“Hn. We’ll see. It hasn’t been very long.” It usually took a few months before people got tired of his attitude as a child, less so for Naruto. Surely this was indicative of patterns in all people and not just Konoha being a problem.

If it hadn’t been for his stumbling into Keith’s memory of Shiro lending him a hand when he needed it, hadn’t seen the faith that Keith had in him to always be there, Sasuke absolutely would have thought Shiro was just saying things to make himself look more caring than he was. No one outright said they didn’t want to help orphans. They just showed it in their actions. The fact that Shiro actually cared was still somewhat baffling to him.

“Is that standard where you’re from? Or are you just strange?”