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- + urameshi yusuke,
- + uzumaki naruto,
- introduction
One Necessary Lie ✧ Video
[The video feature flicks on but it's completely black and is silent for a minute. Perhaps it was done on accident. But wait, no, that's not the case. There's a man's voice, unidentifiable except to those who know him. Either way, he sounds unamused.]
A world where you collect animals and let them do the fighting for you. Seems cruel. Or perhaps you just don't see it that way. Using creatures to collect ridiculous badges. What good will it do you when you leave this place? If you leave this world.
[Itachi pauses, silence fills the moment.]
How many of you still continue your own physical training as you level up your creatures? Would you be capable of taking down your enemy without the aide of your Pokemon? Would you be satisfied if you couldn't? [Yes, Sasuke. Those last two questions were specifically aimed towards you.]
It also appears that the dead walk among us. [Does he know about the other shinobi or simply referring to himself -- hard to tell. Some might not even recognize him by voice alone. So finally he shifts it around to reveal his face. Itachi doesn't have the hitae-ai sitting upon his forehead like usual and his surroundings are hard to pinpoint. The maroon cloak he's wearing doesn't help as it covers the rest of his clothes.]
[He sighs as if this is all a big bother or an annoyance.] I suppose it's only polite to introduce myself. My name is Uchiha Itachi.
A world where you collect animals and let them do the fighting for you. Seems cruel. Or perhaps you just don't see it that way. Using creatures to collect ridiculous badges. What good will it do you when you leave this place? If you leave this world.
[Itachi pauses, silence fills the moment.]
How many of you still continue your own physical training as you level up your creatures? Would you be capable of taking down your enemy without the aide of your Pokemon? Would you be satisfied if you couldn't? [Yes, Sasuke. Those last two questions were specifically aimed towards you.]
It also appears that the dead walk among us. [Does he know about the other shinobi or simply referring to himself -- hard to tell. Some might not even recognize him by voice alone. So finally he shifts it around to reveal his face. Itachi doesn't have the hitae-ai sitting upon his forehead like usual and his surroundings are hard to pinpoint. The maroon cloak he's wearing doesn't help as it covers the rest of his clothes.]
[He sighs as if this is all a big bother or an annoyance.] I suppose it's only polite to introduce myself. My name is Uchiha Itachi.
video; icon credit to tothe_slaughter @ LJ!
So here, Itachi, have one more hero-type all up on your screen, responding to you in what would sound like a pretty chill, conversational voice, were it not for that underlining hardness in his tone. Looks like you touched a bit of a nerve!]
Y'know, it must get old, being the one asking all the questions. So here's one for you: do you actually care about these things, or are you just trying to get under people's skin and make yourself look good?
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[For his part, Itachi doesn't respond to the hardness in this stranger's voice. Just calmly sits there as if he's not bothered by anything at all.]
When did I say I cared? A shinobi will use anything and everything in their arsenal, even animals. All I wanted was your opinions on the matter.
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Right, you're just conductin' a survey.
[If Itachi's set on convincing Yusuke that he's just asking for the hell of it, he's got another thing coming. That much is made obvious not just by the sarcasm evident in his last statement, but by Yusuke's next question, which is:]
So what's the agenda here, Mr. Mysterious? If it's not that big of a deal to you, why should it matter what anyone else does with their pets? Seems to me that most Pokemon enjoy fighting, anyway.
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How am I "Mr. Mysterious" when I stated my name? Curiosity. I'm well aware of my opinion on the matter and I want to know how others do.
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[>:( YOU WANT "SUSPICIOUS", THEN HERE IT IS, embodied by a smartmouthed fourteen-year-old. The only way Itachi could scream "villain" at him any louder would be if he unveiled some harebrained plan for the destruction of the universe. It's bad enough the dude has a cape, for fuck's sake. (Okay, so it's actually a cloak, but whatever. SAME DIFFERENCE.)
Yusuke goes on, his voice cool.]
But all right, Itachi. If you're just curious, then how come you're trying to mess with peoples' heads? You can't just say "oh, I'm only curious" when you're goin' off on some dumb rant about how Pokemon battles are cruel and how this badge collecting thing is stupid. I mean, you could, but it's pretty easy to tell you're bullshitting.
