some chips in the grocery store because he's freakin' hungry right about now and there are actually things to handle before eating real foodstuffs. Hungry is like a default state. Probably blatantly looking around in hopes of seeing familiar faces, too, and eventually heading to Community Building 1. Sometime before all that is finished, he'll toss out a voice hail- things to see to, people to check in on. On this matter, he's not quite able to say goodbye to a little worry. ]

Ah- I hope I wasn't gone too long. Is everyone still around, or... [ Kinda pausing here. That might not necessarily get him all the answers he means to get; more of that "taking time" thing, jeez it's everywhere. ] But I guess I'll find out either way, huh?

((I only have so many thin-Chouji icons, ahaha. So I may revert to the usual now and again for the sake of facial expression range. And figured I'd give a heads-up. 8|))

[ It hasn't so much been Chouji's favorite week in Luceti. There's something to be said for getting picked up and dropped off by scientist robots with no idea what happened in between and all. Memory issues leave a general unsettled feeling in their wake, make things seem a little unsteady. And he's been feeling a little bit off in general otherwise, too- but as far as he knows, it's just him getting worked up and psyched out over no big deal. Nothing really hurts, he's been eating normally, chakra production's been fine...

It still bothers him, really: but it's not like there's all that much he can do about it, either. So he made an executive decision of sorts to not be noticeably bothered by things- being worried when nothing has really happened just makes for stress for all involved.

Routine, therefore, is key. Off-kilter or not, it's stopped raining and Chouji never takes issue with heading out for a walk to town; nothing outside of the usual food and supply run, but fresh air is fresh air. From there, it's just back to the Ninjapartment in CH 1 for him. All in all, the start of his day is kind of boring.

Oh. Yeah. :|a ]

[ Filtered to Shikamaru // 70% ]
Need anything from the store while I'm out? [ GAWD, the trouble he goes to for you, man. ]

[ Rain is perhaps not the ideal weather to pick to train in- fact that he'd lost a bit of fondness towards it in his last few months back home notwithstanding. Hard to get really good footing, poorer visibility, not to mention cold and wet.

Chouji is aware of these things, but he'll be stepping outside anyway- because he couldn't go out in the stormy weather yesterday, you lose your edge without practice (it's fully possible he's been deliberately slacking off since they got back from fighting the Third Party, really), and...well, the village is where the good food is for the moment. He's never been all that complicated in his motivations.

It is possible one could catch sight of him while he does said training in one of those convenient and somewhat cliche forest clearings, maybe even by the river off to the side of CH 1. I say this is possible since Akimichi-style ninjitsu typically involves...growing to about twenty-five feet tall (don't worry, those spikes over the trees aren't some kind of swarming airsharks, it's just a dude's hair) or just expanding individual limbs and punching things until they break (going for large rocks and cleared areas of ground as opposed to trees).

You see, as he is a man of simple motivations, so is he also a ninja whose fighting style was just never stealthy. That's the power of canon.

If one catches him after all that actually doing what he's supposed to do, chances are they're catching him on the way to get lunch over at 7th Heaven, inhaling said lunch, or on the way back home from it.

...or I guess upon getting home, because people do live in the building and all, psh. ((tags may come slowly, sorry guys.)) ]

( oh look, introspection )

I guess it really is New Feather season already, huh? My name is Akimichi Chouji; I know Luceti can be different, but the people here are really nice, too.

So just ask if you need anything and a lot of us will be glad to help you settle in. [ pauuuuuse, considering asking how a ton of people are...and deciding not to bother them, huh. ]

[ Also. Guess what you're getting a little while after you retreat from breakfast this morning, Shikamaru? A knock on the door, because your BFF is going to be assertive today. ]

((not to say that Chouji can't be caught walking around town, of course. ))

[ Well.

Talk about your awkward mornings. It's not exactly the best realization to wake up to, the fact that the past week of generally being in love was due to outside influence- that's something that hurts when you know it, digs in and wants to stay there- but Chouji will not let it stop him from being Chouji. Meaning he will get out of bed and eat and take a walk, like all those normal things he tends to do.

It's painful, but he doesn't really regret it; the only thing he'd regret would be if Katara got hurt because of it. That's pretty much one of his top concerns of the day, actually, and the result? He won't do what a tiny part of his mind is suggesting and hide in the apartment for a few weeks. She doesn't deserve to be ignored: so he won't ignore her. ]

[Filtered to Katara // 70%]
... How are you?

[ So waking up as one of your favorite things in the world is...not as awesome as one might think it would be.

Go figure. And it takes unbelievable effort to actually get anywhere, which more or less equates to a bag of potato chips hopping around in the living room all morning, because he's not entirely sure where he left that journal.

Or how to operate it, now he thinks about it. It takes a lot of work. A lot of handwaved work. B|

At least he gets to discover that he's not alone in this. ]

This isn't good.

...I won't even need to eat like this. [ This really isn't good D: ]

[ The Plan was to ninja his way from the snowbank a ways north of CH 1 he woke up in to the apartment, where he keeps first aid, cleaner clothes, and food. The Plan was to manage to get cleaned up and focused before hailing anybody about getting back: it's just like getting back in from a bad mission, no big deal. He was going to manage it. Somehow. Eeeeven though the person he'd get in touch with first happens to share the same apartment he'd be ninja-ing to.

