☽ うちはサスケ Uchiha Sasuke ☾ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fantheflame) wrote2013-07-16 08:35 pm
fantheflame) wrote2013-07-16 08:35 pm
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[Action: Awakening ((Closed))]
[Sasuke is not enjoying getting used to being unsure of things. But he is - unsure - and finds that while the things he is unsure of are troubling, the state of unsurety isn't as terrifying as it used to be.]
[Right now, there are two very important things he's unsure of: whether he's alive or dead, and, if the second, whether this is heaven or hell.]
[The last thing he remembers? His deranged excuse for a... cousin of sorts? Taking on the ten-tails as its container. And now he's here - wherever here is - standing in a stranger's bedroom, holding a photograph of his brother with (presumably) that stranger. He awoke nearly naked with a pair of wings sprouted from his own back, and now he's somewhere with evidence of one of the dead. What else could have happened?]
We lost, huh...?
[Something like guilt makes a feeble case for life in his chest, but it's hard to feel guilty when you don't remember an ending. Instead he's just... staring at this photograph. One thumb swipes idly across the cool glass, over Itachi's face, half-expecting it to vanish once obstructed. It doesn't.]
[He's not sure whether to feel a sense of final relief - he's here, and, it seems, so is Itachi - or sick doom - who the hell is this complete stranger who's gotten to share in his brother's... something. Not life, maybe, but...]
[The Itachi in the picture is almost smiling, and his eyes look more alive than Sasuke remembers since they were very small.]
[Action: Examination ((Sometime Later; Open))]
[Sasuke is - a little bit of everywhere. He doesn't exactly believe... most of this. Half thinks this is some sadistic side-plot in Obito's (Madara's?) ridiculous Moon's Eye genjutsu (keeps having to remind himself he wouldn't know that exists if that were the case). So he's exploring - barracks, apartments, the shrine, the forest - here one moment, maybe lingering to examine (Sharingan blazing red the entire time) - and then gone in a flicker, off to the next place. He's not taking particular care to remain hidden (really, he doesn't care who sees him in what may be a fake or an illusion or a dream), but he's not being loud about his presence either.]
[Follow-Up Action: Drained ((Closed to Sakura))]
[One thing Sasuke should maybe have done was paid attention to the tidbits he's heard about halved powers, weakened chakra, difficulty... being, as a shinobi.]
[Because now, feeling more physically real than he has the entire time he's been here - how could he be this bone-tired in a dream? - he's slumped on hands and knees on the riverbank just to the north of town, eyes fading back and forth between blazing red and dim grey-black, breath harsh in and out of his lungs. How did he run so quickly out of chakra? How did Sharingan run him so quickly out of chakra?]
[His eyes fade back to dull black and stay there at last, and he lifts a hand to brush sweaty bangs out of his eyes, feeling at once overheated and clammy. Maybe he's had his question answered, finally, and this is hell.]
[Voice: Greeting ((Sometime Later; Open))]
--believe this thing - hm.
[It's a voice some will recognize.]
If paper can really record - whatever. I'm told I've been here before. I don't think I believe that. I certainly don't remember it.
Some of you know me. That's fine. Some of you would rather you didn't, and that's fine too.
I don't know what you know and I don't know what kind of bullshit this jutsu or hell or whatever it is is pulling, and I don't entirely care.
You should know I'm no longer an enemy of Konoha.
Believe me or don't, but I don't intend to fight you.
[There's a shift, and a few long seconds of tape-recorder not-quite-silence, followed by a muffled shuffle of movement over paper before the recording ends.]
[Sasuke is not enjoying getting used to being unsure of things. But he is - unsure - and finds that while the things he is unsure of are troubling, the state of unsurety isn't as terrifying as it used to be.]
[Right now, there are two very important things he's unsure of: whether he's alive or dead, and, if the second, whether this is heaven or hell.]
[The last thing he remembers? His deranged excuse for a... cousin of sorts? Taking on the ten-tails as its container. And now he's here - wherever here is - standing in a stranger's bedroom, holding a photograph of his brother with (presumably) that stranger. He awoke nearly naked with a pair of wings sprouted from his own back, and now he's somewhere with evidence of one of the dead. What else could have happened?]
We lost, huh...?
[Something like guilt makes a feeble case for life in his chest, but it's hard to feel guilty when you don't remember an ending. Instead he's just... staring at this photograph. One thumb swipes idly across the cool glass, over Itachi's face, half-expecting it to vanish once obstructed. It doesn't.]
[He's not sure whether to feel a sense of final relief - he's here, and, it seems, so is Itachi - or sick doom - who the hell is this complete stranger who's gotten to share in his brother's... something. Not life, maybe, but...]
[The Itachi in the picture is almost smiling, and his eyes look more alive than Sasuke remembers since they were very small.]
[Action: Examination ((Sometime Later; Open))]
[Sasuke is - a little bit of everywhere. He doesn't exactly believe... most of this. Half thinks this is some sadistic side-plot in Obito's (Madara's?) ridiculous Moon's Eye genjutsu (keeps having to remind himself he wouldn't know that exists if that were the case). So he's exploring - barracks, apartments, the shrine, the forest - here one moment, maybe lingering to examine (Sharingan blazing red the entire time) - and then gone in a flicker, off to the next place. He's not taking particular care to remain hidden (really, he doesn't care who sees him in what may be a fake or an illusion or a dream), but he's not being loud about his presence either.]
[Follow-Up Action: Drained ((Closed to Sakura))]
[One thing Sasuke should maybe have done was paid attention to the tidbits he's heard about halved powers, weakened chakra, difficulty... being, as a shinobi.]
