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Yeah, well. Have you ever given anyone the option to endure a NICE Tsukuyomi?

I can deal with disorientation, so long as you help me afterwards if I'm out of it. Deal?

[Logically, so long as he controls the illusion itself, Stiles is not at risk. If anything the true risk is the one posed to himself for using an ability with such a high cost of chakra. Still, it takes him another moment to move past how surreal this is. The benefits - determining how limited his power is here - are promising on their own, at least.]

All right.

Cool. With that out of the way, let's get back to what you meant by "mostly" earlier. What's the other reason you avoided me?

[...]

It’s not important, Stiles. I needed some time.

It's important to me. You're trying to avoid talking about it even now. What is it, Itachi?

[Somehow, discussing mental torture is an easier topic than this, which perhaps says a lot about the sort of person Itachi is. Yet there's no reason to put it off. No excuse good enough, none that Stiles will accept.]

The spirit claimed that I enjoyed it.

[ Seriously? He doesn't mean to belittle how that must make Itachi feel, but he cannot relate here. ]

So did I. Kinda awkward but there's nothing wrong with that. Is that such a big deal to you?

It isn’t a casual or familiar act to me, no. I understand you view it differently.

[So had Jonas with Sasuke, although his brother hadn’t gone into much detail on that situation otherwise.]

There’s little use in discussing it as a result. I’m fine now.

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[ Suddenly, he’s reminded of Sasuke. Sasuke, who Stiles had thought was asexual until the night on the roof watching the meteor shower, with the younger Uchiha brother’s reluctant confession of, “I have sexual feelings.” Sasuke, who refused to outright say that he had no interest in Jonas when pressed. Sasuke, who didn’t seem to know how to be happy, or think that he deserved to be. ]

Okay, not to get weird bringing up your brother into this, but I think he had similar issues.

Do you think it was wrong that you enjoyed it?

[Sasuke “i HaVE sExUaL fEeLiNgS” Uchiha.

It doesn’t surprise or upset him that Stiles would mention his brother, considering his own train of thought a moment ago.]

Wrong, no. It’s expected in the context of physical intimacy.

But, I suppose, it’s also dangerous. You should understand to some degree knowing the nature of our world.

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We're not in your world anymore. I mean, you still need to be careful who you're intimate with here, but people are pretty receptive to that kind of thing in Hell. At least from my experience.