Itachi hesitated. He had no reason to. Ame and Konoha were friendly at the moment, so there was really no reason not to talk or even be friends with one of her shinobi. Still, he'd just been burned by getting to close to someone he enjoyed talking to. He was hesitant of making connections that weren't purely business at the moment.

All the same, he could not, as the Hokage's cousin and the Uchiha heir, be unfriendly to a visiting shinobi.

"I think that would be a very welcome break," Itachi admitted. It would be, and he would just have to watch himself.