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Who: Sasuke Uchiha (

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When: Friday, February 8th - Morning
Where: Celadon Training Center, before Sasuke leaves with Obito and Evan
What: After overhearing a rather serious conversation between Sasuke and Obito, Tenten decides to approach the younger of the two about what she heard.
Warning: PG-13 for serious subject matter and possible coarse language

He didn't want to, but the others existed. At least this way he could finally challenge Whitney for her badge, though he wasn't sure he even wanted to. The fact that Obito made him continue to question it... No. He couldn't afford to question it. He had to get stronger, to--

The sound of footsteps approaching his door caught Sasuke's attention and he turned, his eyes finding Tenten with a cold and neutral expression, not unlike what he wore when he first graduated as a Genin, "What is it."

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"Good morning to you, too," she greeted, resting a hand on her hip as she paused near the doorway, giving him a careful glance. There'd been no forgetting everything she'd heard him and Obito talk about, the way he'd reacted... everything. It likely showed in her eyes as she glanced to him, exhaling through her nose as she shifted in, resting her weight against the doorframe.

"You're heading out, huh? With Obito-kun and Evan-kun?"

"... Yeah," The answer was short and clear, and he went back to the bag he was packing for the trip. He had to make sure he had the pokemon he wanted as well, and for the first time in a long while the rest would have to be left in the box. He'd just have to cycle them out for training himself, though it probably wouldn't be as good as training them all at once...

She ventured in a little further when he didn't tell her to leave, arms crossed over her chest a little uncomfortably. Was it really her place to pry...?

"Were you gonna say something before just riding off into the sunset? Here I thought maybe I was starting to crack some friendliness out of you."

"You thought wrong," Again his answer was short, though he paused and just stared at the bag he was busy packing.

"... How much did you hear."

He wasn't stupid. He had seen Tenten walking away too quickly when he walked away from Obito. He knew that the older genin had heard at least some of the conversation, although how much was the question then and there.

Her lips quirked uncertainly at the question, wondering just how much she should reveal about what she'd heard. It might be better to lie and just say that she'd only seen the last part of it, and then tease him about needing a hug...

No, she couldn't do that. "Most of it," she admitted quietly, glancing away then. "I'm sorry."

He didn't answer to the apology, turning his back completely to Tenten as he was simply still and silent. It was almost as if he was waiting for her to say something, anything, about it. About how he was wrong, just like how Obito had said it. How he was wrong to hate Itachi. That was the last thing he wanted to hear then...

"Obito-kun has a talent for saying all the wrong things, huh...?" she remarked, voice still soft as she stayed there against the wall, glancing once to his back before returning her attention to the side wall. Far be it for her to offer that same kind of physical comfort. The rookie could handle himself in that respect, anyway. "And you're still going with him?"

"... He's the only family I have left here."

That was all Sasuke said as he continued to pack, although he was going at it a bit slower than he was before. He still wanted to hear what Tenten had to say, if it was anything at all anyway. Not that it would change anything, but he wanted to know what it was.

She only crossed her arms tighter at that, frown curving her lips more deeply as she glanced to his back again. "Just because he's part of your clan...? What about your other friends?"

"... They know the truth. Why I'm..."

Another sigh, and he shook his head. Damn...

"... I was alone."

"Because of what your brother did." Her lips twitched a little uncomfortably as she looked back to the wall, sighing through her nose. "Look, I never really had a clan or a family, so I know I can't really understand... but if someone murdered my teammates and sensei...?" Her fingers clenched in her sleeve, though her tone didn't change. "I'd kill him."

He stopped entirely at the words, glaring down at the supplies he had started to put into his bag before he asked.

"What if it was one of your teammates or your sensei that killed the other two?"

She flinched, fingers digging into her arm as her head jerked around, mouth open to immediately deny it as impossible... but she couldn't say it aloud. Not to Sasuke, anyway, not when they were talking about this...

"I think... I'd confront him and find out why," she murmured, but it was with more than a hint of uncertainty. "They wouldn't do it for no reason, unless it was genjutsu..."

