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“he keeps askin’ questions,” the puppet master sighs, “lotta fuckin’ questions. s’like the kid needs to know everything about everything.” some questions are incredibly hard to answer.
he knows at their age, they were well into shinobi training and had even taken lives already. he knows better than anyone that innocence can only last so long. and yet, he wants to protect it as long as he can. he never wants to lie to kotaro but kankuro also doesn’t want to explain how and why his dad died, or why the war happened, or what it had taken from them. maybe he’s just being selfish. the fact he didn’t have the luxury of ignorance as a child is probably the exact reason he wants to keep taro just a kid for just a little bit longer.
“his teacher says he’s smart as a whip but can’t stop talkin’. always askin’ why. i’m at the point where i dunno want to tell him anymore.”













