[flashback] Most sharks are ovoviviparous, which means that the eggs hatch inside the female's body before the young are born. However with some kinds of sharks, the number of eggs that hatch will differ from the number of young that emerge out of their mother's belly. Do you know why that is? Because of cannibalism. Right from the moment they hatch, they start eating each other inside their mother's uterus. The fratricidal warfare begins as soon as they are born. To each shark, all the others are just food to be eaten. Starting today you are an Akatsuki member and my companion. So be wary of me.
Same goes for you.
Well let's be friends and have some fun alright? And hope that we will not end up as each other's final opponents.
No one who dares to raise a hand against a comrade ever dies a decent death. Remember that.
Well that means our fates are sealed. Seems you and I are depraved and worthless.
Not true. We are both human, not fish. No matter who you are, you do not truly what kind of man you've become until you reach the very end. One realizes one's true nature at the moment of death. Don't you think that's what death is about?
[last words, present] Itachi, did you find it at the moment of your death? Did you discover the kind of person you truly were? Well Itachi, it seems that in the end, I was not a worthless human being after all.
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