[He remembers the way Itachi's eyes looked when he was dead. He's blind now, and his eyes don't focus. But there is still a life in them, still movement, still some spark of light, proving his alertness.
Not those dead eyes. They reminded him a little of stagnant pools of water. He could see himself reflected in them, but there was nothing alive inside. That body had become a husk, a shell where Itachi used to live.
But Sasuke doesn't want to think about that. So he says, sounding almost wistful:]