"Because you're as blind as you are stupid, as always, dobe."
That's what Sasuke says, instead of acknowledging the squirming his stomach does when Naruto says his name like that. The yawning empty stretch of space between once-was and now, that space taken up by time outside of time in Luceti, where Naruto had been (obnoxiously) right there, and he had only had to explain shit to the idiot the once.
Instead of following that thread of conversation, instead of asking the question that has long become as perfectly reasonable as it is weird ("when are you from?"), Sasuke follows the one held out in front of him like a beckoning hand.
"You get one guess what else is red on top and white on the bottom. And this isn't one of Kakashi's riddles. It's the same thing that's always on my back, ne? Well, other than your nagging."
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That's what Sasuke says, instead of acknowledging the squirming his stomach does when Naruto says his name like that. The yawning empty stretch of space between once-was and now, that space taken up by time outside of time in Luceti, where Naruto had been (obnoxiously) right there, and he had only had to explain shit to the idiot the once.
Instead of following that thread of conversation, instead of asking the question that has long become as perfectly reasonable as it is weird ("when are you from?"), Sasuke follows the one held out in front of him like a beckoning hand.
"You get one guess what else is red on top and white on the bottom. And this isn't one of Kakashi's riddles. It's the same thing that's always on my back, ne? Well, other than your nagging."