| [Jul. 8th, 2012|04:45 am] |
Katsuko laughed at that, poking him gently in the side. “I hope that’s an understatement.”
Genma’s reply rocked her back on her metaphorical heels. "I want to kill every fucker in Kumogakure that had anything to do with what happened to you,” he said, low and slightly threatening. “And go kick the balls of every medic at the hospital until they do something for you. How can they just let you die?"
Katsuko blinked at him. “I,” she said. “Um. Just... give me a second. I didn’t expect that kind of reaction.” She ran her fingers through her hair and reorganized her scattered thoughts. “The medics—they’re still working on a fix for me. They haven’t come up with anything yet, but... there’s still time.” Not enough time, but she’d take what she could get.
"I hope so,” Genma said. “I hope… Maybe I should talk to Rina. I mean, even if you don't want to talk to her, I could. She's really smart about seals. Really smart. I'd be completely crippled if it weren't for her." He looked away. "I'd probably be dead if it weren't for her."
“Hey,” Katsuko said, gently, and tugged on a stray lock of his hair. “It’ll be okay. If you... if you trust her, I could ask the medics to give her access to my files. They’ve got diagrams of my seal in there. In triplicate. Color-coded, even.” For all the good it did.
"Yeah, that'd be good,” Genma said. “She could look at the diagrams, and talk to your docs and stuff. Maybe she'd have some ideas. She did this chart for me, back when… the first time. If you want, I could show it to you."
Katsuko looked at him, brow creasing. Genma’s expression was carefully neutral, concerned anger showing in the slight downturn of his mouth. He didn’t meet her gaze, fixing his stare somewhere far off in the distance.
“If that’s alright with you,” she said, carefully. “I’d like to see them.”
"Yeah. They're in my room. You want to come down? Rai's not home yet, he's doing sentry at the Hokage Palace."
She shrugged, giving him a cheeky grin. “Sure. It’s not like I have anywhere else to be.” |
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