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[ura_no_ura]

[Action | Mid-afternoon]

[ Nothing to see here.

Just a man with silver hair darkened by rust-colored flecks walking through the middle of town from the underground tunnels in fatigues soaked through in some places with blood. He's got a dirty-looking bandage wrapped around his left arm, a slowly spreading red spot eating its way across the gauze surface. He walks like a man who hasn't slept in days -- shoulders slumped, each step weighted. But even despite the apparent exhaustion, he still attempts to make it look more like a lazy stroll than a tired march back to the apartment he'd claimed as his own in Building 1.

Assuming it's even still called Building 1, and his apartment hasn't been taken over by a new resident, anyway. He's been gone for a while, after all.

Two months is a long time to be on a combat mission, but not anything Kakashi isn't used to. Coming back to Luceti after a mission instead of Konoha, though -- that's new.

On the way back to Building 1 Flame Building, Kakashi stops by the Convenience Store for some more bandages, rubbing alcohol, antibiotic ointment, a needle and thread, some pain killers, and a few packages of instant ramen. ]

[ Video | Night ]

[ Kakashi's looking a little better than he did earlier in the day. First aid, food, a hot shower, a fresh change of clothes, and a nice, long nap does wonders. ]

Yo.

[ Have a two-finger wave. ]

I'm back. Did I miss anything exciting?

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[believeit]

You're late, Kakashi-sensei!

[Where have you been? :c]

...You missed my birthday.

[The most important thing obviously.]

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[ura_no_ura]

Ah, sorry I'm late, Naruto...

[ Awkward smile and all. ]

Got lost in a jungle.

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[yourhatred]

You missed a few things. We all went to the moon.

[Said completely seriously.]

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[ura_no_ura]

[ Not sure if trolling. ]

Ah, I see. I hope you brought back a few souvenirs.

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[believeit]

It went okay though, yeah?

[He'll let you off, since it was a mission and such.]

I dunno what else you missed. Oh-! We went to this park, with rides! On the Moon!

[ura_no_ura]

[ He would've told Naruto that the mission was fine, but that comment about the moon is just slightly distracting. ]

The moon.

[... didn't Itachi mention the moon, too?]

Really.

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[yourhatred]

[Itachi feels around off-screen for a moment before he brings a small photograph into view.

It's one of the pictures often taken on roller coasters right as the carts start the descent on the highest peak. On it, he and Law sit almost completely deadpan as they're surrounded by other park-goers with their hands in the air.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Huh. That's interesting. Kakashi certainly wasn't expecting that when Itachi said they went to the moon, he literally meant that they went to the moon. (Though Naruto did...more or less say they went to a theme park on the moon, too, but, still. The moon? And he missed that?) ]

How was the view?

[ Yeah, really, what else does one say to someone who went to the moon. ]

[yourhatred]

Not as impressive as you might think.

[The photograph is lowered back out of sight.]

We didn't get to experience the ride there, and we weren't on the side that faced the planet.

[Outer space. Such a weird concept to a ninja.]

[ura_no_ura]

But I imagine you were able to see quite a lot of stars.

[ This conversation is... a bit surreal. Not just because they went to space, but because he's having this conversation with Itachi. The last time he saw Itachi, neither of them were really themselves.

And Itachi was quite unwell at the time. ]

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[sand_lost]

[You missed the arrival of a certain Kazekage.]

So you're here too.

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[ura_no_ura]

[ Kakashi's eye widens at the small picture that comes up aside the written message. Gaara is here?

After a moment of thought, he quickly writes out: ]

Kazekage-sama. It is good to see you. I've only just returned from a 2 month mission. I seem to have missed your arrival.

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[sand_lost]

A mission assigned to you by our kidnappers? [Yep, someone's still a little pissed at this place.]

I arrived two weeks ago.

[ura_no_ura]

[ Well, the mission was assigned by Minato as part of a recon and espionage mission, but Kakashi can't exactly say that over the journal system, can he. ]

I would welcome you to Luceti, but as you have surmised, it isn't exactly a vacation spot.

[sand_lost]

[Okay, he gets by the non-answer that its something more. So sure, he'll drop that for now.]

I understand. Its unfortunate to see so many of our allies here. [And yet, so many of them seem...content.]

Not quite. Its not very good timing for a vacation either.

[ura_no_ura]

[ Judging by his words, Kakashi can guess just what timeline he came from... ]

How are things back home?

[sand_lost]

You're aware of the war, correct? [Despite the different timelines and the amount of time everyone seems to have been here, they all seem to know.]

[ura_no_ura]

Yes. I arrived here mid-battle.

[ That's one way of putting it, anyway. ]

[sand_lost]

Me too. The past Hokages arrived on the battlefield to help. And we were busy pulling the bijuu out of the Madara impostor. The situation was looking up, but it was by no means over.

[ura_no_ura]

[ The Madara imposter.

Obito survived then. Or at least, had survived past the fight they had in the other dimension. Judging by Gaara's words, it doesn't sound as though he would be alive much longer, if they were pulling the bijuu out of him, somehow. ]

I see.

[ What else can he possibly say? ]

[ura_no_ura]

[ But then-- a realization, when he rereads what Gaara wrote. ]

When you say "past Hokages" do you mean... Edo Tensei?

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[bantambreeze]

Barnaby went home.


[Saori, now in...child form...looks as solemn as she can.]

[sand_lost]

I do. It seems to be a separate incident from those we were forced to battle against. They seem quite in control of their own bodies and motives.

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[ura_no_ura]

[ Ah. Well. Kakashi's actually kind of relieved to hear that, knowing what this place did to Barnaby's sanity. Home -- wherever that is for Barnaby -- is a far better alternative than Luceti.

Though he doesn't recognize this little girl, who seems to speak to him with such familiarity.

She does look a bit familiar, though... ]

I'm glad to hear that.

[ A pause, as he studies her image a little more closely. ]

...have we met?

[ Why does she seem so familiar? ]

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[bantambreeze]

Right. I just thought you ought to know.

[The little girl looks a little perplexed for a moment and then looks down at herself, and smiles somewhat ruefully. It's...hard to remember sometimes.]

Yes, we have, Kakashi. I'm Saori. The...Malnosso decided that it might be fun to turn me into a nine year old godling instead of my usual self.