Rin took a few steps back, partially to get a better look at the older kid and mostly because he didn't want to get squished. It was ... it was like watching a fat cat fall out of a tree. Rin hadn't had much training himself, but he wondered if maybe something was wrong with this kid's ... something. Something was wrong with this something.

He acknowledged the boy's words with a long piercing stare.

"Never? Why? Aren't you a shinobi? What are ya, a cat? Cats can't be people. Unless you're a cat person from some cat village. ...I've never been out of this village and I haven't explored all of it yet. So it's really big. And dangerous. But I'm not scared. Is it really different out there? Like really different? Because I heard it's different. Like brain laundry stuff different."

There was hardly a breath taken between his words. It all rushed out as if it were a single sentence.