[五] Audio (Action if anyone stops by the Uzumaki house)

[believeit]

[With the disappearance of his Father and then his Mother a couple days after, Naruto has been feeling pretty down. He isn't sure how to deal with it but for now, FOOD seems to be an option.]

So who makes the best ramen in Luceti?!

I wanna know, this is important! Ramen is my favourote food in the world, any world, so I gotta know who makes the best!

[Filtered:]

[After sending out the above audio, Naruto sends out a bunch of audio messages seperately, to Shikamaru, Lee, Sakura and Sasuke.]

Hey. What's going on?

Comments

[Voice]

[believeit]

Yeah what's with that anyway? She yells at everything. I dunno how you survived having a Mom all that time. I dunno how I survived this past year.

[At least, when she was here. That puts a little downer on his mood.]

Anyway are you gonna come over?

[Voice]

[endgames]

I'm coming over, yeah yeah. I'll be there in an hour. In the meantime just be grateful you're too old to be grounded. Or worse.

[Voice]

[believeit]

[DO YOU THINK HE IS REALLY TOO OLD TO BE GROUNDED. HAVE YOU MET HIS MOM.]

Yeah yeah, sure. I'll see you later, yeah?

[He'll just tidy up a little bit in the meantime.]

[Voice --> Action]

[endgames]

[IT'S WISHFUL THINKING. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SECONDHAND EMBARRASSMENT HE'D GET IF HE CAME OVER ONE DAY ONLY TO HAVE MAMA KUSHINA TELL HIM HIS BRO NARUTO CAN'T COME OUT TO PLAY BECAUSE HE GOT HIS ASS GROUNDED?

HE'D HAVE TO GO BE BUDS WITH SHINO OR SOMETHING.]

You got it. Later.

[Fast forwarding to an hour later, and he'll be there! He touches down on the roof first, as ninjas do, but he's not uncivilized so he'll knock on the front door too. He has a backpack slung over one shoulder.]

[Action]

[believeit]

[NO NOT SHINO, ANYONE BUT SHINO.]

[Anyway when it gets to that time it takes him a moment to open the door, leaning on it as he sees his good bro on the front porch.]

Shikamaru. Yo!

[Action]

[endgames]

Yo.

[He grins, friendly as he can muster while subtly checking Naruto over for signs of how down he is. To cover for it, he doesn't wait for the invitation to walk on in either.]

You know, I think this is the first time I've been in here since your birthday.

[Action]

[believeit]

It is?

[He thinks about it for a moment- just a moment, but he can't recall a time since then when Shikamaru was here., With a shrug he turns and walks towards the kitchen, leaving Shikamaru to shut the door.]

I guess it has been since then, yeah. What with all the weird things always happening here.

[Action]

[endgames]

Not to mention work.

[Shikamaru half follows, leaning up against the doorway to the kitchen and adjusting the strap on his shoulder.]

So whaddya feel up to doing?

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[believeit]

Yeah, work. [Work. It's a good thing he likes you Shikamaru. That ad working there isn't actually bad, you meet a lot of people.


As for the question though, he shrugs again.]

I dunno. I just got done cleaning up. I can make ramen if you're hunfry, I guess?

[Action]

[endgames]

You eat ramen yesterday too?

[Action]

[believeit]

So what if I did?

[Of course he did.]

[Action]

[endgames]

Feh.

[He sighs, once again burdened with tremendous purpose, and slings his bag onto the table - gently, there's glass bottles in there - and walks over to the fridge where he pushes Naruto out of the way.]

It is a sad day when I'm the one in the room you have to depend on for a balanced meal.

[believeit]

Oi, there's nothing wrong with eating ramen!

[He knows what h's getting at, but hey. He basically ate ramen his whole life and he is fine.]

What're you looking for in there?

[endgames]

[Shikamaru pulls out some things - there's some tortillas, followed by fishcakes and some veggies (YOU WILL LIVE), and some other foods.]

Anything that'll work, really. You know where your mom keeps your spices?

[believeit]

Spices? Yeah, they're here--

[He moves across the kitchen to open a specific cupboard and show it to Shikamaru because who knows what he wants in particular.]

Are you gonna cook something?! [SHIKAMARU. COOKING HIM FOOD.]

[endgames]

No, I'm planning on robbing you blind. [Deadpanned. Then he looks at the other cupboards as he sets the food on the counter.] How 'bout pans?

[believeit]

Pans?

[Again with the clueless look, but he points to another cupboard.]

They're in there.

[endgames]

Cool. [He turns the stove on as he goes, before fishing around in there.] This should only take ten minutes. Fifteen tops.

[believeit]

Whatcha making?? [Gonna just hover over your shoulder now, hey bro]

[endgames]

Tostadas. It's this foreign dish a guy taught me a while back.

[believeit]

Tos..tadas? What goes in them, then?

[endgames]

Can't tell you.

[believeit]

Ehh? But you said you're gonna make em!!

[endgames]

Yeah, so go sit down or something before you make me change my mind.

[believeit]

Pfft, fine.

[He'll sit at the table then, poking at the bag Shikamaru brought with him.]

What's in here?