He was stiff and uncomfortable, clearly hesitant to return the hug but doing so all the same. It would be so easy to just kill him then... But what good would that do? Itachi wasn't even close to the strength he was when he killed the clan, and... Killing him then would just be pointless murder, to him.

This wasn't the man who committed the genocide of the Uchiha Clan. He was Itachi Uchiha, a boy... And his older brother.