This is a revamp of the "Sasuke and Kakashi's Talk" story I did in 2011. I feel bad for it and I'm going to try to give it a loving home.

~~~~~Hi~~~~~

An older man walked up to the dark cell, his face grim. "Sasuke..."

A pale, worn face pops up to the name "Kakashi...long time no see, huh?"

"How have you been doing?" Of course, Kakashi could take one look at the man before him and know the answer: not well. Skinnier and paler than ever, it looked as if the boy had been a ghost who was just granted a body and wasn't quite alive yet.

"I'm as good as a dying man can be, I assume," a hollow chuckle resounded in the cell as the man across the bars winced.

"Sasuke," the man glanced over to the table, full of rotten food, "have you been eating? You need to take care of yourself."

Another laugh, even more broken then before, "Take care of myself? For what? I'm going to die anyway. Don't you see it, Kakashi!? They've got me straight on the path of death row and it's full speed ahead!"

Dead, desolate eyes locked with sad, remenisciant ones. "Why, Sasuke?"

"Why what?"

"Why do you have to take the hardest path?"

A pause..."What makes you think there is another path?"

"There will always be another path. Another road. Another light to follow. You lost your first light. You're in the dark as we speak. But there is another lantern in the distance, you just need to find it. I can help, Naruto can help, Sakura can help... There's a whole arsenal to your name to help you get through this. Why now are you giving up?"

He looks down, as if all the fight has been drained. "Because," a crack, a chink in the armor, "I'm alone."

"No-"

"Poisonous."

"Sasuke-"

"Wretched."

"Don't-"

"Better off dead."

"Please, Sasuke, you can't-"

"Better. Off. Dead." The man looked up once again, a deadly gleam in his eyes.

"You will listen to me, and you will listen to me well. You are here for a reason. There is a time in life when that reason is revealed. You will not sit here in self pity and say you are alone and horrible because there will always be people that disagree. I disagree. You are my student, Sasuke. No matter how many mistakes you have made."

"I let him die. I let them all die and then I let him die and I never knew the difference until it was too late," hurt, pained eyes glance up, a pleading look, "I will let you die before I can save you. Before I can save myself."

"Sasuke..."

"I have let everyone I have ever cared about die or get hurt or be disappointed and I have never fixed it. I am the problem in this village. I am the one behind bars. I am the one who deserves nothing. I am nothing."

"You deserve a chance, Sasuke."

So many days have been spent with his mind tearing himself apart that tears just well up and will not be refused. They spill onto his face like a volcano, fast and hot. The man, the boy, falls to his knees and cries, sobbing. His shoulders shake and he is there, all alone in his cell, but not. Because he has the man across the bars. He has his 'family'. And one day he will make them proud, because they are the only ones who matter. He will have his second chance.

~~~~~~End~~~~~~

So obviously that was Sasuke and Kakashi talking, but I'm not really sure what it was about in the original, so I just kind of made it about Sasuke coming back home after *insert crime here* because he was heavily wanted either way. I didn't know how to make Sasuke cry so ¯\_(*u*)_/¯

It's pretty much as bad as the first version, whoops, but that's okay.

Hope you liked it! Have a great day!