Chapter 28: See ya later
Konohamaru wrapped his arms softly around Sasuke's waist, shifting his head around underneath the older boy's chin. His bare chest was pressed against the fabric of Sasuke's shirt, since he was wearing nothing but a pair of pants. The sounds of soft breaths hung heavy in the air as the two slept peacefully together for the first time in what seemed like a long while. Lately there always seemed to be something that drew them apart, it felt good to do this again, Konohamaru was more content then he'd been in a long time. And Sasuke was silently satisfied with the return of their usually routine, as well as number of different things he didn't say out loud.
Konohamaru felt himself returning to awareness, and he opened his eyes, feeling a strange sensation stirring in his chest. '?' He grew alert quickly, wide awake as if he'd rested well. 'Huh?' Konohamaru's eyes drifted over Sasuke's shoulder and he looked over as much of the room as he could from where he was. It was dark, the only light was that of the moon drifting through the window beside the bed and drowning everything in the window's reach in a lunar blue.
Neither seeing nor sensing anything around them worth interest, Konohamaru closed his eyes and attempted to go back to sleep. That sleep never returned, and he found himself wide awake, staring at the back of his eye lids for 15 minutes. He was wide awake now, it felt futile to simply hope that would go away."Sasuke?" He called out questioningly.
Sasuke was always a light sleeper, through some level of paranoia that came with being a ninja or by nature, transversely he could easily fall back into that same light sleep by closing his eyes and laying dormant for a moment or two. Dark eyes slipped open as if having only blinked and focused a sleepy gaze on Konohamaru, finding no need or reason to be alarmed. After Konohamaru didn't speak for a few seconds, either unaware Sasuke was actually awake or some other cause for hesitation , Sasuke spoke. "What is it?"
Konohamaru looked up and brown eyes met the darker ones of the Uchiha "Oh, I just wanted to know if you were awake."
Sasuke narrowed his eyes with an annoyed suspicion, "Why are you awake, it's the middle of the night." His voice was weak and lazy, showing just how late it really was.
"I don't know, I can't get back to sleep." Konohamaru whispered back, his voice queuing downward almost as if he was embarrassed of the fact.
The one night they got to sleep together again and Konohamaru suddenly becomes an insomniac, 'It figures.' Sasuke closed his eyes, attempting to inquire all the reasons why Konohamaru would be waking up in the middle of the night, he knew him well enough. "What are you thinking about?" He came to that conclusion quickly, his mind couldn't find anything more probable.
"Nothing." The boy said, honestly.
"Was it a dream or something?" Sasuke asked, a small yawn disrupting his still form.
"No." Konohamaru shook his head lightly, ruffling the spiky brown strands underneath Sasuke's chin into small tangles.
"..." Sasuke sighed, he didn't have the will for this tonight.
"Sorry." Konohamaru apologized, beginning to feel guilty about waking Sasuke up. Still, he couldn't shake that strange feeling in his chest, it was a heat, a warmth that seemed to spread through his blood through out the rest of his body until he began to sweat a little .
Sasuke peaked open eye open and glanced down on Konohamaru, who's head was resting against his chest, simply staring with half-lidded eyes into the fabric. '...Konohamaru...' Sasuke drew his hand up Konohamaru's back and slipped them into the messy brown strands, unbound as they were usually partly held back by his usual goggles or forehead protector. Gently petting his head. Sasuke's eyes were clinched shut tensely and his body was taunt and unrelaxed, Konohamaru could even feel it.
"You don't have to do that." Konohamaru said, his voice holding an apathetic tone to it. He was well aware that Sasuke wasn't the type to do things like this, little affections and comforts. But admittedly he liked it when Sasuke forced himself to do things like this, it was reassuring in a way that the introverted Uchiha would go to such a length to do something so foreign to his nature and demeanor.
Sasuke didn't respond, and he had hoped Konohamaru wouldn't have either, it would have made this a whole lot easier. "..." As awkward as this was for him, he still persisted despite how much he wanted just to stop now, his hands drifting through the unruly strands of hair and rubbling Konohamaru messagingly.
Konohamaru smiled to himself at the soothing motion being inflicted on him, Sasuke reminded him of Naruto a little. "Just like Nii-chan." He thought aloud.
Sasuke looked down at him fully, well aware of what he called Naruto and his relationship with their teammates. "Naruto? What do you mean I'm just like Naruto?" He clearly took offense to the implication.
