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[eyeforaneye]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke + You
Broadcast: Fleetwide text
Action: SS Huntress
When: Right here, right now

[ Waking up somewhere unusual isn't the strange part; that's something he's grown depressingly used to in his sorry excuse for a life. But waking up in a place that isn't Konoha, isn't his world, and is instead an uncomfortably familiar confined technological nightmare of a ship with the distinct feeling that something is off is outside his limited comfort zone.

He gets his bearings first before going for his communicator, head further dizzied by a displayed date that doesn't match up with what he remembers. ]

I have a gap in my memory. Is this a normal occurrence here?

[ And that's it, that's his whole message after being absent for who knows how long. How quintessentially Sasuke. how much did he drink ]

Comments

[ino]

Not really. Everyone knew it wasn't actually you. But then he kidnapped Sakura, trying to get your attention.

[ Is she judging you? Yes. She is definitely judging you. ]

And then you didn't even show. Sai and I had to take care of things.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Allow him a moment to read that extremely obvious tone. ]

... you're judging me. [ genius ]

For something I haven't even done.

[ino]

Unless you come from an alternate universe where you're not an oblivious dick, I'm judging you for something you will do in the future.

[eyeforaneye]

... Sakura is not the only person in the world that needs assistance. I'll make the objective judgment call when I have to; she can take care of herself.

[ Yeah, he is absolutely going to do it in the future. ]

[ino]

[ THE MOST EXASPERATED SIGH IN THE WORLD. ]

You're totally missing the point.

[eyeforaneye]

This conversation has visited several.

State your point clearly, then.

[ino]

She misses you, Sasuke. In the "sigh loudly and stare off into the distance all the time" kind of way. You've been gone since the war ended, pretty much.

My point is that I think she'd appreciate it if you stopped by sometime in the near future and said hello.

[ Among other things. ]

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... ]

So it's like that. [ Yeah. ]

I'm not unaware of her feelings, Ino, but I also have things I need to do. You're her friend so your bias is inevitable, but I trust she understands the situation.

[ino]

[ She looks very unimpressed with that answer, but there's nothing much she can do about it. After all, it's not like he'll remember this conversation when he goes home. ]

Well, other than that little incident ... the moon almost crashed into the Earth. That was annoying.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Look, I know my love life is a doomed mess; what are you expecting from me. ]

I'll assume I didn't ignore that one. [ How fucking jaded are we to weird shit happening by now? This jaded. ]

Who was responsible?

[ino]

You batted around a few chunks of meteor, yeah.

So ... Kaguya's son had a son. Who was living on the moon by himself like some kind of psychopath. And he decided that we were all terrible and needed to die, except Hinata. So he kidnapped her and tried to get her to marry him, and then he was going to put the both of them to sleep and set the moon to crash into the Earth so we would all die and they would be the only ones left.

[eyeforaneye]

[ That's the worst movie plot I've ever heard. ]

... How did he survive on the moon? I suppose it's possible, just unnecessary.

[ He literally cares about none of the rest of that; psychopaths are a dime a dozen and in time he will remember who Hinata even is. ]

[ino]

Beats me.

[ She pauses. ]

Actually now that I really think about it that makes, like, zero sense.

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... ]

This is just now occurring to you. [ Really. ]