Fix the ship and fly away. Forget the few fading souls that remain here and leave. Go home. Be with his family again. His team. Chouji. Temari. However long it might take, whatever the price, it would be worth it just to see them again. To see his village through its pain and hardships. To protect The King. But...]
... I already exist there.
[Said matter-of-factly. He long ago made peace with being a clone. With not being the original, but after a certain point it hadn't really mattered. He couldn't go home anyway. Now? Now he might be able to, but unless history's gone rather differently than he was told, his spot is already taken.
But he wants. With the option now in front of him, he wants it so badly.]
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Fix the ship and fly away. Forget the few fading souls that remain here and leave. Go home. Be with his family again. His team. Chouji. Temari. However long it might take, whatever the price, it would be worth it just to see them again. To see his village through its pain and hardships. To protect The King. But...]
... I already exist there.
[Said matter-of-factly. He long ago made peace with being a clone. With not being the original, but after a certain point it hadn't really mattered. He couldn't go home anyway. Now? Now he might be able to, but unless history's gone rather differently than he was told, his spot is already taken.
But he wants. With the option now in front of him, he wants it so badly.]