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Date: 2024-03-13 02:13 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16979458)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
Why twenty?

[I hope you are prepared for a life of explaining Earth references to him. Yet Sasuke is obedient to the new arrangement of limbs, even more for how it puts Cy directly in front of him — such that he is leaning for a kiss before it comes. Easy, reflexive affection.]

... Spring. [It's not even Persephone that sets his mind to this answer, although it certainly weighs it more heavily.] My village always looked like another world during that time of year.

Do I ask you one now?
Edited Date: 2024-03-13 02:13 am (UTC)

Date: 2024-03-13 02:41 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#15621104)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[He spends long enough thinking that the silence might seem uncomfortable to anyone else — but for them, it isn't. He just wants to ensure it's a question worth asking.]

What is the oldest song you can still remember?

Date: 2024-03-13 04:51 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16979471)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[A Chiskikani song — he recognizes the language by rhythm and cadence, up and down the shape of words, but more than that by the way it makes him feel warmly cradled. Perhaps it is only because he associates it to the embrace Cy wraps him in, but he doesn't believe so.

Home is the sentiment it carries, more than anything.]


It's pretty. [His hand smooths over Cy's back, head tilted, listening.] I like your voice. What do the words mean?

Date: 2024-03-13 05:14 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#15621139)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[At that he leans away, if only to reclaim enough room so their faces are brought close. His hand slips around and then lifts, gently tracing his thumb over the smooth contours of skin around Cy's eyes — into the slope of the nose, then back up, along the browline.]

T'che verai. [Tried, a little clumsy on his tongue.] My eyes.

[He's bold enough to kiss the backs of Cy's eyelids before relinquishing the touch.]

The eyes are important to my clan, as you must have noticed. They're the source of our power and unique to our bloodline. When we have children, we pass our eyes on to them.
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Date: 2024-03-13 07:23 pm (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16992554)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[It almost makes him self-conscious, to have his eyes complimented, for all that they mean to his bloodline and for all he's endured to obtain their power. The sorrow and grief, as well as the hard-won achievement. And, even deeper, the memento — Itachi's legacy carried in his body.]

One day I'll show you what I can do with them. [A quirk of lips, playful — just a flash of pride.] You've barely seen anything yet.

Date: 2024-03-13 07:36 pm (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16992574)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
Where my clan used to live. [Only, as Cy knows, it won't be there anymore.] I could show you through my eyes — how it used to look.

If it was in person... I'd take you to the forest beside the home I grew up in. I used to train there a lot. Sometimes with Itachi.

[The ice pack is losing some of its frigid shape; he shifts, adjusting his seat.]

Same question. If you were going to show me one place, where would it be and why?

Date: 2024-03-14 01:17 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#15621031)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
I could. If you wanted me to — it wouldn't reach anything deeper in your mind.

[He watches Cy in the telling of that other world, admiring Cy's face in the privacy of that moment while his eyes are closed, those handsome features so familiar now.

It's easy to imagine what Cy describes, an untouched wilderness beneath colorful streamers of light, animals living out simple lives, flashes of lightning brilliant in the eternally dark sky.]


... I think that I would like it too. [It sits on his tongue: We should go. Yet it's left unmanifested, because that freedom isn't theirs now, may never be if they remain trapped in this prison only to be separated into other, alternate dimensions. He doesn't let his thoughts dwell there.] I've never seen those lights, but they exist far in the north of my own world, a place called Snow Country. I've heard stories. That those lights are the spirits of children waiting to be born. Or another, that any child conceived beneath them will be born with fortune. They're a symbol of good luck.

Date: 2024-03-14 01:52 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#15621116)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[His head tilts, considering the question.]

Probably, but it might not be the same as you would remember it, because a perfect recreation is something I would have to access from deeper inside your mind. [From a memory, to be specific.] Do you want to see an illusion of those lights on the world you described, or something from my village? We could test it to see how you feel. I don't want to overwhelm you. All an illusion does — genjutsu is what we call the technique — is trick the senses. But for someone who has never experienced that before, it can still be intense.

Date: 2024-03-15 02:08 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16992579)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
Okay. It's not stinging anymore.

