[Video, some time near the end of this storm shenanigans]

[myninjainfocard]

[The feed starts out with very obvious shuffling around before finally steadying and focusing. Kabuto sure is looking like a right mess. He's still put on appearances enough to look mostly human, but he looks absolutely haggard, hair very much out of the ponytail and looking wild. His glasses are the only put together part about him. He's seems to have also not bothered with a shirt today, the background some might recognize as the examination room of the medical carriage.

Look, don't ask why he's picked there.

He rubs his hand against his face with a low sigh, right, put together.]

Do we have any idea how much longer this is going to continue on? And what is the point of thinking it practical to stay in the medical carriage to avoid having to go through the nonsense to get here if whatever entity is in charge or the train or whatever it is finds it prudent that I still wake in my assigned bed?

[Even his voice sounds... tired. Just exhausted.]

I suppose it... would make sense on a logical and practical level, but I can't help but feel... annoyed that I evidently can't be treated like a fully grown adult and make my own decisions about when I sleep and where I sleep.

Any... information into this nonsense is greatly appreciated.

Comments

[myninjainfocard]

[Sir, you are the last person he wants or needs commenting. Excuse him while he shows how not bothered (liar) he is by just casually taking his glasses off to clean them.]

I never said there was anything wrong with it, did I? Outside of these particular circumstances, that's typically where I go to sleep. But this is more practical at this particular junction.

[stonefvced]

Yet these particular circumstances require you to house up somewhere. ( He's not buying your 'rationality' there, buddy. Pointing out the obvious isn't worth much more of his time, though. Just here for a driveby, you suck, Kabuto. As one does. )

[myninjainfocard]

Someone needs to be available if things go South, no? I've already seen the aftermath of a fight breaking out due to all of the nonsense and it's far easier to be here than to have to go through the potential of five other carriages or so before ending up here. And that seems to be on a good day.

[Why you gotta harsh his exhausted mellow, Tobirama. Why you gotta be a dick.]

[stonefvced]

( Just this stare. Really Kabuto, you haven't figured out any space-time jutsu? He actually finds that hard to believe. )

[myninjainfocard]

[Too busy being dragon and making zombies, bro.]

What.

[stonefvced]

I know you as underhanded not unskilled.

You truly choose to use your skill in aiding those on the train?

[myninjainfocard]

[Ah. He slowly shrugs, actually seeming to not be lying about this for once. But whether that's true or not... What's your insight, Tobirama.]

Believe it or not, healing was the first thing I learned before everything else happened. Though I can, and have, used my other skills off of this train if a battle is something that does come up.

[stonefvced]

Why shift your focus?

[myninjainfocard]

Necessity. [Sorry, Tobirama, you're going to have to pry deeper or be specific if you want answers out of him.]

[stonefvced]

Valid, but unfortunate. ( He's a long game person in things like this -- at least when there isn't immediate action necessary. )

[myninjainfocard]

[Guess who's going to be a dick.]

You can heartily blame Danzo for that one. [He's pretty certain those timelines add up.]

[stonefvced]

I imagine I could blame Danzou for a lot of things. The extent of which I've only started to become privy to. At least there was a poetic irony to his death. ( Its the little things that count sometimes. )

[myninjainfocard]

[You know what, he's tired and this changes nothing.]

Were you aware that he thought it a grand idea to blackmail an orphanage into getting what he wanted?

[stonefvced]

( His eyes narrow and his face shifts in clear disgust and disappointment. ) I did not.

[myninjainfocard]

Something about how Konoha gave them funding and he could get rid of it if they didn't comply. By giving them one of the children for his Root nonsense.

[He's sure Tobirama can read between the lines of what he's not saying.]

[stonefvced]

Root. ( It's almost acidic the way he says it. It'd been years but even still there were some things that Sai wouldn't speak about yet. A large portion of people Sakura works with were once Root. Anyway, yes he can read between the lines just fine. )

[myninjainfocard]

[There's the faintest hint of a smile that tugs at his lips before his expression returns to neutral. It's... at least good to hear that the feeling about it is mutual.]

As I said, necessity. Though I'm quite keen to know if they continued on after everything. Given what a bore it was to continually deal with the tracking.

[stonefvced]

After Danzou's death? ( Very mutual, but also which 'everything'? There's a couple of those. )

[myninjainfocard]

That and I assume the end of the war. [At least he's cognizant to the fact he, uh, probably was not on the winning end of that fight. But it didn't really matter at the end of the day when the whole point was to forge an identity.]

[stonefvced]

( Did you really forge your own identity, Kabuto? Because from where he's standing... ) No, they did not.

[myninjainfocard]

[What else was he going to do.]

Good. [Really, he's quite glad he didn't ask him why he doesn't know about the end of the war.] At least something necrotic was removed.

[stonefvced]

( Find your own footing. Yamato did. Sai did. Then again, many others did not. Many of them still struggle. Some completely lost but they all know which ones those are. ) A modest start but hardly the only thing in need of changing.

[myninjainfocard]

[That had been the plan. Become stronger than those before you, become a sage, make a name for yourself. Whether famous or infamous.

Evidently that didn't go so well for him.]

The same can be said of any of the villages. Perhaps it was the wake up call all of them needed. [The only positive to what he did.]

[stonefvced]

That's a stretch. Against everything, the urge for survival prevails. Hardly what I'd call a wake-up call.

[myninjainfocard]

[The smallest of shrugs, he really doesn't care at the end of the day.]

If it was survival, then let them dig their own graves. If it wasn't, then time will tell.