[It's funny how fighting alongside Naruto is an infinitely different experience from having to exist alongside him -- if funny means impossibly irritating and if Sasuke ignores the distinct recollection that even when fighting Madara there were moments when Naruto sounded like he didn't quite deserve his Academy diploma. Whatever the reservations, it's true: destroying things with Naruto isn't a problem, but when it's just the ocean and the extremely limited space on board a ship, it's intolerable.

If Sasuke's irritation is as much about the ship's lack of progress and the strange, bemused way in which Itachi seems to actually enjoy his former teammate's presence -- that, he doesn't choose to examine.]

I'm impressed that you managed to get this much taller without growing your brain as well.

[And damn it, Naruto's childish responses just make him sound like one in return -- with effort, he reins in some of the blatant irritation and amends:] In any case, do you really need this many of you for some standard chores? The rest of us get by without clones. You take up too much space this way.