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Chouji's gone home.

[He says this casually, as if he were talking about the weather instead of his best friend. The feed remains open for a little while longer and there's a weight to this pause that wasn't in his words, like there's something else he wants to say... but it's gone, by the time he does speak again in his usual lazy drawl.]

How long

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[All it's missing are the people who live there. For similar reasons, he left them out however. This is pushing it as it is.

When Law comes in, Shikamaru will have been sitting on a high roof somewhere in the middle of the village, overlooking a flower shop and a few other stores.

He hears the doors opening and closing, and while he turns in that direction to keep an eye out, he doesn't bother to get up. The way the Holly Boys flock towards anything that moves, he'll know what direction the person is coming from soon enough. And if it's anyone he needs to worry about? Shikamaru knows- knew this village like the back of his hand.]

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[He snacks idly on potato chips, watching the way the Holly Boys scramble before spotting the way their scurrying becomes less organized, at which point his eyes hit the skyline. For this scenario, at least, they're keeping to the ground. So whoever it is would've hit the trees or the rooftops...

Ah. And there he is.

Shikamaru sits up a little straighter, popping another chip into his mouth and giving a short wave before turning his attention back to the artificial sky.

Getting up would be troublesome. He's in no rush. Far as he's concerned, Law can look around as he pleases.]

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[Shikamaru likely will have hopped down from the roof by that point, drifting around the Yamanaka flower shop for a while, hands in his pockets and stepping on Holly Boys when they get too close.

Eventually he starts to make his way back to the doors of the chamber, taking his time in case Law decides to catch up.]

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Yo. [He doesn't break stride - not until reaching the spot where Law stands.] Enjoy the look around?

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Konoha's about as inland as it gets. [He starts moving again.] The Fire Country is bigger than a lot of places, but it's land-locked. And this village is almost right at the dead-center of it.

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Was it always that way?

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[Pfft. What is source fail. So Fire Country does have an ocean on one side of it. IGNORE MY FAIL. Still really inland, though. 8|]

...huh. [That world keeps sounding stranger and stranger, the more he hears about it.] It sounds troublesome.

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[What are laws of physics in a shonen world

Though actually, if it weren't for what he woke up to this morning - or rather, what he didn't - this probably would have heavily piqued his interest. He tries to harness that, halfheartedly.]

A sea does that? [Not far from the door now, the simulation of Konoha breaks peels away, leaving an empty metal chamber.]