[ i already regret sasuke and senri ]

[usogi]

i hate that jan made us a shitpost so i already have one to use

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[usogi]

... because you're my friend, and I don't want to say goodbye. [that's the simplicity of it, but - ] Taka and I think it'd be good for you, too. It's not super boring, but it's also... not the same thing that you've been through. It's peaceful. You don't have to put yourself in danger all the time, for the sake of what you want to do.

We could just play video games for a while, or check out the rest of Tokyo. Watch movies, go to concerts, do something besides fighting. Travel, explore, figure out... something else.

[ . . . ]

You don't have to stay forever, if you decide that you hate it, I guess.

But I thought... it'd be something worth trying.

[moralmyopia]

[The sigh he gives is soft and resigned. He turns his head and looks away idly at the bench with the sword, not at it so much as through it.

He doesn't think he'll ever be ordinary. It's not something he really wants, but also not something he thinks he's capable of achieving.] I can't allow himself to get weak, not if I'm going to help Naruto change our village. Protect it. [Still, here, he's learned...

There are some things he has taken for granted in the fact he just never cared to pay attention to them.]

I never said I wouldn't try.

[usogi]

[senri laughs faintly at that - and he ends up letting his gaze flick up to sasuke as he gives him a smile, simple and sweet.]

If you don't use all your weird ninja magic, my money's on Kumarin-senpai giving you a hard time. That guy's super weird.

[but.]

... if you want to try, then I'm happy. It's okay, if you change your mind - but... if you never came along at all, I think I'd really hate the idea of not being able to see you again.

I know that maybe we're still going to spend a little while looking for a place that you can call home, or maybe if you'll have two... but I just think that you deserve a nice rest, when you can afford to take one.

[moralmyopia]

He sounds easy to beat.

[Look. He may be a sad emo ninja, but he still has PRIDE. Let him have this...

For a moment or two, he just kind of stares back over at Senri, and his face is such a mix of things that the expression is unreadable. And then, all at once, he quickly turns his head completely away in the opposite direction, almost like he's embarrassed.

He does not look back.]

[usogi]

[ . . . that's kind of embarrassing, now that senri might have an idea of what it means.

but he'll pretend like he has no clue, for both of their sakes]

... Please tell Naruto-kun and Sakura-san that I say hello, whenever you go to see them too. I'll remind you later, but I thought it'd be worth saying now. Maybe we can pick up stuff that they'd like from Shibuya and send it back with you...

[moralmyopia]

Mm.

[He still won't look back at Senri. Even when he turns his attention to the sword again, he's trying his best to keep most of his face turned away.

Don't remind him of Team 7. Naruto or Sakura. He hates it.] I'm not spoiling them. [But he would.]

[usogi]

[HE HAS TO OR ELSE SASUKE IS JUST A SAD GAY]

We'll see about thaaaaat. ♪

And if you really can bring me with you, I wanna see Seanbon again! We have to get him like - a hundred toys! Five thousand sheets of origami paper!

[moralmyopia]

[Stop. He just wants... to be miserable and broody.

But he ends up... smile very faintly despite himself, even if he keeps working and doesn't lift his head. The very edge of it can be seen at the corner of his lips.]

Shut up...

[usogi]

[ . . . better.

so much better.

so senri proceeds as he was]

Eh? Don't be mean! I didn't even know you were teaching him any of that - you have to teach me too...!

[moralmyopia]

I didn't teach him... Someone else must have.

[But his face doesn't look any less soft for it, or jealous, or angry.]

I just left them for him as gifts.

[usogi]

[senri seems to appear a little thoughtful at that, like he's thinking of something specific

and he moves on without voicing it]

... you should still teach me. I won't be able to make him anything super cool here, but maybe by the time we see him again.

[moralmyopia]

[He continues with the sword for a bit, but then finally, just... gives up for now. He's smart, though not as miraculous with technology as, say, Ray, or Entrapta. He parts all of the components and wraps what he can up, pushing it out of the way.

Leaning back, he turns and points across the lab at a cabinet desk on the other side. There's sheets of graph paper there, blue on one side, white on the other.]

Get one and bring it here.

[usogi]

[ . . . oh.

senri will go and do that!!! he's going to bring two actually. he hands one to sasuke]

I'm better at watching and learning.

[he's just a really talented copycat at the end of the day]

[moralmyopia]

[Taking the first paper, he slides it over the edge of the bench and tears off enough of a portion to make the paper square rather than rectangular. He discards the sliver off to the side, puts the square over, and then he does the same with the second paper.

He faces the bench, preparing, and Senri will have to scoot up beside him since they each have a paper to themselves.

For a moment, he's thoughtful. And then he makes the first fold, waiting for Senri to follow.]

[usogi]

[sure that's fine - senri will do that. he doesn't seem to be interested in treating things between them any differently until he absolutely has to

and then he'll mimic sasuke!

it's the first step it's not hard]

... do you normally teach in silence.

[moralmyopia]

[Continuing--in silence--he makes another fold in the paper and waits for Senri to follow.]

You said you were better at watching and learning, not watching and listening.

[He makes another fold, manipulating the sheet together between his fingers.]

[usogi]

[senri is following along pretty well but like]

I can do both. Feels weird to just be folding paper in silence.

[please don't ask him to be quiet]

[moralmyopia]

Be quiet.

[:)

Sasuke continues folding, going just a tad faster so they aren't dragging along, now that he can tell Senri is quick on the uptake.]

Don't talk when you're creating something.

[usogi]

[he's a copycat what do you think he's been doing all game, sasuke

but :/ ]

What? Why not? What kind of rule is that...

[KEEPS TALKING]

[moralmyopia]

[Idiot. Sasuke doesn't though, which is what will get Senri to shut up the best. Or, like, not, but anyway, Sasuke won't be contributing if so.

There's not that many folding steps. Maybe ten or so, give or take. At the end, Senri gets uno cute rabbit, of course. Sasuke, too, from instructing.

So he gives this one to Senri for two cute rabbits.]

[usogi]

[ . . . . OH

he doesn't understand what it is until the end but like]

Ahhh, they're cute, they're super cute!

[HIM LOVE

why is he so simple]

[moralmyopia]

You're so stupid.

[He props his head up in one hand, the other arm curled onto the top of the bench while Senri fawns over the dumb, folded paper rabbits.]

You can give them to Sean.

[usogi]

I will. They'll go in Rasen.

[he's so certain of this and he'll just continue to turn the bunnies over to look at them. he tries to lightly unfold one before putting it back together as if memorizing the steps and creases that it took to get there]

You should name one. He'll name the other.

[moralmyopia]

[He's thoughtful for a moment or two.]

Mikoto.

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

Why....

[THAT'S NOT

WHAT HE'D THINK TO NAME A BUNNY]