A shaky breath. If they hadn't sent in any autopsy reports since then, then he was going to have to let Obito know things before he was surprised with the information by a third party.

"I had to," he blurted. "They were armed; it was the only way." It almost sounded as if he were having a conversation with himself, out aloud for once. He seemed as though he was trying to convince himself that that was the truth. "There was no other way. I had to."

And, most importantly-- "They took Ami."

Tomoe spinning. That last bit was hushed, murmured into the breeze that picked up just then.

"...Adela doesn't know."

Worst of all, I liked it.