006 [Written]

[deathsdoctor]

[Today seems to be the day for announcements like this. And this? He confirmed the morning of the experiment’s end. Written in a starkly elegant hand is this simple message:]

For those who knew him, Uchiha Itachi has been returned home.

[The message is anonymous and untraceable – though there are people out there who will recognise his handwriting. He doesn’t really want to reply – he’s too drained. He’s still striving for emotional equilibrium – rage and bloodlust and pain surging repeatedly and then ebbing away to leave him spent and hollow. His powers are a choppy sea – unstable – and he needs to find his center again.

Bil’s in the village. Untouchable. He’s read the Malnosso’s post a hundred times, and all the conversations that he could access… gleaned what could be gleaned, drawn new conclusions, confirmed and discarded old ones, and made unsettling new projections. And these means for uncertain ends? He doesn’t care if he had the purest of intentions (he did not) or the best of reasons – this is not something to be forgiven. Or forgotten.

… this threatens to make a smoker of him yet.

But the experiment’s taught him the importance of memories and how important it is to remember. Even if no one else cares to… even if he doesn’t want to for many things – he must. Memories are important things. And in the end, memories are sometimes the only proof of existence. He shall not forget.

Goodbye, Uchiha Itachi, for now. Trafalgar Law will remember you for as long as he is able.

… for as long as he is here.]

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[savethelastchip.livejournal.com]

[ This is an announcement that takes Chouji by surprise- and then he wonders if it should have at all.

All things considered, he would have gone on having no idea for a long while before figuring it out. And he's not entirely sure what he feels on the subject, as tends to be the case with almost anything right now- anger, regret, relief, nothing? Plenty of options, and nothing that seems to fit perfectly (because he can still see Itachi as a perfectly nice kid, and a murderous missing nin, and the guy who asked about vegetable gardening, of all things, who hadn't acted against any of them since he'd turned up-).

He can figure all that out later, too. For now he can stick to knowing that this will probably be more relieving to Shikamaru than not, and who is he to be against his best friend having a little less stress? ]

... Thanks for letting us know.

[Nothing] 1/2

[endgames]

[Shikamaru has only been giving cursory glances to the journals as of late, with much bigger things on his mind, like most people this past week. Unlike them, it had little to do with the last experiment, which only bothered him so much as to the questions it brought up.

These are questions and information he processes in quieter moments, when he's not bust with other things. Because yes, right now, he's busy with other things. Chouji nearly died three weeks ago when he was kidnapped, and now Shino and Temari are missing too. Anything he can do from here won't be enough to help them, but eventually it will be. Not this time, no, but he'll make it count someday.

It would go to figure that between all of that, and between everything else that's happened that he'd forgotten something. How stupid of him; completely careless. Even before everything that happened, he'd seen little of Itachi anywhere.

...we never did have that shogi match.]

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[markofthebrave]

[This, on top of news of Capell, on top of the experiment, on top of everything else...

It's good news, for their sakes. Shikamaru had told her what Itachi did, who he was... and those are things Katara could never get passed. But she can't quite forget the little boy she first met him as. And Katara's heart's been stretched something painful for abandoned little boys recently.

...she hadn't known he'd had anyone close enough to him to notice, besides Shikamaru, and there's just no way he'd be making this announcement.

And she does take the time to make her very best filter - because she knows that asking after him could get her in trouble in more than one way.]

Are you sure?

[Written; forward date to whenever I bring him back.]

[donaldtrumpcard.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the information.

[Shino is so talkative. But still, he is somewhat relieved Itachi is gone but it still leaves a bad taste in his mouth. It's a reminder of the fact that any of his friends or the associates he's made here could just vanish or disappear at any moment.]