'Oh, did I say that out loud?' Konohamaru paused for a moment, scrambling for an answer. "Uh, Nothing, Nothing at all." Konohamaru closed his eyes and hugged Sasuke tighter, his mind drifting back to how Naruto visited him when he was depressed and refused to leave until he'd deemed the boy alright. Despite how awkward and uncomfortable as it was for the both of them.
"Are you seriously comparing me to that dobe?" He said with distaste.
"What's wrong with Naruto?" Konohamaru asked. He didn't have a complete understanding of the relationship the two carried, just of the general contempt. "He's really cool."
"Tch. That idiot." Sasuke's hand took of it's own accord, messaging through the soft brunet hair sub-consciously as he grew closer and closer to sleep.
"He's not." Konohamaru contradicted, "I wanna be like him." In part, he wanted to be, he wanted to be like Sasuke too. They both were so strong, and had uncompromising wills, they were brave, they never got scared or backed down. Sasuke was so smart and Naruto had ambition that even Konohamaru was jealous of, both of them were brilliant in battle. Naruto had a determination strong enough to help people when they needed it, and Sasuke was infinitely cunning enough to do it. 'They are so cool.'
Sasuke simply closed his eyes again and lay almost dormant, the contempt fading away slowly to be replaced by the calm of tiredness. "Whatever."
Konohamaru pushed himself a little closer to Sasuke despite how hot he was underneath the covers, moving closer to the awaiting body. And only when he pressed himself fully against Sasuke did he realize something, did he realize why he was so hot. He opened his eyes, blushing heavily when he felt his newly grown erection pressing against Sasuke's stomach.
When Sasuke noticed this he couldn't help but realize why the boy was awake in the middle of the night. Konohamaru's heart was pounding, and his skin was warm, nearly hot with the beginnings of sweat. The older boy looked down, his eyes taking in Konohamaru's flushed cheeks and nervous eyes full of embarrassment at not realizing his situation sooner, Konohamaru wasn't as awake or alert as he seemed. "Hn..." Sasuke smirked with mild amusement.
"I, uh, didn't-!" Konohamaru let out a startled, almost squeaking noise that made him sound far below his age when he felt Sasuke's hand drift between them and cuff his member through his pants. "Uhn..." The small body flinched against the larger form as Sasuke's fingers drifted skillfully along the sensitive area, his index finger trailing along the bottom of Konohamaru's erection tented against the restrictive fabric, his thumb pressing softly against his balls before his whole hand compressed lightly against Konohamaru's contained need.
"Uha!" Konohamaru clinched his eyes shut and his body jumped lightly at the unexpected constriction, but Sasuke's strong arm wrapped firmly around his back in a soft embrace kept him in place. Sasuke slipped his hand into the waist band of Konohamaru's pants and pulled them down with soft tugs, stopping just far enough to release his almost painfully hard erection, full from the older boy's teasing.
Sasuke's hand brushed over the small cock, glistening with pre-cum slowly spreading over the head. He smirked lightly when he saw Konohamaru wincing from the touch, the smaller boy could barely contain himself. 'Alright Konohamaru.' He decided to give him what he wanted, Sasuke slipped his arm from around Konohamaru's back and tossed the concealing covers off of them.
"Huh?" Konohamaru peeked his eyes open and watched Sasuke shift around beside him, the blush spread across his cheeks grew redder as he waited there, completely exposed.
Sasuke repositioned himself so that he was laying on his side, Konohamaru's erection rested before his mouth, and Konohamaru found himself staring over at Sasuke's crotch, shielded by the fabric of his shorts. "Sasuke?" He looked down at him with clear uncertainty on what he was suppose to do next.
"Just pay attention." Sasuke told him, the arrogant smirk on his face still didn't fade in the slightest. He wrapped his arms around Konohamaru's waist and pulled him on to his knees above himself, Sasuke looking up at the awaiting erection in front of his face possessively. Konohamaru, resting on his hands and knees above the older boy, simply followed Sasuke's lead, lowering himself on to his elbows and began unzipping the older boy's shorts. Reaching into the small opening and retrieving the considerably larger cock waiting for him.
