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[thankyouverymooch]

Who: Kakashi, Ling, whoever!?
When: Day 18, afternoon
Where: APARTMENT N
What: returning from good decisions and feelings

[So Konoha Ninja and Prince Ninja already managed to get in themselves beaten up though they totally killed the spiders anyway and after an unexpected encounter while in the shrine room, they are finally going back to Apartment Ninja.]

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[lostontheroadoflife]

[pile of blankets in the second room that is his bed, you are going to get so flopped into just as soon as we get there

for now, limping along with Ling as his crutch, kind of quiet]

[thankyouverymooch]

[helping Kakashi :|d and when they're finally in front of the apartment, fumbling a bit to open it and then they're in]

Can you stay awake for long enough to get on a bed?

[lostontheroadoflife]

I'm fine.

[moooving slowly forward]

[thankyouverymooch]

We're almost there.

[walking to the second room :|d But obviously keeping Kakashi's pace]

I owe you some apologies. But that can wait after a good rest.

[lostontheroadoflife]

Or you could say them now.

[yep. obviously still upset at you]

[thankyouverymooch]

[there's a moment of silence before he talks again]

That won't happen again. For me to give up so early and to act so rashly— I'm ashamed of myself. Even though I wanted to save you, I didn't think things through carefully. I got too emotional.

For that and for asking you to leave me behind after what you told me, I apologize.

[lostontheroadoflife]

... I'll accept that only if you understand what I was aiming to do.

By distracting the creature and bringing its attention to me, I'm obviously the weaker prey. It might have gone after me, and I could have run to force it to move away from you. Which would leave you able to attack it. If it got too close, I could have hidden with the body of its comrade to buy you time to either escape or attack.

That was my original intention. That--not the stunt you pulled--is how you play as bait.

[thankyouverymooch]

I know. I understood that was the plan. But from the position I was in, I didn't think I could have made it. Like I said, I gave up too soon. I was too shaken by the fear of failing to protect yet another person.

I truly am sorry, Kakashi. This isn't the kind of man I want to be.

[lostontheroadoflife]

Then don't be.

Your role was not to protect in that arrangement. With me taking the rear, that was my job. In addition to that...

You want me to teach you a technique, but you disregard what has been said to you when things get tough. I won't make the mistake of teaching someone that won't listen again, understand? That is how things fall apart, how comrades kill comrades, how brothers kill brothers. If I'm going to make a mistake, it's not going to be one I've already made.

[seeingeyejackal]

[EVENTUALLY a Pokemon is returning with clumps of a fuzzy dead worm]

[idk what humans eat here, man. no all purpose fruit!1]

[thankyouverymooch]

[probably after getting some rest]

Ah, welcome back.

... what's that?

[seeingeyejackal]

[A BILLION DAYS LATER...]

Some sort of bug creature.

[thankyouverymooch]

That doesn't look very tasty.

[seeingeyejackal]

I could not find any fruit. Its sacrifice should not be in vain.

[thankyouverymooch]

[...you're not asking me to eat that are you]

That's true. Wasting resources would be bad, after all!

[seeingeyejackal]

[WELL '-' also throws down a bit of blown up snake, then places a paw on the worm]

Mm. There is one precaution. When my paw pads touched its surface, my sense of touch was numbed.

[thankyouverymooch]

Really...? I wonder if Link would know of a way to cook it safely.

[lostontheroadoflife]

[laid up in pile of blankets... man, he didn't even bother to clean off the goop and blood from those two creatures he killed

waking to the noise, though...]

[seeingeyejackal]

[this is belated but i am judging you slightly anyway]

Are you wounded. . .?

[lostontheroadoflife]

--eh? Lucario?

[tries to sit up but nope. out of chakra. body still screaming at him for being a dumbass. and then, of course, that jars the injured hip a bit...]

[lostontheroadoflife]

[you know what, will just. stay down]

[seeingeyejackal]

[:|! HOPPING OVER TO]

What happened. . .!

[lostontheroadoflife]

H-haa... was a bit careless. It's fine now... my body's... just recovering its energy...

[seeingeyejackal]

[grits his teethhh. THIS IS ONE UPSET DOG]

You should not warn others to be cautious if you are reckless yourself.

[lostontheroadoflife]

Sorry sorry... it's an old bad habit...

But we were taken by surprise... two large creatures. It was pretty close.