[For all of the casual bravado of that remark, this time fear does hook itself somewhere deep inside of Sasuke—because if he's saying something like that, if there is even the slightest chance this will not work, what will he do? Doubt chases like a dog, because what if he has found someone crazy enough to hurt themselves past the threshold of capable return for the sake of... a point? A stupid point, nothing that even matters, curiosity and disbelief driven by sleep-deprived distress. Who knows the extent of how their abilities work in this dimension?
That guilty conscience is raw and eager to fester. The man was more right than he knows not to allow Sasuke's hand on the hilt.
It happens, and neither the Mangekyou nor the Rinnegan glimpse anything unusual but the hole of a wound, outpouring blood around the silver stake of a blade sunken into human flesh. And it stays there, immutably fatal, and the living man speaks. He heard flesh tear; he chose a spot that should create a waterfall of endless, gushing red. Yet it's like a blocked pipe. It doesn't bleed long at all.]
That...
[Stepping in, Sasuke lifts his hand to slick flesh around the embedded tantĹŤ of the man's chest, fingertips smearing in an exploratory touch.]
You healed? I've seen it before, but—this is too fast.
cw: blood/kinda gore HOW DID WE GET HERE
That guilty conscience is raw and eager to fester. The man was more right than he knows not to allow Sasuke's hand on the hilt.
It happens, and neither the Mangekyou nor the Rinnegan glimpse anything unusual but the hole of a wound, outpouring blood around the silver stake of a blade sunken into human flesh. And it stays there, immutably fatal, and the living man speaks. He heard flesh tear; he chose a spot that should create a waterfall of endless, gushing red. Yet it's like a blocked pipe. It doesn't bleed long at all.]
That...
[Stepping in, Sasuke lifts his hand to slick flesh around the embedded tantĹŤ of the man's chest, fingertips smearing in an exploratory touch.]
You healed? I've seen it before, but—this is too fast.