It was nice to have Chouji around the apartment to cook once in a while, considering the culinary skills of Ino, Kin, and Shikamaru. Between the three of them, they still couldn't figure out how to make the stove work properly most days. Chouji had been so busy with school and work (and honestly, so had she) that they rarely had a chance to see ( Read more... )

( The world just seemed right. )

( Kin was happy to be home. )

Papers were scattered across the counter, calendars, schedules, bills were every which way. Post-its were stuck to every place imaginable and the other two people in apartment 17 would probably find paperclips in their cereal in the morning. Ino was sitting on the kitchen table, still wearing her yoga workout clothes which consisted of a sports bra ( Read more... )

After a rather uneventful (read: boring) birthday, Ino went back to her everyday life chores and work. She didn't really feel a year older, even though it seemed like she was the oldest in the apartment. Between Shikamaru and Kin, it was a wonder she wasn't committed into a mental asylum with severe psychological scars. It seemed that she had ( Read more... )

The usual assumption was that things would go back to normal once life settled back down in the nominally boring routine that it had been previously. Kin knew better than that, but the illusion was nice to have, on occasion. It was easy enough for her to remember. After all, last year, they'd had Asuma in the apartment, choking the place with his ( Read more... )

Orphans with parents was the term Ino had heard in high school when her friends complained about the people who sired them. It described people with two parents but might as well have been parent-less considering how little attention got paid to them. Ino laughed and agreed when people told her how lucky she was to have an almost famous father and ( Read more... )

( Do cooks HAVE food groupies? )

[Fer real, I’m like a Shikamaru-logging FIEND. Try not to get too sick of me XD ( Read more... )

[Backdated to 7/15 ( Read more... )