Prompt 1:
 t's probably been at least a little while since you managed to climb out of the well, so hopefully you've dried off by now and are enjoying poking around the Town. But who cares about all of that? More importantly, the Town has a new feature this time, for reasons entirely unknown to everyone.
The flowers...seem to be talking. They have no faces, but they will definitely turn to talk to you, and if they have had their color restored, they will very brightly and contentedly compliment you, or your clothing, or wish you well.
If they haven't? Prepare yourself for all sorts of horrible, horrible insults, because that's all that's coming your way.
Prompt 2:
 ow are you settling in? Is the Town treating you well? It's not as bad as it used to be; some of the houses have color, some of the food has color and taste as well. It's been polished up a bit since everyone first got here.
Granted, when you wake up that morning to find yourself in full fancy wear of many different types (all colorless, and gender has nothing to do with which you might end up in), you'll find that the Town might not be as well put together as it seems.
You can't get out of the formal wear. It just won't come off, no matter what you do. Which wouldn't be so bad, but... it seems like these clothes will snag on just about everything in the Town, which is far from smooth. Try not to trip over those loose cobblestones, or your dress snagging on a nail sticking out from a door frame. This is really not the place for this sort of clothing.
Prompt 3:
e loves me, he loves me not... that's a pretty familiar game, right? For some reason, the urge to pick one of those flowers and casually pluck the petals from it while playing that game is going to grow stronger and stronger the more flowers you see. Eventually? You're just going to have to cave to it.
(Certainly it doesn't help that the flowers scream a bit when you pull their petals; they still can talk right now, after all!)
She loves you, she loves you not...and by the time you've picked the last petal, you've forgotten who you were even thinking of originally -- instead, the very next person you see is going to be the victim of a very impassioned declaration of love. Don't worry, you'll come back to yourself...after you declare your undying love for everyone to hear.
Prompt 4:
 ut no matter how many people tell you not to go into the forest, however, it's still rather enticing, isn't it? It's sitting right there, waiting for you to explore it, waiting for you to just step a little bit out of the Town...
And soon, you're surrounded by the dark boughs of the trees, the twisty, turny paths of the woods, where it feels like you're wandering in circles for hours upon hours --
And then, after ages of tree branches yanking at your hair and roots tripping you up, you find a clearing.
And in that clearing? There's a field of flowers. They're colorless -- strangely eerie because of it, but still distinctly recognizable to the flower familiar as Asphodel. And touching any single one of those flowers will suddenly give you vivid memories of one of your precious friends -- so long as they're dead. Anyone around you is going to experience that flash of memory too, so be careful!
Extra:
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Hm.]
Sometimes, friends don't agree with each other.
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[ So. Can't really relate.
The flowers are also saying some really concerning things when they weren't before. Forgiveness? Redemption? Yikes. It all sounds like messy, heavy stuff he really doesn't want to get into. Still, with his need to voice out everything that's on his mind, he kind of leans in a little and whispers to Sasuke. ] Psst. Do you think they're talking about that guy?
[ The random guy somewhere at the side, who might possibly have some baggage to sort through. ]
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Seems like all of this baggage has the nametag Sasuke Uchiha on it.] It's me. [It's so blunt it's almost on the verge of oversharing, but he's trying to admit at least to himself these sin are his.]
It was about more than just the dishes.
[He can joke! Kind of... Was it a joke? His face looks so serious.]
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Okay. It hits him. ] You tried to kill your friend?!
[ Bolin's definitely concerned now. Who wouldn't be, standing beside someone who just admitted to attempted murder and seems so calm about it? He can't tell if he's joking right now, or if he was joking before, or if the whole thing was a joke, or if nothing was a joke at this point. ]
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attemptedmurderer probably doesn't help the Dark aesthetic or the fact that the very end of--a staff? a sword?--is dangling by his knees from beneath the swallowing cloaked jacket.At least his shoes are open-toed, right? Less threatening?] It's a long story.
He was always getting in my way and holding me back.
[There's no malice in his tone, and yet, his face still doesn't change, so Bolin won't be able to tell if this is supposed to be a light-hearted joke or not. The only clue to the result, whether good or bad, is he used past tense.]