[A smaller part of him almost wishes it was, but — he knows he would regret it tomorrow. And he doesn't want Cy to worry after him. Shifting, the ice pack is taken, allowing opportunity for him to lie down on the bed and pull Cy with him.]

Do you want to try it now? We don't need to go anywhere.

Date: 2024-03-15 02:38 am (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#15621124)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[It's an effortless melt into those kisses, chasing after them with his own mouth, sliding his right arm to hook over Cy's shoulder to keep him right there.]

All right. Thank you for trusting me.

[Lying with his cheek on a pillow, facing Cy, he allows the Sharingan to bleed into his right eye — a glowing bloom of crimson color.]

You have to look into my eyes. It's what they teach shinobi, you know, when it comes to battling against someone like me — not to make eye contact. All it takes is an instant.
Edited Date: 2024-03-15 02:38 am (UTC)

Date: 2024-03-15 05:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chokuto
[Cy cannot know how much it means, to have those eyes readily upon his own — or perhaps he does, and this is yet another demonstration of a valuable sentiment he did not dream of discovering here, in this other dimension apart from everything familiar. For a few moments, Sasuke simply lets them lie together, bodies curved in closed parentheses, faces near enough that the nudge of a nose or rub of lips is a suggestion of centimeters. That temptation is too great, so he leans and thieves another kiss before at last pulling the veil of illusion over them both.

The memory of his home, and the forest that surrounds it, is so crystallized in his mind there's no effort in the craftsmanship of this false image. Yet the practice — using the Sharingan's ability in a negligible thread of chakra to manipulate the mechanisms at the forebrain — reminds him what lies deeper within Cy. And, though he does not tread that ground, for a fraction of an instant he can sense it, the corruptive core buried in the recesses of an ancient mind caging a nightmarish entity. It's awake, Cy said. Does it notice the pull of power? As Sasuke builds the illusion over those sensory inputs, can it tell? Is it looking back?

His genjutsu does not manipulate time as his brother's did, so they come to stand in the shade of trees while lying together on Cy's bed, imagination made to seem real. Dappled light shines through the screen of green leaves above; Sasuke tilts his head up, inhaling a full breath of air that smells and tastes like Konoha in summer. Humidity is cooled by the forest around them, but there's still an abrupt transition from the temperature-controlled environment of the resort to outdoors, wilderness, smothering greenery at height of growth. And the sun, riding high above in midday, feels like a knife to eyes accustomed to months of artificial light.

Turning, he looks back — and the village is not far off, a flat plain of grass where the outer boundary of the Uchiha compound opens to the forest. There's a distant sound of children at play, laughter and unintelligible words, but there is no sign of people placed into this illusion, so the effect is almost ghostly.

Then his gaze seeks Cy's.]

Date: 2024-03-15 10:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chokuto
[Some tension unwinds in his chest at that, hand automatically shifting within the grip of Cy's own for a better hold, fingers laced. He tugs Cy closer, arms in one long, warm line of contact.]

That's all? 'Neat'?

[The light tone he uses gives away the lack of seriousness — and for a moment he simply enjoys watching the play of light across Cy's face, the color of green hemming them in all around. It is strange to be back here, even in an illusion crafted out of memory. Even if it isn't real, he can pretend it is.]

Those buildings you see behind us aren't there anymore in reality. They were destroyed, as I told you. But this is how it looked when I was a child. After school I would come out here to train. [Sasuke tugs on their joined hands, beginning to lead them into the cooler shade of the canopy above.] Usually alone, but as I said, sometimes with Itachi when he had the time.

Date: 2024-03-15 11:52 pm (UTC)
chokuto: (pic#16992563)
From: [personal profile] chokuto
[His arm is ready to take Cy in, relinquishing their hands to better circle broad shoulders, to draw the man in close against him — lips a whisper of contact against a temple where that head bows down, allowing the space of silence. The grief is an outflow shared between them. It aches to see in Cy, because it means more than he can express that Cy would grieve this for him.]

I'm grateful to be able to show this to you, even if it isn't here anymore.

[The old, cherished memory of this childhood place — before violence tore it apart — is not something he would expose easily, and perhaps Cy knows without the admittance. These parts of him are so tightly held, so fiercely guarded at the center of himself, bound up in complicated emotion, engraved like a deep latticework of scars.]

Thank you for letting me.

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