And getting Sasuke to go along with him definitely serves his own interests. Tch. You'd think he'd know when someone just wants to use him by now.

[Say what he will about Sasuke... there is that. He's a fool, but he's not exactly stupid, either.]

It's convenient he had a story like that to convince him so thoroughly. [His tone doesn't change, but his expression becomes a little blanker. These are all thoughts he's had before, but the more he talks to Itachi, the more he's beginning to think he's onto something.] Unless it wasn't a lie, in which case you gotta wonder how he found out about it. You seem so tight-lipped about it, after all.