"A few, when we started out. Before... this." He didn't even bother to hold his grimace back when he looked at himself. He could only imagine what his brother was thinking, seeing him like this. It was disgraceful that he didn't even know what caused it. "A lot of them stayed in contact with each other, since we were all in the same predicament. I could still get a hold of some if I wanted to."

And he should, if only to see what was happening to each of them. Any little bit of info might help him get behind what was really going on. It should have made him feel better, knowing that he wasn't the only one going through this, that he wasn't weak for not knowing how to stop it, but it didn't.

"They aren't even ninja, most of them. I don't know what the point is." What the binding factor was. He was a threat. He understood that. But these other people weren't anyone he recognized as important.