"So he's not coming back?" Naruto said, looking away. He didn't know why but he had somehow expected that, after succeeded, Sasuke would have returned. Now he realised how stupid he'd been. He should have noticed already that no matter what, Sasuke had no intentions of returning with them.

Unless they convinced him, but he had no idea how they would.

"Feels like the only way he'd come back is if Itachi was in Konoha, heh."