He shook his head a little at her apology. "If I knew for certain it would bring about the real change that was my goal, I would go back and try to overthrow the government again."

Others thought he'd joined Akatsuki out of spite, but that wasn't really true--just a facade for their sakes. It was partly at Madara's urging--the world of truth was his goal and had been since Madara had told him about it. "Rough, maybe, but I never didn't have a choice."

Half the time, the other option had been death, but it was still a choice.