[closed; back-dated to December 2]

[not_thedragon]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke & Uchiha Shisui
When: December 2, evening
Where: Shisui's sweet bachelor pad
Notes: Sasuke would provide a better assessment of Ami's work if there had been any.

Sasuke had avoided the meeting as long as he could, but there was no way out of it now. If he didn't meet with Shisui about his genin's performance, it would be another half a month or more before he'd even be in the village long enough to put together a report.

The good thing was that he'd been able to fill out the basic assessment shortly before he'd left for his mission with Adela; it had been an incredibly short write-up. The problem was the shortness. If anything had actually happened during the mission with Ami, he'd have a better perspective on her work.

Not that Sasuke was wishing for more things to happen on missions, since anything that did happen seemed invariably to involve humiliation and discomfort. The only small victory was managing to return home with an uninjured teammate this time, though apparently the trade-off meant that his left leg was still tightly bandaged, complete with entirely unnecessary splint. Trying to remove it this morning had resulted in a few extremely painful head thwaps from Tsukiko at the hospital, which meant that Sasuke's gait was still uneven as he approached Shisui's apartment.

He paused just to glare at his leg for it, then produced the scroll with Ami's assessment before knocking, just in case he might be able to get away with handing it over and going home. It was not at the top of Sasuke's list to reveal the still-fading bruise around his eye socket to yet another Uchiha; it had been bad enough sneaking around the compound at night.

Perhaps it would have been better to just heal it, but -- he cut off the thought, focusing instead on waiting for his cousin to answer the door.

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[not_thedragon]

Sasuke's shoulders tensed momentarily at the easy mention of Itachi's constant presence -- they had nothing close to an entire cabinet full of sweets at home, though that was mostly the result of Mikoto's being in charge of the grocery shopping. In all fairness, if she'd left the job to Itachi and Sasuke, the fridge would probably have been a disaster zone within a month.

Not that that meant Itachi needed to leave his stash at someone else's -- but Sasuke forced himself to relax. He hadn't exactly been tracking Itachi down of late either, for reasons he didn't relish visiting himself.

"I doubt you want the third wheel baby cousin hanging around when you've finally got your own place," he said dismissively instead, feeling an inordinate amount of pride about keeping his voice light. "Or that Itachi wants home chasing him down when he's not trying to be there.

"Anyway -- no," he shook his head, returning to the professional topic at hand. "It wouldn't have tested the skills of a second-year Academy student. The most action we saw was when we accidentally busted something shady for the client by walking into a room while armed."

And for that they now had one lifetime onsen membership each, which was still something Sasuke wasn't quite sure he'd wrapped his head around yet.

[shunshinoshishi]

Itachi didn't leave his stash at Shisuis; Shisui stocked up for both of them. Mostly because he knew Itachi wouldn't bother eating otherwise, especially when he crept into Shisui's place when no one was around to escape staying at home.

"Hm. Who really was the third wheel, Sasuke. You or me?" That's just him saying that Sasuke wasn't the third wheel ever, and that Itachi never considered him t be one at all. Just that Itachi and Shisui were more closer in mental age at the time. "And I'd trust you'd respect his wishes to stay away from home when he needed the rest and not call him home at a time like that."

But ah. Back to 'the topic'. Shisui dropped a tea bag into Sasuke's cup before pouring hot water into it.

"Okay. So... You're telling me this because?"

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke just barely refrained from snorting out loud at the question, mostly because it was abundantly obvious to him exactly whom the third wheel had been. Shisui and Itachi had probably been remarkably tolerant for much-older relatives with an insistently tag-along child, but Sasuke was old enough now to have a sense for when his company wasn't preferred, or so he liked to assume.

In any case -- that was hardly the topic he'd wanted to discuss. If Itachi continued to show evidence of ignoring his medication, though ...

For now, Sasuke blinked at the hot water in his cup before blinking up at Shisui again, frowning slightly.

"She's your student," he said, blank. "I was told that it was my job as the ranking team member to provide an assessment to her jounin teacher."