The first time, Obito said, and Sasuke looked down at his hands, head bowed enough to shadow his face in the grey dawn.
"How many more times?" He asked, halfway rhetorical, voice low. If he had paid more attention, if he'd been more aware; ifs by the dozen and the rational part of him wondering how preventable these situations even were. If people other than him had gotten into them and required this kind of ...
He wanted to ask that, too: how many others? How many failures like me? But there was sunlight cresting over the woods and time pressing, and no time to do much more than reach back up, jimmy the window lock and hoist himself up, tucking and rolling into a loose crouch.
No movement came from inside the house. He hadn't expected any, but it was still -- it was still a place where he needed to focus. The cellar trapdoor was directly ahead, the seal laid over it undisturbed. Sasuke didn't give himself time to breathe and think: he disabled the seal with swipe of blood in the right place, pulling the doors open and letting light down onto the bodies laid out neatly on the packed earth, side-by-side in two rows.
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"How many more times?" He asked, halfway rhetorical, voice low. If he had paid more attention, if he'd been more aware; ifs by the dozen and the rational part of him wondering how preventable these situations even were. If people other than him had gotten into them and required this kind of ...
He wanted to ask that, too: how many others? How many failures like me? But there was sunlight cresting over the woods and time pressing, and no time to do much more than reach back up, jimmy the window lock and hoist himself up, tucking and rolling into a loose crouch.
No movement came from inside the house. He hadn't expected any, but it was still -- it was still a place where he needed to focus. The cellar trapdoor was directly ahead, the seal laid over it undisturbed. Sasuke didn't give himself time to breathe and think: he disabled the seal with swipe of blood in the right place, pulling the doors open and letting light down onto the bodies laid out neatly on the packed earth, side-by-side in two rows.