man's inhumanity to man
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“They segregated us for a reason,” Sasuke admits. His words hang heavy in the air, an ominous portent raising hair on skin. He smiles mirthless—a thin press of lips and narrowed eyes. Seals climb across his skin and shimmer in infinite loops. Those lines should have faded into skin by now and left only the seal matrix in stark relief. You can never trust a Uchiha, Kakashi knows.
Or, wherein, Sasuke’s existence is a revelation in itself.
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- Part 1 of man's inhumanity to man
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[As the wind howls through skeletal trees, so do the wolves in the forests of Konoha. Their howls are too resonant and resounding to fool a man into thinking that these wolves are normal and mortal. Everything is wrong.
Kakashi is born with teeth—a million needle sharp protrusions of bone. His father is ecstatic at the resurgence of their yōkai blood. His mother does not live long enough to condone or condemn his existence. She is sucked dry of all chakra by the time childbirth occurs. Sakumo ignores the correlation and any possible causation. He cannot bear to think otherwise. It would ruin him. But Kakashi knows.]
Or, wherein, Kakashi's existence is not a revelation in itself but an acknowledgement of monstrosity.
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- Part 2 of man's inhumanity to man