Originally posted by: American Hero
Yeah.

Naruto, Sakura and the gang will be sitting around, chilling out, getting their kicks or whatever, and Sasuke will just wander in.

"Hey guys, what's up?"
"Oh, hey Sasuke! Where've you been, dude?"
"Oh, you know. Training with Oro, developing evil jutsus."
"Right on, right on. So, how was that?"
"Well, you know. Oro's a good guy and all but he's a little creepy."
"Yeah man. That dude gives me a bad vibe."
"Yeah, totally. But I don't know. All that negative energy really got me down, y'know?"
"Oh, totally. Totally."
"So yeah, I just said, 'Oro, buddy, this shit just isn't my bag.' He was totally cool with it. He made me breakfast and I was on my way."
"Haha! That's great man. Y'know we went through a lot of trouble to get you back. I got beat up a hell of a lot and Sakura kept cryin'. Bad times, man. Bad times."
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that, dudes. I just had to collect myself, y'know?"
"Oh yeah, man. Totally. No worries. Totally."
"Cool."
......
"So yeah! You wanna hang with us or somethin'?"
"Yeah, for sure. I mean, if you're cool with that."
"Totally, buddy. It's good to have you back."

Yup. I can see it playing out like that.
Do NOT put this beyond the creator's reasoning...because something very similar will in all likelyhood happen.
Even though by Ninja law, there is no redemption for rounins, they are to be executed...period.

I would love nothing more than to see that Itachi wasn't actually responsible for the clan death but another sharingan user disguised as Itachi, and that Itachi killed the sharingan user and infiltrated Akatsuki, and Sasuke kills him and then finds out he's a total fuck hole and left the village for nothing...then Kakashi very casually executes him while reading his book.