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Post by izumo on Jul 28, 2014 4:16:40 GMT
Izumo had no idea why it always fell upon his own shoulders to go and get the necessary research to continue trawling through the cases and cases of documents that still needed sorting, but somehow it did. If he was going to compliment himself, then he would have liked to think that it was because his skills were specified to information searching and storing--with a personal interest in collecting as much data as he could from the archives. In truth, he was sure his personal traits had nothing to do with it; Kotetsu simply didn't want to do it, and Izumo couldn't quite face another embarrassing round of pulling his partner back out of the Jounin lounge, especially now that half the Jounin were half his age.
Humming quietly to himself as he ran a finger across the bindings, Izumo finally selected the book he'd wanted. Even his own deep pool of knowledge didn't understand enough about architecture--not enough to make sense of all the documents that had piled up since before even the Third Hokage had been born. He liked to think that understanding and preserving them would help with history in time, but reading over them just made him nervous for a time where they might have to use them for re-building Konoha, again. Not wanting to give Kotetsu the satisfaction of knowing how much effort he'd put into paperwork again, Izumo let his selected books drop onto a table, flinching slightly at the noise they'd created.
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Post by kiba on Jul 28, 2014 7:31:45 GMT
There weren't a lot of things that could drag Inuzuka Kiba into a library, but the heat of his home had gotten too much to bear, and sharing the fan with his dog, his mother, and his mother's dog was even worse. There was only so much lecturing one could take, even over a shitty noodle dinner with his mother picking at his flaws and trying to iron out the creases. He knew she was doing it for his own good and all, but that didn't make it any easier to listen to.
So, consequently, Kiba had led his dog around the village and poked his head into each establishment until he found one with air conditioning, not fond of the fact that it was something as boring as the library, but still satisfied at how cool the interior felt in comparison to the fan at his house. Within a matter of moments, the shinobi and his ninken had found a deserted corner of the library to curl up in, relieved to sleep in cool air for once.
Trained to be alert even while passed out in a library, the sound of a pile of books clattering onto a table was enough to startle the shinobi back into consciousness, annoyed that maybe he hadn't found the most abandoned corner of the library as he'd thought. Rising to his feet while Akamaru followed at his heels, he easily sniffing out the only other person in the area, annoyance fading as he recognized the scent. "Maybe you should be spending less time pushing papers and more time training if you can't even carry a pile of books without dropping them," Kiba greeted, smirking at the other to let him know he was only messing around with him.
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Post by izumo on Jul 28, 2014 7:55:58 GMT
"Ah, Kiba-san," Izumo greeted him, slightly surprised to find the man inside a library. It wasn't as if only those with a strict interest in books ended up there, but it also wasn't as if Kiba was well known for visiting the library in the first place. "I didn't notice you," he apologized, starting to organize the books into a better pile rather than addressing Kiba's tease. He didn't mind it at all, but he always found himself awkwardly aware of their differences in rank, especially with their ages. It just wasn't worth the hassle to tease him back when Kiba had the authority to scold him for it--something that most Jounin seemed to have no problem with.
"But then who would keep pushing the papers?" He simply smiled back, used to going along with jokes about his job. It seemed no-one else valued the importance of what he and Kotetsu did, and it was a fact he'd long come to terms with: especially after the war. His attention wavered from Kiba slightly as he then began sorting the books into two piles, trying to work out the least and most useful to his work.
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Post by kiba on Jul 28, 2014 16:30:25 GMT
"Well..." Try as he might, Kiba couldn't find an answer that he liked; there was always forcing the people who were supposed to be doing their paperwork, jounin like himself to do more of their own paperwork so Izumo didn't have to do most of it, but he wasn't fond of the idea--he couldn't do schoolwork for too long without getting restless to the point where he'd have to leave or just fall asleep, and he hated the cramps he got in his hand from writing too much. Even if Izumo liked the paperwork part, he was sure he didn't like the cramp part--but maybe he'd trained his hand not to get them anymore for maximum paperwork proficiency or something.
"I guess that's true," he conceded, pulling out the chair opposite Izumo and nodding to Akamaru as the dog waited for permission to greet the chuunin, watching as the beast crossed to Izumo's end of the table and nearly knocked over his stuff with a wag of his tail. "You make the real sacrifices; you're braver than all of it. I think I'd be dead if I had that much paperwork," he added, cringing even just eyeing the stack of it. From there he frowned, resting his chin on his palms at the piles Izumo was sorting out. "What are you even working on right now?"
