[Kisame learned what Sakura had always known: that with teammates and partners, what they could provide to tactical advantage was secondary to the human, intangible bonds that they could form.
She may not have always understood war but that had been an intrinsic knowledge she's always carried. Maybe that made her "soft."
She doesn't think so.
After all, it doesn't stop her from doing her duty to her village.
In fact, it makes her fight harder, when she knows that their lives are on the line.
Is that soft?
Seeing Kisame acting like a nursemaid is a little strange, perhaps, but she's stopped being surprised by the different layers to his character.
She liked him quite a bit when she wasn't in her right mind, and that fondness lingers despite knowing that the feeling was false. An odd contradiction.
Then again, he'd been bizarrely nice to her even before then, before the war.
So strange.
Sakura considers saying something, but in the end she refrains. There's nothing really they can talk about, right?]
[It's a familiar feeling for Sasori. His own partnership with Deidara is in some ways not so different from what Kisame and Itachi seem to have, even if it doesn't seem particularly harmonious on the surface
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Yeah.... It's taken me a while to realize it, but I guess so. [Kisame laughs, pleased and almost embarrassed. But Sasori understands, obviously. He knows, far better than most would. They do share a lot of similarities in this.]
[He grimaces a little at the thought of Orochimaru.] I'm glad I can learn from your mistake and not have to go through something like that myself. At least Deidara is more agreeable than his predecessor, eh?
[Completely different dynamics from what he's used to. Neither he nor Kakuzu would ever go out of their way for each other. The mere thought of it is laughable.
He doesn't really see the point in it all. People are there to be used and when they outlive their usefulness, discarded. That's what shinobi are after all. Just tools.]
Well, yeah. I guess it must be for you two, huh? I mean, heh, you guys are the Zombie Twins for a reason. Neither of you would end up in that sort of mess.
[But he thinks there must be something more to it than that. Those two are so strange, bickering all the time--and even violently so, he'd imagine--, even more than Sasori and Deidara seem to.... And yet they work so well together. Their styles, from what he had seen of them, meshed extremely well. With their complementary skills, taw power, and immortality, they were practically invincible as long as they worked as a team, weren't they? Surely they must care for each other, at least a little bit. Maybe not enough to go out of their way to help each other the way he did for Itachi, but....]
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[ Valeria stares quietly down at her Hitomi as the dream concludes and the feed draws to a close. Her elbows are propped on either side of it, gloved hands cupping her cheeks. Kisame wears such a peaceful expression--content, she thinks, more so than he has been recently--and then, he's gone again; though, he really isn't far.
Ten years is a long time to be so close and yet so far away...
And it's there just beneath the surface, tied and tethered and so carefully restrained. She has seen it, sees it easily when Kisame is with Itachi. He looks after him, cares for him like a friend and a partner; that he cares for him in those ways is not a question, but a ready fact. She remembers, too, the other dream she observed and experienced when she 'borrowed' her then-husband's Hitomi. What he saw, how he felt, how he looked at Itachi...
But it's more than that and she knows it. It's more than friendship, more than lust that Kisame feels for Itachi. (He wants more.) Kisame knows; she's certain he does, that he recognizes it for what it
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It's ridiculous. It's sad. It hurts her heart to even think these things, to consider what needs to be done. What she'll do to see them together and happy before it's too late and they're gone (or she's gone or she finally awakens in Shin-Ra Headquarters from this bizarre dream). She would like nothing better than to be Kisame's love, to love and be loved by him, but--she smiles because there's always a "but"--she just doesn't fit. What Kisame wants, what he needs is his partner, his best friend, the man he's grown to love in many ways in ten years' time: Itachi. Itachi, who will be with him when she is long gone. Itachi, who she could never, ever replace. He is real; Kisame's feelings for him are real. Were never forced or fabricated, but born naturally and given freely even when restrained.
They deserve each other.
Valeria narrows her brows and nods silently to herself. She will find a way. She will see this stalemate end with a happy beginning. For them. ]
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She may not have always understood war but that had been an intrinsic knowledge she's always carried. Maybe that made her "soft."
She doesn't think so.
After all, it doesn't stop her from doing her duty to her village.
In fact, it makes her fight harder, when she knows that their lives are on the line.
Is that soft?
Seeing Kisame acting like a nursemaid is a little strange, perhaps, but she's stopped being surprised by the different layers to his character.
She liked him quite a bit when she wasn't in her right mind, and that fondness lingers despite knowing that the feeling was false. An odd contradiction.
Then again, he'd been bizarrely nice to her even before then, before the war.
So strange.
Sakura considers saying something, but in the end she refrains. There's nothing really they can talk about, right?]
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[He grimaces a little at the thought of Orochimaru.] I'm glad I can learn from your mistake and not have to go through something like that myself. At least Deidara is more agreeable than his predecessor, eh?
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He doesn't really see the point in it all. People are there to be used and when they outlive their usefulness, discarded. That's what shinobi are after all. Just tools.]
Too much effort.
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[But he thinks there must be something more to it than that. Those two are so strange, bickering all the time--and even violently so, he'd imagine--, even more than Sasori and Deidara seem to.... And yet they work so well together. Their styles, from what he had seen of them, meshed extremely well. With their complementary skills, taw power, and immortality, they were practically invincible as long as they worked as a team, weren't they? Surely they must care for each other, at least a little bit. Maybe not enough to go out of their way to help each other the way he did for Itachi, but....]
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Ten years is a long time to be so close and yet so far away...
And it's there just beneath the surface, tied and tethered and so carefully restrained. She has seen it, sees it easily when Kisame is with Itachi. He looks after him, cares for him like a friend and a partner; that he cares for him in those ways is not a question, but a ready fact. She remembers, too, the other dream she observed and experienced when she 'borrowed' her then-husband's Hitomi. What he saw, how he felt, how he looked at Itachi...
But it's more than that and she knows it. It's more than friendship, more than lust that Kisame feels for Itachi. (He wants more.) Kisame knows; she's certain he does, that he recognizes it for what it ( ... )
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They deserve each other.
Valeria narrows her brows and nods silently to herself. She will find a way. She will see this stalemate end with a happy beginning. For them. ]
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