Who: A seven-year-old Sasuke Uchiha and anyone who'd like to join him!
Where: The parlor. He's freaked out and not moving a whole lot just yet.
When: Day 02
What: Sasuke is lost, confused, and definitely not happy.
Warnings: Uhh. Lost children!
(
Where did my house go.. )
Comments 49
How did she make friends with someone her own age? Daddy said she should be herself and be nice and he was probably scared if he'd just gotten here.
She crawled out from under the piano, peeking around the couch and smiling. "Hi! Are you lost too?"
Reply
"Y-Yeah... I was in my house just a second ago. Where are we?" And, on second thought, now that he was looking at her a bit more closely... "What clan are you from?"
Reply
She blinked at the question, tipping her head. "What's a clan? I'm Nina. Nina Tucker."
Reply
"I'm Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke." The boy said after a moment, slightly distracted by her first question. How was he supposed to explain what a clan was? "Tucker... You must be from a different village. I'm from Konoha."
Reply
Upon further examination Midnighter found a small boy with oddly-styled hair clinging to the door with one hand and a stuffed animal in the other. Where the hell did he come from, and more important, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to bring another small child to this house of horrors?
"Hey, your stuffed animal have a name?" Midnighter's plan was simple: Step 1, get the kid's mind off what's going on. Step 2, show the kid around. Step 3, kill something once it got dark again to make him feel better. Of course, he wasn't sure if that would work, but hey it was worth a shot.
Reply
He debated for several seconds before offering, "Roary." Roary the dinosaur. The stranger looked almost like a ninja, but he was wearing clothes that Sasuke had never seen before. "Um. How do I get home, mister?"
Maybe trusting someone he didn't know wasn't a good idea, but he'd asked about Roary--and that immediately made the boy inclined to trust him. Anyone who could recognize Roary's importance was clearly okay.
Reply
He wished there was something else he could have said, something a bit more reassuring, but he wasn't built like that. That was the best he could do.
"Besides, you got Roary with you right? I'm sure he'll watch after you too."
Reply
"I'll help too, mister. I got really good marks at the academy so... so I don't need to be watched." He was almost an adult himself, now!
There was a slight smile at the mention of Roary again, and the boy eventually nodded after a moment of contemplation, squeezing the dinosaur a bit tighter. "Yeah... Um, mister--you aren't from Konoha either, are you?"
Reply
Reply
The man slipped inside the room, and Sasuke immediately felt himself shrinking back. He was tall, and there was something about him that was almost intimidating. But, the longer his dark eyes flickered over the man's face, the more the fear began to fade, choked out by an unexplainable curiosity.
"...Nii...san?" The word trembled in the still air.
It was him! It was!! But he was taller somehow, his eyes marred with the bloody red of the Sharingan, but Sasuke didn't care about any of that at the moment. He all but threw himself at his brother's legs with the ferocity only a younger sibling could muster, clinging to him as though afraid Itachi would suddenly sip back into the shadows ( ... )
Reply
Amazing, the perspective maturity -- years and experience -- could grant a person. If only he had gained wisdom, as well.
His eyes flickered to the plush, the tiny, chubby arm that encircled it. Roary, his mind offered, and he could not hold back the faint twist of a despairing smile that touched his thin lips. All that energy and enthusiasm ... it had felt endless, then, like that promised next time really was only tomorrow away. "Sasuke," he said softly -- recalling what it felt like to close his fingers around fragile bones until they gave.
It seems your brother has killed Orochimaru, Itachi-san.Knowledge was a knife, and its blade scored deep. He looked into those wide, dark eyes, still unbroken by the terrible power of their bloodline, still absolutely trusting in the sanctity of their bond as brothers. ( ... )
Reply
"You're taller," The boy finally muttered after a moment, rocking back on his heels while his fingers curled into the fabric covering his brother's shoulders. There was a beat of confusion, his eyes flickering over Itachi's face again and again as though to sort out exactly how and why his brother had changed so suddenly. He seemed older somehow--sadder, too. Sasuke didn't know why he was sad, and, after a moment, seemed to brighten.
Lifting his fingers, he very gently made to poke Itachi's nose, a parody of bruised forehead that Sasuke was still sporting. "Can... we go home now, nii-san? I don't like it here." He asked tentatively after a moment, unwinding himself from Itachi long enough to gather up Roary again. If his older brother wasn't careful, he was going to get that dinosaur ( ... )
Reply
Leave a comment