[Sasuke’s face softens some. This resolution... he gets. He’s had the same one, and it’s why he wanted to stay with Justice regardless until the end.]

Then keep going for everyone else. Senri...

[His brows knot gently. He glances away, and a wash of that strange familial feeling comes back. It’s almost the same, but it shifts to something a but different. This place has been hell on him. Itachi hasn’t even been here except one week. It isn’t... that. Sasuke looks back up at Senri again. He didn’t get it before. He had been the fool again, living in an illusion. Coming here... a few certain people had opened his eyes.]

Stop throwing away what you already have searching for what you think you want. [Kakashi tried to teach him that.] Your family... [He sighs.] I never thought... Naruto understood how I felt. He never had a family. How could he understand... the pain I felt about losing mine? How could he understand being alone... but...

He understood... because of that... how important it was to take care of what he did have. Us... Team 7. Me, and Sakura, and our teacher, Kakashi, and his mentor Jiraiya... all of our classmates... the village. Those had become... his family.

And he hasn’t ever given up on them.