"Nope," Kakashi shrugged, rubbing two bare fingers together and then pressing them to the page of the book in his hands, turning it with an idle, practised ease. "I was waiting for take-out and thought I'd come check on your plants while I wait..." An obvious lie, but said with such casual simplicity and sincerity that it's lack of truth became dubious.

He might as well have been talking to Tenzou in the walls of the ANBU barracks. The conversation was so mechanical, and the words so reminiscent of their younger days, that for a moment Kakashi had to wonder if Yamato got like this after every ANBU mission, or if his suspicion was correct and something had happened.