(closed) everything you feel, and everything you think

[chokuto]

WHO: Uchiha Sasuke & others.
WHERE: Around Stygia.
WHEN: Month of October.
WHAT: Catch-call for event prompts / other scenarios.
WARNINGS: None atm, will updated if needed.


[ ooc — plotting comment for the event here, comment for the general CR meme here. flexible to do things outside of the event as well!]

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[chokuto]

[He hasn't corrected her on the claim of teammates, although it isn't the first time she's mentioned it. Team 7 was never reformed under any official basis as far as he is aware; he knows that he was replaced by that other shinobi, Sai. And he knows, too, that at least Sakura has graduated past the status of genin.

So what are they now?]

It doesn't bother me. [Discomfort is hardly some new phenomenon to shinobi.] Wouldn't it be more of a hassle to deal with after all this time than to leave it alone? It isn't affecting me.

[craters]

Sasuke-kun...

（ it sounds strange to say that in his own voice, and it's punctuated by a sigh as she drags a hand through his hair the way she would her own. even the texture of it is different — silkier, but less soft without the products she uses — and the varying lengths give her muscle memory a brief twinge as she comes to the end of his bangs expecting there to be more. ）

It's painful. I can feel it. Just because you're used to it doesn't mean you should have to live with it.

（ but it isn't as if she can force him to listen to her.

it isn't as if she could ever get him to do anything she wanted at all. he's neveɾ listeƞeɗ tσ ɦeɾ, ƞeνeɾ cɑɾeɗ ɑbσut ɦeɾ, ƞeνeɾ wɑƞteɗ ɑƞʮtɦiƞg tσ ɗσ witɦ ɦeɾ except wɦeƞ sɦe wɑs useʄul tσ ɦiɱ, ɑƞɗ tɦσse ɱσɱeƞts weɾe ʄew ɑƞɗ ʄɑɾ betweeƞ eνeƞ ɑs cɦilɗɾeƞ. ɑƞɗ ƞσw?

tɦeʮ'ɾe still stɾɑƞgeɾs, ɑʄteɾ ɑll tɦis tiɱe.

iʄ ɦe wɑƞts tσ be iƞ pɑiƞ? L̵̞̣̈́Ȩ̵̛̗͉́T̷̫̘̋ ̶̩̈́̕Ĥ̷͉̲͖̈͑Ǐ̴̞̰͒M̵̙͙̉̊.

a sudden wave of bleak, roiling dizziness washes over her. she presses the heel of her palm over the rinnegan, sways with what feels abruptly like the complete severance of her chakra, and the world around her abruptly shifts. changes. from the small wellhouse to the acrid smell of burnt flesh, and she's sprawled on the ground with no honest idea what's just happened.

she's never been through one of sasuke's portals, and it leaves her sprawled flat on the ground, stirred quickly up to action by the distant, echoing sounds of screams. the air is thick and acrid, burning her nose and throat so badly she's immediately pulling sasuke's shirt up over it, suppressing the urge to choke on the air.

—

when she emerges from the cavern what seems like an eternity later, she makes a line right for her clinic. she can't hope to find sasuke like this, worn down and nearly out of chakra from the healing, the use of the rinnegan and choice amounts of shunshin to escape notice in the underground, and she can only trust he'll know her well enough to seek her there as well. ）