Instinctively he cradled the hard length in both hands and lowered his head, taking in as much of Sasuke as he could and sucking diligently. "...uh..." Sasuke let out a small breath, letting his eyes fall closed as he lifted his head slightly, running his tongue along he bottom of Konohamaru's smaller cock softly. He smile inwardly when he felt the member twitch from tense anticipation, leaving a wet trail behind as he moved upward and slid his tongue along Konohamaru's balls and persisted onward.
"S-sasuke!" Konohamaru's whole body clinched, pulling back slightly with a gasping breath. An entirely different flush came to his cheeks this time, and with his breathing growing harsher, Konohamaru enveloped Sasuke's member into his mouth again, sucking harder with a new found anxious energy coursing from Sasuke's administrations.
Sasuke slid his tongue along the back of Konohamaru's balls, moving with sensitive, stroking licks between his legs and finally pressed his tongue against the ring muscles of Konohamaru's entrance. He could feel Konohamaru twitch softly against him, 'He's too tense...' Sasuke closed his eyes and began swirling his tongue around the hole, the tip taking light, feather soft touches.
Konohamaru moaned, sending vibrations along Sasuke's length, he had to force himself to keep from bitting down. Tears formed at the corner of his eyes, running his tongue over the head of Sasuke's cock in mimic to what had been done on him previous times. "Uhnn!" Konohamaru drew in a sharp breath when he felt the wet heat of Sasuke's tongue pushing into his body. "S-Sasuke..." Konohamaru moaned loudly, unable to draw the concentration to do anything more then take hard, needy licks across the head of Sasuke's member.
Sasuke's cheeks grew their own flush when he felt Konohamaru slip both of his index fingers into his own entrance and thrust into him without control. His tongue rubbed against the sensitive inner muscles, pushing and prodding at places, licking and teasing others with the tip of his tongue.
"Uhaaaa!" Konohamaru dropped his head on to Sasuke's leg and moaned loudly as one last movement pushed him to his limit. He came, his seed spurting from his cock in small amounts on to Sasuke's chest. "..." Finally his body relaxed and his muscles untensed, falling in a sloppy mass on to Sasuke's chest. And he started again, running his tongue over the base of Sasuke's cock with those same weak licks, wrapping his mouth around it, sucking softly. His warm, panting breaths washing over the soft flesh in soft traces.
"..." Sasuke cringed, a sharp spasm ran through his body, only a soft grunt sipped from his mouth as his cock twitched and cum streamed out of the sensitive flesh. "Kono...hamaru..."
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The next time Konohamaru was conscious was when the warmth of sunlight fell on to his face, causing his eyes to stir under the lids and finally open. "Uha..." He welcomed the awakening now, yawning without inhibition before he removed one of his arm from around Sasuke's body and rubbed his eyes. Feeling his awareness returning slower then the previous time, he lifted his head from Sasuke's chest and looked up. "Sasuke?" He was almost surprised to see Sasuke laying marginally awake, looking down at him with a half awake expression."How long have you been awake?"
"Not long." Sasuke told him, he generally got up before Konohamaru, only this time he decided not to move, he was content to lay on his side and hold the boy softly underneath the covers.
Konohamaru smiled lightly when he felt the embrace around him, tucking his head back underneath Sasuke's chin. "Did you-" Out of nowhere Konohamaru froze, his voice breaking into grunting stutters that sounded as if his throat was suddenly sealed shut. His eyes widened in a fearful look, but he didn't move, or speak.
"Konohamaru?" Sasuke's eyes narrowed dangerously, he grabbed Konohamaru by the shoulders and pushed him on to his back, looking over him with quick glances. He quickly came to a conclusion. 'Damnit!' His senses screamed at him as he sprang off of the bed and landed on his feet beside it, finding himself coming almost face to face to the much taller form of his father, this body riddled with Sharingan eyes in unnatural places. It was the Sharingan demon, again.
How the hell did this thing keep getting in with out him noticing?
"You!" Sasuke took a step froward, but got no farther before a pressing pain coursed through his head. It didn't last no more then a second, just barely enough time for him to register it. "What...?" He looked around frantically, finding his surroundings completely different. 'How...' He was surrounded in darkness, a large empty space that he felt like stretched endlessly. Then suddenly a raging fire erupted around him like an explosion. "Uha!" He stumbled backwards, lifting his arm over his face to shield it from the heat as the flames grew around him. The air seemed to incinerate around him, becoming nothing but pure heat, leaving him gasping to catch his breath. "Ahhaaaaaaa!"
