[Sasuke just. Sits there. For a few minutes. Dumbfounded and confused and not entirely sure he heard right, so he backs up and replays her comment again.]
[For a moment there's a little flare of anger, the second time, at her offer to - to what, act as his mother? She's not Mikoto, she's right about that, and those fierce fires start to rage again in the fury of Uchiha and outsiders and nonunderstanding but.]
[But this woman - Naruto's mother - is offering him memories of his mom. Things he never got to know. Stories he'll never have the chance to hear from Mikoto's own mouth.]
[The fire burns out as fast as it flared.]
[She's not Uchiha. She doesn't know him.]
[But even though she doesn't know him or know anything else but his lineage and the fact that he was a missing-nin she's offering him this all the same. He doesn't. Understand that. In very much the same way and with the same twisted-up feeling in his chest as he never understood (still kind of doesn't understand) Naruto continually calling him friend.]
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[...What the hell is happening?]
[Sasuke just. Sits there. For a few minutes. Dumbfounded and confused and not entirely sure he heard right, so he backs up and replays her comment again.]
[For a moment there's a little flare of anger, the second time, at her offer to - to what, act as his mother? She's not Mikoto, she's right about that, and those fierce fires start to rage again in the fury of Uchiha and outsiders and nonunderstanding but.]
[But this woman - Naruto's mother - is offering him memories of his mom. Things he never got to know. Stories he'll never have the chance to hear from Mikoto's own mouth.]
[The fire burns out as fast as it flared.]
[She's not Uchiha. She doesn't know him.]
[But even though she doesn't know him or know anything else but his lineage and the fact that he was a missing-nin she's offering him this all the same. He doesn't. Understand that. In very much the same way and with the same twisted-up feeling in his chest as he never understood (still kind of doesn't understand) Naruto continually calling him friend.]
[He doesn't have any idea what to say.]