The creature seemed like it was thoroughly uninterested in him this time around, which made Sasuke wonder yet again just how much brain was there behind the enormous mantle. Sakura had been able to put it to sleep with a genjutsu, but would it remember people by sight whom it had only seen through choppy waters in the middle of a thunderstorm?
Hopefully not. He was just contemplating whether he should draw a weapon and try to reflect light into its eye when the woman soared through the sky and --
Okay, he thought to himself, staring blankly. Apparently there was no threat, and also the kraken had friends. A friend?
Belatedly, Sasuke considered whether he'd been working too much lately, if all his instincts were this high-strung for danger. It took a second for him to realise he was staring -- at a woman in a bikini -- and he startled into a flush, lowering the arm he'd been waving and trying, and failing, to figure out something to do with it that wasn't awkward.
"It's alright," he managed after a moment, trying to figure out how best to express I've met that thing before but it was trying to eat me. "I've, uh -- I've run into that ... octopus before."
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Hopefully not. He was just contemplating whether he should draw a weapon and try to reflect light into its eye when the woman soared through the sky and --
Okay, he thought to himself, staring blankly. Apparently there was no threat, and also the kraken had friends. A friend?
Belatedly, Sasuke considered whether he'd been working too much lately, if all his instincts were this high-strung for danger. It took a second for him to realise he was staring -- at a woman in a bikini -- and he startled into a flush, lowering the arm he'd been waving and trying, and failing, to figure out something to do with it that wasn't awkward.
"It's alright," he managed after a moment, trying to figure out how best to express I've met that thing before but it was trying to eat me. "I've, uh -- I've run into that ... octopus before."