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[05] boy you'll be the death of me
Who: Sasuke & Friends Former Acquaintances, limited one-afternoon engagement. (Sakura & Naruto.)
Where: Isla Empieza (starting at the marketplace)
When: Backdated to February 11th.
What: Sasuke 'fesses up his identity at some point and now is the hour of reckoning.
Warnings: Probably not too violent.
Style: Whatever! Anything! Go wild.
Status: Openish. (Drop me a line so we can sort timeline if you want in!)
Somehow, he hadn't expected Sakura's name to turn up in the journal. Given who else from his world was also here, he likely should have: there was clearly neither rhyme nor reason as to who was pulled from where and when, though if Davy Jones was trying to pick people out for power, he was certainly raking through Sasuke's world thoroughly.
His frame was tense as he stalked through Empieza toward the fountain to meet Sakura, ignoring the way the locals still gave him apprehensive looks and surreptitiously left a space around him even in the marketplace.
Where: Isla Empieza (starting at the marketplace)
When: Backdated to February 11th.
What: Sasuke 'fesses up his identity at some point and now is the hour of reckoning.
Warnings: Probably not too violent.
Style: Whatever! Anything! Go wild.
Status: Openish. (Drop me a line so we can sort timeline if you want in!)
Somehow, he hadn't expected Sakura's name to turn up in the journal. Given who else from his world was also here, he likely should have: there was clearly neither rhyme nor reason as to who was pulled from where and when, though if Davy Jones was trying to pick people out for power, he was certainly raking through Sasuke's world thoroughly.
His frame was tense as he stalked through Empieza toward the fountain to meet Sakura, ignoring the way the locals still gave him apprehensive looks and surreptitiously left a space around him even in the marketplace.
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Naruto's presence made it easier, as it always did nowadays.
She finishes up with the journal and then closes it carefully, thoughts plaguing her mind with the sort of information she got out of it. Some of it was useless; some of it was just downright baffling; all of it irritated her. She's left as lost and confused as she had been when she first arrived here. At least she doesn't have to worry about Naruto.
Or does she?
When the crowd clears and Sasuke appears Sakura glances up and sucks in a breath, holding it. While she was apprehensive, she was still relieved and glad that he was okay too. She stands up quickly when he's close and is unsure what to do with her hands so she holds her journal tight at her side.
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So Naruto is thinking a little more differently than Sakura. He's fidgeting, which is nothing new, but he's not apprehensive at all. Team 7 had worked together and had obviously been the biggest deciding factor in the final clash. Things were going to be different from now on, right? Not even Sasuke could deny the things they were able to accomplish when they worked together rather than against one another.
Though the locals' demeanor towards Sasuke is very cold, Naruto's greeting is contrastingly and characteristically warm. "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!" he calls while Sasuke is still some distance from them. Then he jogs forward with a grin on his face that shows how excited he is to actually be talking to his one-time friend now that there isn't a huge battle going on.
A grin that fades into an annoyed frown quickly.
"Where the hell have you been? We've been waiting forever, y'know?"
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Whatever they've been to each other until now, they were marginally on the same side before he'd arrived here. With any luck, they won't be from too different a time. At least they don't look shockingly young, here, unlike when he'd run into his brother.
Naruto's greeting startles him, though, Sasuke's tone both surprised and urgent when he stepped in quickly, frowning: "Have I been missing in our world? You've noticed I was gone?"
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Sasuke's questions though, makes Sakura look at Naruto in confusion. "I've been busy," she explains. "Naruto and you had been fighting Uchiha Madara while I and the rest of the army dealt with a massive wooden statue and its wielder."
The rest of it she doesn't want to talk about yet with Naruto right beside her.
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"Eh, we were already fighting him? I don't remember that. I was about to help the First..." But that's not important anyways, right? That's not what he had meant before anyways, so he goes back to that as he looks at Sasuke again. "But I meant here at the fountain! You shoulda came quicker, dammit!"
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Naruto, though ... Sasuke levelled a deeper frown at him, one that shaded briefly into irritation at the complaint. "I walked from the docks. Moving faster than that with these civilians causes a commotion.
"In any case, I remember what Sakura does. You and I were fighting Madara, along with the nine-tails." Still, if Naruto remembered that they were dealing with Madara at all, he had to be from the same day as Sasuke and Sakura had been taken. A relief in its way, though it failed to answer why Itachi had come from so distant a time.
