| [Apr. 20th, 2008|03:49 am] |
Kimiho looked at Genma, when he was sitting again, face still lined with pain, eyes rimmed with red. When she offered him another cigarette, his hand tremor, she noted, had grown more noticeable. Pale hands laced with red-purple scars. Perhaps he had been sent back into the field too soon.
She waited while he calmed, while his cigarette burned down by half as he inhaled the smoke. Nicotine was calming. A calming drug. And these cigarettes were carefully laced with a little something extra. It was too bad the other one, Hatake, didn't smoke.
When the tension had ebbed enough, she looked at Genma again. "Can you confirm when Captain Oda was hit?"
"Ayako was hit with an exploding tag at point blank range," he answered her. The dead tone had crept back into the young man's voice, she noted. Dead and ragged with pain, and numbed with drugs. She wasn't surprised he referred to his captain by her given name. That kind of familiarity was the norm for Hunter squads. She made a quiet note on her pad, nodded to the sentries that they could step back and let him continue.
"She took a full detonation to the face. Right when they reached us. Before I even knew we were discovered." And he stopped again. Lost. Perhaps he had had feelings for Oda? Though there was no evidence of that in either of their files. But clearly he was unable to continue. Kimiho turned to Kakashi. "So when you arrived, you found Captain Oda already incapacitated?" |
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