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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.]

That's Naruto's patron, correct?

[The idea does have merit, in that case.]

Yeah, that's the one.

[Any of them are likely to be more sociable than Hel was, though.]

What is yours like?

Hm. Our conversation was brief.

Fairly serious, fairly straightforward. More no-nonsense than some, but not without a sense of humor.

[He'd been working the dunk tank, after all.]

Sounds reasonable, at least.

[He should make more of an effort to find out what the other gods are like.]

Mm.

I will attempt contacting them, once I have a better idea of what I'd like to get them to tell me.

Okay.

[He falls silent, when he speaks again it's soft, almost as if he's thinking out loud.]

I think I'm going to find someplace new to eat for a while.

[Onigiri aren't as nice when the places you eat them have fresh memories of death.]

[Itachi closes his eyes. As much as he likes that place, the atmosphere has been tainted by recent events. It's unfortunate.]

... I'm sorry. I should have - [Found a better place to die? It had been close and comforting, but all the same...]

I should have gone somewhere else.

It's not your fault.

[It's a shame it happened that way, yet his lips curl up ever so slightly.]

We both ended up going there. I liked that place.

I still like it. I plan to return there in the future.

[Perhaps he can get Sasuke to come along also.]

I do too. Just not right now.

[He will more than likely go if Itachi asks though.]

Not right now, no.

... Are there any other places you enjoy?

The other places are convenient, but I don't spend much time in them. It's not as though I've made a habit out of eating out, though.

Do you do a lot of your own cooking as well, then?

[He would have had to, most likely, given his loner lifestyle...]

I guess. The kitchens are always stocked, after all. And there's no charge.

[At least these days he is taking better care of himself. But without a stable source of income, eating out is not a regular thing.]

Mm. That's what I usually do as well.

[He pauses.]

... A picnic. The two of us should have one at some point. We could each make a meal for the other.

[There aren't many people Sasuke would go on a picnic with.

Okay actually that list is extremely small but if it means getting to spend time with his brother, he's all for it.

His lips curl up in that sort of smiling smirk.]

Why not. It could be fun.