[He hard about the cousin from someone else, but not what he's focusing on right now.]

Yeah yeah I heard, but Sasuke. You're thirteen. I'm no longer the shortest, or the weakest!

[Though he has to get serious for a moment.]

You're still wearing your ninja headband. [A lot of things happened when they were thirteen, good and bad. He doesn't want to get his hopes up... but he does, anyway.]