'Sasuke...Sasuke!' Konohamaru screamed, but no matter how hard he tried to force it, no words would come out of his mouth. He couldn't move, his muscles were locked painfully in place, his body so tense that he could hardly take a breath. 'Sasuke!' His fearful eyes watched as Sasuke stumbled around and screamed in pain at something that didn't seem to be there. While some almost completely human in form demon stood there and watched with a hauntingly blank look. "..." He had to move, cry out something! "Sa..." Konohamaru clinched his eyes shut, his Chakra building, pooling in his torso, growing there until it radiated around his body. " Sa..." It erupted around him in a golden aura, holding enough force to over load his senses and write out the Genjutsu. "Sasuke!"
Konohamaru's voice rang in his ears like an alarm, pulling him out of a loss of consciousness. "!" Sasuke clinched his hands into tight fist, and with a loud grunt, a burst of ice erupted around his body, a chrysalis protectively encaging him that loudly clattered as other structures protruded roughly out of it with long, hard spike made with solid ice. One of the spikes jabbed into the Sharingan Demon's chest, making it stumble back and release it's jutsu. 'Damn...' Shortly after words the spiked shell shattered and fell to the ground around him.
"!" The demon holding the image of his father took a small stride backwards defensively as an angry Konohamaru leapt at it, the Chakra pouring through every muscle in his body boosting his strength substantially. "Bastard." Konohamaru sprang into the air and threw a hard punch at it's head, but with it's longer reach it easily reached out past his fist and grabbed Konohamaru painfully by the face, letting the eye in it's palm do the rest. "Uh...No..." Konohamaru fell lifelessly from it's grip and fell to the ground, his unconscious mind entangled in the Sharingan.
"Let him alone!" Sasuke clasped his hand together, performing a quick stream of hand seals. "Reverse Katon, Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" In haling a deep breath, Sasuke brew out a burst of frigid, blue flame that swept outward like smoke blown by harsh winds.
"Uchiha." The demon leapt to the right in front of the bed evasively, though it wasn't fast enough to get away completely. It's left leg was enveloped by the quickly propagating flames, and nearly instantaneously it was frozen completely to the bone. No ice surrounded it, just a small layer of frost covering lifeless blue skin. Seemingly uneffected in terms of pain by it, the Sharingan demon was at lest slowed down.
Apparently much to slow to attempt anything physical, though it never attempted anything physical anyway.
In blur of skilful speed, Sasuke appeared behind the demon , drawing his left arm back in a form similar to throwing a punch. 'Nagamaki.' A swirl of cold winds appeared around his drawn back arm, and from his clinched fist grew a long rod, made of solid ice as most of his weapons were. It formed quickly, like water filling a container the blade of a sword finishing off the tip of the spear. With a grunt he thrust the bladed rod froward, jabbing it in it's back causing the demon to stumble froward. It quickly wiped around to face the youngest Uchiha.
"Sasuke Uchiha!" The demon yelled angrily, thrust it's hand froward towards the boy who was just about to move again.
"!" Sasuke froze, falling weakly to his knees as the pain from before flared up again, only it didn't fade away this time. 'What...what is this?' Sasuke let out a pained groan, clinching his chest tightly where the pain localized. He felt like he was being torn apart from the inside, and a numbing, throbbing pain washed over his body in waves like ripples in water. "..." He couldn't even conjure up enough of himself to scream... And that's when he saw it, something pried to the surface and pushed halfway out of chest.
It was an eye, A Sharingan eye.
'No...No!' Sasuke's narrowed eyes widened, it was real! It really happened! 'No!' Sasuke began clawing at it with both hands, trying to rip it out with a fearful desperation. But he couldn't seem to, the eye began glowing the infamous red of the Uchiha blood line. 'Noo...' The words in his head slurried incoherently and his vision blurred. His head was spinning in a horrible dizziness, a sickness washed over him, and finally, the last thing he felt was a pull. Something was being pulled, he would have dismissed it as his Chakra being siphoned if he hadn't recognize the indescribable feeling of something deeper with him was being effected. Like his soul was-
'...' Sasuke's mind went blank as he finally passed out.
Konohamaru didn't have the pleasure of passing out, though laying completely dormant enough to seem asleep, his mind was as active as it ever was. This tormenting pain in his mind head felt like something piercing was being driven through his head. 'Sa...Sasuke.' He weakly called out pleadingly, hoping, begging that Sasuke would save him some how. How was he suppose to stop this? How could he possibly get out of something like this. 'Uhaaaaa!'
