Shisui nodded. He knew full well what Obito meant. They couldn't always live in the past. As for Obito mentioning Kagami as a likely candidate should he have been alive, Shisui laughs, a twinge of sadness lacing the gesture. "If Dad was around, he'd have told you to pick someone younger. Someone who didn't necessarily think like the old days. Someone with fresh ideas to keep up with change."
He smiled at the other man, pocketing the scroll with the mission details for the renegade cat. "I might have picked Fugaku or Mikoto, but they're too high up the clan itself. Someone in the middle ranks, then." He paused then, thinking. "...Or someone who came after the Third. Saindaime's got a big heart, but he really can't be the only one all the time."
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He smiled at the other man, pocketing the scroll with the mission details for the renegade cat. "I might have picked Fugaku or Mikoto, but they're too high up the clan itself. Someone in the middle ranks, then." He paused then, thinking. "...Or someone who came after the Third. Saindaime's got a big heart, but he really can't be the only one all the time."