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Uchiha Itachi (fallen_itachi) wrote in fallen_leaves,
@ 2008-01-07 18:59:00

Entry tags:

itachi, kakashi

Night Vision [closed to Itachi & Kakashi]
Itachi didn't even bother asking why he was the one chosen to debrief Hatake. He already knew.

How fortunate for them that Itachi had his own interest in the man's Sharingan.

The clan was not happy with Hatake having a Sharingan eye. Approximately a third of the clan never awakened the recessive doujutsu. Of those that did, not everyone achieved full mastery. So to learn that not only was the Sharingan in an outclan, but that said outclan had somehow mastered it, stuck in the collective craw. Itachi himself didn't much care about Hatake's eye, except the intense curiosity to find out exactly what it could do. Itachi had been nine when his cousin Obito had been killed. He had had no contact with the other Uchiha during the boy's life, and really only heard of him after his death. What Itachi heard about Obito didn't impress him much. Hatake was much more interesting.

Itachi knew whatever he learned would have to go back to the clan in some form. Even if Intel had mandated the questioning due to the mission specifying that Hatake was to copy a jutsu, the answers would still go back to the clan. How much information depended largely not on Hatake's answers, but Itachi himself. He operated under the ideal that one should never reveal everything one knew, and that one should only reveal as much as was asked. No elaboration necessary. Living by this meant he was never satisfied with the answers he did obtain - a handy asset when extracting information. Painstakingly exact, he had considered Torture & Interrogation until he realized they rarely went on missions and that simply wouldn't do. If he was to test himself, he needed to be out there, experiencing the world and pushing himself to the ultimate limits.

He mounted the hospital stairs with the habitual silence of a trained operative. A detour on a previous floor relieved a harried nurse of a capped syringe of mild tranquilizer, now tucked under a strap of his body armor beneath his shirt. As he wanted, no one remarked on his presence. He was a shadow in plain sight, unobtrusive, becoming noticeable only when he wanted to be. Which he didn't.

He found Hatake's room easily enough, slipping inside without a sound. Both Hatake and Sakamoto were completely zonked, but the large German shepherd on Sakamoto's bed lifted its head presumably as soon as it caught Itachi's scent. (Seeing as he could pass within inches of woodland creatures and not disturb them, he doubted the dog heard anything. But he didn't discount the possibility.) It didn't look pleased, and Itachi looked at it right back. One of Hatake's dogs, then, if the scarf-cape was any indiction.

Itachi considered. He didn't know much about Hatake's summons-dogs. Knew he had them but had never met them himself. No way of knowing what their capabilities were besides human-level intelligence. He also knew he didn't want Sakamoto waking while he debriefed Hatake. He lifted a hand, ready to cast a light genjutsu on Sakamoto when the dog growled. Interesting. He let his hand drop and 'let go' of the chakra he would use for the genjutsu. The dog stopped growling but the wary watchfulness was indeed palpable.

Very well.

He reached inside his shirt to get the syringe, and the dog began growling again. "It's just a mild sedative," Itachi said quietly, moving carefully towards Sakamoto and keeping his own eye on the dog. "I wish to speak with Kakashi-san without interruption. Not that he--" here Itachi indicated the man the dog guarded "--couldn't use more sleep."

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fallen_kakashi
2008-01-08 12:18 am UTC (link)

Kakashi stirred slightly at Hoshika's growl, moving just enough to pull on his IV. The slight flare of pain wasn't enough to wake him up. He winced, slender eyebrows drawing into a momentary frown before his expression smoothed over once more, hidden by the sheet pulled up and over his maskless face. He settled, breathing deep and even.

Ordinarily Hoshika's warning rumble would have been enough to yank Kakashi back to consciousness, fully awake and bristling at the threat. If, indeed, there was a threat. But a week’s worth of coma, preceded by the excessive painful chakra drain and a lovely case of pneumonia meant the copy-nin wasn’t exactly currently fighting fit.

Hoshika’s brown eyes fixed on Itachi’s face, lips drawing back to show sharp teeth. She didn’t trust this man. He was certainly not a medic, and he smelled odd to her. Wrong in some basic way. His clothes were civilian, which told her nothing. He moved like a shinobi, smelled like a shinobi; metal and the iron scent of the jutsu he hadn't completed. Her hackles rose, bristling, and the growl deepened in her throat as she prepared to bark and summon a medic-nin. To wake Ginta and warn him of this unsettling new threat.

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fallen_itachi
2008-01-08 12:36 am UTC (link)

Itachi did not appreciate the growl. Nor did he want to chance the dog barking and waking people up--Hatake had already stirred. Instead, Itachi tipped his head in what could be presumed to be an apology. Then he was in front of her, fingers digging into a specific nerve bundle that would knock the animal cold. He set the syringe aside before arranging the dog in a sleeping position before turning to Sakamoto's IV. A quick read of the bags contents told him the sedative would cause no harm to the man. Turning one pale limb over to expose a greenish vein in the wrist, Itachi carefully slipped the needle in, administered the sedative, then healed the minute wound with a healing jutsu for just that purpose. A quick wipe-down of the syringe before he tossed it unerringly into the medical waste container.

Only when Sakamoto was seen to did Itachi turn to Hatake. His face, what of it was visible, was drawn a slight grimace of pain just about faded away. Itachi wasn't about to shake Hatake awake. Stupid thing to do when shinobi responded with reflexes first and reason second. Easier and safer to draw him out of a deep sleep with ninjutsu, softly nudging him to consciousness so that he became aware without a jolt to his system. Rooster, boar, dog, hare, horse.

	fallen_itachi 2008-01-08 01:42 am UTC (link)
	"A few questions, and then I will go," Itachi replied. Hatake looked slightly better. "Would you please describe, in your own words, how the jutsu looked when you observed it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fallen_itachi 2008-01-12 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	"In the inn, a suiton would have turned the target's raiton against him if you pulled the water from the pipes in the walls once you saw the intent," Itachi answered. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)