beforethedarkness | 9th Tomoe || Video, Text, Filtered Text

[Briefly, the network receives a transmission from Sasuke's pokégear. The feed shows a dark bedroom, a pokéball and a note on a bed as the sun starts to set, its light filtering in through the nearby window. The note on the bed reads 'To Sasuke', and when the gear drops it shows him just standing there.

It's like that for a good few minutes before the feed clicks off again.]

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[Some time later, Sasuke decides to send out a quick text to the entire network. He does have something he has to say to the others he's travelling with later, but right now he wants to get this out first.]

Why do you battle your pokémon?

[He doesn't even know what to expect out of that question, only that he's probably going to get a lot of responses and he's probably not going to agree with all of them, or possibly any of them. But he's feeling lost, and maybe it'll help give him a clue. In the meantime, though, he has something else he wants to steel himself for.]

I'm leaving Vermillion tonight, through the Diglett Tunnel. I'm going alone.

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Or you can try different others?

Others that fit better with you.

No.

What do you mean no?

You can't just give up on people because it didn't work once.

My only goal is to kill him. I don't need friends.

What, what, where did killing come from!?

[Crap.]

You don't need to know.

Oh no! You said it, explain, now!

*Imogen is scared, but that's not the sorta thing she takes lightly!*

Why is killing someone your goal!?

It's none of your business.

Then you should be more careful when you talk about killing people!

*Short pause.*

Just... are they here? In this world?

[Pausing as he consideres sharing that information.]

He's not.

Well, you can't kill them while you're here.

So... maybe you should try to focus on other things, non-murdery things, until you go home.

No. If I'm not training to get stronger, I'll never surpass him.

How do you know anything you do here will carry over back home?

This isn't your home, he isn't here to kill. Whatever thing he did to you I'm sure is terrible, but can't you... move past it? Find other things in the world? Happier things?

No. I can't move past it until I've done what I needed to.

If killing this guy is justice, then it can wait for its time and place. Neither of which are here, since he isn't here.

If killing him is meant to protect people, there is nobody to protect from him here.

If it's vengeance, it won't change anything... and killing him won't elp you move past it. Whatever it is.

It has a point to me. That's all that matters.

So it's revenge? You're killing yourself to kill this person!?

Instead of doing something alive, trying to find a purpose for yourself that's good and happy, you're going to just follow them into hell and be alone forever?

So if you kill him, where will you be!? What's your big move after that!

I can't think of that now. Killing him is all that matters to me.

Well you can't kill him now! So you have all the time to think about it!

And you still care about your Pokemon, if you didn't we wouldn't even be talking. So you can stuff this loner thing in a sack!

I have to keep training or I'll never be strong enough.

My pokémon have nothing to do with it.

Or you could make a lot of friends to help you do this?

And this all started, I replied to you, because you were worried about what if your Pokemon got hurt. So you care about them, which is something more than this whole 'sad loner thing' you've been trying to suggest you are!

It's my responsibility alone.

I won't let anyone else get in the way or get hurt by him or anyone else if I can help it.

[Sasuke, your humanity is showing.]

So which reason is it?

That it's your responsibility, or you're selflessly protecting everyone around you?

I don't have to tell you.

You don't, but you should figure out which one it is for yourself.

You can't get anywhere if you don't know why you're going there in the first place.

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I am so sorry I made you wait 4 days for this.

Tis fine, tis fine

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Filtered - Imogen is still being mostly sane, huh.

Filtered - Surprising, considering the subject matter.

Filtered - Oh the pleading sane Imogen is weird.

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