The child's entreaty seemed better poised to thaw Sasuke's need for an icy reserve than any other cajoling might have; the boy's earnestness, the need in that soft, piping voice...

"Maybe," he allowed quietly, dipping his head. "If we can be undisturbed." The child was one thing, but others... no. He didn't want to be surrounded by strange other-versions of the people he knew and had left behind or lost.