usogi | [ i already regret sasuke and senri ]

[ . . . and senri just deflates quietly. he rests his arms on the counter and his chin on his hands, watching sasuke work quietly]

.... even if Bambi wins, she said that she'll try to grant smaller wishes for everyone else...

[ . . . ]

No matter what the ending... it can't be bad, right? It won't be perfect... but it might at least be better than what everyone started with?

[Sasuke literally just used up his last optimism on Senri. There’s no more. It’s gone.] Doubtful. My village has had five Hokages. This doesn’t include the Kages of the other ninja villages in other lands.

All of us have always been at war. With other villages, with each other as clans.

Unless someone focused on balance and peace, someone with experience with it, wins... their world isn’t going to be any better than the one I’m trying to change.

[ . . . ]

.... Piety will guide her, if she wins. They made a deal for that. Cunning will be there too - and Dizzy, even if you might not trust her with it.

Bambi is always going to do her best - and her best is pretty amazing.

... and she's my friend.

[so he might not exactly agree with this negative opinion of her abilities]

Being friends means nothing. You have proof of that here. Even with yourself. [It’s... a little rude and a bit snapped. The wire he pushes down touches the metal of the sword and sizzles, reflected in his dark eye. His brows furrow.

He can’t have all these wires in the way... It needs to be more simple. Damn... Why did Ray have to be killed? He could have used the help.] Being friends doesn’t keep a world from being ruined by someone who doesn’t know how to lead it.

I don’t have any sympathy for her. If Sean isn’t winning, then it should be Piety or Love. Any moron should be able to see that. But no one has bothered to care about any god but their own.

... being friends means plenty...

[he actually doesn't entirely know what sasuke is talking about? senri's pretty content with his friendships. he has good taste in friends, unlike some people with shitty bowlcuts (read: yu).]

I forgot how strongly you feel about this...

[it's been a while, they've had personal stuff going on]

... are you going to visit Seanbon with your eye?

[His fingers and hands slow and then stop. He doesn’t look over at Senri; his eye stays on the blade of the sword. But it’s obvious he’s thinking.]

I don’t know if that’s possible.

[It may not be, yet... he hadn’t thought about it. Not after thinking how disappointed Sean must be in him still even now, even after forgiveness. The center of his chest still aches where Sean had pushed him.]

He’ll be okay even if it isn’t. I won’t forget him.

... of course you won't, but he'd be mad if I let you come visit me without mentioning that you need to see him too.

[and that manages to get senri to smile fondly - he loves their baby. he also thinks that the amount of affection that sasuke has for sean is incredibly soft, and it makes him happy]

He loves you, stupid. So make sure you think about it, and give it a shot at least once. You'll be the only one between the two of us that'd be able to give him hugs.

[Again, he fiddles with the sword and the wires, the battery, the other pieces. Some of it, he discards off on the bench. Others, he brings over, puts them away. Tries again.]

The rinnegan merely opens a portal. More than one person can potentially go through, more than just me. Stabilizing it will just cost more chakra.

[He pauses long enough to reach up and rub the tips of his fingers tiredly over the socket of his good eye while he thinks.]

It gives me access to the Six Paths. Deva, Asura, Human, Animal, Preta, Naraka, and an additional path, Outer. The last path...

...has properties of life and death.

[ . . . . . ]

I don't know what any of that meant, Sasuke.

Besides the thing about the portal.

[help,,, ninjas,,,,]

I know. [He sighs. Normies.] I can pull things to me or push them away. I can augment my body with limbs or weapons. I can steal a soul and read a person's mind. I can summon almost any creature. I can absorb all chakra. I can summon the King of Hell. And I can destroy or raise the dead. I can manipulate time and space, including exchanging my body with another object as redirect. I can control the Tailed Beasts.

All with the rinnegan.

[He glances over his shoulder at Senri.] I can lock you in an illusion, the worse nightmare you can imagine, for years. You would relive it over and over. A day would be a month of real time. I can burn you with black flames, ones no water can extinguish. I can summon Susanoo, a spiritual avatar. [Strangely, he sounds somewhat forlorn, even with these listed... merits???]

I told you... I'm not like you. I'm not like anything in your world.

[ . . . . and senri just nods quietly at uh. all of that. that's a lot to take in, and he still feels like he didn't understand parts of it.

even so, he doesn't look that afraid]

... well, you wouldn't do any of that to me.

[TRUST!!!]

But... no matter what you can do, or what you've done, I still think that Tokyo would be good for you... Our school isn't exactly normal... by any stretch... but I think you'd have fun even.

Tch.

[It's given tiredly. He turns back to the sword, but his fingers don't seem to know what to try next, so he just sits there for a little bit without moving.]

You nor Takaomi have told me anything about it. How am I supposed to know? You haven't told me anything but what little you said of "Yuma," or what you've said of your motives here.

... I have trauma.

[which is probably something stupid to say to sasuke but like.]

They're all so weird and so rich.

[SENRI HATES RICH PEOPLE, BACK WITH A VENGEANCE]

Shinonome is a school in Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya that Cheri showed us? That only a part of Tokyo. It's a huge city, and we're going to have to show you around to make sure you don't get lost. But the academy is huge, and there's a bunch of students that go there - but Taka and I are a part of the Special Class. They only admit a few students each year. You need to pass a pretty selective Scouting process, as well as do well on a test. I barely scraped by on the test, but apparently Taka got perfect marks. He got in because he's from a detective family, and I got in because I'm the hope of the theatre - a talented actor.

Yumapi is a manga artist even though he's only fifteen, and his art skills are off the charts. Hari, one of our classmates, is the son of the Prime Minister - which might be like... the Hokage of Japan? He's number one in everything. Grades, athletics, being totally removed from reality, you name it. Yuni just joined our class and he's some mafia heir from Italy - he tried to kill one of our senpai with a sniper. I hated it.

[dream!ing is. so much.]

There's another mafioso, a model, a shaman, a world-renowned surgeon, some nobility - and Kumarin-senpai, who I think would love you, is apparently the top martial artist in the world. He just travels to go to different fighting competitions...

But I think even you would have a weird time with the actual Yume Live system. It basically lets you into people's dreams.

Edited (not the icon i wanted at all) 2019-04-04 01:12 (UTC)

[hm. d!ing is a lot

Slowly, he sits up and back, turned at the shoulders to look at Senri while Senri talks. It sounds... maybe a bit unusual, but nothing shocking. Not to him. Naruto world is completely and utter horseshit in all senses.

Sasuke and Naruto fought a god that came out of the fucking moon, so.

But he hadn't realized things weren't as ordinary as he thought for Senri and Taka. At least... not by ordinary standards.] Mm. [His brows furrow.]

"Let's you into people's dreams"? [oh no] No one should be in mine.

It's... more complicated than that. There's special eye masks, and then special headsets - but basically you get to enjoy one communal dream. It's also how they rank people based on follower counts, and you need higher follower counts in order to get top seat. Sort of like here. Except in our school, it's basically decided every year.

Whichever set of students - we're locked into pairs - graduates at the top seat - they're basically called the hope of the nation. They get access to information, money, resources, connections to the government, corporations, you name it....

So you can shape the future of Japan, if you want to.

[dream!ing characters were really good choices for plasma send tweet]

[His brows don't unfurrow at all. It's something he gets, sure. He thinks it's weird, of course, but he gets the gist of it. And yet... He's not a fan. Not exactly. It sounds too similar to here actually.]

And you want me there... why?

... 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.

[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.

[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.

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.]

[ . . . 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...

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.]

[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!

[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...

[ . . . 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...!

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