[A shaky breath. It's hard to look back at practically twenty eight years of age at some of his decisions when he was younger.

If... if... if...]

... it seemed quiet for the moment. The gunfire had moved on. ... I broke from hiding. I had been just feet from my parents' bodies the entire time...

[He didn't have time to go back to Lamie. Just dive for cover and safety as the soldiers broke in.]

... there was so much blood... I don't know why I checked them for a pulse. I knew they couldn't survive those kinds of wounds.

My mother had this... faint smile on her face. It's one of two I've never been able to forget.

[Her's and Corazon's.]

I couldn't stay with them any longer. Not with Lamie's fate still uncertain. I tore back into the hospital. The carnage was unreal. But by some miracle she was still alive. I found her underneath the bed, shaking and entirely unwilling to move.

I managed to coax her out. She started begging for our parents. I couldn't say anything - I couldn't get out the words. I couldn't lie. I only could hold her.

... and then she knew...

[Her face.]

I promised her that her Big Brother would do whatever it took to get her through this.

Then I remembered about the evacuations the Sister had arranged with the soldiers for the children...

[Itachi's instincts once again prove correct.]