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Post by izumo on Jul 31, 2014 19:35:07 GMT
Akamaru just seemed to grow and grow, and Izumo could only hope he was finally at full-size now. He didn't even have to bend down to stroke him, easily able to give him attention from his own height. "Please don't knock my books over," he jokingly asked the dog, running his hand under the dog's muzzle to scratch him.
"What am I working on?" Izumo sighed to himself quietly, pulling away from Akamaru and putting his attention back on Kiba and the pile of books. "To be honest, I'm not sure. We found some old files about the architecture and structure of the original village. Obviously not many people care about that now, and I doubt anyone who did have a passion for building tiny wooden structures would even have the time. So I figured I'd try and figure it out before it gets shoved back into a filing cabinet for another million years," he shrugged, idly leafing through the first pages of whatever book was closest to him. "But--although I may look like I just push paper--I'm still a ninja, and ninja training didn't bring understanding architectural design."
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Post by kiba on Jul 31, 2014 20:19:06 GMT
Akamaru simply barked in return, promising to do his very best not to knock over Izumo's books, as requested. Sitting to try to keep his own tail in check, Akamaru let his head rest against Izumo's thigh, patient enough to wait for Izumo to pay him more attention while still working to remind him that he was here, if he felt he had attention to spare.
Kiba on the other hand, felt his brows slowly draw together as Izumo explained what he was doing. All the stuff about architecture just left him wondering why he hadn't recruited Yamato for the task, given his abilities. But it didn't sound like he was doing anything but reading, and it wasn't like the village needed repair--as far as he knew, at least. "Hang on," he started, leaning closer to the books and squinting to try and read what Izumo had picked up. "Are you telling me you weren't assigned to do this? You're just doing it for fun or something?"
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Post by izumo on Jul 31, 2014 21:47:26 GMT
Izumo smiled down at Akamaru, letting one hand fall into his lap so that he could continue petting him. He didn't seem to be making too much trouble, and Izumo appreciated that too: he wasn't too sure how much the librarian would like a giant dog snuffling and sniffling around the already-dwindling population of books on architecture. His posture turned to slight embarrassment as Kiba caught onto his personal choice to undertake more work, sighing sadly at his own decision.
"Well I wouldn't exactly call it fun either," Izumo joked, albeit somewhat sheepishly. "It's just something that's going to get forgotten about and left to turn to even more dust if I don't do something about it now. Who's to say that the next generation of Hokage assistants are going to be as diligent?" He smiled, although it was a genuine concern of his. Although Izumo didn't like to over-sell himself, he wasn't about to deny that the work he did was far more than any assistant seemed to have done before him.
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Post by kiba on Jul 31, 2014 23:54:23 GMT
Kiba frowned at Izumo's explanation, leaning on the edge of the table to look over the books again in confusion. The stack was massive, considering the fact that Izumo was doing it for "fun"--only he'd just said that wasn't exactly what he'd call it. It seemed a bit odd to Kiba that Kotetsu hadn't come with him, but he supposed it wasn't an assignment, and Kotetsu clearly didn't like paperwork as much as Izumo.
"That's admirable and all," he muttered, nudging his ankle under the seat closest to him an pulling it out with a tug of his foot. "But if you're not required to do it, and it's not fun..." he paused, not wanting to offend Izumo any but also wanting to help if possible. "I mean, is this--is this gonna take all day? Are you just gonna do this all day, even though you don't have to or anything?"
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Post by izumo on Aug 1, 2014 1:07:07 GMT
"It's not really admirable, no," Izumo shook his head, suspecting that Kiba had just tried to find a compliment to let his next words bode over better. He understood what the Jounin meant, and even agreed with him to an extent. "I don't know how long it's going to take, but I want to do it," he smiled, shrugging off Kiba's insinuation. "Like I said, no-one else will probably ever do it and then the information will be lost forever. I just feel obligated to do it, and if I don't then it plays on my mind until I just end up waking up at 3am and dragging myself over here to do it anyway," he chuckled, shaking his head at himself, knowing that it was ridiculous as he said it. "It's just my thing, don't worry."
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Post by kiba on Aug 1, 2014 2:17:07 GMT
Kiba only frowned more as Izumo insisted, confused about why the chuunin was so intent on something he didn't really enjoy doing to the point where he was going to lose sleep over it. Despite insisting for Kiba not to worry, the jounin glanced back up at Izumo with concern, not fond of the idea of just leaving Izumo to it. The way it sounded, he would spend all day and night in the library reading over the material just for the sake of learning it; he wasn't sure Izumo even had any carpenter or architectural talent to put it to use with.