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Sasuke remembers too which solidifies the idea that maybe something was wrong with Naruto. In extreme cases, when enough blood doesn't get to the brain, there can be problems. Naruto was an idiot, scatter-brained, but he wasn't stupid. He couldn't just forget that the kyuubi was extracted from him. Did she not do enough to make sure he was alright?
Her eyes drop to the ground. Did Sasuke see what happened to Naruto?
She's still looking hard at the broken up cobblestone beneath their feet when she asks, "What world is this?"
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While Sakura is busy musing and then asking her own question, Naruto is basically blank to his two friends as he carries on his inner conversation. Unfortunately, that's not to much avail either since Kurama remembers it exactly the same way as Naruto.
What the hell was going on?
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"I don't know what it's called. It's not ours," if that weren't already obvious. "I've been here for three months and I haven't seen anything like a mainland, just islands everywhere.
"We don't have anything like that in our world."
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But here, he's healthy and fine and Sasuke has been here for three months. She's ruled out the possibility of genjutsu too, or the Unlimited Tsukuyomi because they stopped it. The only explanation was that they were in a different world, pulled from different times. It's ridiculous. It makes her head hurt, just thinking about it and how it's possible.
It shouldn't be.
"Just... what in the world is this place?"
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Well, whatever. He'll let Sakura and Sasuke figure that crap out. Naruto will just do what he does best.
"It isn't our world. We'll just have to figure it out and head home!"
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To deal with Naruto first, then. Sasuke shoots him a deeply unimpressed glare, voice sharp: "What do you think we've been doing, cruising in luxury? If it were that easy, none of us would be here."
As for Sakura -- "You read the first page of the journal, didn't you?" He expects as much from her, if not Naruto, and she's clearly worked out how to use it. "And the inscription on the fountain? No one knows much more than that."
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"We have to find the pieces of a gem to go home, back to our world," she explains. It's mostly for Naruto's sake, and she looks at him from the corner of her eyes. So they've figured it out, now they had to gather the pieces to go home. Sasuke has been here for three months, so such a task wasn't going to be easy.
But... between the three of them?
"What are we waiting for then? Where do we get a boat?" Because obviously they're going to be on a crew together, right?
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So he just shrugs at Sasuke's glare and nods in agreement at Sakura. "Yeah, what Sakura-chan said. Don't be such an ass. Shouldn't be too hard for us to get some gem pieces if we work together." There's that grin again as he glances over his shoulder towards the fountain. "It'll be easier than the low-ranked missions we used to do." Especially now that all three of them were that much stronger.
"It's not like the ocean can be that big, y'know!"
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That had been an assumption everyone had made. Admittedly, it seemed more plausible after he'd spoken to the person who had such gems in her own world, though even her knowledge had been somewhat confusing, and the chakra pulsing around even the sliver of gem that was on board the Murderess now was startling. Still, even if it was powerful enough to send them home --
"It's not just some pieces," he snapped at Naruto, irritated at himself as much as at Naruto for managing to annoy him so quickly. "Nobody has a clue how many pieces. Or if they do, they're not telling.
"And for all we know, it's just a pretext to get us to do this Davy Jones's bidding --"
He trailed off in a certain amount of disbelief at Naruto's final conclusion, though, giving him an incredulous look before turning on his heel and heading for the harbour. The answer to both Sakura and Naruto was there -- boats and the size of the ocean alike.
"Follow me."
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And he's been stuck here for three months.
She frowns at Sasuke's back but decides to follow anyway, calling behind her.
"Come on, Naruto." As they walk, Sakura trails a little bit behind Sasuke. In the silence, she turns to Naruto.
"Oceans are the largest bodies of water on a planet, you know that right? No matter where we are or how you look at it, it's not going to be small. It's going to be pretty big. You remember the mission when we escorted Tazuna. That was just a small piece of the ocean back home." They would get some perspective in any case when they reach the harbor.
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He grumbles a bit as he follows along and then listens to Sakura. It still doesn't really register to him that it could be any bigger than what he's used to.
"Yeah, but we've gotten a lot bigger since then too," he replies with a grin. They've gotten a lot stronger too. Even if the ocean was endless, in Naruto's mind they'll find the gem pieces in no time. With his team reunited, Naruto felt like they could do anything.
oh my god i cannot master keeping to one tense i'm so sorry
"That's all there is. The sea and scattered islands."
