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[do you KNOW how often Team 7's tried to pull this thing off?]

...

[keeping silent because this is the wise thing to do]

. . .

[jabs a few fingers into his side :|] Kakashi.

[twitches and winces and exhales]

T...

T? The god?

[just nods--but stops that suddenly because not a good thing]

. . . you're such an idiot.

Better me than someone else...

That's why I'm fine. The gods don't want us dead.

The fuck kind of logic is that?! So the gods don't want us dead, that makes it okay for 'em to poison us?! Fuck that.

Asshole, I should ream your ass out - [a pause] Or get Obito to do it, since I don't think I'll get through that thick fucking skull of yours.

This is the second time - the second time I've had to take care of you. BECAUSE YOU'RE AN IDIOT.

[... pushes the cloth up away from his right eye]

I. Did not ask. For your help.

If you have a problem with taking care of idiots... don't push yourself to volunteer needlessly. Like I said, the gods don't want us dead, so it's not like I'll die from it.

Which is more than you can say with your habit of hunting on your own.

[man, you are just the right outlet for some of that suppressed anger he has. Grabbing the front of his shirt and tugging him up, so they're face to face. His voice is low, almost a growl]

At least I'm discreet about my fucking death wish. The only reason I'm volunteering is because of Obito - you're important to him, no matter how much he does or doesn't remember about you, which means by proxy you're my fucking responsibility. And don't even try to argue that with me, 'cuz I got no mercy for idiots who purposely poison themselves. I'll kick your ass right here if I have to.

[has to close his eye for a moment because of all the head-rushing movement, but slowly, carefully opening eye to stare back at him, tone flat]

I don't know why I have to keep saying this, but I'm not looking to die.

Then stop acting like you are.

[lets go]

[stays sitting up, but lowering his hand, taking the cloth with it]

I'm not. Unlike you, I go out into the wild areas with at least one other person. Unlike what you may think, I do consider other angles of things. And the sum of what I am doing now is this: I would rather it be me who goes through these things than someone I would protect.

I have very little motivation in this place--even with Obito and Sensei here to keep me, but I made a promise a long time ago to see things through until the end. Just because I'm waiting for that eventual end doesn't mean I'll go seeking it. I have seen too many men go that route to want to follow it myself. And I learned from a young age the pain it brings others.

In short: don't talk as though you know what I think or feel.

Edited 2012-03-20 04:49 (UTC)

Yeah? Well from my perspective, it looks like something different.

Projecting your own issues onto mine will give you that view.

Tch, I'm not projecting.

"At least I'm discreet about my fucking death wish."

... just because you have one doesn't mean everyone who's lost their purpose by coming here has one.

And if this is you being discreet, I'd hate to see you being more overt. You reek of your own blood.

You said you go out with people - and you come back worst than me. What the fuck else am I supposed to think?

[. . . says nothing about the blood thing]

Luck. Each time I've gone out with a partner or two, I end up facing things like two stiltwalkers, three overgrown frogs, a pack of lizagon... you've lucked out so far. But luck runs out. And then you rely on skill and luck and the person you're with to get out of the mess alive.

If I weren't with anyone those few times... they wouldn't have survived and neither would I. Simple as that.

[quietly]

I don't have any luck.

[ugh. Just. Handwaves]

Whatever. My bad for mistaking whatever the fuck it is you're doing, then. [makes a move to get up]

[grabbing him by the arm, grip tight. voice pitched low and cold. left eye open]

What you said about that connection with Obito? It goes double for you. He knows you and your team more than he remembers me and ours. You're what he has here that helps him keep stable when a past he doesn't remember keeps turning up.

... I will make your life living hell if you think you can threaten me and then turn around and do the exact thing you warn me not to. And believe me... I've had practice.

[and if Ikki were to even glance at that red, left eye, he might even get a get a vague, cold sensation that could remind him of other experiences]

[he isn't shy about meeting people's looks so he's definitely meeting his eyes—and trying to jerk his arm away almost instantly, his other hand coming up to try and pull Kakashi's hand off]

—let go.

[releasing him when he starts to jerk, left eye slipping closed]

Understand?

[actually scrambles back a bit, wincing as he jars injuries and whatnot. There's a definite waver in his voice]

Y—Yeah. Yeah, got it.

[eyes for a moment, still sweating from the fever and now a bit from exerting himself. but raising the damp cloth to his forehead, letting his eye close in a bit of a smile]

You should make sure you get cleaned up and those wounds looked at before you try anything else...