getting back into an old character...

[undiscarded]

Years, and you come back crawling.

Waste of good feet on you. Waste of a spine.

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[chakras]

You paid for it deciding it was worth it. There's a difference.

[ there's a tiny part of kakashi that wants to ask him, which boy? but he refrains. hates that he still has to remind himself of this. ]

He's been better. [ which is saying something. ] You missed a lot.

[undiscarded]

Had a mouth on him. He alive, all I could've missed was someone teaching him to quiet it.

[chakras]

You could live for centuries and still not be around long enough to see that.

[undiscarded]

Doubt it. Boyo didn't look hopeless.

The other one lived?

[chakras]

You could say that.

[undiscarded]

And the girl?

[chakras]

Faring better than them both. [ ...technically speaking, anyway. ]

They've all reached a level of potential exceeding even the most optimistic's expectations. [ and yet he only sounds grim when he speaks. ]

[undiscarded]

Who'd have thought it? Good on you. The boy didn't look hopeless. You sure did.

[ there's some envy there, for all the wrong reasons. ]

...good on you, keeping them alive.

[chakras]

[ eh, he's past his prime... he's okay with being hopeless.

well not currently, but.

and if he's at all uncomfortable by that hint of envy, he has the grace not to show it. ]

They keep themselves alive. [ sometimes he still wonders how they manage it, considering half the things they do. and then he remembers what he saw in them all in the first place.

but this conversation's starting to head towards the morose, and he's pretty sure they both have had enough of that. ]

Now that you're around again — any plans?

[undiscarded]

That Konoha asking, or Konoha's Copy Ninja?

[chakras]

Just me.

What could I do with that information here, anyway?

[undiscarded]

Sell it, you fool. Little it can buy you beats an empty hand. Said you're hopeless, didn't I?

[ but maybe he owes a debt too. ]

Talked plenty about your boys. Seems right to find mine.

[chakras]

Hopeless, but not desperate. Another difference.

Seems you already have, though. [ and now it's his turn— ] Good on you.

[undiscarded]

...yeah. You treat them like dogs, they come when they hear your voice, like dogs. Funny thing.

[chakras]

Shame for the dog.

[undiscarded]

Don't waste pity on something with better teeth than yours.

[chakras]

I can mourn the fallen if I want to. I can even mourn you. [ but mostly only because he knows it'd piss him off. ]

[undiscarded]

Gonna cry with one good eye?

[chakras]

You'd be surprised.

[undiscarded]

Whatever blinds it first.

[chakras]

Well we can leave out your dazzling personality.