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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[Voice]

[beforethedarkness]

... You sound like Lightning.

[Voice]

[heartdive]

She's a smart lady.

[Voice]

[beforethedarkness]

Maybe.

[SIGH.]

It shouldn't have happened.

[Voice]

[heartdive]

But stuff happens, Sasuke. You're not in control of everything.

[Voice]

[beforethedarkness]

[Another sigh from him.]

I could have stopped that.

[Voice]

[heartdive]

Stop beating yourself up over it, geez!

[Voice]

[beforethedarkness]

[Fine, he won't say a word. He's still going to beat himself up silently though Sora.]

[Voice]

[heartdive]

Sasukeeeeeeeee!

[Voice]

[beforethedarkness]

[Okay that might have hurt his ears a bit, even if he's in another room in the training center.]

What?

VIDEO

[heartdive]

Stop brooding! I can feel it all the way over here!

[Video]

[beforethedarkness]

[SURPRISE VIDEO! His feed goes up on video too so Sora gets to see him looking stunned and almost falling back from the change.]

...

[Video]

[heartdive]

Look. I know you feel bad. You don't want to see your friends and partners hurt. You want to get back at the creep for doing that. I'm not saying not to go.

Just don't go alone.

It's kind of pointless if you go out and try to do something on our behalf when it's you that we're more worried about.

[Video]

[beforethedarkness]

[Finally wearing a somewhat stoic expression again, but... Oh man is he ever looking uncomfortable and looking away from the camera feed.]

...

I'm not weak. I can take care of myself.

Action!

[heartdive]

[ in just a few short minutes, Sora is stomping into the same room where Sasuke is brooding hiding. ]

That's not the point. I'm pretty strong too. So is Riku. But having friends? That makes us even stronger.

Action forever

[beforethedarkness]

I'm not someone you want as a friend, Sora.

[Shutting that feed off now, though now he's starting to wonder if he should just broadcast it publicly in order to try and get everyone to leave him alone...]

[heartdive]

So you're a little rough around the edges... I've got other friends like that.

Some of my friends have been enemies of mine too.

[beforethedarkness]

You don't want someone plotting murder for a friend, Sora.

[... He isn't sure if he meant to say that, but he's said it. And... It might seem like a stupid plan, but now it might be the only way to really get what he wants to happen done.]

[heartdive]

Who'd be so bad that you'd want to kill them?

[ because that's important. that and Sora wants to know. maybe it's the reason Sasuke is all grrr grrr? ]

[beforethedarkness]

...

My older brother.

[heartdive]

[ well. not expecting a FAMILY MEMBER. ]

What did he do?

[beforethedarkness]

[Long pause, where he's not meeting Sora's eye at all.]

... I lost everything because of him. That's why.

[heartdive]

That's... Really vague.

[ Sora takes a seat, if only because standing is awkward. ]

I don't think it's a good idea. Can't really wrap my mind around wanting to even hurt my friends. Forget killing them... I don't have siblings so the closest I can come to that are my friends, you know?

Friends. Family. Stuff like that is worth fighting for and I already told you that I almost lost Kairi and Riku. Lost my home and all of the people in it at one time too. I'd chase and fight whoever it was that would even try to take everything important to me away...

It's just... Are you going to keep letting it poison you? You've got more friends here and you even talked about friends back home. You've gained even more that you should cling to. If you're not careful, you'll lose all that too and that will be all your fault. Not his.

[beforethedarkness]

He was the person I trusted more than anyone else.

[Sasuke was quiet, his arms resting on his knees as he just hunched forward.]

I can't let him get away with what he did. I have to do it.

[heartdive]

So much that you'd be okay losing yourself and hurting everyone that loves you?

[beforethedarkness]

It was someone I thought loved me that did this.

[Shaking his head, he takes a deep breath and shifts away from Sora, trying to keep stoic composure.]

I have to be the one to kill him. No one else. I'm the only one left who can, or even should.