The sudden turn of events before him clearly exceeded anything Yanbai had imagined.
A thought flashed through Yanbai's mind. He covered his mouth and cried out, "Sasori, don't come over!"
But it was already too late.
Sasori stood frozen, his eyes wide, for several seconds before he began walking again, trembling.
Damn it-
Yanbai cursed inwardly. He now understood why the Old Woman had told Madara Uchiha to "kill her."
"...Kaguya..."
Sasori called out in horror.
His voice was very quiet, yet the air instantly trembled with it.
Sobs accompanied his words.
Sasori stared fixedly at his destination, refusing to meet Yanbai's eyes. Tears slid down his cheeks as he walked forward, step by step.
"...Ka... Kaguya..."
Sasori walked barefoot into the thorns that had yet to recede. Ignoring his feet, which the thorns had pierced until they bled freely, he sank to his knees on the pile of shattered materials.
"...Kaguya... answer me..."
Sasori wanted to embrace his beloved puppet as he always had, but when he spread his arms, he had no idea where to begin.
"Please... Kaguya..."
With trembling hands, Sasori grasped what looked like the only intact finger among the fragments.
"Kaguya... this is too cruel... Kaguya... Kaguya... it hurts so much... aaah..."
Ignoring the thorns beside him, Sasori threw himself onto the pile of puppet materials and began to wail.
"...Please, don't leave me alone..."
Sasori wept and screamed, as though cursing the world.
His sobs and brief, anguished wails brought a heart-rending pain surging through Yanbai's chest.
Yanbai squeezed his eyes shut and abruptly covered his ears.
Even half a second of respite from such cruel, agonized weeping would have been enough.
Sasori instinctively grasped the depths of that bottomless despair and could no longer move.
If he kept searching the fragments for features