no, i thought he looked strangely sexy this chapter too. i mean before he looked like a four-eyes bookworm and after that he looked like he was trying to be Carefully Coiffed Bishounen and was only reaching fakey mc fake, but i think the blood and exhaustion and unhappy expressions are, um, yes, well. >__>

ooooh. well maybe itachi would be gone but we'd at least get a long flashback to the talk over it. but idk, nah, itachi said he'd tlk to him afterwards, didn't he? i can't see him risking distracting them right now.