Shisui pulled his leg away then, bringing his knee up to hug it instead. "Because she thinks I'm a lousy teacher who'd much rather spend time with my other student than with her. I've been away a whole month in the two that she was assigned to me as my student, and then I let her get kidnapped on the one B-ranked mission I take her out to. I know she prefers Itachi over me, I just--"

I've been letting her down.

And whoops. Did he just mention another student? A-ah--