I was a child. [And thought and acted like one, unlike Itachi who had seen through the illusion that was the peace; the burden that had fallen on his brother's shoulders, that he had been unwilling to share.] I knew nothing.

[That question isn't unexpected, but to have to say it out loud is -- to have to justify himself at all is new, and it's discomfiting. He takes a moment to order into words that particular determination that had taken form after combining all the truths he's known -- the sense of duty, something like --]

I have to. I have to right the wrongs of the people who came before us. I've seen the cycle, and I can break it.