"I didn't," he answered, on auto-pilot, and lifted it to check without any real registering of the actual state of the cup. The information actually settled in a moment later and he could feel the beginning of a grin starting on his face, Itachi's less-than-encouraging deadpan notwithstanding.

"That's more than a year older than you were," he countered, spirits only slightly dampened by the added knowledge that Itachi intended to level some kind of test at him first.

"So what's the test?"