"Your words will not bring the dead back, but I will accept them." She blanched as she realized how rude she was being. She raised a hand to cover her mouth as her eyes grew wide. "Oh, um, I...I am very, very sorry, Uchiha Itachi-san."

He outranked her, even as a missing nin, after all.

"I should...um, I should leave," she said, scrambling to stand up and nearly falling on her face because of a lack of circulation to her feet.