"Okay," he sighed, finally settling into the chair he'd pulled out across from Izumo. "Well, if you're gonna do this all day, you could probably use some help, right? Three heads are better than one," he offered, Akamaru adding a chipper bark to signify his eagerness to help out as well.
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Post by izumo on Aug 1, 2014 2:28:25 GMT
Izumo couldn't help but smile at Kiba and Akamaru's affirmation, moving to nuzzle the latter of the two. "You don't have to do that. I don't think you'll find much use in going through these," Izumo offered, unsure why Kiba was offering. He appreciated the thought and offer, but he was sure that the man had no interest in what he was doing. He also wasn't sure how Akamaru was going to read either, but that was neither here nor there.
"I mean, weren't you here for a reason? I don't want to get in your way. That said, I didn't expect to find you in a library, maybe there's hope for Kotetsu afterall," he mused.
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Post by kiba on Aug 1, 2014 5:09:28 GMT
"Yeah, well, I mean... how hard can reading some books be?" he asked, picking up one of the top and flipping it open to a random page, eyes squinting at the text as he struggled to focus on it, apparently less able to read it after his nap. "Plus, it'll help, right?" he shrugged, flipping to another page of the book without having read the first.
"Uhh..." Kiba rubbed the back of his neck, trying to think of a decent excuse for why he was in the library, but came up with nothing, slouching slightly in his seat. "Well... the air conditioning in the house is broken... and, you know, the air conditioning in the library isn't broken so, basically the point is I don't have much to do and if you want me to help with the reading thing, all that really matters is that I'm willing and able and not that I was asleep in the corner closest to the air ducts, right? So where do I start with this book?" he asked, pushing it towards Izumo before the chuunin could call him out on his chosen activities for the day--possibly worse than the one Izumo had chosen for himself, tragically.
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Post by izumo on Aug 1, 2014 5:37:05 GMT
Izumo couldn't help but chuckle at Kiba's question, well aware that many people struggled with sitting through reading books and Kiba seemed to be one of them in the first place. It seemed like reading could be pretty hard, but it didn't seem too polite to point that out--especially when Kiba didn't even seem to be reading them anyway.
It was understandable that Kiba would come to the library to find more air conditioning, although Izumo wasn't sure why he didn't just go to the Jounin lounge instead. He also had no idea why Tsume hadn't managed to get it fixed already, seeing as Izumo was sure she could threaten anyone and have her way in the smallest amount of time possible. Either way, both questions weren't his business to ask, and it seemed Kiba had divulged enough information for Izumo to lose sympathy. "You're sleeping in the library when you're still slacking on paper work?" He sighed, eyes narrowing as he took back the book Kiba was sliding towards him.
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Post by kiba on Aug 1, 2014 6:13:00 GMT
Kiba jolted when Izumo brought up paperwork, wondering how Izumo had even gotten that out of 'I was sleeping in the library,' though he wasn't wrong--it just wasn't a topic Kiba actually wanted to discuss with him. "Well... if I'm tired, what else can I do, huh? It's too hot to do paperwork at home, and then it's... really kinda too hot to do anything at home, to be honest. And there's a fan but my mom hogs it and then she uses it against me! I bet if you had to argue against her just to get some time in front of a fan, you'd go off and sleep in an air conditioned library too!" He wasn't really sure if that was the case, but he still doubted Izumo would do much to argue with his mom; he was a pushover even with kind ninja, even with friends--he had no idea how someone like Izumo would stand up against his mother.
"Do you want me to go and work on my paperwork, then?" Kiba offered, almost pouting stubbornly at being admonished on paperwork when he was offering to help the chuunin with his not-so-required reading.
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Post by izumo on Aug 1, 2014 6:48:35 GMT
Although Izumo didn't want to feel bad for Kiba--he knew if that happened he'd just end up offering to help with the paperwork--he couldn't help but feel bad about Tsume's harsh method; he couldn't even see him arguing against his mother in the first place. She just liked to fuss over him and send him care packages, and he certainly couldn't imagine her taking a fan away. Then again, his mother was relatively normal and Tsume was far from it. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing that Izumo wanted to insult her by thinking, but the woman did scare him and he couldn't imagine being her child. Then again, Kiba wasn't exactly a child any more and he had to take responsibility. Izumo had already made the mistake of trying to help Kotetsu too much, ending up with far more of the paperwork that he was ever completely happy with. "Working on your paperwork would help," he sighed, wondering why their generation had only seemed to produce 5 ninjas capable of doing their jobs to the very end.
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