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[eyeforaneye]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Marsiva
When: This very moment.

(broadcast)

[ Sure there are bound to be the occasional less-than-thrilling broadcasts but this one may be a new low, with the camera focused in on a nondescript blob that turns out -- with some acquired distance -- to be a knee. The feed shakes then and there's the loud metallic tap tap of the device being knocked against the framework of one of the generic cots aboard the Marsiva. Tap. Tap. Tap. The only other sound is that of the painfully bland music in the background, without a word being spoken.

At least this inept user finally turns the communicator around to inspect it at another angle, granting any viewer a flash of dark and impractically spiked hair before the camera then focuses on equally shadowed eyes and a severe expression.

No, he's not going to panic. He probably already did that internally before he even tried to figure out the communicator less than successfully. Send aid. ]

(action)

[ Sasuke will be easy to encounter either sitting on that cot and fiddling with his communicator, exploring the bay thoroughly, or staring with incredible and difficult-to-read intensity out into the murky void of space. Godspeed. ]

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

You could've been more specific and simply said it was badly written smut disguised as cheap romance. I would've known what it was then.

This is your fault.

[experiencepoints]

You reacted badly when the topic turned that direction before, I was trying to be considerate this time. Don't blame me for you not listening.

[eyeforaneye]

You'll find I'm well-equipped to blame whoever the fuck I want to. [ There's that foul mouth that even Naruto had criticized before (hypocritically). ]

Is there anything useful within these records, then?

[experiencepoints]

And you'll find I'll be much more cooperative in answering your questions if you pull that spiky head of yours out from your ass first.

[eyeforaneye]

Judging by this conversation, neither of us are gentle people. If you need me to tone myself down then perhaps you're continuing a talk with the wrong person.

[experiencepoints]

I hope, for your sake, there's a difference between 'accepting your own fuckups' and 'toning yourself down'.

You never told me your name, either.

[eyeforaneye]

There is. [ Nowadays, anyway. ]

My name is Uchiha Sasuke. [ ... he supposes he can share a little more. ] I'm from the same world that Ino is.

[experiencepoints]

Oh- That's-

[She's about to say that that's good, but then she remembers there was apparently a war of some kind...]

... Is that good or bad?

1/2

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... give him a minute to try to figure out how to answer that. ]

2/2

[eyeforaneye]

Are you asking me if I consider my own world to be a good place?

[experiencepoints]

No. Maybe?

Are you friends or enemies?

[eyeforaneye]

[ . . . EVEN THAT IS COMPLICATED ]

Our goals are now similar. I won't hurt her.

[experiencepoints]

... I mean, no offense, but I've sparred with Ino before. It's not her I'm worried about.

[It is, a little, but she's still pretty sure Ino could kick this guy's ass.]

[eyeforaneye]

Then who are you worried about? I don't expect you to expend that effort over someone you've just met.

[ He's going to force himself to let the dig at his skill level go, even if it's slightly painful. ]

[experiencepoints]

... Why wouldn't I?

[eyeforaneye]

... how generous. We're not going to fight.

Overall in that sense I suppose the fact that we're from the same world is a positive thing.

[experiencepoints]

That's good.

If you can avoid pissing too many people off, you shouldn't have any trouble here, then.

[eyeforaneye]

I can't. [ STRAIGHT UP ]

Past experience dictates.

[experiencepoints]

...

Maybe you should ask Ino for help in learning how to talk to people.

[eyeforaneye]

I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not. What I am is what I am.

[experiencepoints]

You can be yourself without making a ton of enemies, you know.

[eyeforaneye]

. . .

We'll see. [ Yeah, just... yeah. ]

[experiencepoints]

... I guess so.

[eyeforaneye]

... in your spar with Ino, did she defeat you?

[experiencepoints]

Well... Yes, extremely, but I was holding a few spells back in hopes of hiding them from the Atroma.