Itachi honestly enjoys Lightning quite a bit. He doesn't mind her attitude at all and is more than willing to just kind of treat her like anyone else and not really focus on the teammate thing, because he can honestly understand needing space to deal adjust. He's actually a bit :|a at some of the other members seeming to be kind of pushy about it. They weren't pushy with him when he arrived. But then again he was the first replacement member to come in and he arrived when the team was kind of exploding so he just. Kind of found things to do to make himself useful and made a place for himself while everyone else was stressing about things he couldn't fully understand because he came in in the middle of them, anyway. They've had a few new people come in since then, and they've all been younger and/or needier than he was and also Lightning came in after Knife left which probably means some of them are overcompensating a bit for the loss of the leader.
I think I've said it before but Itachi isn't inclined to view Lightning as a replacement. He feels like that concept is insulting to both the new person to arrive and to the person who has left (or been booked/taken). Knife is still a member of Emerald, she's just somewhere else right now. She is not replaceable. Lightning is a new member of the team, that's all, and that's cool. She won't take Knife's place but she will make her own place there when she's ready to. Until then he is willing to just get to know her as an individual, and he likes what he's seen of her so far. She seems intelligent and competent even if she is kind of cranky, but he doesn't mind crankiness and it's not like he can blame her. The first few days of being in Aather are stressful and kind of overwhelming, and hers were made worse by dying horribly.
It has been awhile since Itachi has taken such a fast liking to someone. Part of it could be that she's a new Emerald so he's just more inclined to let himself pay more attention, but he also just kind of enjoys talking to her and finds hear easy to relate to. Possibly because her attitude really is Sasuke-ish at times and also older sibling solidarity. Fortunately it is not a big deal to him if she likes him back as much, his memories have made pretty comfortable with the concept of liking/respecting/caring about people who don't like him, so he's not inclined to push her.
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As for Sakura! The whole thing with Sasuke giving up his memories made Itachi realize he didn't just check on Sakura because she and Sasuke have a history and Sasuke cares about her even if he tries to pretend like he doesn't sometimes. Itachi has actually developed a fondness for her outside of Sasuke. He likes her and respects that she's a healer and can apparently punch holes in things and that's why he will sometimes make a point of checking on her and asking after her team like he did in their most recent thread, and even pushing a little for an answer.
He does understand that Sasuke makes her sad and doesn't mind when she stresses about Sasuke in his direction, and has even gotten used to Sakura hugging and/or crying on him when she's feeling that way. She's right in that he may not fully understand her feels because he's never the one Sasuke is willing to leave behind, but he does have sympathy for her, and appreciates that in spite of that she doesn't give up on Sasuke.
Sasuke did show him the team 7 reunion memory and knows that she at one point intended to kill him, but he's really much more concerned about Sasuke's reaction to the memory than what Sakura did in it. So it doesn't really change his opinion of her in Aather. In a way, if he thinks about it, he can even understand the pain she must have felt in being driven to that point, so he figures that's going to be a shit memory for her to get back whenever she gets it back. And he hopes that things can just work out differently in Aather for everybody's sake.
How does Sakura feel about the Jabberwock's game and its aftermath?
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I think I've said it before but Itachi isn't inclined to view Lightning as a replacement. He feels like that concept is insulting to both the new person to arrive and to the person who has left (or been booked/taken). Knife is still a member of Emerald, she's just somewhere else right now. She is not replaceable. Lightning is a new member of the team, that's all, and that's cool. She won't take Knife's place but she will make her own place there when she's ready to. Until then he is willing to just get to know her as an individual, and he likes what he's seen of her so far. She seems intelligent and competent even if she is kind of cranky, but he doesn't mind crankiness and it's not like he can blame her. The first few days of being in Aather are stressful and kind of overwhelming, and hers were made worse by dying horribly.
It has been awhile since Itachi has taken such a fast liking to someone. Part of it could be that she's a new Emerald so he's just more inclined to let himself pay more attention, but he also just kind of enjoys talking to her and finds hear easy to relate to. Possibly because her attitude really is Sasuke-ish at times and also older sibling solidarity. Fortunately it is not a big deal to him if she likes him back as much, his memories have made pretty comfortable with the concept of liking/respecting/caring about people who don't like him, so he's not inclined to push her.
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As for Sakura! The whole thing with Sasuke giving up his memories made Itachi realize he didn't just check on Sakura because she and Sasuke have a history and Sasuke cares about her even if he tries to pretend like he doesn't sometimes. Itachi has actually developed a fondness for her outside of Sasuke. He likes her and respects that she's a healer and can apparently punch holes in things and that's why he will sometimes make a point of checking on her and asking after her team like he did in their most recent thread, and even pushing a little for an answer.
He does understand that Sasuke makes her sad and doesn't mind when she stresses about Sasuke in his direction, and has even gotten used to Sakura hugging and/or crying on him when she's feeling that way. She's right in that he may not fully understand her feels because he's never the one Sasuke is willing to leave behind, but he does have sympathy for her, and appreciates that in spite of that she doesn't give up on Sasuke.
Sasuke did show him the team 7 reunion memory and knows that she at one point intended to kill him, but he's really much more concerned about Sasuke's reaction to the memory than what Sakura did in it. So it doesn't really change his opinion of her in Aather. In a way, if he thinks about it, he can even understand the pain she must have felt in being driven to that point, so he figures that's going to be a shit memory for her to get back whenever she gets it back. And he hopes that things can just work out differently in Aather for everybody's sake.
How does Sakura feel about the Jabberwock's game and its aftermath?