[This comes at last, seeming to break through the icy layer of disassociation beneath which everything else is molten and churning. It isn't that he feels nothing. Rather, he's pushed all of it too far down for so many enduring years, that it's unnatural to summon it up now. To be honest. To be open. It's as impossible as reaching into the past and changing what was done.
However, he won't allow Sasuke to apologize to him for something that was never his fault.]
I won't ask for your forgiveness. If what you've said is true, [and both Konoha and Sasuke are safe and well,] then I have no regrets.
[Surely his younger brother was The Hero of the story as intended, and not a murderous terrorist!]
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[This comes at last, seeming to break through the icy layer of disassociation beneath which everything else is molten and churning. It isn't that he feels nothing. Rather, he's pushed all of it too far down for so many enduring years, that it's unnatural to summon it up now. To be honest. To be open. It's as impossible as reaching into the past and changing what was done.
However, he won't allow Sasuke to apologize to him for something that was never his fault.]
I won't ask for your forgiveness. If what you've said is true, [and both Konoha and Sasuke are safe and well,] then I have no regrets.
[Surely his younger brother was The Hero of the story as intended, and not a murderous terrorist!]