It comes in a flash of blinding pain.

Like a brand being seared atop his brain. Burning hot and true, a pinprick spearing straight through his skull.

Obito is no stranger to a memory overload after a clone disperses. He is no stranger to the headache that follows, the ache in his mind. The rush of memory and nausea, the familiar tinge of a slight pain from too much and all at once.

What he is a stranger to, is this. This blinding pain, digging straight at his skull to get to the meat beneath. Striking hot and true and making you want to claw out your scalp just to get it to go away. It 's a pain that refuses to subsume even if you beg and wish, it 's a type of pain that doesn 't get better even if you adjust because you

can 't

.

It 's the type of pain that goes beyond the line of

too much

and makes you want to curl up within yourself.

It feels like taking a bite out of the sun and trying to process the taste.