[ There's a brief flicker of something -pain, hurt, fear?- across his face. A mistake. Saying that had definitely been a mistake, and her words hurt something fierce. Any other time, he might have walked away from this and brushed her off, but even though he knows he's not exactly fit to be anybody's parent... there's a part of him that would like to be, and it's that part that keeps him there. Even if it can't seem to muster the strength to say something -anything- to diffuse the situation.
He's just not good at this.
Sighing in exasperation, he takes a seat on the edge of the fountain, falling silent for a few long moments. It's probably the smartest thing he's done all day. ]
...I'm sorry.
[ The words come easily, partially honest, partially because saying them had worked well enough to make Karin stop complaining, and maybe he should've said it to Sakura as well, but this is something he needs to really consider and think about before he does anything like that.
A glance up at her, a face similar to his own only in her coloring, the headband she wears that he no longer owns. She's mad at him, and he knows well that he deserves it, but damn it he wants to try. It shouldn't be one of those things like with Itachi, where one waits until after they're dead to attempt to make amends. ]
Five years is a long time, so maybe something could change, though... [ He's already met Boruto, and Naruto's name was on that board too. If Naruto is here, and if Boruto is his, then that means Naruto would've survived the war... which would in turn mean... ] I didn't think they allowed conjugal visits in maximum security prisons.
[ Because really, that's the only place he'd be ending up if both he and Naruto survived the war given that he's sort of an international criminal, and if he was really lucky, then maybe he'd have gotten a lighter sentence than the rest of his natural -and unnatural- life. ]
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He's just not good at this.
Sighing in exasperation, he takes a seat on the edge of the fountain, falling silent for a few long moments. It's probably the smartest thing he's done all day. ]
...I'm sorry.
[ The words come easily, partially honest, partially because saying them had worked well enough to make Karin stop complaining, and maybe he should've said it to Sakura as well, but this is something he needs to really consider and think about before he does anything like that.
A glance up at her, a face similar to his own only in her coloring, the headband she wears that he no longer owns. She's mad at him, and he knows well that he deserves it, but damn it he wants to try. It shouldn't be one of those things like with Itachi, where one waits until after they're dead to attempt to make amends. ]
Five years is a long time, so maybe something could change, though... [ He's already met Boruto, and Naruto's name was on that board too. If Naruto is here, and if Boruto is his, then that means Naruto would've survived the war... which would in turn mean... ] I didn't think they allowed conjugal visits in maximum security prisons.
[ Because really, that's the only place he'd be ending up if both he and Naruto survived the war given that he's sort of an international criminal, and if he was really lucky, then maybe he'd have gotten a lighter sentence than the rest of his natural -and unnatural- life. ]