His secret mission? The facetious tone was clear nearly as soon as the breath Naruto had used for the words finished, but for a moment Sasuke's guard had been down, and his gaze snapped upward sharply despite himself because -- there were people who had asked about his missions and been given vague answers, but secret was -- but Naruto was just complaining. Just complaining.
Complaining about the small villages, clearly still active around the time Sasuke had been rescued (by Gaara and another Suna-nin and Tenten, and that stung in a weird way). His hands itched for the seal he'd been using to contain the map, the questions already on his lips for what trouble, and where, and exactly when.
And then he swallowed them. It wasn't his investigation anymore. He'd fucked up. Whatever the official reason was, whatever pretty words Obito used to dress it up, he'd fucked up. He'd blinded a man and now he was staring at a fixed point past Naruto's shoulder, rearranging words on autopilot -- he'd blinded a man so now -- no longer really seeing the source in front of him, just --
"If you've been hitting border trouble, you should report to T&I." Who was running point on the situation now? Itachi? "The sooner the better, while the details are fresh." Or the mask who had interrogated him, nondescript and noncommittal exactly as an Intel agent should be? "Provide time and date of assignments so they can be cross-referenced."
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Complaining about the small villages, clearly still active around the time Sasuke had been rescued (by Gaara and another Suna-nin and Tenten, and that stung in a weird way). His hands itched for the seal he'd been using to contain the map, the questions already on his lips for what trouble, and where, and exactly when.
And then he swallowed them. It wasn't his investigation anymore. He'd fucked up. Whatever the official reason was, whatever pretty words Obito used to dress it up, he'd fucked up. He'd blinded a man and now he was staring at a fixed point past Naruto's shoulder, rearranging words on autopilot -- he'd blinded a man so now -- no longer really seeing the source in front of him, just --
"If you've been hitting border trouble, you should report to T&I." Who was running point on the situation now? Itachi? "The sooner the better, while the details are fresh." Or the mask who had interrogated him, nondescript and noncommittal exactly as an Intel agent should be? "Provide time and date of assignments so they can be cross-referenced."