itsjustdust | Kunai the 18th: [Video/Action Vermillion]

[The feed clicked on, and for the first time in months everyone got a view of an orange and dark blue clad shinobi. His goggles were off his face, and his headband was nowhere on his head, likely because he was trying to scrub something off of the metal plate and had it in his lap, but otherwise he looked well enough, a bit bigger, lankier, but otherwise, fine.

Some people would be able to note he looked much more at peace too, under his irritation.]

Okay, enough is enough!

I mean it.

I fall out of contact for a few weeks, and what happens? Everyone up and decides to go home! Let me tell you something. I am so not thrilled by this.

So I don't care if we fought last we talked, or haven't spoken in months for no good reason, or anything like that. If you recognize me, come say hello to me because I would like to know who is left around here.

Okay?

This is stupid, and I apologize right now in a blanket 'yeah I get it, it's my fault too' for any and everything that might've kept us from talking.

But, seriously.

Hello and I want to talk to everyone, okay?

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Sulking. You?

[He didn't look repentant about it either.]

You sulked. For fuckin' weeks.

Christ, and I thought teenagers who weren't ninjas were bad.

What's it look like? I'm still stuck here.

Well, I found out that the girl I love died shortly after I did among other things, I think I recovered pretty quickly.

[Well that's a hell of a thing. Blake's not real good at handling anything sensitively, though, let alone that, so he goes for the first thing that pops into his head.]

I thought you said you weren't dead?

I'm not, but it feels like I was so... I'll just leave it as the significant marker.

Fine, I'm not even gonna get into it.

Sounds like all you get from back home is crazy bullshit bad news.

[Have a nice extended pause as he thinks about that.]

....

......

I really wish I could argue with that.

If I were you, I'd quit asking.

I did. [He huffed.]

I don't think the universe thinks so though.

Who asked the universe's opinion? It can go take all its horoscopes and fortunetelling and screw itself.

Can it stop telling me things when I'm not asking too?

I don't think it plans to.

People can tell you all they want. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

[Trust Blake! He's really good at not listening to things!]

No, but not listening tends to do more harm than listening does.

[He shook his head.]

That's how enemies sneak up on you.

People don't sneak up on you by telling you they saw a vision where your girlfriend dies.

If they do, that's a fuckin' weird ambush.

I found out by being upset about something else and having someone go 'did he tell you Rin died, I should have warned him not to.'

[All the deadpan.]

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