[Months here and a path of destruction in their own world have passed between learning the truth and now, and he'd thought he was used to it -- that it was something he'd grown accustomed to waking up with, as he had with the fact of the massacre with time. With Itachi here, as young as he is, it's even more a daily reminder that his brother made his choices and they're in the past, that this is something Sasuke can act upon but not change. That what he needs is the willpower to destroy and remake anew and the strategy to do so, and being trapped here is just another interlude of time to grow inured to the fact.
But something about Sakura's plain shock, the innocence of her questions, touches a nerve. Perhaps there is no accusation in her tone; perhaps he's hearing more than what is there, but he's turned on her abruptly, voice a snarl, eyes sharp with anger, and when he speaks it's -- it's not entirely to her.]
Do you think I know those answers? Do you imagine he's kept me updated all this time on his reasons?!
He was a child in ANBU and he wanted no more of war. What the village did to our clan -- what it made my brother do to our family -- but you would have had us bow our heads and take whatever the Hokage chose to bring upon us. Your precious Konohagakure was kept safe from the consequences of its actions by hosing down its streets with Uchiha blood, and you ask me why Itachi didn't stop it a different way?
YES SPRINGTIME IS SPANDEXTIME
But something about Sakura's plain shock, the innocence of her questions, touches a nerve. Perhaps there is no accusation in her tone; perhaps he's hearing more than what is there, but he's turned on her abruptly, voice a snarl, eyes sharp with anger, and when he speaks it's -- it's not entirely to her.]
Do you think I know those answers? Do you imagine he's kept me updated all this time on his reasons?!
He was a child in ANBU and he wanted no more of war. What the village did to our clan -- what it made my brother do to our family -- but you would have had us bow our heads and take whatever the Hokage chose to bring upon us. Your precious Konohagakure was kept safe from the consequences of its actions by hosing down its streets with Uchiha blood, and you ask me why Itachi didn't stop it a different way?