Drifting on the breeze his words were carried away, cast into the infinite sky to fade away into nothing. Most people would assume that they had gone unheard or ignored, but Itachi knew better so he did not bother repeating himself. It would have been a waste of both his breath and of the other man's time and the two of them could do without that. With that in mind the prodigy patiently waited to be acknowledged, his eyes watching the light that slowly slipped away all around them.
Time slowly slipped away and Itachi briefly considered turning and leaving, figuring that Madara might be in no mood to keep company. Sometimes it happened, the man refusing to acknowledge that he was even there which he took as his own silent way of telling him to leave. He didn't mind that, the two of them sharing a sort of unspoken understanding of sorts that could never really be explained in words alone but it worked well enough for them and that was all that mattered.
"Tell me, Do you see the 'madness' of the world? Would you rather be drenched in a wretched memory of discord and hypocrisy?"
Turning back toward the other male the prodigy's eyes roamed over him searching for any hint as to what his thoughts might have been. It was an exercise in futility, Madara seemingly never betraying anything in his expression or body language but it had become a habit of his to study others from an early age. Every good ninja learned that necessary skill, although in his case it was of even more importance and what he also credited with his survival up until this point. It was a pity it couldn't help him more with this man.
"Yes, I would be lying if I said that I did not." Itachi did not miss how the elder Uchiha had so conveniently turned his question against him, knowing it was a common tactic of the man's. "It is a world that seeks only to break a person and to crush all that they hope and dream for…it is nothing worth preserving as it is. This world is headed for destruction and it must change or it will not survive."
To deny the world was mad would be to deny the sky was blue and it was a bitter truth that the prodigy had learned far too well in his short life. He also firmly believed that as things now stood the world would not indeed survive and would fall to chaos and ruin. It had to change or all would be lost, although he did not agree with Madara's ideas on how it should be changed but he made sure to never voice that.
"All I wish is to be freed of this cycle. Is that not also your wish Madara-sama? Or do you wish for something else?"