Itachi's lips quirked upward into the slightest of smirks.

"If we are to be working for the same organization, then there is no reason why I shouldn't try to offer you assistance as long as I am available to give it. After all, our general overarching goals should be the same." If he was going to go along with this whole set-up for the time being, anyway.

He couldn't care less for the man in actuality, but he had to make his way in this place somehow.