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Tenth Test: Cycle three, Month 3, Day 18 - Do I Twist, do I fold?

Jun 17, 2009 15:04

[She tried keeping awake. She really did. Everything she could think of--raiding the store levels for anything with caffeine, pacing around the less-ruined levels of the ship, talking at Itachi, not really saying anything until her throat was sore and he was completely fed up with her ( Read more... )

plot: bad end, not my idea of a vacation, i hate this ship, orochimaru = do not want, oh shit, breaking the girl, cycle three

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;Private redpaperfan June 22 2009, 03:00:41 UTC

[ It's a pain Sasuke can understand. More people are seeing him dead than he expected. Odd, that. ]

That much power, and you're giving it to him.

Re: ;Private poison_dango June 22 2009, 03:07:52 UTC

[Well, she knew he only wanted you for your pretty pretty eyes. And this one, in particular, understood that. Didn't give in. He can maybe understand.

She's also leaning against the dilapidated wall outside her room, blood on her face, catching her breath.]

Not giving him anything, Uchiha. I can't- [she grist her teeth] I'm not strong enough to beat him, and he knows it.

;Private redpaperfan June 22 2009, 03:20:51 UTC

Knowing limitations and being defeated by your own fears are different things, kunoichi. He knows nothing here that you do not know yourself. He has power over nothing here that you do not grant him.

[ But he does know something. It's not easy to take power away from your own fears.

In fact, Sasuke's not sure he can do it himself. ]

;Private poison_dango June 22 2009, 03:36:57 UTC

I have a name, Sasuke

I-- I can't. Not when my fears are so real. Not when they've been keeping me running for all these years.

[Well, she's tired, she was bound to say more than she meant to.]

;Private redpaperfan June 22 2009, 05:07:47 UTC

Of course. Anko.

So you break the fears, and you're dead in the water.

;Private poison_dango June 22 2009, 05:26:14 UTC

Thank you. [She does sound sincere. It means more to here than you'd think--Orochimaru didn't say her name in there, even while he was killing her.]

Yeah. And when you're dead in the water, you sink or you float and I don't know that I can do that.

;Private redpaperfan June 22 2009, 05:40:44 UTC

I've never considered you pathetic enough to sink. As much as he shoots his mouth off, not just anyone survives.

[ And more pointedly; ]

Fear and hate don't last forever.

;Private poison_dango June 22 2009, 05:58:51 UTC

[Strangely though, it's the first part that gets to her more than anything else, causing a hitch in her breathing while she ponders that, and then a low exhale. One in ten. That's something. And furthermore, it's something Orochimaru gave her--but a point of strength instead of weakness. She looks up at the sphere, at Sasuke.]

One in ten.

Maybe not. Maybe not...

;Private redpaperfan June 22 2009, 06:17:17 UTC

[ He just gives a little nod; hell, he knows what living through that branding feels like. One in ten was something more amazing than people realized. ]

One in ten. I see nothing weak in that.

;Private poison_dango June 23 2009, 05:30:22 UTC

Right.

[She slides down to sit against the wall, resting with a sigh.]

Maybe I can do it after, what, three more hours of sleep?

;Private redpaperfan June 23 2009, 05:32:43 UTC

Hn. Every little bit helps.

[ From the ah, sleep deprived one. ]

;Private poison_dango June 23 2009, 05:41:23 UTC

That's what I'm hoping.

Fuck, I've not even been on a mission this sleepless for a long time. [sigh] I must be getting old.

;Private redpaperfan June 23 2009, 06:38:18 UTC

[ That provokes a snort of amusement out of Sasuke. ]

Say it isn't so, Anko.

;Private poison_dango June 23 2009, 16:34:09 UTC

[You Uchiha, y so bratty? She laughs anyway.]

Shut it, shrimp. You might be old one day too. You live that long.

;Private redpaperfan June 23 2009, 23:48:54 UTC

[ It's their endearing quality. Or... something. ]

I'm too beautiful to die old... but I'll keep that in mind, Grandmother.

;Private poison_dango June 24 2009, 08:05:49 UTC

[Less and less she is shocked at Itachi's feat of KILLING YOU ALL AUGH BRAT. But, on the plus side, his teasing is at least lifting her mood a little. Darkness to annoyance, but, eh, it's something.]

Ha, none of us make pretty corpses. Unless you're planning on not going out like a shinobi, aka-chan.

[aka-chan = baby. And not in the endearing pop-song way]

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