"Thank you, but..." He paused briefly, trying to figure out how to word what he was about to say. "...when you were in my body, you must have seen some very terrible things. No one your age should be subject to that."

Sasuke, Itachi thought to himself, was even younger than that when he did what he did. The thought, as usual, caused him some pain and more than a little guilt, but he squashed those feelings under a mask of neutrality.