Save your apologies. [For those who deserve them.]

Naruto. The blond child of the Fourth. He had seemed to recognize me.

[And again there is that bothersome span of time where his memory fails him. He thinks he spoke to him then as well.]

I don't know why I would tell him anything, much less lies like those.

[But there was confirmation, if it was to be believed, that his brother would kill him. This, at least, is promising and as it should be.]