[He'd expected at least a chuckle. Even he knew when he wasn't making much sense these days, and if it weren't such a sensitive subject for him, he might have laughed it off.

But Ino's not like that when it matters. Sometimes he wonders if she already knows what he's thinking.

Even so, his next words sound ridiculous to him.]

It's the moon, ain't it?

I mean-- you know, there's the whole... war thing and whatever. I wanna be strong enough. You know, so it doesn't happen again. Any of it.