He moves suddenly very quickly to the other side of the room.

"Sorry!" 

"What do you want - "

"I want to help the traumatized teenager who randomly landed in my house!" 

"I'm not traumatized!"

He's perfectly functional, it's been an entire two years since the last time he froze in combat -

More gently: "I've spent years dealing with people who have just gotten out of variously bad situations. If you say your problems are all acute instead of chronic I have no reason not to believe you, I suppose, but you're not going to sell me on you being okay right now." 

The child - though to Sasuke she likely reads as old enough to be a shinobi - pipes up from the sidelines.

"Eliza's pretty good. She rescued me, and she's been a good teacher. It's okay to be scared, but the bad things aren't here."

"I'm not scared!"

"Why not? If I had just been teleported into a completely unknown context I would be." 

Because good shinobi don't get scared.

(And he's more drowning than anything, his head still full of a screaming grief - )

He looks away.

She considers the situation. 

She bites her lip. 

"If this is crossing a line, then I'm sorry," she says. 

She turns to the man with the staff leaning against his chair, and offers him a hand. He takes one look at her face, and takes it. He closes his eyes, and frowns, then blanches. 

"What are you doing."

"He's past-watching! It's cool, but I haven't figured it out yet."

 - That's - 

Probably hostile, and he closes in on himself, but - 

He's had his history plastered over everywhere before, and it makes people act weird, but he doesn't know - maybe it matters because they'll have an informational advantage about his fighting - 

"Jesus, kid," the man says. "I want to find this Orochimaru guy and stab him in the face." 

"He's dead."

"Lotsa people used to be dead, I'm not saying I'd bring someone back just to stab them but if he left a ghost there are ways of stabbing those." 

Eliza to Marian: "He doesn't mean it, we do not actually stab people for being horrifying." 

"What if it stops people from continuing to be horrifying?"

And Orochimaru's not permanently dead anyways; the fork in Sasuke's curse seal was removed but there are others. Putting Orochimaru back just to stab him would be dumb though.

"Stopping people from doing more bad things is a very different reason for stabbing than being mad about the bad things they already did, and also when you have magic stabbing is extremely unlikely to be the best solution at hand." 

"Okay!" She's still not sure when things are 'bad' but she's gotten the 'well ask a trusted adult' answer before.

To the strange randomly appearing boy: "If someone hurt you they should apologize. Apologies are moral because they help reduce the after-effects of harm, and increase social cohesion."

She's really good at this morality thing, if she does say so herself.

"...People don't usually apologize."

That is a very weird concept.

"Your society uses child soldiers, we're gonna hold ourselves to higher standards than that." 

He doesn't seem to know what to do with that.

"I'm calling a therapist. Don't...don't use any illusions on him," he tells Eliza.