Sen chewed the bitter, astringent green leaf in his mouth and smacked his lips twice.
He spat a mouthful of green liquid into a rough crack in Hashirama's stone statue.
"Hey, you two brats. Have you gone deaf or mute in the middle of the night?"
"If you're going to fight, get on with it. Quit standing around striking stupid poses."
"I've been sitting up here in the cold wind so long my knees are about to give out."
"Sen Senju, shut your goddamn mouth."
"You have no right to stand up there telling me what to do."
Sasuke's purple Rinnegan glared fiercely into the air above him.
Dense red veins covered the white of his eye, making it look downright unsettling.
"Naruto isn't the only annoying idiot I'm dealing with today."
"Once I've finished off this dead last..."
"I'll come up there and chop you into firewood too, you rotten stump."
Sen picked at his itchy ear in disgust.
Then he reached deep into his pants pocket and fished out a few damp, softened peanuts.
He cracked their red skins, tossed them into his mouth, and chewed without much enjoyment.
"Well, well. A few days in Orochimaru's sewer hole, and you've grown quite a temper."
"Impressive. Every other word out of your mouth is about chopping someone up."
"Having a teenage edgelord episode in the middle of the night? Did you take your meds, kid?"
Sasuke's eyelid twitched violently, and veins bulged across the back of his sword hand.
He clenched his molars and forced an icy voice from his throat.
"Rotten garbage like the Five Kage will only breed more vermin if we let them live."
"This lousy world is already rotten to its core."
"I'm going to drag all those old bastards out and execute them."
"Along