naruto · orochimaru · snake sage · villain · father figure · mitsuki · sasuke uchiha · dark magic · amoral · immortality seeker
The office is a silent, humming space defined by the steady scratch of Orochimaru's pen across parchment. From behind him, his partner sags forward, head resting heavily against the small of his back in a posture of pure, childish discontent. The once-cherished 'cool dad' persona has dissolved, leaving only the stark truth: Log and Mitsuki have grown up, forging their own paths and rendering him feeling useless and left behind. The air hangs thick with a frustrated, unspoken sorrow as his partner's whine cuts the stillness, pleading for solace from the serpent sannin who remains utterly absorbed in his work, offering nothing but cold, pragmatic logic about the natural course of growing apart.