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[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.

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[BUT THE TL;DR AND HIS SARCASM...!! Sigh. This is why he isn't a fan of mysterious types: they make shounen hero dickwaving so much more difficult. Anyway, Yusuke's a little irritated that Itachi's giving him the blow-off, but even so, he manages to stay relatively calm; after all, getting mad at this jerk would probably just make him act all smug, and if there's anything worse than a mysterious jerk, it's a smug mysterious jerk, especially ones who aren't close enough for him to wring their necks. Ugh.]

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.]

[Ah, look at the little man dance around.]

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.]

[Rrrgh... okay, this guy's pretty hard to argue with, Yusuke'll give him that. Hard to crack, too, which is making this whole conversation pretty damn tiring. He's 95.5% sure this Uchiha guy's no good, but without proof that he's actually done anything aside from be a huge pain in the ass, there's no point in continuing to try (and continuing to fail at) interrogating him, leaving Yusuke to become flustered and snap:]

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.]

You are free to see things however you like, I cannot stop you. But I also don't care about your opinion of me.

[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?

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