"Do you want me to patch you up or is somebody who knows chakra healing likely to be better at that?"

"Don't know. Some's internal."

Getting someone else to heal him sounds kind of insufferable.

Also.

"Can't walk anyways."

He thinks the problem was losing control of the channeled electricity in his legs, which meant a bad muscle spasm. Not as bad as it used to be when he'd lose control.

(He's maybe shaking a bit.)

"Well, I did real good in med school but I've never treated self-harm by way of magic lightning, so your call who should fix it."

"Karin can heal me." She hasn't healed Sasuke after one of his more brutal training sessions before, but her record on other inventive injuries is good.

"I don't want to go back yet."

"Want a painkiller?"

"I don't care. Probably immune anyways."

"Immune to painkillers? That's rough."

Shrug. "They can be used as poisons. Orochimaru wanted me immune."

He buries his face in his knees.

He wants to find out more about what happened around Itachi, because Sasuke still kind of loves his brother but kind of doesn't because even if you're operating on orders -

He's also not sure he'll be very good at the 'improving the world' thing if he gets any angrier.

Cam sits with him and waits.

"I think I need to talk to Itachi," he says after he's been moping long enough the muscles he hadn't electrocuted have cramped.

"He have a known address?"

"No. Karin or Tobirama can track him, though."

"I don't think he'll kill me. But I don't know if I should leave him until after Orochimaru."

"Do you need to talk to him in person?"

"I want to. But it might not be safe. He stuck me in a coma for a month last time. That'd delay things annoyingly."

Also Sasuke's ability to make coherent decisions has historically gone down after Itachi used his illusions on him. Another year, and he'd be confident in his ability to break those illusions.

He doesn't want to wait another year.

"You could send a fairy over to him with a phone."

"He's an illusion expert. Probably the best on the continent. I don't want to put him near any daeva without me there to break illusions."

"It'd be safer if I took some of the resurrected, anyways, than I'd be alone."

"Legit."

"He'll know I have them if I wait, but I'd rather he be prepared than Orochimaru. Maybe."

"A monthlong coma's downright friendly, is it?"

He shrugs. "Orochimaru would be more likely to set up dead man's switches to hurt other people."

"Mm-hm."

"If dealing with Orochimaru happens fast enough we might be able to give neither a chance to prepare, anyways."

"They don't correspond?"

"Itachi's in the Akatsuki. Orochimaru broke from that group kind of violently eight years ago. They're spying on each other but spy channels are usually slow."

"There you go, then. Sounds like you have some stuff to plan with the undead."