quarantasei || video

[betrayedblade]

[The video only shows a pair of kunai being held within a set of calloused hands. The fingers and thumbs trace over the blades carefully, respectfully...and eventually what turns into a noticeable pattern. An invisible pattern. A missing pattern.

Giovanni moves the camera and it sets down to show a whole lot of nothing.]

...You'd think a person would get used to it by now. But I have to admit--I had known him for a long time now. A year... that is a long time here.

...he was like me. A ghost... ...a dead man...

[Click.]

Comments

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

[He waves it off dismissively.]

[techoutmystaff.livejournal.com]

[And Don doesn't know how to react other than that. Giovanni's an adult. He doesn't need to be asked if he's okay. But he notices something else.]

He gave you kunai, too?

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

He did. He gave them to anyone ...important to him. He wanted to be able to be there for them. I suppose, in a way, he still is...

[techoutmystaff.livejournal.com]

[A little laugh.]

And he got mad if you forgot them and you got into danger.

[He remembers the time Leo got told off for that.]

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. Isn't that how it always works though?

[techoutmystaff.livejournal.com]

It is. A ninja should never forget his equipment.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it happens, or sometimes it takes a while to get used to new equipment. And yet sometimes it just does not seem necessary.