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Sometimes, going underneath the underneath is all too much.

Parallels of his students to great Ninja of the past are both surprising and not. Once Orochimaru turned his gaze to Sasuke, it's only fitting that the rest follow. Team Seven always had their own version of separate solidarity. He'd been too shallow thinking those bonds torn, carrying Naruto on his back from the waterfall of legends.

Underneath that underneath, the old fraying bonds were supplemented, strengthened by loss.

He cries, soberly and only on occasion, to a medic pack and goggles. Looking underneath the underneath, he's seen it all before.