Naruto doesn't have much experience with parties, elaborate or otherwise, and the conversations floating around somehow make it that much worse. Only a few days ago the news had been everywhere- what happened on the train. The sheer numbers are more than he can wrap his mind around, too impersonal and too close all at the same time. He remembers a girl sprawled out beneath a piece of open luggage. He remembers a young couple reaching for one another. How does he make that stretch out six hundred times? The number of families fractured. The people they might have saved if they'd made a different decision.
And now they're here, surrounded by people laughing and dancing- wearing clothes that the people outside can't afford.
She glints under the ballroom's light, the leaves on her dress a burnished gold. It couldn't be more different than the first time they met.] Hey. [One of his hands lift, scrubbing at the back of his neck. It looks a little sheepish, and that's because it is.] I'm glad to see you're okay.
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Naruto doesn't have much experience with parties, elaborate or otherwise, and the conversations floating around somehow make it that much worse. Only a few days ago the news had been everywhere- what happened on the train. The sheer numbers are more than he can wrap his mind around, too impersonal and too close all at the same time. He remembers a girl sprawled out beneath a piece of open luggage. He remembers a young couple reaching for one another. How does he make that stretch out six hundred times? The number of families fractured. The people they might have saved if they'd made a different decision.
And now they're here, surrounded by people laughing and dancing- wearing clothes that the people outside can't afford.
She glints under the ballroom's light, the leaves on her dress a burnished gold. It couldn't be more different than the first time they met.] Hey. [One of his hands lift, scrubbing at the back of his neck. It looks a little sheepish, and that's because it is.] I'm glad to see you're okay.