“And one of them once was mine” Jukebox the Ghost – Ghosts in Empty Houses

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God what a good choice. You know I love this song and that it’s the Amano Mood post-Uchiha Massacre:

In this country at any given time
There are two million empty houses
And one of them once was mine
Yeah there were twelve million spirits drifting
Through twelve million empty rooms
Waving their ghostly arms at the stars
And howling sad songs in the light of a crescent moon

Yeah they claw at the air and they scream
But they don’t make a sound
They should’ve exercised their demons and their secrets
While they were around

In the Gardens verse one of them once was mine (once mine verse?) Shikako would come across Crow (Amano) and Wolf (Kakashi) fighting Itachi soon after the Uchiha massacre when the Sandaime was still going through the ‘we’ll capture or kill Uchiha Itachi’ motions.

I don’t have it in myself to kill any of Amano or Kakashi’s teammates (bc yikes) so I think that this was supposed to be surveillance only in preparation for a more coordinated strike but Itachi made them. Amano and Kakashi are covering their team’s retreat.

Shikako jumps into the fight with shadow sight to keep them from getting Tsukuyomi’d and Itachi gets away when the fight heats up. Amano wants to pursue and doesn’t even care where Shikako came from as long as she’ll help them end Itachi. He gets, uh, emotional about Uzume and Tokimi. Shikako ends up dumping the Real Deets of the Uchiha massacre on Amano and Kakashi, probably.