[Because now, feeling more physically real than he has the entire time he's been here - how could he be this bone-tired in a dream? - he's slumped on hands and knees on the riverbank just to the north of town, eyes fading back and forth between blazing red and dim grey-black, breath harsh in and out of his lungs. How did he run so quickly out of chakra? How did Sharingan run him so quickly out of chakra?]
[His eyes fade back to dull black and stay there at last, and he lifts a hand to brush sweaty bangs out of his eyes, feeling at once overheated and clammy. Maybe he's had his question answered, finally, and this is hell.]
[Voice: Greeting ((Sometime Later; Open))]
--believe this thing - hm.
[It's a voice some will recognize.]
If paper can really record - whatever. I'm told I've been here before. I don't think I believe that. I certainly don't remember it.
Some of you know me. That's fine. Some of you would rather you didn't, and that's fine too.
I don't know what you know and I don't know what kind of bullshit this jutsu or hell or whatever it is is pulling, and I don't entirely care.
You should know I'm no longer an enemy of Konoha.
Believe me or don't, but I don't intend to fight you.
[There's a shift, and a few long seconds of tape-recorder not-quite-silence, followed by a muffled shuffle of movement over paper before the recording ends.]
video foreverrr
So hearing his voice should have sounded foreign to her, if it didn't actually spark a familiarity she can't (and will never) shake.
His words were what seemed foreign, though. Back in their world, Shikamaru told her that he was declared a criminal, something she would have lived through if she wasn't suddenly brought to this place. So to hear him say he's no longer an enemy of Konoha perplexes her.
What more happened in their future?
But she won't address that for now because his mere presence stuns her briefly.]
Sasuke-kun?
okay no for real also audio forever!
[There's some time between her response and his. He's still trying to figure out his way around this... chakra-infused book, or however it works.]
It's been a while.
[He's not got much to say, unless she does. He was never one for small talk.]
rofl flirtsuke :3
[Her voice is soft, still stunned by his presence. Half of her wants to find where he is to see if he's really here while the other half reminds her of what Shikamaru told her. She's cautious, but Sasuke's still, well, Sasuke to her.
In hindsight, it really has been a while. Both here in Luceti and back home.]
But... [She frowns, addressing what's currently confusing her.] What do you mean you're no longer an enemy of Konoha? [Behind her frown is hope that maybe, just maybe, he chose the light again.]
he's a precious derp I can't help it
[It's not really biting, just matter-of-fact. He knows he's going to have to have this conversation over, and over, and over again. He doesn't look forward to that.]
I've changed my path. It's my intent to stop Tobi, not to aid him.
that's why we love him hahaha
Is this for good?
[It could be a trick, to make them believe he had changed, but Ino knows that even if she didn't ask that question to make sure, she would have still believed him.]
:>
Would you really believe my answer, whichever one I give?
sasuke u cocky bastard
That depends. What's your answer? [Nope, not giving away too much.]
it's what he does
[Still a bit of smirk in that response. But, after a moment's consideration, he does answer her.]
I intend to spend the rest of my life, if it takes that, tearing down the twisted bureaucracy of the current system and replacing it with something that will take care of the village and all of its parts, and not the interests of outdated cloistered ideals and zealotry.
Does that answer your question?
he's born this way baby
[She replays what he just said in her head and she can't help but give a small smile. If everything he said was true, then both Sakura and Naruto have a reason to rejoice.
And maybe she too.]
That's... a noble reason. I don't know what happened, but at least, it seems you're back.
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[A beat.]
As for whether I'm back, that depends on how things go at home.
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[At least, there's a little rainbow after the rain. If Sasuke's indeed trying to find his way back to light, that's a good thing amid her father's death.]
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I'll need more than luck. Good to know you're not going to be hunting me down here, though.
[Probably the closest anyone's going to get to a thank you.]
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[Sasuke's never one to make elaborate lies as far as she knows. She might be too trusting here, but she's just genuinely happy and relieved.]
That said, have you... talked to Sakura or Naruto yet?
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[That's one way to put it.]
I expect I'll hear from Naruto as soon as he comes across this.
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That makes her frown a little.]
How did... Sakura react?
[She knows just how much her best friend wants Sasuke to come back to them, even if sometimes, she tries hard to conceal it.]
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You're protective of her.
[Not that he's surprised at all. If anything it's... a weird sort of nostalgic. Old familiar bonds, even ones that aren't his.]
She's smart. She didn't believe me at first, until I told her a few things I could only know if I'd come back at home. [He won't elaborate on that, not through this stupid book.]
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[She would have responded something to his earlier observation but she chooses not to. It's just good to know he still remembers her friendship with Sakura.]
Is she with you now? Did she explain this place with you in detail?
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She's around.
[He doesn't need to be announcing in this stupid book that he's in the clinic right now, especially since he isn't even halfway up on his chakra yet.]
I've gotten bits and pieces, here and there.
[He won't add that he and Sakura talked more about home than here.]
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So, you know we can't go home? At least, not within our own power.
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[Occasionally, Sasuke's stubbornness can be a good quality.]
I plan to fix that, too.
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[In our own little ways.
More often that not, their efforts aren't enough. However, at least, they're doing something.]
But do know that there are people here far powerful than any of us and even they haven't been able to do anything.
[Ino's not undermining Sasuke's abilities here. She's just genuinely worried, even so since she's a medic. She doesn't want what happened to her and Shikamaru happen to Sakura and Sasuke, too.]
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[Was that the sound of Sasuke proposing teamwork?]
If I can't break this place open myself, I plan to at least put a few holes in it.
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That'd help a lot, at least. But, best not to push yourself too hard.
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I'll see if I can keep myself contained.