" oh no, " sasuke says, completely monotone. " i don't know what i'd do at all. i've never experienced that before -- losing everything i know in one fell swoop. " he's feeling mean, lashing out and mocking suigetsu because he's uncomfortable.
he's never been good at being vulnerable, and he doesn't want to be vulnerable with suigetsu, not right now. because he's currently holding himself together with butcher's twine and wishes, and if suigetsu cuts through all that, he doesn't know what he'll do. probably break. " i don't know. i'd just survive. like a cockroach. "
❛ ...c’mon, man, y’know i didn’t mean it like that. ❜
suigetsu’s no good, when sasuke gets like this. he doesn’t know why he bothered pushing the subject, really, anyway; karin and jugo, they’re the ones who question sasuke, advise him, try n’ make him think twice about plans. suigetsu’s just the yes-man bodyguard who isn’t smart enough to understand what they’re doing, much less have an opinion on it — but then, what he has isn’t really an opinion. it’s just a gut feeling. a gut feeling he doesn’t want sasuke to go into a battle he ain’t ready for. (survive. like a cockroach. well, at least the idiot wasn’t planning on dying. suigetsu worries about that more and more these days.)
❛ i just mean... like, is this it? this whole... war, military leader, otokage thing, is that... what you really want? i thought you didn’t wanna play by the village’s rules anymore. don’t you ever just, sort of... wanna, like... bail? ❜