"Yeah, that's because Shisui would have told. Anyway I didn't do it on purpose. And the kitchen thing was mostly your fault, you know." He pulled his fingers through Tenten's hair a few more times, tracing his nails against the back of her neck very lightly before he finally got it all into more or less three even sections.

"The Uchiha compound," he told her, like it exasperated him. "Is plagued by sudden, mysterious, large fires. Things are always going up in smoke or burning to pieces there. Particularly anywhere where our wicked broods of little, adorable children can be found at play."