[w/ Raph ; more aftermath of dumb and dumberer]

[hakabana]

[looking out over camp from the hospital roof after a visit with Itachi.]

[...yaaawns.]

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[healingcock]

[opens the door to step out onto the roof]

... ah. Hey.

[hakabana]

I asked what you wanted me to say, Raphael-sama.

[healingcock]

...

[lowers his head]

I don't know.

[hakabana]

[sighs, sliding his hands into his pockets]

Where do you want to go from here?

[healingcock]

I-- I don't know that either. I mean... I don't want to damage something like this for either of you ever again. I don't want to put you through that. But I don't know if I can get better. I want to, I just...

[swallows, trying to clear the lump in his throat]

[hakabana]

What do you want from me, Raphael-sama? If you could have anything, what would you want.

[healingcock]

...

I just want you to forgive me. To know... that you don't hate me for what I've done.

[hakabana]

I don't hate you.

[healingcock]

... but you're angry.

[hakabana]

I'm not angry.

[healingcock]

You are angry. You have every right to be angry. You could have forgiven me almost anything-- except hurting Itachi.

[hakabana]

...

[healingcock]

... at least, I'm pretty sure that's how it is.

[hakabana]

...

Close enough.

[healingcock]

I'm sorry. I wish I could take it back-- and I wish I could help fix things. But it's as if the more I try to help, the worse the situation gets.

[hakabana]

It's probably because you've never been quite in the sort of situation Neji-kun and I are in right now.