Voicemail (2013 Run)

[beforethedarkness]

You've reached Sasuke. Leave a message. If it's important, I'll reply when I can.



[[OoC: IC/OoC plotting can happen here whether you can/want to reach me through other means (IE Plurk) or not! Video, Voice and Text are enabled for messaging Sasuke!]]

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[beforethedarkness]

There's nothing to talk about.

[usedswift]

Bullshit.

[beforethedarkness]

I don't want to talk about it. [He speaks shortly, pausing before he sits up and glares coldly at her.]

I need to figure it out myself and it isn't something you or anyone else can help with.

[usedswift]

Because locking yourself up and hiding away is going to help so much.

[Both hands clench into tight fists at her sides as she glares right back, then just sighs and drops down to sit next to him, letting her chin rest in her hands as she stared at the wall across from him.]

[beforethedarkness]

. . .

You didn't hear what he said, did you.

[usedswift]

I heard most of it.

[She stays where she is and just glances to him.]

About the clan. About what he had to do.

[beforethedarkness]

... About who made him do it and what their reasons were.

[usedswift]

[She couldn't look at him then, returning her gaze to the wall.]

Y-yeah. I heard that too.

[beforethedarkness]

...

There wasn't an Uchiha Compound when Obito was alive.

[usedswift]

...Was it really that bad? In the compound? I mean, I think Neji mentioned once about how all the Hyuugas live together. Isn't that just normal for clans...?

[beforethedarkness]

Most of the main family did live in that general area before, according to him. But then it became forced.

[usedswift]

[She just keeps staring straight ahead, unable or unwilling to answer immediately. None of this was anything she'd ever though she'd have to deal with, but... Now she had to. Joonhee always knew the right thing to say, didn't he? What would he do?]

I think... I understand why they did it, but not... why everything had to go so far. Why it all came down to...

[It all came down to Uchiha Itachi. His word, Obito's questions, and Sasuke's logic, but Itachi's word more than anything.]

Is that what you've been thinking about, all this time?

[beforethedarkness]

...

It makes more sense than I want it to.

[He sighs again, closing his eyes.]

... It also explains why I was alone. Why no one ever approached, even after it happened.

[usedswift]

[She bows her head, because even if she'd logically never had reason to care about the year below, even if she'd never known about any of this... It still feels like her fault. Her voice is low as she stares at her knees, hands holding them tightly.]

...I'm sorry I wasn't there for you.

[beforethedarkness]

[He doesn't say anything in response to the apology, keeping his eyes closed for the time being. What does she want him to say? It isn't her fault but... She's right, she never approached him either. She'd never given him a second look if it wasn't for this place. No one would...

No one except Naruto. Maybe Kakashi and Sakura would too, but that idiot Naruto was the only one who did from the start. The only one who truly understood what it was like to be as alone as he was...]

...

[usedswift]

[She sits there for what feels like a long time without saying anything else, trying to think of what she can do to make it better -- but she can't, and it's that realization that leaves her slowly pushing herself to her feet and taking the Blitzle egg in both arms, hugging it tightly to her chest as if for comfort as she stares at the floor. Stupid, to think she could offer him anything.

But she still only sits back down, this time on the floor near his feet, leaning against the bed and hugging her knees in against the egg. She buries her face against her arms and just doesn't say anything at all. If he wants to walk right past her, she won't stop him.]

[beforethedarkness]

[All he does then is shift to sit more comfortably on the bed, silent and letting her stay at least. There really isn't anything else to say anymore, though.]

[usedswift]

[There isn't, but she still doesn't want to leave him. Even if there's nothing she can do for him and no way to make him notice her... she stays there, thoroughly miserable with her own selfish realization.

But if she stays there much longer, she might start tearing up, which leaves her clutching her knees more tightly and forcing herself to speak as normally as possible.]

...I'm going to get you something to eat. [There's a peculiar thick quality to her voice, but she chokes it back.] And then I'll stop bothering you. That's what you want, right?

[beforethedarkness]

...

I need to figure this out myself.

[A small sigh left him, though he doesn't look at her.]

[usedswift]

[She doesn't trust herself to speak and only nods, hugging the egg to her in both arms as she makes her way out the door. No sooner is it closed behind her and she's further down the hall that she abruptly pivots and slams a clenched fist against one of the walls with a curse.

And of course that wood splinters, leaving her cursing again and just moving on, fighting back tears.]