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RD 13, puppy log

WHO: Faolan and anyone else
WHAT: Doing puppy things
WHEN: Rebirth's Decline 13
WHERE: Around the town and fields
NOTES: none
WARNINGS: He will be adorable

It was once again the day of the Full Moon. While more people were aware that he was a wolf, Faolan was used to spending that day in wolf form. It was, in many ways, a welcome break.

He pawed his way out of the house to go about his normal routine, reading the bulletin board, running around the market, and chasing butterflies, rabbits, and squirrels.

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But wasn't it time to play? Faolan opened his eyes and whined.

"Don't give me that look." Sasuke raised an eyebrow, staring into big blue eyes.

They didn't get any less cute or pleading.

"Hn." He set Faolan down, and stood up. "Really. I have to talk to someone. He's in a wheelchair."

Oh! That must be Shin! Faolan didn't know anyone else in Schwanheim who was in a wheelchair. That was okay, then. Shin could play, too. He could throw sticks, even in a wheelchair.

Faolan wriggled out of Sasuke's hold and sniffed around, trying to find a trace of Shin. He looked up and barked when he found it, pointing with his nose.

Right. Faolan could track by scent. Remembering that, the puppy thing made a little more sense.

Luck was smiling at him today. Sasuke smiled, and walked towards the way Faolan was pointing. He knelt, and ran a hand down Faolan's spine.

"Good boy," he murmured, and stood again. "Now stay here."

Stay? Oh yeah, like that was going to happen.

Faolan huffed a few times at the instruction. He wasn't a dog. He would do exactly what he wanted to.

He trotted after Sasuke.

He made it a few steps before realizing he was being followed, and he paused and shot a glare over his shoulder.

"I mean it. I have business with him alone."

Was that supposed to matter to Faolan? He stopped to growl darkly. Shin was sort of family, so he had to keep an eye on him.

Besides, Faolan wanted to play!

"Don't make me knock you out," Sasuke muttered, refusing to break the gaze. Shin had insulted his name--had waltzed in like nothing and fucked with everything and--

His stomach twisted. Had it coming.

Shouldn't have meddled if he hadn't wanted to risk Sasuke's anger.

Faolan, as a small child, feared very little, and Sasuke was not one of the things he feared. He glared back, still growling and earning stares from passersby.

His message was very clear. Do not anger the puppy. The puppy owns you.

He could overpower Faolan, easily. Weighed barely anything, and Sasuke wasn't afraid of teeth and claws. It wouldn't take much--a swift jab to the soft tissue under his jaw and he'd be out like a light.

The problem was, while Sasuke was intimately aware of the razor-thin line between stunning and death on a human, he knew considerably less about canine anatomy.

And Faolan hadn't done anything but snarl a little.

Sasuke glared at him a minute more, then turned on his heel and started forward again, more quickly.

That's right. Keep moving.

Faolan, though not especially stealthy, was quite quick, and easily kept up with Sasuke.

Shin was sort of his brother, after all. He had to keep an eye on him and make sure he didn't get in trouble.

"I really will stun you if you get in my way," Sasuke said, glancing down at Faolan behind him. Fuck this.

Focus on your target.

"Shin!" He tried to keep his voice neutral--there was no way he'd come out if his voice was being called with fury dripping from every syllable.

The end of the nightmare flashed in his mind and he shuddered, closed his eyes.

"Shin."

Oh crap.

If it were not for that whole wheel chair in the middle of the street thing, Shin would have hid. He did nooot want to deal with a likely pissed off Sasuke. Not now. Not while he was awake.

Very carefully, he turned the chair to be facing the person calling his name. "...What."

Target acquired.

His steps quickened as he approached the chair, body flushing hot with anger. He was shaking with the effort it took to hold it back.

"Last night," he said, quietly.

And waited.

Yep. He was pissed.

Fuck.

"...What about it?"

"Why."

He knelt down so that he was closer to eye level, sharingan spinning into place. Involuntary. The sensation of flesh and bone, his flesh and bone crunching under his own fist flashed through his senses. He clenched his fingers.

"You sadistic piece of shit." His fist slammed down onto the arm of the chair, and he leaned in close, voice rising. "WHY?"

"You mean why I stopped you from having a horrible nightmare?" Shin returned, refusing to be cowed despite the twinge in his back at the impact on the chair.

"Stop it?" Sasuke laughed, harsh and brutal and humorless, and leaned closer. "You made it worse. Have you ever woken up after a dream where you beat yourself shitless because your focus was stolen from you by some self-righteous cripple who wants to feel superior?"

His chest heaved. He wanted, desperately, to sink his fist into Shin's face. "Don't ever stick your stupid nose in my mind again or I will set you on fire and watch you burn."

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"You made it worse," Shin returned, fingers gripping tightly on the sides of the chair. "I gave you something you hated to focus on, since you were so damned determined to be angry and miserable. You were in control of that, not me."

He went limp.

Almost under his breath, he spoke. "Stop being so angry, Sasuke. Stop beating yourself up, Sasuke. Put it in perspective, Sasuke. Calm down, Sasuke."

Every breath scraped, raw and ragged, against his lungs. His voice rose with every word. "Forget it ever happened and come home, Sasuke. Forget we slaughtered your entire family and let us fucking take you home to be put to death like you should have been when you were a child! Stop being such a hair-trigger, Sasuke! You're being unreasonable, Sasuke! YOU GIVE ME NO FUCKING CHOICE, SASUKE! THIS WAS YOUR FAULT, SASUKE!"

His face was wet. He didn't care, and shoved it close to Shin's, eyes locked on his. "You stole it from me and fucked me over! You had to fucking meddle like everyone else because nobody fucking trusts me with my own fucking head! Everyone knows Sasuke better than Sasuke! Sasuke's fucking crazy and needs to be taken out back and shot like a rabid fucking animal because no sane person would suffer after watching everyone they ever loved burn!"

He smelled smoke and didn't give a shit. "STUPID, CRAZY SASUKE IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING, ISN'T HE? ISN'T HE!?"

There was a subtle shift around them as the town fell away, Shin wrapping his power around them both to push Sasuke back into the Dreaming as smoothly as possible so that he wouldn't even notice.

Slowly, Shin stood, pushing Sasuke back with a calm, firm hand as he did so, but keeping the distance between them close to keep the other teen's focus.

"Is that what you truly think?"

The only clue that he'd been pulled into Shin's realm was that he was standing, and pushed Sasuke back like he weighed nothing, had no strength.

But his anger hadn't dissipated.

"Is that what I think," he spat. "What the fuck makes you think you know any better than me, huh? Everyone else thinks I'm fucking insane; why shouldn't you?"

"What the hell makes you think you have any idea what the hell I think?" Shin returned. "I think you're a self pitying asshole who doesn't know who the fuck he hates more, himself or everyone else. But hey, keep up the ranting and raving if you want me to think you're a crazy nutbag on top of that."

"You assumed you were doing me a fucking favor by messing up my dream," Sasuke snarled, giving Shin a push--wishing he could blast a hole in his chest with chidori, but he knew it wouldn't come up here even if it would have in the real world. "I'm not the one sitting on my ass wallowing about it! And my dreams let me do that, you fuck, and you ruined it! You don't think it's the slightest bit patronizing to assume I can't handle my own fucking nightmares?"

"If you could handle your own fucking nightmares you wouldn't be in them, you idiot," Shin snapped back, returning the push. Even if Sasuke had a valid point, there was no way Shin could yield to it. Not like this. "You weren't in control of it, you were being tortured by it!"

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