[He endures the words, unsure whether he was anticipating them or if he thought Sakura might simply end the conversation. It is... complicated, and without the buffer of Naruto now between them, he's standing on uncertain ground.
He's hurt her, and he's never seemed to know how to stop hurting her. Or even how to mend the existing wound. It feels like a dark, dragging pressure — one he's come to recognize as guilt.]
I was aware of the danger and my own state, that's why I brought you with me. But it was irresponsible not to give you that information so you could prepare yourself in kind. At the time it was less important than finding Naruto. I didn't want to distract you.
Currently, there's still no cure. I've looked. I am already outside Stygia. I don't intend for you to have to discover me that way. I would have told you [hesitation, like a wall] at the end.
[There's honesty he's still shielding about his reasons for this, but having hardly come to terms with it himself, he cannot take it anywhere near her now.]
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He's hurt her, and he's never seemed to know how to stop hurting her. Or even how to mend the existing wound. It feels like a dark, dragging pressure — one he's come to recognize as guilt.]
I was aware of the danger and my own state, that's why I brought you with me. But it was irresponsible not to give you that information so you could prepare yourself in kind. At the time it was less important than finding Naruto. I didn't want to distract you.
Currently, there's still no cure. I've looked. I am already outside Stygia. I don't intend for you to have to discover me that way. I would have told you [hesitation, like a wall] at the end.
[There's honesty he's still shielding about his reasons for this, but having hardly come to terms with it himself, he cannot take it anywhere near her now.]