He turned to her then, staring with a harsh look on his face before he went back to packing once more, "... He told me that it was to test his strength. I was only left alive because I was a weak coward."

"But he..." He she kept saying, he... and if there was going to be a face to go with that name, it'd be Neji's. Lee would never, and Gai... no, impossible. If anyone did, it would be Neji, and he would have done it for just that reason, if Hiashi-sama hadn't have told him the truth after the Exams...

"But Obito-kun was saying there might be a different reason."

"Does that mean I'm supposed to forgive him for killing everyone important to me, betraying me, and leaving me alive alone?"

She stayed silent for a long, uncertain moment, shivering at a sudden chill.

"I wouldn't," she murmured finally, quietly, though now her tone was no less firm than when she'd first started speaking. "Maybe I wouldn't kill him, but I'd never forgive him."

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He took in the words as he paused again, shutting the bag now that he was done with his eyes closed, "Then you know that I can't either."

"...But can you kill him?" It's a softer question this time, arms still crossed tightly over her chest as she glanced back to him. "I'm not asking if you're strong enough, I mean, would you be able to...? Do you want to?"

"I hate him. I... I hate him with all my heart. I can't let him live for what he's done."

"Then don't." She looked to him then, keeping her arms crossed. "Find him, beat him, drag him back to the village to be dealt with."

"It's something I have to do myself. I'm the only one left with the power to match his."

"Sharingan?" Another glance, but she didn't bother to ask if she could see it; if they couldn't mold Chakra, there was no way he could use Sharingan. "But doesn't your sensei...?"

"I don't know how he got it. But he doesn't have the eyes He has. I wouldn't want anyone else to have those eyes."

Can he even do what's necessary to get the same eyes - the power to match his eyes? Now, more and more as he got closer to the people here, it seemed... Unbelievable. But he had to get more firm in his resolve if he ever wanted to have revenge... No matter what Obito said.

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"What eyes?" If he'd meant the Sharingan, he wouldn't have had to clarify. Her own eyes narrowed as she looked more closely at him, arms tighting over her chest. "What're you talking about, Sasuke-kun?"

"... A second stage of Sharingan, and one not many of our clan would have dared to try and obtain. With good reason."

A second stage... Neji's Byakugan didn't do anything like that, she was pretty sure. "Like an evolution, you mean," she added, gaze firming. "And why don't you want it?"

It was a clan secret... But at this point, who was there to be a gatekeeper of it? There was no point in keeping it to himself, and she had to understand.

"To get it, the user has to suffer the pain of the death of the person closest to them. He said I would have to kill my best friend."

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She waited, somewhat patiently, for him to reveal whatever it was... and then once he had, she almost wished that he hadn't. "But that's... why would eyes work like that, that doesn't make any..."

A breath as she looked to him, fingers clenching her arm. "Can't you beat him without that?"

"If I can't match his eyes, I can't avenge those who died at his hands."

He sighed shakily, frowning at the bedding beneath him before he stood, slinging his bag over his back, "And I have to protect what family I have left."

"Can't you just beat him some other way?" She frowned at him, shaking her head slowly. "I don't... there's no way you'd have to do something like that. Killing a comrade'd make you just as bad as him."

Her fingernails dug into her bicep, but her lips just twitched as she nodded. "I guess this's where we part ways, then, huh?"

"I don't know."

The statement earned Tenten the briefest of glares, as if to suggest that he was in any way similar to Itachi, "But I'm going to find a way. I won't be like him."

When he was done speaking, he breathed out heavily, letting his shoulders slump as he calmed, "... For now."

She just tilted her chin and stared back, not about to let herself be cowed by a rookie, no matter how skilled. "If anyone can find a way, it's you," she said instead, finally uncrossing her arms to rest a hand on her hip.

"Well, good luck out there. You can reach me if you need me, so don't hesitate to, okay?"

"... Yeah," He nodded, holding onto the bag more tightly before he slung it over his shoulders.

Realizing that she was intruding in his room, she just sighed through her nose and shrugged, backing up to let him out. "See you around, Sasuke-kun."

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