[ fuckin stupid emus ]

[usogi]

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[bakaomi]

Oh, that was fast.

[ he was not expecting to see this picture so soon. ]

Naruto looks like he ate a bad lunch.

[moralmyopia]

He was angry he had to take a photo with me, and I was angry I had to take a photo with him. I didn't want to be seen in one with a loser.

[He keeps it held up so they can see, but they can take it if they wanted to look closer.]

Sakura was just glad to be in a photo with me, but... Naruto liked her, so he was just glad to be in a photo with her. She asked Kakashi-sensei if he could be left out.

[usogi]

[yup, senri's going to take it as he grins]

Love triangle... I knew it.

[THIS IS VERY IRONIC GIVEN THE PEOPLE HE IS WITH AND YET]

Kakashi-sensei's the other guy? Do ninjas have like - instructors? Is he even cooler than you?

[bakaomi]

It's his teacher for his team.

[ he doesn't comment on the love triangle thing but he was definitely thinking it

he just has slightly more tact considering THEIR CURRENT FUCKING SITUATION ]

[moralmyopia]

Tch.

[Though the comment about the love triangle, even when Senri refuses to read the room, doesn't seem to bug him so much.]

When you graduate from the Academy, you become a genin. You're separated into teams of three so you can practice to become chunin. Each team has a jonin instructor. Kakashi was...

[He frowns gently, unsure of how to describe the man, his eye lowering to the photograph.] He acted like a moron, and I never took him seriously. He was always late or reading dirty love stories. But...

He became a jonin at the same age I was in that picture. And he valued teamwork more than anything else. We were all together recently, but before that... I hadn't seen him in a few years. When I left our team and the village... I told him he didn't understand how I felt, but he would if I killed everyone he loved.

He just smiled at me and said those people were already dead.

[surprise, EVERYONE in naruto has a bad time especially the adults]

[usogi]

[wh

what the fuck]

....

So we'll like. Get him a super huge care package from Shibuya. I'm sure Hanabusa-senpai or Asagiri-senpai would know like - I dunno, fun perverted stuff to send? I don't want to understand their gutter minds.

Maybe we can get him a smartwatch....

[bakaomi]

A smartwatch.

[ he repeats it lamely, because why are you trying to jump start their technology by like thirty years ]

Please don't send his teacher porn after he just told us that...

[moralmyopia]

[Sasuke rolls his only eye left.] Don't send him anything. Forget about it. If I see something, I'll get it. I don't know if he'd accept it anyway. [He does glance between Senri and Taka, though.]

What's a "smartwatch"?

[usogi]

[he'll hand the photo back to sasuke so he can cross his arms and huff]

You should bring a care package of stuff - it'll be like gifts from us since I don't think I'd last two hours in your ninja world.

But a smartwatch is like my phone, but on your wrist. It can't do everything my phone does but it can do a lot! If he's always late to something, it'll scream at him.

[bakaomi]

Wouldn't he just get rid of it or something? It's not like he'd have any idea how much those costs.

[ apple fans everywhere will die on the spot

but he nods ]

Senri's right though. He'd die immediately, but by something stupid like tripping into a lake.

[moralmyopia]

He's late because he wants to be late. I don't think something like that would help him.

[He takes the photo back, looking it over once last time for now. They're so dumb... He doesn't get how Kakashi put up with them. He tucks the photograph back into his jacket.]

I wouldn't be surprised. He fell in the pool, and I had to save him.

[Mm, details.]

[usogi]

I pushed you in because you deserved it and then you pulled me in with you - and then you had to save me.

[IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SENRI WAS VERY APOLOGETIC AT THE TIME AND NOW - ]

I don't regret it.

I don't think Taka would do much better with ninjas anyway?

[bakaomi]

Both of you are so stupid.

[ he is so tired ]

And I helped kill a hellhound, which is more than you've done, so shut up.

[ he also helped kill a psychotic robot girl, but taka is doing his best to forget about that one. ]

[moralmyopia]

[Surprisingly,

he laughs.

It's short and mostly amused rather than anything in the throes of hilarity, but he does laugh. A kind of bittersweet thing. And then he shakes his head as the look fades.]

That's all. Takaomi wanted to see it if I managed to get a copy.

[usogi]

[ . . . . senri blinks quietly

he likes sasuke's laugh... it's rare - as far as he's concerned anyway

and he just ends up laughing too]

You dared him? Why? We should try to get that one picture of you when you were a kid - Pudgymaru...!!

[bakaomi]

[ he's about to comment on what sasuke said, but then senri says that and he

immediately shuts his mouth and starts walking. ]

I'm leaving.

[moralmyopia]

[Sasuke blinks, watching Taka get irritated and leave, and it’s familiar. He doesn’t try to stop the other boy by reaching out, and he doesn’t look at Senri. Softly:]

I had a fat face as a baby. Itachi had to carry me everywhere, I was told. If anyone else tried to hold me, I would cry loudly and not stop.

[usogi]

[sldkfjslfjsdf

senri's just

going to laugh quietly before snagging taka's hand so that he has to stay in place - and then he turns to sasuke and offers up a smile. he appreciates the attempts to talk...

and he turns to taka, tilting his head

they uh

both know senri doesn't have any clue what he was like as a baby so

it's hilariously not a conversation for him]

[bakaomi]

[ goddammit senri let him storm out ]

... I dunno. The monster girl likes to make up stories that I know definitely aren't real because she's annoying.

[ it's grumbled. ]

[moralmyopia]

[Sasuke thinks he knows, but:]

Monster girl...?

[usogi]

You're always so mean to her...

[but senri isn't

elaborating!

because this is sure up to taka to open up a little instead of senri telling his story for him]

[bakaomi]

[




ugh ]

It's my sister. She's a pain in the ass.

[moralmyopia]

[Ah. He figured. Sasuke peers at Taka for a moment, unsure of what to say. He wonders... if things would have been different, if he had a sister. If Itachi had been a big sister, or... if he had been a big brother.

Would he have had to make the same choice as Itachi still...? Would it have fallen on him instead to choose between dying with family and clan, or murdering them to save a village from a coup?

His eye lowers.]

Does she have a name?

[usogi]

If she does, I don't think I've heard it...

[IT'S ALWAYS JUST 'MONSTER GIRL'!!!!

taka is so rude to his family]

[bakaomi]

[ why are you forcing me to make up a name taka literally only calls her that ]

Hm? Does it matter?