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May 19, 2011 22:22

[Shikamaru is heading out to train in the forest today. Should anyone run into him out there, they'll be in for an interesting sight.

Deer. Not a lot of them at once - and fancy that, none are being slaughtered - and while at first skittish hearing footsteps, they don't run away from him when he approaches them. In fact, they come closer to him when ( Read more... )

sasuke is an ass, itachi = mother teresa as a ninja??, so freaking troublesome, not everyone has to kill the deer, this week's sucked, luceti just sucks in general, luceti is troublesome, seriously

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[action] yourhatred May 20 2011, 20:54:15 UTC

[Itachi will be there, though his garden doesn't need tending for the moment. Instead, he will be sitting with a book held close and a pair of reading glasses sitting on his nose. They don't help as much as he'd hope.

He doesn't look up as Shikamaru joins him.]

[action] yourhatred May 23 2011, 04:59:27 UTC

You can trust him to always be serving his own interests.

[It just so happened that telling the truth had been in his best interests this time. Some of the truth, anyway.]

[action] its_troublesome May 23 2011, 06:44:35 UTC

And getting Sasuke to go along with him definitely serves his own interests. Tch. You'd think he'd know when someone just wants to use him by now.

[Say what he will about Sasuke... there is that. He's a fool, but he's not exactly stupid, either.]

It's convenient he had a story like that to convince him so thoroughly. [His tone doesn't change, but his expression becomes a little blanker. These are all thoughts he's had before, but the more he talks to Itachi, the more he's beginning to think he's onto something.] Unless it wasn't a lie, in which case you gotta wonder how he found out about it. You seem so tight-lipped about it, after all.

[action] yourhatred May 23 2011, 18:59:06 UTC

Having a certain amount of involvement in the matter would make it easier for someone to twist the details.

[If there was one thing Madara didn't do, it was pull nonsense out of his ass.]

[action] its_troublesome May 24 2011, 05:03:18 UTC

To twist them, and to know which ones to leave alone. [Details he shouldn't have had unless he was there. And he's thought about all this before.]

Heh. You know, it'd be a lot easier for us both if you could just be straight-forward about this, instead of just confirming one-by-one all of my suspicions.

[action] yourhatred May 24 2011, 10:09:34 UTC

Shikamaru-san.

[He actually sighs now, rubbing at his forehead.]

By all rights I should be dead and these matters should have never come under discussion. I'm sure you can see why I'm less than thrilled with having to discuss them with those who shouldn't have even been involved.

[action] 1/2 its_troublesome May 25 2011, 02:27:48 UTC

You think I'm any happier about it? I- [He snaps his mouth shut, recognizing the childishness of it before he says more. It's not fair to him - uneasy - clueless, sick - as this has made him for the past few days, it's nothing compared to what Itachi has had to live with in the years since it happened.] Sorry.

...it's not like I can change what I know, though. And if Sasuke is holding this against everyone in Konoha, I don't want to. [Not if Sasuke is going to be coming after his friends. He needs all the facts he can get if that happens.]

[action] its_troublesome May 25 2011, 02:50:40 UTC

...I don't need the whole story. I've worked out most of it by now. [He's confident of that - too many of the little nuances about Itachi that didn't make sense before suddenly fitting so well now. His actions in Luceti, the way he talks; too many pieces, all falling into place.]

I won't ask you why it happened. [Why Konoha ordered it; why Itachi followed those orders. He has nothing but theories, but he knows there had to have been a reason behind it. He just needs to trust it was a good reason.] But there's just two things I need to know besides that. Answer me those, and I'll never mention this again.

[action] yourhatred May 25 2011, 21:03:14 UTC

[Itachi is tired of all this already, and he knows there will only be more and more questions from others in the future.

But that weariness isn't something he needs to show Shikamaru.]

Ask.

[action] its_troublesome May 26 2011, 12:11:37 UTC

Is there anyone else you know of who'd know about this besides those who were involved? [And just to clarify who he thinks were involved:] You, the two old geezers, Danzou, The Third, and Madara.

[Of course, there's no way of telling if there's anyone else Madara decided to run his mouth to. Besides Sasuke, he knows he told Naruto, Kakashi, and Yamato.

Would there have been anyone Konoha would've shared that information with, though? It's like he told Naruto - this was obviously a better kept secret than him being the container for the Kyuubi, and there was an actual law in place for that. Was it the kind of secret they were planning on taking to their graves ( ... )

[action] yourhatred May 26 2011, 22:43:29 UTC

Not from our world.

[Itachi shakes his head.]

But it seems whatever version of me was here before was a little more... open with this information. One or two citizens of Luceti may still be at least somewhat aware.

[action] its_troublesome May 26 2011, 23:18:34 UTC

[...that's very interesting, on more than one level. Curious as he is, he won't ask who they are though - it'd just be a waste of his second question. Unless Sasuke gives him a reason to, he's not looking into this any further than he has to.

It's not like Itachi would answer him anyways. It has to be bad enough that two people he'd never heard of until coming to Luceti knew his life story from the moment they met him.]

...I guess it's not of much consequence then, so long as they're not telling anyone else. It's not like they can pull any strings with it back home.

[He works very hard to keep the relief out of his shoulders. Yes, there's a chance Itachi could be lying. Friend or enemy, you should never take a ninja just on his word. Deceit is just a part of their game.

But it's the best he's going to get, under the circumstances. And he'd like to think that people like Tsunade and his dad would handle things differently if they knew something about this.]

[action] yourhatred May 27 2011, 07:46:37 UTC

[To that, Itachi just nods once, slowly. Then he sits and patiently waits for the other ninja to ask his next question.]

[action] its_troublesome May 27 2011, 07:54:54 UTC

As for the last question... [Right. Breathe in and out. His expression gains back some of that focus he lost earlier.]

Is this how you want to live your life?

[action] yourhatred May 27 2011, 08:07:59 UTC

[Now that's just prying into matters you needn't concern yourself with, Shikamaru.]

I'm... still getting used to the idea of having a life to live.

[action] its_troublesome May 27 2011, 08:27:55 UTC

[He can't help it. It's in his nature.]

I got that from you before, in more or less words. What I'm talking about is what you want. There shouldn't be much change, between this world and ours. Besides what Luceti won't allow.

[That his death has come up so many times in just this discussion alone makes it clear that he might just have preferred that is becoming a given. But you can't tell him there wasn't a single day after you left the village that was spent wanting something something different out of life.

...or maybe you can. He thinks the garden indicates otherwise, though.]

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