Day 34: Breakfast

[screwthegods]

[starting off in M13]

The last part of the night was little more than a blur in Homura's mind. The men had rushed in, but not joined them, instead staying off to themselves. Before any of them had a chance to react, however, a voice sounded through the air, mocking some other person Homura had never heard of, and the patients themselves.

To Homura, whoever that man was, he sounded a great deal like a god.

But before he could ask questions, the demi-god found himself no longer in the chapel, but some strange room on a bed. Is that what Kenren had meant from his earlier warning? Homura sat up, glad at least that the world didn't spin when he did so. Then the same man from before began to speak again, with a completely different tone. It was confusing to hear him talk that way, calling them patients instead of prisoners as he had before. Homura listened quietly as the announcement was made, then got out of bed.

Maybe he wouldn't have to go anywhere yet. It wasn't like Homura knew where to go anyway, and that meant he had time. If this was his room, and if he had been here as long as Kenren had said, there was a chance he could find something with answers. The Taisho had even told him that Homura had seen Rinrei. Certainly he would've written something down, made a map, something that could let him find her again! He started with the desk at the end of his bed, first finding a small stack of notebooks. Picking up the first, he flipped through, turning the pages with quickening desperation as he found each one to be blank.

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[tsunagari.livejournal.com]

Sai tilted his head to the side. Sasuke really was refusing to hear him out correctly. "I've already told you why, Sasuke-kun, and you've already snapped at me for it."

He picked up his fork and began pulling apart his pancake with his fork. "Aside from reading about it, I've witnessed people make poor decisions due to anger. You were upset last night." Well, more than he usually was. Sai didn't know how much that was saying. "And you'd missed a good day at least. So were unarmed, and you were searching with little to no information, hence your arrival at our room. Those weren't the sort of circumstances you should be going after Itachi under.

"I told you of my alliance with Itachi so that you wouldn't find out through other means later, and to hopefully give you some pause. You've made it quite clear now, however, that you don't want me worrying for your safety. I'm not your friend, in other words."

[sasuke-of-sound.livejournal.com]

So what it really kept boiling down to was the fact that Sai had inexplicably decided to protect Sasuke. Mostly from himself, apparently. Where that got confusing was the part where Sai had, at least as far as Sasuke remembered, quite recently accused Sasuke of not deserving the bonds he'd once had.

"No, you're not my friend," Sasuke confirmed, frown deepening. "You don't have an obligation to do anything to protect me. What are you getting out of it?"