#call me a sinner ; call me a saint ( v ; naruto )

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AUTUMN/HALLOWEEN SENTENCE STARTERS! 🍂🍁🎃 - Accepting

@dctcnation​ asked: ❝ i don’t like these woods, hm. ❞

“ ... Neither do I.”

It’s not something he ever likes to admit. Kabuto can easily maintain an air of confidence where necessary, and now it surely is. With the world edging towards war, with a companion who is not his Master but a member of an enemy faction ... It could be a deadly mistake on Kabuto’s behalf to betray any sense of fear and trepidation.

But, he is very in tune with his emotions, his psychical self, and he knows dread when he feels it. 

Kabuto adjusts his glasses, black eyes drifting up towards the treetops. “Keep your guard up. We might run into trouble soon.” 

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@fistsbled​ plotted a Starter!

He’d never expected to see Lee again, not after the failure that was the Hidden Leaf’s takeover. The Third Hokage was killed, and Sasuke eventually left for the Hidden Sound, but the Two-Tails had taken pity on its intended vessel - among the fate that befell Orochimaru himself. 

In short, very little went according to plan.

Not that any of that mattered anymore, of course. Orochimaru was gone, thanks in part to Sasuke, and with the one person who’d given Kabuto a purpose now away from the medic’s side, what more was he to do? Kabuto left the Sound Village to its own devises, whatever that may be, now, in pursuit of something more. 

Kabuto can only guess at what could be going through Lee’s mind, at seeing one of the Hidden Leaf’s enemies in plain sight in some small, rural, utterly ninja-less city. And one who had targeted Lee, at that. 

He supposes he can voice what might have gone through his mind, had their roles been reversed, if only to break the uneasy ice.

“ ... Do you, perhaps, think I’m going to try to hurt you?” A humorless laugh, and as a pale visage flashes through his mind, Kabuto turns his eyes away. His guard isn’t lowered - it never is - but he guesses that a physical conflict might not be entirely inevitable, anyway. “Don’t worry - I’m not. He’s - gone, so we aren’t enemies at this stage.” 

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@shikkotsunin​ plotted a starter!

He kept tabs on all of the Akatsuki members. It was his duty, after all - just another part of his line of work, accepted for good or ill from a young age. Kabuto’s loyalties lay with Orochimaru at this stage of his life, but as far as anyone in this organization knew, he was Sasori’s living puppet, still, in spite of that “curse” being lifted by his more ... eternal Master. 

(And what was one more fabrication and lie anyway, in a life that seemed to be built by them, brick by sordid brick?)

Sasori was not the only one he was investigating, however, not the only one he’d so carefully researched. (Not for Orochimaru this time - when seeing another medical ninja from the Hidden Leaf, Kabuto opted to develop a more personal project.) Onyx eyes scanning for the Akatsuki’s cherry blossom, his resolve spikes when he spots her, having already made sure to study the intel stored on one of his orange cards closely before daring to approach. 

“Ms. Haruno ... May I have a moment?” Kabuto bows his head politely, offers a seemingly nervous smile. “I used to live in the Hidden Leaf, and though I’m now staying in the Hidden Sound, I couldn’t help but notice your - headband. I ... was wondering ... Forgive the intrusion, but by any chance, did you know a man named Danzō Shimura?”

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@thelittlestdemon​ requested a lyric starter! ~ x

“You gotta think twice before you react.” 

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