As for a boat ... there's a moment of hesitation before he points out Murderess where she's docked, small figures moving around it that he can identify as Marvelous and Luka lounging on the deck, Itachi still hanging off the side of the railing, and a speck that might be Draco flying around in sight of the ship.
"I sail with the Murderess," he says, leaving out the Charming for now. "There are eleven of us on board, but three are away right now."
Eleven of them and a shard, but he sees no reason to disclose that before confirming whether they'll be joining -- and he does intend to ask them, once he can grit the words out. There's enough room on board, and damn it, they do need a medic. The past two months have amply demonstrated that.
NO WORRIES IM AWFUL AT IT TOO
And there it is, he says. It certainly was. Even she's wide-eyed at how far it seems to stretch, like it really is endless. She has to drag her gaze over to his boat (Murderess, hah) and the people on board. Her eyes zero in on the figure hanging off the side, she thinks it's a trick of the light but that boy looks like--
"You already have a crew?" A crew of fourteen people, even if three were missing. Her hope of sailing together as Team Seven again dwindles a little. Unless Naruto demanded they be part of the crew, too... she's practically waiting for it.
good thing i'm perfect
He squints to look at the figures, but it's easier to just feel for their chakra. One of the signatures is very familiar to Naruto considering it's one he's fought alongside, but it feels different somehow.
"Murderess? What a crappy name. We'll have to change it when we get on. Maybe somethin' like Seakage! Or the Team 7 Super Ship!"
bows down
Though it's a little hard to tell with Itachi, honestly, but he at least has praise for them.
That train of thought is instantly derailed when Naruto comments on the name of the ship, though, Sasuke's gaze snapping to him with an expression that would have stopped most people in their tracks.
"No." His tone is as final as he can make it -- Seakage? Super Ship? Is Naruto still twelve? -- before he turns his back on the harbour and faces them down, arms crossed.
"But we do need a medic," he says to Sakura, and then grudgingly, without actually bothering to look at Naruto to include him: "And anyone who can fight.
"I have a condition, however."
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She punches Naruto's arm softly anyway -- soft for Sakura. "Knock it off."
It's as much invitation as they're going to get, Sakura knows. Sasuke wasn't the type to outright ask them to join their crew. Well, if they needed a medic then Sakura was here to save the day. Plus, to make sure they were healthy for whatever it is they were fighting for the shards.
Why else would they need fighters?
"Condition?" No murder attempts on each other maybe? Although Naruto was clear of that.
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He keeps his eyes on Sasuke and then grumbles a little. "What sorta condition? No smiling?" Asshole.
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"There are plenty of crews you can join if you want. But you should know my brother is on the Murderess."
And he doesn't know if either of them have a clue just what Itachi has done for them, for the village they've fought to protect, or for the war they've all unwillingly left behind. It's unlikely, given Konohagakure's penchant for keeping secrets (and there's something that needs to change, among the myriad changes that need to happen), and while he'd explain it if the brother he has here were the same as the one he lost in his own world ...
Itachi is too young to know even of his own actions after the massacre, and he's nowhere near strong enough to deal with Naruto or Sakura if they decide to attack him. Sasuke can only protect him, and leave it to Itachi to explain as much as he wants.
"If you harm him, it won't matter what ship you get on or how far you run. You'll find the ocean is too small after all."
/butts in before chii
But with Sasuke being so serious, there's only one way for Naruto to react.
It starts small with his shoulders shaking a little bit. Then he covers his mouth as his cheeks puff out. After that, it's way too much for him. "Pfffffthahahah... holy crap you're always so damn serious. Guess that hasn't changed much!" With that, he smacks Sasuke heartily on the back.
Knowing that the Uchiha will probably react negatively to that sort of contact, Naruto quickly jogs ahead, still laughing loudly. "Why would I wanna hurt a friend!? Holy crap, Sasuke, relax a little!" Then he jogs off down towards the ship, eager to meet the crew.
"I GET TOP BUNKKKKKKK, Y'KNOW!"
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Friend? Just what in the hell-
He leaves Sakura and Sasuke standing there, the former at a loss for words. Itachi was Naruto's friend?! Since when-- how--
WHY?! Everything she thought she knew about these two is getting turned on its head.
