The hand made him flinch, first, before he folded into seiza, the formality of the pose letting him clench his fists and inhale -- exhale --
"I was on my way home," he started, trying to hold the timeline of events in order. "Everything was fine; I was ahead of schedule, so I stopped to eat. Whoever did it must have followed me from Ame, maybe even before -- I should have noticed --"
He stopped, inhaling-exhaling again, before continuing: "It must have happened there, at the inn. I remember eating, and then after that I -- I didn't know where I was going, but somehow I did. It wasn't anywhere I'd been before; it was a civilian household, but I just --" His fists clenched tighter, knuckles paling. "I just walked in, in front of everyone, and killed a man. I don't know who. It wasn't even an assassination, it was plain as day, I --"
I knocked his son unconscious before he could say anything. And then ... "I didn't want to. But I didn't know what I was doing until it was done and I -- knew."
Hunching again, afraid to look Obito in the eye, he repeated: "I fucked up bad, sen-" and cut himself off, because what right had he to call himself a Hokage's student right now? Shoulders stiff, he waited.
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"I was on my way home," he started, trying to hold the timeline of events in order. "Everything was fine; I was ahead of schedule, so I stopped to eat. Whoever did it must have followed me from Ame, maybe even before -- I should have noticed --"
He stopped, inhaling-exhaling again, before continuing: "It must have happened there, at the inn. I remember eating, and then after that I -- I didn't know where I was going, but somehow I did. It wasn't anywhere I'd been before; it was a civilian household, but I just --" His fists clenched tighter, knuckles paling. "I just walked in, in front of everyone, and killed a man. I don't know who. It wasn't even an assassination, it was plain as day, I --"
I knocked his son unconscious before he could say anything. And then ... "I didn't want to. But I didn't know what I was doing until it was done and I -- knew."
Hunching again, afraid to look Obito in the eye, he repeated: "I fucked up bad, sen-" and cut himself off, because what right had he to call himself a Hokage's student right now? Shoulders stiff, he waited.