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Sasuke gets a warm blanket and also therapy
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His head's spinning. He feels like there's cracks in his mind, like he's ripping apart along them - 

The masked man said that Itachi was forced into killing the clan.

Sasuke doesn't want to believe it.

(He does.)

Itachi was crying that night - 

(Sasuke doesn't remember if he was too.)

Sasuke killed Itachi when he shouldn't have. He made everything worse and now Itachi is dead

There's a horrible pressure behind his eyes, like a fire overflowing. 

Sasuke gasps, and the dam breaks.

Reality pretzels around him, and he's no longer in the underground room the masked man had trapped him in.

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He crashes onto a table. 

Someone shrieks in surprise, and then he is not on the table anymore, he is on a couch, and a woman is standing up from a table that looks as though someone had just crashed into it, staring at him with bemusement and concern. 

Also at the table are a blond man, a little girl with curly hair, and a man with black hair with a weird staff featuring an hourglass leaning against his chair. 

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Now on their couch is a teenager who looks like he just lost a hell of a fight and then got some really horrible news on top of it.

He's also now crouching, cursing the fact that he doesn't have any weapons and is still low on chakra - lower than he was, even, he's dizzy and swaying a bit, his eyes won't focus

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Eliza frowns. She has no idea what's wrong with this poor boy, not really, but if she pokes at his internals a bit, discreetly--well, she has no idea at all what's up with his eyes, but...it seems like the dizziness is caused by a lack of some kind of energy unfamiliar to her? Well, she doesn't have to know what it is to replenish it. 

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 - Suddenly having more chakra is intensely weird, enough to disrupt his rising panic that they might be enemies.

Well. They still might be enemies. He has a lot of enemies.

"What's going on?" he demands.

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"I don't know, you suddenly teleported into my house--did someone do that to you?" 

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"I - don't know."

He might've done something. He's not certain.

(At least he's not in that cave - )

(But what if the masked man comes after him here - )

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"Are you alright? Is someone likely to come after you?" 

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"Someone might. A man in an orange mask."

(He's maybe on purpose ignoring the first question.)

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Nod. "Can--no. What can you tell me, about who you are and who this person is and what happened to you--and what that energy you're using is, I've never seen anything like it--"

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"He's part of the Akatsuki. He captured me after I was in a fight. The energy's chakra - everyone has it."

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"What's Akatsuki?"

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"...A group of missing-nin. Where is this?"

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"I haven't heard of Alaska."

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"I don't know what a missing-nin is." 

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" - I might be. Far from what I'm used to." Assuming she's telling the truth. Sasuke's bad at figuring that sort of thing out.

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She summons a globe from the library. 

"This is Alaska," she says, pointing, then holds out the globe in offering. 

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He takes the globe, slowly, and turns it around. "I don't recognize any of this."

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"...Okay...hm." 

She summons a laptop and hands it to her husband with a brief murmur in English as to what she has in mind. He opens it and starts doing things. 

"This is basically unprecedented but, frankly, lots of things are. What do you need? On an immediate or long-term level." 

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"Food, water, shelter. I can work my own way."

If he's on another planet (which means his sharingan probably did do something; interdimensional travel would be unprecedented but not too weird an ability for a Mangekyou), he -

Can't do a lot that he might've been planning.

But he'll have room to think.

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"Food, water and shelter are trivially easy. Getting you back home if you want to go will be harder but I bet we can figure something out. I--am sure you can work your own way but you look young enough that in this culture you wouldn't be expected to." 

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Why is his brain picking now to be suddenly very sad and anxious. He can function through panic attacks now, but, seriously.

He doesn't really respond externally.

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"We're not going to make you go back. It--sounds like you were in danger there?"

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Shrug.

He's kind of in danger everywhere; it doesn't really matter.

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Okay. 

She has very little idea of what you're supposed to do in this situation but she has, like, instincts. 

She summons a soft blanket, warms it, and then strides forward and wraps it around him. 

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