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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. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ He has hobbies as listed in the official Naruto fanbook, okay, and they are walking and training. ]

In that case I'll look forward to seeing where your hubris falls flat. It's better for me if you manage to keep up for more than a minute or so, though.

[ a minute ]

I'm not the one underestimating someone who's seen you fight before.

[ BUT zuko is sure sasuke will annoy him into his weird eye scanning bullshit before this ever happens so ]

But if it makes you feel better, I'll let you fight it out for at least five minutes so you don't hurt your ego.

So I should assume you to be some god of combat? I'll bear that in mind after you've lost.

Tell me you have more than fire to face me with, because you'll need it.

No, that's it. That's all I'm capable of.

[ it's so deadpan that it might actually be believable, if it weren't zuko, and he weren't so used to people thinking he sucks. ]

You caught me.

[ azula talked mad shit before he kicked her ass too he's fine. ]

[ Come on, man, do you have to compare him to Azula, really. ]

... that was sarcasm.

[ a ha, caught you ]

{ . . . sigh. HE'S NOT GOING TO SMILE. and give you the satisfaction. though that's pretty funny. and sad. mostly sad.

anyway. ]

You can't learn how to bend fire without being in tune with your body, and with how it moves.

[ so. zuko is a trained martial artist, in addition to an excellent swordsman. ]

You would be useless otherwise.

Agreed. That should be the standard for most fighters that focus on elemental techniques.

But the movement of your body will be easy enough to get around with a few carefully snapped bones. [ Which is of course not a lie, but... ] Do you want to set limitations?

I'm not concerned with you breaking my bones.

[ though if sasuke breaks his arm zuko is going to be furious you piece of shit ]

I'll be fine. Thanks for your overwhelming concern.

[ Well he can literally point back to this convo and say you asked for it. ]

Don't worry, I won't offer twice. I'll stop when you're down or when you ask me to, then, and for nothing else.

Or when you're unconscious.

[ zuko doubts either of these things are going to happen but if sasuke is going to be a dick about it then zuko is going to return the favor ]

You're only raising my expectations of you every time you speak. I'll be a very harsh judge just for that alone.

[ sigh sasuke ]

I'm sure.

[ zuko isn't going to agree to a spare until he's fully settled anyway so there ]

[ He's been effectively homeless for a long time now; he can settle fast. ]

So hand-to-hand combat and firebending. You must be at a natural disadvantage against someone who uses water.

Not necessarily.

[ read: katara kicks his ass every single time but she's also super terrifying okay ]

I can turn water into steam.

[ -- sometimes. if he's lucky. and if katara doesn't just freeze him into oblivion and dump him in an ocean. ]

Being able to possibly overcome it doesn't mean that it isn't still extra work.

Fire has a natural advantage over wind in my world, for example. [ Since it does after all have that bad habit of making fire much stronger. ]

I wouldn't know whether or not wind is weak in mine.

[ only aang can control air, and aang has beaten zuko with more than just an elemental advantage. the little bastard is fast as hell. ]

But waterbenders can control all liquid around them, so it depends on where they are.

[ -- and if they can bloodbend.

like katara.

fml. ]

Aa, you said the others couldn't generate their elements without help. [ What a strange thought, though water shouldn't be overly difficult to find.

His mind immediately goes to the human body, too, which says something about him. ]

Did you ever try to learn katon techniques? [ Even just out of curiosity. Sure, it'd be pointless, but it'd be an interesting experiment. ]

Yeah.

[ pause ]

My way is easier.

[ it's far less work and also far less intuitive. ]

[ Here he actually snorts. ]

Easier isn't always better. But sure, it's what you know naturally.

And other general shinobi techniques too, you've tried those?

Somewhat, but I don't like your style of fighting.

[ it doesn't feel smooth to him, or as well suited to his firebending. his style of attack is aggressive, fast, controlled, but also fluid. ]

Firebending doesn't work as well with your techniques. It's too choppy, and I don't need to go through that much effort in order to control fire.

[ aka u suck bro ]

[ . . . repulsed immediately. ]

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