blackfire: (itachi018)
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 ([personal profile] blackfire) wrote in [personal profile] chokuto 2022-09-29 03:40 pm (UTC)

if hearing his brother say no surprises him, it does not show. what he was not anticipating is the pride it would make him feel, a suffusion of warmth like dappled sunlight through the leaves. he had resigned himself long ago to the knowledge he would not see sasuke's life play out — so even this is as much cruelty as kindness.

did viveca know what it would mean, to allow him here? he doubts she would see this as a form of repayment, for what he did for her mother, but that concept of a transactional debt is not lost on him.

he makes a soft hm of sound, but it is the only reaction of any note.

his gaze is steady on sasuke for a handful of heartbeats, and just when it seems he might not reply at all —


No one else from our world. What you feel is either haki, from those hailing from a place called Wano, or qi, which is what the cultivators use to perform similar feats to shinobi. Neither are exactly chakra, but both are near enough that we are aware of them.

it is the simplest of those expressed curiosities to address, and so it is the only one he deigns discuss.

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