[Yusuke may not be as into this Pokemon thing as some of the people here are - seriously, about the only reason why he's participating in it is because he figures he'd have too much time on his hands if he did otherwise - but like hell he's gonna put up with what he's perceiving as some snooty, sanctimonious weirdo trying to guilt-trip and get all superior at people just 'cause they're doing what they can to adapt to this damn place. It's one thing if you just don't get the appeal; it's another if you're acting like you're hot shit for it. What the hell was up with that sigh at the end, anyway? "Oh, I SUPPOSE I should give you my name." Yeah, as if anyone was even asking, freak show.
(To be fair, Yusuke might be acting a little hypocritical, here: after all, he still can't help but find the level of complacency amongst some of the people who've been here a really long time kind of alarming, and as for people who get here and are all excited about it right off the bat, yeah, he's not gonna pretend to understand them, either. But at least he's not going around telling them they shouldn't get invested in this Pokemon Master crap, and while, uh, technically Itachi isn't really doing that either, it's the dismissive, high-handed attitude he's putting on that's really chafing Yusuke's rear and leading him to think that Itachi's big speech is just one big guilt-trip. Taking all of this into consideration, it wouldn't be off-base to speculate that the root of Yusuke's ire has less to do with what Itachi's asking so much as it does with the way he's asking it. He's never been a huge fan of shady dudes questioning his motives, you see: after all, it's usually those types of guys that end up being the ones set on doing horrible shit to him or to people he knows.
EITHER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, THOUGH, one thing is clear, and that is that Yusuke? Is totally not having any of this manipulative bullcrap. Shut Up, Hannibal!)]
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If you have something to say why don't you just come out and say it.
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What I'm saying, dirtbag, is that it's none of your damn business what anyone does with their animals, and unless you wanna get your ass handed to you by giant rats, you'd better hang up the superiority complex and learn how to order these things around. I'm not sayin' it ain't fuckin' stupid that we have to rely on animals for protection in the first place, but nobody has a choice.
What the hell do you mean by asking if we'd be able to take our enemies out without Pokemon, anyway? You planning on doing something?
[Sussing Out Ulterior Motives: The Thread. It's been quite some time since he'd last interrogated someone who looks like a bad guy! He's just never had to do it through video, which is pretty darn inconvenient, especially given that his usual method of getting information out of people involves knocking their teeth in. Dammit, Johto.]
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There is no need to resort to name-calling. You are making assumptions of me simply because I asked a few questions. It is none of my business what you do with your animals and those who didn't want me to know simply wouldn't answer. I'm not forcing anyone to answer my questions. And if you think I cannot order around an animal then you would be sorely mistaken.
I simply wanted to know if you train yourselves along with your animals. To be completely honest, it wasn't directed at any of you but someone in particular. Nonetheless, I received interesting answers.
[Yusuke would find himself having a difficult time knocking Itachi's teeth in even if they were face-to-face.]
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Yeah, you just came on the network with a fucking attitude and some weird ambiance and thought, "hey, if I make people feel bad about using magic animals and call it 'asking questions', nobody'll try to call me on it". Sucks to be you.
[And with that, Yusuke ANGRILY and RELUCTANTLY throws in the towel. He doesn't do so without taking note of a certain detail that Itachi generously included as he was shutting him down, though, which is what then prompts him to say:]
"Someone in particular", huh. Should've namedropped him so we wouldn't've had a problem.
[He's assuming this "somebody" is a guy, anyway, since... well, okay, he doesn't really have a reason. HE'S JUST SEXIST, IS ALL.]
... anyway, to answer your stupid question - [Because what the hell, he might as well, while he's still sitting here wasting his damn time adks;fk] - yeah, I still train myself. Can't exactly afford not to, since I got some asshole trying to sic demons on everybody back home.
[Them's fightin' words. Or they would be, if they weren't meta.]
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[Why should he, after all? This guy was a stranger and none of Itachi's concern.]
If you are having a problem then that is on you, not me.
[There's no way he's going to 'namedrop' his brother when just the sight of him will be enough to bring Sasuke out.]
And what sort of training do you do?