（ he still holds to that dream of a peaceful world. but neither his life nor death will have been the thing to carve it out. the only thing he contributed to konoha was his own subservience, and the pain he inflicted — not only on sasuke.
why didn't you come to me? he recalls kakashi asking him, and his fingers tighten faintly on his cup. ）
Forgive me if this is too personal a question, Natasha. You needn't answer if that is the case. （ he cannot help but be aware, of course, that this conversation is a dance. that it reveals as much of him in the asking as her in the telling. generally, he is guarded and closed-off against such things as a matter of course — but he finds he minds less with her than with most that the mirror cuts both ways. ） If you could pursue another avenue of existence, utilizing none of your former skills, what would it be?
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（ he still holds to that dream of a peaceful world. but neither his life nor death will have been the thing to carve it out. the only thing he contributed to konoha was his own subservience, and the pain he inflicted — not only on sasuke.
why didn't you come to me? he recalls kakashi asking him, and his fingers tighten faintly on his cup. ）
Forgive me if this is too personal a question, Natasha. You needn't answer if that is the case. （ he cannot help but be aware, of course, that this conversation is a dance. that it reveals as much of him in the asking as her in the telling. generally, he is guarded and closed-off against such things as a matter of course — but he finds he minds less with her than with most that the mirror cuts both ways. ） If you could pursue another avenue of existence, utilizing none of your former skills, what would it be?