12th Tomoe || Text, backdated to December 19th

[beforethedarkness]

To the one who sent me those cookies:

I know who you are. I will find you, even if it takes the rest of my life. And I will make you wish that you were never born by the time I'm done with you.

[Enjoy that threatening text, network. Blame the fact that he doesn't have the bastard's pokégear information for it being broadcast publicly, though. But anyone who's around Sasuke at the time will likely see it as the first explicit show of emotion from him since he arrived in Route.]

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[soggypastry]

Then don't get vengeance. It never solves anything; it only takes more the longer you try and get it. Besides, what's to stop him from getting vengeance on you in return if, by some miracle, your plan actually works? Nothing. You'd be alone and an even bigger target.

[Etro, let her be getting through to this kid...Riku's got enough to deal with and he doesn't need to be talking him down, too.]

Instead of revenge, you should be focusing on training. Make yourself and your team stronger so you can protect your friends without needing to be stupid about it. You can do more good by being there with them to help them instead of putting them at risk by charging off. Then it really would be your fault.

[Text] If it weren't for Bowser this might have worked. Lightning I'm sorry.

[beforethedarkness]

I can't do that.

[Even if almost two months had passed, Sasuke is still feeling pretty horrible about his pokémon getting beaten as badly as they did. Shaking his head, he sighs and texts again.]

I'm not risking my pokémon again either. My training is what I need for me to take the vengeance I want to take.

Bowser isn't the one I need to focus on.

[Text] ah well. Maybe next time...after she's actually yelled at him. >>

[soggypastry]

[Not the one he needs to be focused on--oh, for the love of Etro, kid, that should tell you enough!]

If he's not the one you need to focus on, then why are you even bothering to get angry with him? Focus on other things, like actually training with someone that'll make you stronger instead of weaker.

You keep saying you don't need anyone or that you'd be better off alone, but if that was true, you wouldn't want to get revenge for Sora or your Pokémon. You'd have been doing everything alone since you got here.

[She knows your type, Sasuke. She used to be like you, in some ways.]

[Text] It's how he knows she cares at least? :D?

[beforethedarkness]

[Dammit Lightning quit pointing out the holes in his logic! Except that angry logic really isn't the best logic, and he's starting to feel a little more tense and defensive. Especially since it's starting to feel like she's seeing through him.

Not that any of it comes across in text, at least not obviously.]

It was easier when I didn't have friends.

[Just sighing now. Because, unfortunately, she's right.]

[Text] x3 something like that.

[soggypastry]

[It may not come across obviously, but she has the feeling she's wearing him down anyway. Even just a little bit. If he would just see sense--]

Maybe it was, but you have them now and you know that. You can't just run off and think they'll be better off or safer without you now. They need you as much as you need them.

[That's how friendships work, after all...it's a two way street.]

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[beforethedarkness]

[More frowning at the text. He's definitely calmer, but at the same time it's making him feel even more guilty over what happened. Over Sora and his pokémon getting hurt because of Bowser's grudge against him. How he had failed to stop it from happening.]

I'm still too weak for them to need me. But that will change.

[Give it a moment, there's another one incoming.]

Why do you care about what I do?

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[soggypastry]

[His frown is now mirrored because his comment on being weak is bringing up more bad memories, and she knows it'll take more than a lecture to get through to someone thinking like this. Especially since she doesn't really know him.

So why does she care? Because of that experience she had. She knows how this can go, and she wouldn't wish it on anybody.]

Because of what your actions will do to Sora and Riku. You practically referred to them as your friends already, and when you have friends, you know that your actions effect them as much as they effect you. I don't stand for people hurting the people I care about, and that's pretty much how this'll end if you go through with it.

[If the chance arose, she'd throw a few punches in Bowser's direction herself. But not without a plan and without warning others, first. That's what this kid's not getting. Why will he not see reason?!]

Wow Sas rude

[beforethedarkness]

[He's seeing this again after his little 'explosion' at Sora and the resulting conversation after, so again it starts to hit home more than it had been.

That doesn't mean he has to like it. Sasuke is going to keep up with his bad habit of just not responding when he feels he has nothing else to add anymore, leaving the message hanging there. At least, for the moment..]