[What a punch in the gut. Kushina gasps like she has taken a fist, winded. The cup even slips from her grasp, spilling tea all over her pants. She doesn't even care or notice despite it being hot enough to warrant a reaction.
Sasuke said that the family was murdered, but he didn't say who. She didn't ask who. She didn't need to know the culprit to know the sort of pain he went through.
Maybe she should have.]
No...
No way. That can't be right.
[Picturing Mikoto and her perfect family and young Itachi sitting beside her, looking in awe at Mikoto's belly round with a second child, his younger sibling. It was the family she always wanted but was terrified to try for. She had thought that having a kid wasn't possible because there were too many risks involved. But then Minato came along...
Mikoto's picture perfect family shatters in front of her and she feels her heart pound in her chest, aching. Aching for her friend and for Sasuke who had to live through that. Aching for Itachi.
It couldn't be right. It has to be a joke.]
That's too awful. That's too awful to be real, Kakashi.
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Sasuke said that the family was murdered, but he didn't say who. She didn't ask who. She didn't need to know the culprit to know the sort of pain he went through.
Maybe she should have.]
No...
No way. That can't be right.
[Picturing Mikoto and her perfect family and young Itachi sitting beside her, looking in awe at Mikoto's belly round with a second child, his younger sibling. It was the family she always wanted but was terrified to try for. She had thought that having a kid wasn't possible because there were too many risks involved. But then Minato came along...
Mikoto's picture perfect family shatters in front of her and she feels her heart pound in her chest, aching. Aching for her friend and for Sasuke who had to live through that. Aching for Itachi.
It couldn't be right. It has to be a joke.]
That's too awful. That's too awful to be real, Kakashi.