[A whisper. An attempt. Then a breath and some silence. Over a week but he is bad at silence, even if the words don’t quite come.]
Dunno if you’re okay. I figure you are.
[Or rather, he hopes you are. Still, an attempt and to Konan and not Nagato because Naruto knows enough to guess where Nagato will point the blame. Knows enough to know that sometimes it is better to be silent and wouldn’t know where to begin with Nagato besides. But there is also Konan.]
You and him. You’d better be okay-
[But that’s too forceful. He doesn’t have the right to worry. Will worry anyway.]
I know you’ll take care of him. He’ll take care of you, just-
I’m sorry. It shouldn’t-
[-have happened. And he is sorry, only he’s not because he misses it and knows that being truly sorry means not missing it, somehow.]
Just, be careful.
[Because he’s already said too much, he leaves the message at that.]
Silence more than likely. A carefully detached (and polite because Konan is usually polite) request that he simply leave her- them- alone.
But not this.
We’re all right, she says and then she uses his name and the reason he does not reply for a while is because his eyes are stinging and how ridiculous is this, he thinks.
He tells himself that relief has his eyes burn. Relief to know they’re okay. Nothing more than that. He tells himself that it’s certainly not because she calls him Naruto.
It’s not that. It’s not.
But they’re okay.He doesn’t know what to do, beyond knowing that. He doesn’t know how to fix things
( ... )
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Nagato’s being stupid.
... again.
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M’worried.
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Konan...
[A whisper. An attempt. Then a breath and some silence. Over a week but he is bad at silence, even if the words don’t quite come.]
Dunno if you’re okay. I figure you are.
[Or rather, he hopes you are. Still, an attempt and to Konan and not Nagato because Naruto knows enough to guess where Nagato will point the blame. Knows enough to know that sometimes it is better to be silent and wouldn’t know where to begin with Nagato besides. But there is also Konan.]
You and him. You’d better be okay-
[But that’s too forceful. He doesn’t have the right to worry. Will worry anyway.]
I know you’ll take care of him. He’ll take care of you, just-
I’m sorry. It shouldn’t-
[-have happened. And he is sorry, only he’s not because he misses it and knows that being truly sorry means not missing it, somehow.]
Just, be careful.
[Because he’s already said too much, he leaves the message at that.]
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He was expecting.
Something else.
Silence more than likely. A carefully detached (and polite because Konan is usually polite) request that he simply leave her- them- alone.
But not this.
We’re all right, she says and then she uses his name and the reason he does not reply for a while is because his eyes are stinging and how ridiculous is this, he thinks.
He tells himself that relief has his eyes burn. Relief to know they’re okay. Nothing more than that. He tells himself that it’s certainly not because she calls him Naruto.
It’s not that. It’s not.
But they’re okay.He doesn’t know what to do, beyond knowing that. He doesn’t know how to fix things ( ... )
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