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[Different. Things are already different. More different than Itachi had ever allowed himself to truly look at. It meant so little. He is not the former Itachi. He is not the one Kitty befriended and watched die. He is not the one that Sasuke mourned.
He is the one that Sasuke hates. The one Kitty meddles with. The one this Kisame does not know. Or perhaps it is Itachi who does not know Kisame and Kisame who knows everything when he should not. Subtly invasive and yet so completely hands off. Just as Itachi remembers him. As if he has no need to dig deeper, because why should he? He knows more about Itachi than Itacih does himself.
But that Itachi is not him.]
It seems that will be so. Things are already different here. Akatsuki does not exist.