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silentlucidity ([info]silentlucidity) wrote in [info]last_stretch,
@ 2009-09-28 20:59:00


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Entry tags:finished log, itachi, sasuke

Hello. Is it me you're looking for?
Who: Uchiha Sasuke and Uchiha Itachi
What: Apology demands?
Where: Itachi's office.
When: Oh, let's say monday? (May change/get more specific as we...figure out what we're doing.)



Distraction. Wonderful, blissful distraction from the horrific note pounding in the piano room came in the form of ungraded papers. It was a horror of itself but one Itachi would choose over poor playing any day. Badly written papers were a lot less noisy than badly played piano.

So many papers to grade. Uchiha Itachi had never imagined in all his life that he would be so bogged down, this early in the semester, with papers that begged so loudly for grades. And in such sloppy hand writing...

It made his eyes hurt.

Next round of assignments, he would be sure to remember to require the papers to be typed and not...scribbled on notebook paper like school children. And all these frayed spiral bound edges? Grotesque in a sense he had never anticipated. There were little flakes of paper edges everywhere-over his desk, under his feet, and, horror of horrors, on his shirt. It was like some sick explosion of notebooks. He felt as though he had rolled in these stacks of papers.

He shuddered at the thought.

Itachi looked sorrowfully at his desk gargoyle and the standard issue name plate that sat right next to it-both ominous and bold and dark-and wished his advisor had imparted to him more advice and less desk decor. Or a shredder. A paper shredder would have been nice. And he was so caught up in his own irritation over the stacks of badly printed papers that he had forgotten to lock his office door.

It was standard procedure for him, normally. But today had been...unpleasant to say the least.




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[info]equate
2009-09-29 03:59 am UTC (link)
Maslow’s hierarchy in two-fifty steps and three magnetic cards (he had better odds of successful invasion than Tokyo did of an ugly weather forecast for the night). The plan, he supposed, was obvious: crawl in. See that face, wearing that name. Crawl out. Somehow, even the nominal presence of an “Uchiha Itachi” didn’t allow Sasuke to plan for the dignity of vertebrate motion.

Back to Maslow, then, and the immediate satisfaction of what is obviously the biological impetus de jour. If he could reason it, he could carry it out. He could overcome it. He could breathe. He could -

Level one, physiological needs: I need to see that face.

Forty-eight steps from the parking lot to the campus security check. He flashed card one: student ID. Surprisingly present, unsurprisingly unused. Student out late, student visiting, student in. Thank you. Good night. (If he didn’t get them fired within the week, he’d do it in a month, just for being there tonight, just for seeing him. Living. Living with an Uchiha Itachi in their building, and sleeping well at night.)

Level two, safety needs: I need to see they’re not the same eyes.
Seventy-three steps to the photography laboratory, slide card two to access. Deposited his things for the upcoming portfolio review, picked up one or four filters.

Level three, emotional needs: I need to rip his tongue out, so he doesn’t dare say Itachi’s name again as his own.

It wasn’t obsession, if he didn’t cover every one of the eighty-eight steps locking the corridor between departments thinking about it. Maybe sixty-nine of them. Maybe.

Level four, esteem needs: I need to keep that tongue.

Tssssk. Violence, violence, violence. Suigetsu’d rub on him at this rate. Thirty-eight steps between the corridor and this... Itachi’s office door, card three at the steady, and ready, and go -

Level five, self-actualization needs: I need...

...his VISA card slipped back in his pocket. Open door, no need to... coerce entrance by leave of old locks. Anti-climatic, to say the least.

He sighed. (And this he’d have to stress later, really, he did.)

Three steps, as he entered the office, pressing against the door to close it in once inside. Minimal intrusion. Minimal noise. He even took the time and grace to remember his manners, with little mind that the gesture usually preceded entrance.

"Knock," Maslow’d understand. He drawled to echo the touch of knuckles against the door behind him, "Knock."

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