"The Third said you'd bargained with Danzo for my life. That you'd lived as a loyal shinobi of the Leaf."

"I'm curious where the fucking torture fit in there."

"You became stronger for it, did you not? You were weak, without purpose. I gave you an enemy to loathe, a benchmark to overcome, a spark for your fire. And when you faltered, and let yourself be turned aside, I set you back on your path."

"Fuck you."

"I'm not going to kill you. I'm not going to kill anyone, least of all to get the fucking Mangekyou. Rot in obscurity, for all I fucking care."

"I do love you, Sasuke, despite all this. You're my little brother."

Sasuke turns off the video feed.

And Tobirama packs it away.

"It might interest you to know that the masked man claiming to be Madara is in fact Uchiha Obito."

"And Madara loved his brother. That love wasn't enough to keep his brother alive, but there was no theft. Uchiha Izuna's last act was giving his brother his eyes, so he may be his light."

"If you are truly still the Leaf's Uchiha Itachi... Stay away from Sasuke. Do not contact him. Do not approach him. Do not try to manipulate him."

"I assume you already have avenues for reporting. If not, Saru was a worse idiot than I thought."

He turns, and walks out.

Itachi remains silent.

Tobirama, when he returns to base, informs Cam that the confrontation happened, and that Sasuke is likely still upset.

Thanks for keeping me posted.

An hour later, Sasuke sends back, 

I don't know if I'm going insane to be feeling like I am. I don't know if I hate him or not.

The recording exists. At this point I don't care if someone watches it and I think I need a sanity check that isn't Naruto because Naruto sucks at sanity checks and I think Tobirama's too tangled up in the shinobi system even if he was there.

Itachi is definitely not behaving lucidly, though I can't rule out that he's attempting some complicated seem-crazy-to-get-a-result-he-can't-get-by-seeming-sane plot.

I think he was maybe trying to screw with me.

It looks like that, yeah, but I can't tell you to what end.

Is it wrong if I hate him

The guy tortured you on top of murdering your entire family! So, uh, no! I mean there exist moral philosophies according to which hate in general is wrong but if one is going to make literally any exceptions to such a philosophy this would be it!

after the second time my teacher was acting like i needed to stop being so inconveniently broken and just let go of it and stop hating him so much. naruto was the only one not acting like i was too angry.

Your world is very fucked up.

i think after i fix it i maybe want to stop being on this planet

I sympathize entirely and will be happy to build you a house on Mars or wherever.

An hour later:

I want to be doing something useful with my life still though

Naturally. Have anything in mind?

Don't know.

I'm good at synthesizing information. Maybe something with that. Or I can continue making the resurrection better. Or figure out interdimensional travel and not record any of it so demons couldn't replicate it, but I could move myself and others around.

Those all sound really good to me! I think people who like synthesizing information tend to write books.

I don't know what I'd write about.

Well, that depends on what you synthesize. I bet you have the material for an amazing memoir but perhaps that's not your speed.