"What has to happen Sasuke. You can stay here until you've collected yourself okay?" He gave his head a small shake, solemn, but was carefully ordering himself to deal with this. He hadn't... had to do something like this in quite some time, and never on the scale he suspected this would require, but he had given orders of this nature, and he never asked what he wasn't willing to handle himself if it were appropriate to.

There was no reason to do that to Sasuke though, and perhaps he was soft for protecting him in this way, but if he hadn't been able to do it before... he wouldn't ask him to do it now.