Shit, so someone must've captured--wait, removed from our world?
[As his mind tries to hold onto both thoughts at once, one mundane and the other ludicrous, the look he gives Itachi is nothing short of bewildered--and it certainly isn't helped by realizing that his partner looks much, much different than he usually does. While the past nine years have brought a lot of changes, they really haven't altered his face much; at 23, he had already surged into a quite adult look, had gotten as tall and well-built as he was going to get. But Itachi at age 13....]
[Well, the features might have been remarkably similar, but nine years had refined Itachi quite a lot, and he had matured well, had definitely grown into his body and looks, a true adult in any sense of the word. So to see him like this, as fresh and young as the day they had first bowed to each other and shaken hands.... It's disorienting, to say the least.]
[He's starting to feel like he's completely lost the ability to stay on one topic for any length of time, and he does feel bad for peppering Itachi with questions like this.... but he has to know. Just one more question, and then they'll get back to figuring out what to do about this situation.] Itachi-san....? How long have we been partners, now?