"While you may be stern and cold to me... I have seen you... train the younger ones. Protect this house as though it were your own..." he explained. "You are an honorable shinobi. And as long as Sasuke is content with the arrangement, I can only be happy for her..."

Out of all the Sasukes, (outside of the blind one that he'd seen only once) she felt the most pain. Her heart had been the most wounded. She, in her time, had killed him and suffered such guilt because of it.

"She needs someone to be close to... Someone strong-willed. Someone patient. She deserves it."