[ THREAD ; ] November 26 ; backdate

[soulparadox]

Characters: Nataku, Superbi Squalo, Hyuuga Neji, Xiao Qiao, and Saki Rouyama.
Location: Training grounds.
Rating: PG-13.
Time: November 26, morning.
Description: After coming back from the Arizona mission, Nataku remembers he has unfinished business with Squalo. In short, they dislike each other with great intensity and want to beat each other's

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[requiem_no_ame]

[Squalo strolled to the training grounds with a lazy, almost graceless gaunt that spoke of utter disinterest of what he was about to do. That would be a lie, because he was so very interested in making Nataku a head shorter than he currently was.

He tried to control it, though, pushing back personal feelings on the matter because he didn't want to get too out of hand. It would be fun to just beat the idiot's face into the pavement and give him a lesson on manners. Obviously he wasn't worth killing at all, and Squalo - unlike some members of his family, and what others kept insisting about him - didn't kill without a good reason.

Mindless slaughter was so boring, anyway.

With such thoughts in mind, Squalo found his way to where Nataku stood and stopped a good ways from him, considering. He smirked.]

VOOOII, you did show up. I'm impressed.

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Why are you surprised?

[Wiping at his eye, he cannot deny that he is quite tired. The mission was rather long and he felt a pang of chill every so often as he thought of those that were fighting -- concern? He supposes that is what it was, but now it has faded somewhat because almost everyone has returned safely. Almost. Hm.

He lifts his head up as he realizes that it has dropped.]

I am not going to back down from you. But if you apologize for all that you have done, I will forgive you.

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I only apologize if I fucking regret something.

[This world and the madness in it, and how much it gnawed and ate away his pride and the horrifying things he'd almost done, not horrifying in and of themselves, but horrifying because he hadn't chosen to do them and---]

And sadly for you, I don't regret anything.

[Squalo grinned and kept himself smug, because Nataku clearly didn't deserve any more than that. Watson's faulty judgment aside, and he wasn't falling for that anyway. He knew better.]

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Then, I shall make you regret what it is that you have done. [A beat.] You can apologize afterward.

[Transforming his other arm into its partial weapon form, he lightly nods his head toward Squalo.] I will be attacking you now. [Manners tell him that he should do so.]