Rating: T
( Delivery and Confusion )

Rating: K+

Chouji was wringing his hands again.

Shikamaru wondered what was worrying his friend enough that he was reverting back to his gennin-day behaviour, but waited.  Chouji told him everything, always.  Whatever it was that was making the broad ninja nervous, he’d spit it out soon enough.

“So ( Read more... )

Rating: K+

( Costume Party )

Rating: T

“You know, if we’re going to do this regularly, we’re going to need to expand our membership.”  Sakura pointed out as she made sure that she had enough film in her camera.

Ino got a manic look in her eyes.  “Let’s recruit Hinata!  Imagine what she could do for this!”

“If we get Hinata, ( Read more... )

Rating: K+

Chouji took a deep breath and made himself look.  The mirror-as always-was unforgiving.

It was funny.  He had never really liked looking in the mirror before he had lost all his weight because-despite everything he said and did-he felt fat.  He hated other people calling him that; hadn’t he thrown the ( Read more... )

Rating: K

Life was being troublesome.

This is not to say that life wasn’t usually troublesome; in fact, life seemed to be determined to be so, as much as possible.  And today was no exception.  The only difference was that life had decided to be more bothersome than usual.

Shikamaru sighed ( Read more... )