☽ うちはサスケ Uchiha Sasuke ☾ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fantheflame) wrote2013-07-16 08:29 am
fantheflame) wrote2013-07-16 08:29 amIC Contact / Appointments: Luceti
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fantheflame) wrote2013-07-16 08:29 am
[Sept. 21st, level 1 event, backdated]
Time to grab groceries and head back home as swiftly as possible.]
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[Sasuke's on his own way to find supplies - food, more than one set of clothes that fit (he's not sure why there are so many larger clothes in the apartment where he woke up, doesn't entirely believe that he could have been here before but older - that's insane) - when he spots the other. Just a glance, just the back of a brunet head and a familiar ponytail, but it's enough. His heart stops, his stomach lurches, and the whole world turns immediately upside-down.]
[No.]
[He isn't ready. He's not nearly ready for this; he hasn't even activated his Sharingan yet.]
[But that first reaction of sinking fear and horror only lasts a second before it's drowned in a boiling blood sea of hate. The rage wells up in his throat until he nearly chokes on it, until he sees through the red haze of it whether his eyes match the color or not.]
[The sword he found in the apartment is almost bigger than he is, but it's on his belt anyway because it was all he could immediately find. His unsheathing of the blade manages almost (but not quite) perfect silence as he wills his hands not to shake, and he ducks into a run at once, tunnel vision, blind to the streets around as he aims to stab his brother in the back.]
[Fitting. Especially if he can hit the other's heart.]
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This is what he'd been fearing. The last thing he needs is to be dealing with a brother that, from what he can tell, is even younger than when he met and tortured him so long ago. Angry. Filled with that growing seed of hatred he'd planted. Before the curse mark and before his own Sharingan.
He can't throw the lies back at him. He just can't. But he can't be friendly with him either. Sasuke wouldn't accept that.
Itachi twists, catches the boy's wrist with one hand, stomps a foot down hard enough to stop one of his brother's, and holds his shoulder with the other hand.]
Foolish little brother. What are you doing here?
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[The boil of his hatred is the only thing that's keeping Sasuke from outright panic, teeth gritted and eyes narrow as he twists in Itachi's grip. He is very, very deliberately keeping his eyes trained on the folds of the other's shirt, avoiding eye contact. Not that it matters, does it? If he didn't kill Itachi with his surprise attack there's little he can do as he is. But fuck, he had to try.]
Don't give me your mindgame bullshit. [And at the least he can keep the fear out of his voice if he buries it in enough rage.] If anyone knows why I'm here it's you. Is this some new genjutsu bullshit you've cooked up?
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[With that, he releases Sasuke and steps back to regard him with an unreadable expression, making no other moves.]
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[Sasuke automatically takes a defensive stance once he's released, though being released confuses him like hell. He still refuses to make eye contact, muscles tense enough almost to shake.]
What do you mean, a different kind? What did you do?
[Everything that's wrong in his life is some measure of Itachi's doing, after all. Why should this be any different?]
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[He should just leave, spare Sasuke this, but he doesn't.]
Someone else has masterminded this. Brought us here.
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[Fuck and how he hates it.]
And everything you tell me is made of shit, like you.
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Then will you defeat me here and end it, little brother?
You're not strong enough for that.
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[He takes a guarded step back, clutching the chokutou in both hands. It's too heavy for him. He wishes he had a kunai, or his shuriken pouch. Especially his shuriken pouch. He's good with those.]
[He has to try something. But he wavers.]
What'll you do if I don't?
[Come on, you son of a bitch, give me that push.]
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Nothing.
[And it's true enough.]
Things will merely stay as they are.
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[This isn't right. Sasuke doesn't understand what the hell is going on. Itachi should be insulting him, goading him. The other's passivity... well, that's not exactly surprising in tone and stance, but in words? Something's wrong. Something's fucked. This has to be some kind of trap.]
What game are you playing?
[It's quiet, quieter than anything before. What the hell is going on?]
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[His gaze remains steady.]
Not this time. Not from me.
[Cryptic is all he can be right now, because he's not the right person to be giving answers about this world, at least not to Sasuke. He'll have to ask someone he's more likely to trust.]
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[He doesn't say it, but does he really need to?]
[It's not even so much that he doesn't - it's that he can't. He's lived too long with Itachi being the mastermind, the instigator, the bane of his life. If Itachi is here - if Itachi showed himself - there's gotta be a connection. Nothing else makes sense in Sasuke's narrow, jagged world.]
[So he can't just leave. As scared as he is, and as much as he knows that Itachi is faster and stronger and better... he can't just turn away. Can't ever turn his back on the other, know that he's here and nearby and probably watching if Sasuke tries to run. Can't stomach the idea of running.]
[So he sheathes the sword, if a little clumsily with the size of it, jumping back to increase distance as he makes the hand seals for Housenka. Itachi's faster than he is and that's way too dangerous up close with a weapon that's sized wrong for him, but he's good with his fire, shuriken-driven or not. Even if part of him knows there's no way he's good enough.]
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When the steam clears, Itachi will be behind him.]
Will you continue to try this here?
[He doesn't want to fight back. There's no excuse for it now. He should be able to avoid his brother's techniques for the most part, though he knows it will only frustrate the younger ninja further.]