[The muffins. Terribly inconvenient, completely embarrassing. Later, he will wonder just what sort of toxin they were made with (and will promptly yell at whoever brought them into the damn apartment in the first place), but for today, he’ll simply eat one. A bran one, since his dislike for sweets
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[Pause.]
And if you have something further you wish to speak to me about, you're free to do so.
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[Thinks for a moment.]
Your intentions here. What are they?
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As for my intentions? Attending to my own affairs, primarily.
I don't intend to pursue revenge against you for your actions on the battlefield against my partner, if you were concerned about that. Those sorts of impulses were leeched out of me quite a long time ago, during the wars.
[Besides, Sasori knows that it's ultimately his own fault, and killing Sasuke won't change that hard fact...]
Similarly, I don't intend to cause trouble for your former teammates. The Akatsuki's goals hold no meaning here.
I've allied myself with your brother, so I'd prefer not to have hostility between us.
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[There's just no way.
A pause. She's not sure where to start.]
We're not your enemy, Sasuke-kun. We're not.
And I wouldn't have said no to you walking me home, you could have asked. There's no need for an excuse.
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The questions that he wants to ask his little brother (about himself, about World's End, about Naruto and Sakura, Kankuro and Sasori) are now limitless in number. So too are all of the things he wants to say to console him. For once in his life, however, he is struggling with what to say first, and just how to say it. For once in his life he does not want to approach Sasuke as one shinobi to another, but as a brother... a good one.
The kind of good brother he failed to be while they were both growing up.]
Sasuke...
[What can he say that would even come close to being enough, though? In his eyes his brother deserves to be happy, needs to be, even. He knows that Sasuke would disagree with him, however. Sasuke always has... and now he knows why.]I've lost count of all the ways that I have failed you over the years... and, if what you say is true about your time in World's End, letting you down seems to be ( ... )
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Complacency is never an option. The only way to keep from being distracted is to constantly remind oneself of one's goal.
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