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[It wasn't. The memories still trouble him, though he wouldn't admit.

There's a short silence before he speaks again.]

He embedded a kunai in my wrist and sliced my arm open. Held me down and watched me bleed to death with that stupid grin on his face.

[The first time in a long time he had shown some concern and gone to help out an that was the price he paid for it.]

[There is another long moment of silence.

Imagining Naruto doing that is just... more than surreal.]

...That may explain some of his hesitancy in responding to me about certain things when I arrived.

I'm not angry at him anymore, just at her for causing it. But that's why we weren't speaking when you first showed up, I'm sure you noticed.

[And then they got over it by punching each other a few times and breaking bones, then ate lunch together. As you do.]

Anyway my point is, things like that can happen as well as what the city just went through.

I did.

[Another frown, the lack of control over the situation still bothering him.]

That's... troubling to hear. Worse still that she was able to have power over others so easily.

[With the Sharingan, such mind control would be counterable.]

[His own thoughts are the same.]

It wouldn't be a problem if we could use the Sharingan. There were no obvious signs that anything was happening, until it was too late.

We are at their whims far too much for my liking.

[Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to fix that.]

Yeah. We have to search harder for a way out of this. Just don't ask me what that is yet, I don't know.

The key will lie with those in power here and those that want it.

[The beings that kept them here in the first place.]

[The gods, then.]

Have you spoken with any of them?

A couple. My patron. Yours.

Not many and not for very long.

[And sadly without gathering much information.]

I spoke with Hel once. Odin a couple times. Nothing of importance was said. [He basically bitched at them.]

Getting a decent audience with them seems to require more effort than simply walking up and addressing one, and unfortunately we are at their mercy in that regard.

[And oh how he doesn't like that either.]

I haven't ever seen any of them in person aside from at that one festival.

[They can come out to play stupid ribbon games but not to address important matters.]

I was able to make a request to meet Hel at her shrine, provided I placed an offering first. But I did meet her at the festival in order to arrange it.

[A glance to his bracelet.]

Do they respond to being called out over these?

What request? [That is news to him.]

You can leave them messages on these. I tried it once, with Hel, on the day I arrived.

It's not important. It didn't get anywhere.

Did she answer?

Yeah, she did.

I told her to send me back, she more or less told me to get lost.

Hm... Not a request they're likely to grant for anyone.

But perhaps they'd be more responsive to something else.

You have something you want to ask? [Sasuke is pretty much done talking to them right now.]

I would like to know that it's possible.

[In case he can actually find a question that will get them somewhere.]

They usually reply, from what I know. [He has been in conversations before where people talked about messaging the gods.]

That's good to hear. I might be able to get something useful out of them eventually.

[Though he's not holding his breath.]

I think it largely depends on which one of them you talk to. [Of course he cannot back that up, since he has only spoken to a few.]

It might. They are far from identical.

[Perhaps his own patron would be more willing...]

Maybe we'd get more luck with Freya, going by the type of people she likes to bring in.

[All the people he met from there so far have seemed to be blabbermouths far too happy for their own good.]

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