'Ko...'
Konohamaru could hear him, something distant, weak in his mind. And he immediately recognized it, even in the barest resses of consciousness he'd know that feeling any where. A link, a connection with none other then Sasuke, he'd felt it many times before. 'Sa-Sasuke!' Konohamaru heard it, he felt it, and he cringed to it for his life. 'It...It hurts...'
Sasuke's eyes diluted slowly into a blood red beneath the closed eye lids. 'Ko...Kono...'
The voice was weak and in pain, barely coherent. Konohamaru, the weaker one in the connection, could feel something else there, another presence just like when he felt Itachi, it was the Sharingan demon. 'Sasuke...No...'
'Kono...Konohamaru!' Sasuke's voice screamed into his mind, it was like a jolt of energy that forcibly knocked the smaller boy from the jutsu.
With a gasping breath, Konohamaru bolted up right, eyes wide, his body holding a glistening sheen of sweat. "Sasuke!" he scrambled on to his knees and turned around to find the demon in question mounted atop an unconscious Sasuke doing who knew what to him. "Leave him alone!" Konohamaru blindly ran at the demon without thought, it was an impulse, pure instinct. "Get off of him!" Konohamaru dived at it, but he found his body met no resistance and he tumbled right over Sasuke, landing hard enough to knock the air from his lungs. "Uhf!" Konohamaru fell directly beside his body, completely startled he looked back to find nothing there. "It...It disappeared?"
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"So, is he gonna be ok?" Konohamaru felt uneasily this time in Neji's study, staring at Sasuke's almost lifeless from resting on Neji's bed. He sat faithfully on the ground beside Sasuke, his legs crossed and his arms folded, an almost concentrated expression on his face when he watched the older boy.
Neji sat down at his desk which was familiarly scattered in an chaotic organization with books and papers as usual. "Don't worry about him, he'll be fine." Neji picked up his place in the texts he studied after he'd examined Sasuke and began working again, on what, it wasn't too clear, only Neji understood.
"Really?" Konohamaru didn't look as relieved as he usually would have, the thoughtful, somewhat concentrated expression didn't lighten. He still retained an uncharacteristic seriousness.
Neji couldn't help but notice this. "Konohamaru, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm ok." He told him, his voice sounding somewhat distracted.
"So what's wrong then?" Neji could honestly say this was the most serious he'd seen Konohamaru look outside of a fight. "You look like your thinking about something."
"Yeah, I guess..."
"What is it?"
"..." Konohamaru didn't respond immediately, almost as if debating if he wished to divulge his thoughts. After almost full moment he seemed to decide for it, and slowly turned his eyes to Neji. "Neji...I couldn't help at all."
Neji glanced over his shoulder and looked at the boy fully. "What? Your feeling guilty about what happened to Sasuke?"
"Not really..." Konohamaru shook his head. "It was just that I couldn't even lay a hand on the demon..." He couldn't do anything, as much training as he'd been doing here, as many strides and he'd made, he'd been beaten so easily. Besides, he had his own demon to worry about, if he couldn't touch Sasuke's, a much slower demon as he noticed, how was he gonna fight Fear?
"Don't be so hard on yourself, it happens." Neji reassured him.
Konohamaru dropped his head in defeat. "Yeah, it happens..." The boy sighed to himself, slowly standing to his feet. "Take good care of Sasuke Neji." He gave one last look back to the sleeping Sasuke before he turned to leave.
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From the deathly silent main hall, Konohamaru peeked his head into the kitchen, having already searched through out the rest of the building and finding it mostly empty.
He found Iruka, sitting at the kitchen table, now littered with scrap paper, some crumpled into discarded balls, some just pushed aside. In his hand was a worn down pencil, it was clear that he was practicing, and it wasn't going well. Though it was hard to notice the trembling in his hands, they were there and they seemed to effect everything. His face held an odd frustration to it, it wasn't clear if he as annoyed at himself or not feeling anything at all anymore. No emotion Iruka tried to convey generally came out right anymore, it was like everything in his head was mixed up and one gesture became crossed with a number of other things. When ever he tried to convey an emotion he just got so confused that he either gave up or broke down.
