[Sometime later]callmelegionDecember 17 2009, 04:13:09 UTC
[Yes, he thinks.
We will not let them hurt anyone else.
But who is left to hurt? They are lost souls in this world. They wear open wounds.
And Nagato thinks it is not like back home. The city could sprawl around him and hide him. Through his rain, he would feel the sensations of his people. A warm, throbbing, alive city.
But here the world is a vast green ocean. There are a scattering of people. And most of them have been broken. Are notably wounded.
There is no mass of commoners -- no village -- to balance them out.
What about the next generation? The children? Those not yet born?
Can people with no future even produce those for whom the answers would be required?
It's Itachi's current form: It makes Pain think.
About what it means to be not yet hurt. ]
Yes, that is what Akatsuki is for.
Do you miss them, Itachi?
I miss my family sometimes.
When once there were other voices, and now there is only one.
But it is true Sasuke will take care of you.
And I will, as well. To the extent that I am able.
[Sometime later]seeing_only_redDecember 17 2009, 20:46:35 UTC
Miss them...?
[Itachi lowers his eyes a little, thinking seriously about Pain-san's question, and how to respond.]
I think...I should miss them more than I do. I still feel like I'll go home and they'll all be there.
Even though I know they're gone.
It doesn't make sense to me, because I feel like...I'm on a school trip and they're at home waiting for me.
[His voice is softer, and he's not sure how to explain everything he feels. It's still so confusing for him--being here in this place, with an older Sasuke, and all these people who know him, but he doesn't know--but Itachi has tried to understand, to take in everything he's been told and shown and create some kind of sense from it that he can use.
It's hard, when he can still remember his mother's face so clearly, hear her words telling him to do his homework before he convinces her to let him go off and play with Sasuke. They don't feel like they've died at all, and it makes it even harder to accept--makes his chest clench when he thinks of it, because they don't feel like
( ... )
[Almost, Sasuke had almost managed to fall really, truly asleep.
But now there is a soft thumping sound, of feet on the tatami, and the sound of harsh, forced breaths. There is the bright spark of chakra, in the corner of his mind, flaring with alarm. A small shadow flits in front of an open window, glowing faintly before dawn.
Itachi.
And the world which is a dim grey bleeds red and bright. Itachi is awake, afraid - something is wrong.]
Itachi.
[His voice is tense, knotted up with stress and adrenaline-fueled anger. Something is wrong.]
[Itachi jerks, eyes immediately focusing on the other side of the room. The other side where Sasuke sleeps and bright red eyes suddenly look back at him and there is a fear--deep hidden fear, like that day when Father made him see War for the first time and he saw the bloody glare of the Sharingan as he never had before--his breath catches in his throat and is body is shuddering with the force of how his heart pumps--
But then he thinks and recognizes.]
Sa-Sasuke?
[It's Sasuke, he's here and it's okay and he's not gone, Itachi didn't lose him.
And he's moving again, throwing himself across the room and bowling into his little brother sitting on his mattress. He clenches his fists into Sasuke's clothes and holds on tightly, entire body shaking.]
Re: [Action]a_for_tioriDecember 16 2009, 17:06:54 UTC
[Sasuke bites his tongue until he tastes blood, because it's the only way he can shut up the part of him which is screaming to kill kill kill kill this thing which has invaded his space. This is not the first time Itachi has touched him like this, but it is dark and there is fear in the air, and either way Sasuke may never get used to this
( ... )
[Itachi looks up at Sasuke, wondering why his tone is so strange, but at the same time so relieved. It was all a dream, and Sasuke isn't gone...he didn't lose his little brother.
Then he realizes how stiff Sasuke is...and how stupid he acted just throwing himself on his little brother like that. Sasuke doesn't like to be touched.
Slowly, he starts to move away.]
I...I'm sorry. I don't... [He doesn't know what to say, because this is stupid, he's stupid, and he's much stronger than this. Sasuke doesn't need a whimpy child to protect.]
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I'm sorry too...for whatever happened. That Konoha hurt you and Konan-san so much.
But we won't let them hurt anyone else, right? That's what Akatsuki is here for.
[He's much calmer and smiles a little into the Hitomi.]
You don't have to worry about me. Sasuke won't let anything happen to me.
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We will not let them hurt anyone else.
But who is left to hurt? They are lost souls in this world. They wear open wounds.
And Nagato thinks it is not like back home. The city could sprawl around him and hide him. Through his rain, he would feel the sensations of his people. A warm, throbbing, alive city.
But here the world is a vast green ocean. There are a scattering of people. And most of them have been broken. Are notably wounded.
There is no mass of commoners -- no village -- to balance them out.
What about the next generation? The children? Those not yet born?
Can people with no future even produce those for whom the answers would be required?
It's Itachi's current form: It makes Pain think.
About what it means to be not yet hurt. ]
Yes, that is what Akatsuki is for.
Do you miss them, Itachi?
I miss my family sometimes.
When once there were other voices, and now there is only one.
But it is true Sasuke will take care of you.
And I will, as well. To the extent that I am able.
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[Itachi lowers his eyes a little, thinking seriously about Pain-san's question, and how to respond.]
I think...I should miss them more than I do. I still feel like I'll go home and they'll all be there.
Even though I know they're gone.
It doesn't make sense to me, because I feel like...I'm on a school trip and they're at home waiting for me.
[His voice is softer, and he's not sure how to explain everything he feels. It's still so confusing for him--being here in this place, with an older Sasuke, and all these people who know him, but he doesn't know--but Itachi has tried to understand, to take in everything he's been told and shown and create some kind of sense from it that he can use.
It's hard, when he can still remember his mother's face so clearly, hear her words telling him to do his homework before he convinces her to let him go off and play with Sasuke. They don't feel like they've died at all, and it makes it even harder to accept--makes his chest clench when he thinks of it, because they don't feel like ( ... )
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But now there is a soft thumping sound, of feet on the tatami, and the sound of harsh, forced breaths. There is the bright spark of chakra, in the corner of his mind, flaring with alarm. A small shadow flits in front of an open window, glowing faintly before dawn.
Itachi.
And the world which is a dim grey bleeds red and bright. Itachi is awake, afraid - something is wrong.]
Itachi.
[His voice is tense, knotted up with stress and adrenaline-fueled anger. Something is wrong.]
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But then he thinks and recognizes.]
Sa-Sasuke?
[It's Sasuke, he's here and it's okay and he's not gone, Itachi didn't lose him.
And he's moving again, throwing himself across the room and bowling into his little brother sitting on his mattress. He clenches his fists into Sasuke's clothes and holds on tightly, entire body shaking.]
You're here. You're here. You're here...
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Then he realizes how stiff Sasuke is...and how stupid he acted just throwing himself on his little brother like that. Sasuke doesn't like to be touched.
Slowly, he starts to move away.]
I...I'm sorry. I don't... [He doesn't know what to say, because this is stupid, he's stupid, and he's much stronger than this. Sasuke doesn't need a whimpy child to protect.]
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