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Who: Akasun Sasori (this-mannequin) and Uchiha Itachi (crimson-prose)
Where: Sasori's apartment complex.
When: May 25.
What: Itachi - listless, hopeless, proverbially homeless and soaking wet - arrives at Sasori's apartment with bad intentions and worser ailments. Sasori is a decent friend about it, if a very alienated one.
Warnings: To be added as things progress

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And the table is cold but that is not why his entire body - limp otherwise - pulsates with a gruesome shudder. It is strange the way his entire body (which seems as nihilistic as his eyes in most every other regard) alights in the dark waltzing rising tide that is another something on another side of him (incomprehensible); the goosebumps rise on the wet of pale skin to which his clothing is tightly hanging. He looks smaller than ever - never as small as Sasori, but decidedly more pitiful. (Sasori could be nine years old and not look any different than he does. Itachi, on the other hand, looks as if he has lost several years to ripping himself limb from godforsaken limb.)

But he is silent in his dazedness.

He can feel tingling in his arm where it's been dragged along the floor, and there is a strange constricting sensation in his throat which seems curious. (His mind remains motionless, even as his body curls in instinctual disgust at the smell of sterilized blood that the room has been steeped in. His senses are regaled with the sad, bitter scent of the corpse beside him and yet he remains almost completely unaware, neither puzzling over it or really acknowledging it at all. His stomach twists, there is a gentle panging in his lungs, but he cannot really feel it. His insides are icy and inhospitable.)

There is no destiny involved in this.

(But Itachi does not believe in destiny anyway.)

Even in death (mangled, pieced-apart, torn-away-from-his-own-insides death) Takahashi Tobi looks more alive than Uchiha Itachi does, in this moment, and it's unbearably pathetic. To say that the Uchiha is a shadow of his former self is not to do his transformation justice. He is not just reduced to near nothing - he is reduced to something even less than nothing.

Uchiha Itachi is completely unrecognizable as he is in this moment.

And maybe he likes it that way.