"Iruka..." Konohamaru sat down across the table from Iruka, watching the man who looked up at him in a way the boy took as acknowledgingly. "Are you alright?" Iruka didn't respond, as usual. He hadn't been able to speak for about a month now, but at lest he was adapting. His confused mind was beginning to defragment, or he was just finding way around it. Konohamaru picked up one of the discarded papers and looked over it, '?' it was covered in incoherent lines and marks, all of them were. 'Oh man, he still can't write huh...'
Konohamaru lifted his elbows to the table and rested his head in his hands, looking at Iruka try over and over again to write something he could himself understand without success. If there was anyone among them that really was just about helpless now it was Iruka. Over the course of time since it happened his strength was deteriorating, his slept more and more, he had even gotten paler. "Iruka...are you ok?" He asked, he was getting worried.
Iruka looked up at him, his face a blank slate but his eyes, his eyes spoke. Konohamaru could just read the look, a calm, slightly annoyed narrowing, he'd learned to read them as clearly as he could have heard the man saying stop worrying, I'm fine. "Just saying. You don't look so good."
Iruka looked back down at the paper and continued the action almost mechanically in nature, something that had made him breakdown and cry at one period of time was being done almost without any emotion at all. Though it was clear he was dishartened every time he wrote a letter and when he looked at it there was nothing more then meaningless lines.
Konohamaru could do nothing more then watch this with an admiration, Iruka was not getting better, he was getting worse, they could see it, and he clearly knew it. But yet he persisted, he kept practicing, he kept trying to find away around it. 'If Iruka can be like this without losing it, I can get stronger.' He nodded decidedly, pushing himself out of the chair and standing up firmly.
"..." Iruka didn't even seem to take notice of him, leaving it unsure the if the man was paying attention or not.
"I'm sorry but I have to leave for a while Iruka." Konohamaru told him. "I don't wanna leave with you like this, but I have too. I'm the assistant manger." He had to do this more then ever now that Iruka was out of commission, as the assistant manger it was his duty to help the manager anyway he could. And right now that meant picking up the work load. "Bye..."
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"Kid, what the hell are you doing here?" Kisame folded his arms and leaned against the open doorway, gazing out suspiciously beyond the boy to make sure no one else was around to see him.
Konohamaru swallowed hard, looking up with as stern a face as he could. "Boss, I want you to train me." He said, his hands clinched tightly at his side, standing up strait.
Kisame's eye brown raised questioningly, at first glance he normally would have told Konohamaru go back, he didn't feel like dealing with him. But when he saw his face, when he looked down into his eyes, saw him trying to stand taller then he was, he knew Konohamaru was completely serious. At times he knew Konohamaru could be subserviently obedient, when he was as serious enough he exhibited patience that Kisame himself barely had. 'Hmm...' Kisame always took a fascinated interest to Konohamaru's will, his persistence, his determination, how much his mind and body would truly take.
A fierce smirk spread across the man's face as he looked over Konohamaru. "Really, eh?" Kisame rested his hands on his waist and lent down just enough to bring his face closer to the smaller boy's, looking on intimidating form about his body . "I won't take it easy on you."
Konohamaru refrain from taking in a deep breath nodded. Kisame seemed annoyed, this would be harder then usual.
Kisame stood up strait and looked over the boy scrutinizingly, he couldn't help but think that something must have happened back at SDI, why else would he show up here like this. "Fine, we'll start tomorrow."
"Uh? Tomorrow!" Konohamaru dropped his shoulders and looked at the man with an angry disappointed. "Why?"
"I just had to kill 16 guys that just wouldn't stay dead, I don't feel like it."
"Wha..uha.." Konohamaru began stumbling around with his words, it wasn't the response he was expecting he didn't know what he was suppose to say to that. "Well, I...uha..." He grew nervous with an awkward uneasiness, he hated it when Kisame or Itachi talked about what they did, it always made him feel guilty.
Kisame rolled his eyes. "Damn, your too sensitive." As much as he wanted to toughen Konohamaru up, and as much as he was annoyed by it, he rather liked Konohamaru's almost innocent sensitivity to these things.It was amusing at times, and refreshing to see in his line of work. It was like teaching a pet, dogs in specific, Konohamaru was as loyal as any dog. Though he wondered how much he could take, when you broke a dog, they still loved you, humans on the other hand... It would be interesting to find out. "Tomorrow, 4 am, sharp."
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