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[Itachi has dealt with a lot during his time in Luceti, and he's weathered it all as well as he can. As a ninja, he's been taught to withstand torture, and he had to deal with things that most would never even have to think about.

Sasuke and Naruto had gone home. He's happy for them, really. They're needed elsewhere. But for them to possibly lose all their memories of this place, for Sasuke to be without his mother again and for her to have to know that the son she'd talked to might be gone forever, it's heartbreaking. It's for the best, but his heart aches all the same.

He isn't a materialistic person, either. He could live with nothing but the clothes on his back and be fine. Losing items he's grown attached to is disheartening, but ultimately easy to get over.

Still, as he stands in his yard near the place his greenhouse should be, gently petting the small kitten in his hands that should be a fully grown cat, all but the most oblivious should be able to sense a dark aura of Displeasure about him. He'll stand there for some time, his attention to the cat becoming some small form of meditation.]

[video, later]

[Once he finally returns back inside, he'll spend some time in his living room - with a smoothie of all things, non-alcoholic. The kitten remains in his lap, having given in to the inevitable by now.]

Shifts like this.

It really makes you wonder about the nature of this place.

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It was a generic statement, I know.

[One wondered about the nature of this place the moment they arrived.]

But it seems as though there's always something happening that changes what aspects I wonder about.

Unfortunately I was never one for easy solutions.

Yeah? You got any hard ones? I'll still listen to those.

[It's pretty clear by now that easy solutions are a myth.]

I have none.

[A light shrug of his shoulders.]

I meant I can't just stop thinking about it. [He doesn't work that way.]

It took me a long time to be able to stop thinking about it. [Sheena almost sighs. So many things happened to her, she's practically been rewired.] What're you wondering about this time? If, uh, you don't mind the question.

Time.

[That's it. That's the entire subject.]

And its meaning here, or lack of.

Heh. I dunno if you're talking to the right person about that. I'm staring down seven years in this place.

[He shakes his head.]

I don't know if any of us would be able to say.

It's a matter of whether or not the effects we're experiencing now really are a result of the earlier time reversal, or if there's something more at work here.

It's possible I'm over-thinking it.

Which effects do you mean?

[The only odd shift Sheena saw for herself was the disappearance of the rec center, and she liked having more backyard for the minutes it was gone.]

Wait, is something else missing?

[The ninja tilts his head down toward the kitten in his lap.]

Amaya here should be fully grown.

The greenhouse addition to our home, as well as my outside garden, are missing and vacant.

Not too long ago the rec center disappeared, too. I didn't think that had anything to do with time...but I guess the cat changing probably does. Sure she didn't just have kittens?

A pregnancy wouldn't have happened that quickly without us knowing, nor would it have resulted in three kittens identical to the three cats that lived here originally.

[Sheena thinks cats are a strange thing to notice and think so far about, but she's never had a cat. Maybe it just happens with owning one.]

D'you think it can happen to us?

Of course.

[A simple, tired look.]

It has in the past. I've spent a few days as a child with no memories of this place. Granted, I was taken away by the robots for that to happen.

Whenever that's happened to me, it's been part of some bigger experiment going on with everybody. Not just...y'know, one thing disappearing.

The point is that there are prior examples.

There don't seem to be many rules in place regarding some of the particulars.

Really? I think there're lots of rules. They get broken sometimes, or maybe they change, but...I guess maybe the people in charge've always figured they can just do what they want.

We are lab rats to them. At the very least, their rules likely don't apply to us.

We get a different set of rules.

Guidelines, more likely.

But my intent was to ponder, not complain.

Sorry, guess I got you off track. What else were you pondering?

Too many things, really.

Far too many things.

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