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Coat Tales- Wolf Sensei’s Lesson -
A bit from Celestial Fix that I needed to write down before I lost it, though it will be a while before we get to this point.
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Tobirama discovered Sasuke and Higi curled together on his bed, looking at the lining of Sasuke’s coat. But Higi is not the one crying softly- strange for That Ghost to be showing so much emotion. He resolved to listen without interrupting.


“- And you told us it’s okay to miss people, so long as we don’t crawl down into the grave with them,” Higi said.

Sasuke wiped at his eyes before he replied, “I did. Wolf-sensei taught me that, not that he meant to.” he ran his hand over the image of the Ookami and his handful of cards. “Sometimes we had to do the exact opposite of what Wolf-sensei told us, because he was very bad at saying what he meant.”

“Adults do that a lot.”

“They do.”( Read more... )
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Notes: the WCE friendly version of the hospital arc

Higi is one of Tobirama's Cousins in Compass of your Soul, and is around 10 or 11 here.

The full description of Sasuke's stupidly complicated Coat Lining is another "two long paragraphs of loving description" or sprinkled references forever and ever, I haven't decided.