[forward-dated to August 18th]

[not_thedragon]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke & Uchiha Obito
When: August 18th
Where: Hokage's office
What: Sasuke thinks he's coming in to talk about a delinquent mission report, but there's something better in store. Sort of.

Mikoto had been the one to deliver the summons, patting him on the head as he'd moaned piteously and somewhat incoherently into his pillow about slavedrivers and writing his reports later. It was possible that he'd heard it from a more official source, but when Sasuke jolted awake to his alarm many hours before he was actually ready to wake up, it was only his mother's message that stuck with him.

Meet Obito in his office as soon as you can tomorrow -- "Ugh," Sasuke groaned aloud, and fumbled for the two mission reports (the mess that had been Yuki, and the hot mess that had been Sky) that were still missing conclusions, hair a riotous mess sticking out in every direction.

An hour later in front of Obito's office doors, his hair was in slightly better condition (again thanks to Mikoto) and the mission reports had conclusions. Scrawled, rather terse ones, but at least they were complete. Squaring his shoulders for the possibility of a lecture on delayed reports right after Obito had warned everyone about missing information, Sasuke knocked on the door.

Comments

[thebestuchiha]

"Testing. I'll make sure to get you the details once it's set up since it's not on a rotation like the chunin exams is." He decided not to comment on the hugging thing, as he was pretty sure he'd been accurate, and just smiled to himself.

"If you're too old for hugging I guess I've come back around to it from the other side haven't I? Jounin testing is more intense than chunin testing though, since there's already been a trial by fire."

[not_thedragon]

There were worse answers than testing that could have slotted in here, and in any case Sasuke had little doubt that any combat test he might have to deal with would probably pale in comparison to the barrage he'd weathered at Itachi's hands. With effort, he restrained the grin that wanted to break out over his face into a marginally more dignified quirk of the lips and managed to pay attention to Obito's next words.

"Itachi beat me up the last time he was home," he said, waving a hand that was probably something close to overconfident. "But I beat him back almost as badly."

[thebestuchiha]

"And I'm sure he was very proud of you." His tone was amused, light, and he got up from his chair, sweeping around the desk to him. "And if you're not going to hug him, then I guess I just have to hug you, then hug him later and call it secondhand hugs."

[not_thedragon]

You really think so caught on the tip of Sasuke's tongue and was only swallowed by main force of will, because he was way too old to ask something as pathetic as that, but in the next moment he was waving his arms in a half-hearted defensive manoeuvre. "What? Sensei, we're both too old for that!"

[thebestuchiha]

"I told you! I've come back on it from the other side." Leaning away was hardly going to work, and flailing at him? Definitely not. Obito leaned down and hugged his student without further preamble. He knew the boy only needed an excuse for his excitement.

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke's final "Augh!" of protest wound up muffled into Obito's shoulder, accompanied by a few more flails before he finally patted his teacher's back a few times in a bid for release. "Okay, okay, now let me go, sensei," he mumbled, trying to escape before he wound up receiving a hair ruffle on top of this indignity.

And if he didn't sound as displeased as he could have, well, allowances could be made for family, maybe.

[thebestuchiha]

He was smiling though, and stood up, resting his hand on Sasuke's head anyway. "Right right, big manly teenager."

Laughing, he moved back around his desk to resume his seat.

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke tensed, ready to duck out of the danger zone if the hand on his head made any ruffling-type movements, but Obito seemed to have gotten the need to embarrass him out of his system.

"I'm definitely going to be too old for this sort of thing once I complete the jounin testing," he pointed out. "Speaking of, do we get to know what to prepare for, or is it all a surprise like the chuunin exams were?"

[thebestuchiha]

"You can say that all you want but I do that to your brother too. And yes, it's a surprise, and you'll find out during the exam itself how it's going to go."