[Open] Well he did make his point...

[silverterror]

Where: Konoha
When: May 25th
Notes: After he leaves Adela's section of the auction.

Sephiroth knew people were following him after he left. After all, he'd made quite the spectacle of himself. So he slowed his steps, and wove his way throught he allowed parts of the village for visitors... and waited to see who caught up to him first.

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[silverterror]

He blinked, then laughed. The sound was mocking, sharp, and he tilted his head, clearly and genuinely amused for all that. "Does she?"

[not_thedragon]

The fact that amusement was the first response to such information was plenty of evidence toward what sort of relationship Sephiroth had or once had with Adela, Sasuke's expression veering out of confusion and right back into anger. "Don't play the fool. If you didn't know that already, you wouldn't have behaved the way you did."

[silverterror]

"No." He tilted his head back a touch, a frown just slightly pulling at his lips, honestly confused now as the amusement faded into true bafflement. "She was shocked, but not frightened. She's aware if I was going to kill her I would have by now."

[not_thedragon]

"People don't look like that when they're pleasantly surprised," Sasuke said, a certain amount of dryness in his tone. Surely someone named the 'Silver Terror' could recognize fear when he saw it, even if it was a complicated response. "She wasn't exactly acting overjoyed to see a long-lost relative."

[silverterror]

"Of course not, last time we talked I made it clear I didn't forgive her." He tilted his head, then shook his head. "Her response was about as expected."

[not_thedragon]

If this tall Mist-nin and Adela were really of a clan, there were any number of things for which he might not have forgiven. Still, Sasuke asked: "Didn't forgive her for what?"

[silverterror]

"Leaving." The statement was simple, and by no means a secret. Or at least, it shouldn't be, in his opinion. "In another political climate she would be dead for that."

[not_thedragon]

There were a number of pieces of seemingly-disparate information that were starting to stitch together now, and that answer slotted into them neatly as well. Except, if Sasuke did the math correctly, "She was just a kid when she came to Konoha. You're blaming her?"

[silverterror]

"Who else would I blame?" He tilted his head, looking at him as though this should have been obvious. "When she left, she was the age I'd been when I'd been chunin a year. More than adequate to make her own choices."

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke had heard of it -- the way the Mist pushed children far too young through its exams and onto the battlefield, commanders not even old enough to sign their name to a legal document. Frankly, he'd seen too many shinobi older than him and unqualified to lead ducklings across the street to hold any stock in the Mist's methods, though perhaps he'd also spent too much time with Obito.

"So you -- what, expect her to return to the Mist now that she's become a Konoha-nin?"

[silverterror]

"Of course not." The look he gave him at that was vaguely scornful. "I expected her to not leave in the first place."

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke had to resist the urge to roll his eyes, reminding himself that this was a foreign shinobi -- and with the complete confidence in the man's stance, one not to be trifled with -- and instead kept his tone level.

"Obviously that hasn't happened. So now you're following her around to bother her?"

[silverterror]

"No. Last time she saw me, she crossed my path, and this time." He lifted a shoulder in a shrug. He had no reason to explain.

[not_thedragon]

And this time was an event of international cooperation where shinobi of all villages would be hard-pressed to avoid each other if they weren't seeking someone out. Sasuke's frown didn't lessen, even if it seemed as if there were no malicious intentions for the immediate future happening, mostly because that fact meant that he had no grounds to hold a foreign shinobi.

Finally, glare mutinous, he stepped aside.

[silverterror]

"Adela has always been prone to misunderstanding subtleties." He looked at the boy, then swept by, clearly finished with him. "Take care that you understand that she doesn't misunderstand yours."