Have you never disagreed with your friends about the world?
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The usage of past tense really isn't putting him at ease. Optimistic guy that he is, though, he'll give Sasuke the benefit of the doubt. Maybe ... he had his reasons, and he's not evil after all. ] I'm not really the decision-making guy in my group. I kinda trust my friends to make the right call. They're smart.
[ He mostly follows rather than leads. ] And if I don't like what they're doing, I talk to them about it?
... Eventually. [ Asserting himself is tough too, but killing someone over a disagreement might be way, way too extreme. ]
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Sounds like Naruto. [His gaze lifts, away, above the flowers and distant.] He was the friend I tried to kill. A loud-mouth half-wit. [It's said with a strange amount of affection which doesn't match up with the initiate topic of conversation.] He was always getting into other people's business even when no one wanted anything to do with him.
You thought you were the greatest ninja, worthy of being Hokage, [one of the flowers pipes up.] But the only thing you had been was stupid.
I guess I was.
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Well, y'know, if he was your friend, he was probably pestering you because he cared. [ Not that Bolin knows anything about their situation. He's just going with what's most logical from his idealistic viewpoint. ]
What was the argument about, anyway? Sounds intense. [ Probably still not worth trying to kill someone over, in his opinion, but he's made his aversion to killing quite clear. ]
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Gently, he finally frowns, and his eye returns to Bolin.]
There was something very important to me I had to do. But... being with them on a team... Naruto, my wife...
They started making me forget about what I thought was most important to me. So I left because they got in the way. I left to accomplish my goal, and I hurt them when I could so they would stay away.
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But you could've just told them about what was so important to you. Breaking off from the group sounds real lonely.
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I did tell them. I made sure they knew. [His lips thin. The people who gave him a family when he had none, and he had treated them like garbage.] I made sure they knew my goal was more important than they would ever be.
Making them hate me would make it easier, or so I thought.
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... That sounds like the Number One thing not to say to your friends.
[ At least Sasuke seems to know that now. And he married one of those friends so, it all worked out? Happy endings! ]
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It isn't. [Carefully, he bends down level with one of the colorless flowers. It promptly and mercilessly tells him, "You and Itachi were always cursed."] What's done is done.
All I can do is become a better person.
[Words he always tells himself don't hurt him. He snaps the flower in half at the stem, and it thankfully doesn't scream. Clasping it, his hand begins to spark, and the spark grows until it's crackling currents of electricity which fry the flower from top to bottom.]
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Well, you know, as long as you're willing to change. I mean, everyone makes mistakes, right?
[ He does ... pause. ] Okay, those 'mistakes' don't usually involve an attempted murder, but I'm assuming you don't have plans for that anymore.
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His dark eye settles on Bolin again. His face doesn't change at all, but maybe there's a tad bit of humor somewhere in his voice.]
If I try, are you going to come stop me?
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[ Bolin can barely keep a straight face for more than a minute. How is this guy wearing a pokerface all the time?! ] If you're really being serious, I guess I would have to.
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Teenagers are cute.]
Good.
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I am so confused right now. [ So maaaaybe it's time for introductions? ] What's your name? Mine's Bolin.
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Sasuke Uchiha. [Finally, his face cracks. It's very faint, but the corners of his lips curl up.] Where are you from?
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What about you?
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The Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire. Konohagakure.
welp my typo up there
How hidden is it? [ Now his imagination is just running wild, and he's the type to voice out whatever he's saying no matter how silly it may be. ]
Is it invisible to all outsiders ...? Oh, and do you need a secret passcode to get in?
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It's a country lead by a Fire Daimyo. It was one of the first to adopt a ninja village. It was called the Village Hidden by Tree Leaves because it was located in a thick forest.
Now it's the first metropolitan city in the Land of Fire.
no ...... the worst
[ Or maybe... he dreamed that. Bolin actually stops to ponder this. What a mystery. ]
Hold on, a ninja village?
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It's a village of ninja clans. They train to become ninja who can be hired by others for jobs requiring espionage and infiltration, to name a few.
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