"Ugh!" Finally, she speaks and grips her pink hair in frustration. "I don't understand anything at all anymore!!"
such butts everywhere
"What do you know?!" He demands, harsh. He doesn't even want to touch on the bunk comment -- like hell he's sharing a room with Naruto, let alone a bunk, but let Naruto work out why everyone sleeps in hammocks on a ship on his own -- and in any case, this is of more immediate importance.
It's clear from that reaction that Naruto knows more than Sasuke expected, and more than Sakura does, but he has no idea where he'd have gotten the information except from Itachi himself. And it's one thing to share the story when Itachi is already dead, when Sasuke is the only one who can, but Itachi here is very much alive and very much not in possession of his own facts.
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What does he know? Everything, though it wasn't Itachi who told him directly. He had Obito to thank for that. Still, they did speak as they fought Nagato. They spoke about a few things with Sasuke being one of them. He also remembers how Itachi asked him not to tell anyone about the truth of the massacre in order to keep the clan's honor.
It's not Naruto's business to tell Sasuke anyways. That's something between brothers.
The blond just glances over his shoulder towards the ship where Itachi is before looking back to his best friend. "I know he loves you more than anything. That's all that matters, right? So I'd never hurt someone like that."
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What do you know, Naruto?
Before Sasuke can answer, Sakura interrupts. "Loves Sasuke-kun?" she looks as disbelieving as she sounds while she darts her eyes between the two of them. You didn't kill someone's clan to show someone you loved them! What sort of messed up line of thought was that?
And obviously it's not all that matters because of what he had done to both her teammates. He's the cause of so much strife.
But then, why would he say it? Naruto did know something that's changed his whole perspective on Itachi and Sasuke and he forgave. It's something only a few people knew. Slowly her eyes narrow, but she looks just as disoriented as ever. Kakashi isn't here to stop Naruto now. If she could get him to spit it out...
"How do you know that, Naruto? How could you know such a thing?"
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No, that didn't make any kind of sense. The only time Itachi could possibly have run into Naruto would have been when he was trying to capture him to rip the nine-tails out of his body, hardly a time to explain the truth behind the Uchiha massacre and the years of Konohagakure's cover-up. Unless ... had Itachi somehow met Naruto during the Edo Tensei?
But even then, he'd tried to pretend with Sasuke at first. So how did Naruto know?
"Who told you the truth?" Sasuke demands, voice a growl. "Who have you been talking to?!"
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"Besides," his voice drops as he thumbs over his shoulder for a moment and then locks his hands behind his head. "Neither of you have killed each other yet. Gotta mean somethin', huh?"
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Not in front of her.
He comes to the same conclusion she does -- they haven't killed each other, so that means something outside of Sasuke not wanting them to harm his brother. While irritated she still didn't know what was going on or the 'truth' (as Sasuke and Naruto have BOTH called it now), she had to be moved by Naruto's words. She wonders if Sasuke is too so she tries to read his expression.
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"You'll tell me exactly what you know about us and from whom," he says finally, but steps back. "Not now --" he glances at Sakura, briefly; it's obvious she's the one who has been left out of the loop, and he intends to keep it that way for now. "But eventually."
For now, there's no threat to Itachi from this quarter, and the story is in Itachi's court to share in the way he sees fit. Sasuke turns after delivering that ultimatum and heads toward the docks, body language making it obvious that he considers the topic finished.
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The blond watches as Sasuke walks off before turning to look at Sakura. Even the dense one of Team 7 understood that Sasuke didn't want to mention anything in front of their female teammate. Of course, Naruto doesn't plan on mentioning anything in front of Sasuke either. He's got too much respect for Itachi to go mouthing off about things to anybody at all. He did vow, after all, to keep it under wraps.
Besides, it's all in the past. Living in the past causes so many problems. People just need to learn to push forward and forget those things they can't change.
He finally grins at Sakura. "I missed him," and then turns to walk towards the boat, hands locking easily behind his head as he whistles cheerfully.
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Luckily, Naruto knows exactly what to say to cool off her temper at that time.
Naruto's carefree grin and admittance does the trick, if not catches her by surprised enough that she forgets why she was mad in the first place. She blinks away the red rimming her vision and gives him a slow, small smile back.
"Me too."
When she turns to follow the two of them on the boat, she reminds herself of the oath she made and her eyes narrow.
She wouldn't be left behind by those two again. She was going to find out the truth about Itachi.