...yeah, The Plan lacks a lot of finesse, which makes sense because he's never been much of a strategist even on a good day. Chouji opts not to embarrass himself with it and changes it to getting set up at a nice nearby tree until he's ready to make the trek back to his building. He'll be sporting dark circles under his eyes and a typically uncharacteristic air of wariness today- his rarely spotted Competent Inner Ninja is insisting that he shouldn't get too comfortable, and who is he to disappoint it?

At least he doesn't have trouble bypassing the majority of the journal-chatter. ]

Aa...it's pretty quiet out here, isn't it. [ A pause that is almost hesitation, and the second statement has more of a specific direction to it: ] I'll be getting back soon.

((ooc: meanwhile, the mun will sleep, having tossed this up before she could forget to do so.))

[ Morning, buddy. If you're home (or around the fourth floor of building one) you might just catch the sound of yet another wall getting itself busted out- by giant fist instead of indoor tornado, as it were. Rather than leaving debris all over the living room, however, a certain someone opted for the wall separating Chouji's room from the empty apartment on the other side of it instead.

Not his best day by any means. But he wasn't about to let things progress into the apartment they're actually living in. >:

Further investigation will uncover, well, a large hole and a few blue feathers scattered here and there: and that's it. Nothing too surprising, all in all. ]

[ First things first, and a fantastic start it is, one much smaller Akimichi Chouji wakes up in a house that's definitely not the one he fell asleep in last night. This naturally merits investigation.

It's the beginning of the end. Some time later in the day- is that your doorbell ringing, Lucetian? Or maybe just a knock you hear upon your front door? You may well open it to find a gaggle of chibi ninjas (of various levels of obnoxiousness) staring up at you today.

Could this be an accident? They certainly look like they know what they're doing. ]

((tags could be answered by any of the following chibis ~~in icon account form~~: Naruto, Shino, Shikamaru or Chouji. Posting order is a myth, after all.))

[ Chouji did not make it home last night. And this is a fact he is quite aware of, seeing as it's daylight and the last thing he really remembers had a lot less of that. That's what happens when you storm off into mystery fogs in the middle of experiments.

Maybe if he'd thought more about it, he'd have realized how little sense it made- but in the moment, when that voice off in the distance sounds genuinely terrified (and familiar, making it possibly the most disturbing thing you've heard yet), it turns out logic takes a backseat.

Well, that's a lesson learned. Bruised and battered, he can be found making his way back to CH 1 like a good little ninja. And for the record: ]

Everyone's probably gonna get tired of hearing this soon, but try not to go out at night. It can get pretty rough.

[ Chouji happens to know what day it is, and so at some point today he gets ready and leaves the apartment, the very picture of a man with a mission.

That being to collect the proper supplies for his best friend's birthday. No party decorations or public announcements since Shikamaru is, well, Shikamaru and likely to try logic-ing his way out of such an event on a technicality; but at the very least there is going to be cake and dinner ~~and maybe a gift if he can find anything~~, and that is not negotiable.

So if you happen to be around town today, there is a large ninja making the rounds to stock up. It's... fully possible he'll duck into non-bakery, non-item store places of business to get a minute out of the rain. ]

[ And then at some point after dripping back into the apartment, sounding generally amused: ] --pretty bad out there.

Naruto, Shino; you guys should come over later. We can all eat together. [ What could possibly go wrong, right? :| ]

[ Lulls in available missions happened often enough in Konoha; Chouji is no stranger to being left without purpose for stretches of time due to simple ninja-village economics. Then again, even those lulls came with the promise of assignments in the future- for all that he doesn't see the point in getting upset about how much time he might spend here, he's also kind of at a loss for what to do with all that free time.

Luckily, Akimichis have a ready remedy for boredom when the weather looks like it might not welcome training. It's called cooking, and so after a trip to the local grocery, he'll be spending the majority of the day in the fourth-floor kitchen of CH #1, if you happen to be within smelling distance.

Don't worry. He will eventually notice that the table has accumulated too much for even his well-developed appetite. ]

...

Does anyone need lunch? I have a lot of fried rice.

And miso soup.

And rice balls. [ Maybe he'll have to work on a new hobby. ]

[ Well, this had all certainly been a new experience. Not so much waking up on the ground or spending the past few days in a new place, and not so much being alone, since he couldn't exactly be around someone all day, every day; but both of those combined with his clothes piled on the ground and wings on his back made for a really... interesting start to things.

But it is one that Akimichi Chouji took in stride. Konoha was safe, his dad was going to be fine last he'd heard, and picking through his book proved that he wasn't dead or necessarily alone- no reason to panic if that was the case, right?

Right. Have a friendly greeting now that he's gotten himself settled, Luceti, while he makes a curious and semi-cautious tour of the village. There is a grocery store in this town, he knows it. ]

It looks like everyone here is pretty quick to explain stuff to new people, huh? That's good, even if we're all still stuck for now. Makes it easier for everyone to work together, you know?

( The New, Improved Character Survey of Doom )

( and from the Writer's Lobotomy )

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