He couldn't help but return that grin; Kushina's smile especially had always been an infectious one.

"No problem," he nodded, pointedly ignoring the dig at his preferred choice of reading. He'd been.. reasonably good about reading at his desk as of late, but he supposed it wouldn't exactly hurt to read something applicable to his job for a change.

He shrugged a shoulder at her final comment. "I think I'd rather gather that account myself. Why take the fun out of it, after all?" he asked with a particularly sly twinkle in his one visible eye.