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wafflelateSummary: As tension between the Uchiha and the village grows, Shikako joins the Konoha Military Police; Shisui shows up frequently with lunch for her for prearranged meetings that are definitely not dates.
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Uh, I don't know if this counts as cute fluff, but I set out to make a verse in which cute Shishi/Shikako stuff could be written without me having to go super far forward in Shadow Under Water verse. This is post-Split Gardens!Shikako. If "post-Split Gardens!Shikako" means nothing to you, you could read this short explanation of the trope, or just keep in mind that this Shikako came from an alternate universe; the details aren't really relevant at this point.
The first scene takes place about a year before the Uchiha Massacre canonically occurs. So, Shisui and Shikako are both about 15 and Shisui will have years and years of trailing after Shikako as she fixes everything in this verse to moon over her before they both get a clue.
Thanks also to the Shisui Agenda who helped me out with this! Uchiha Tokimi, Uchiha Uzume, and Hyuuga Amano are pepperdoken's. Title is from John Donne's The Good-Morrow.
At dinner, Tokimi-baa says, “A Nara girl wants to join the police.”
Shisui and Amano share a surprised glance.
Uzume-ba says, “Well, she’ll probably do better at it than me.”
“Anyone would do better at it than you,” Amano says. “But will it even be allowed?”
Uzume kicks Amano under the table. She also says, “Can the clan even afford it?”
Tokimi shrugs. “Nara girl said she’d talk to her clanhead about it. Shikaku might pull strings from his end, if he likes her. Or if he wants something from us. Stop roughhousing at the table. I think Fugaku wanted to allow it, if only because at this point we’ll try anything.”
Neither Uzume or Amano look embarrassed for their impromptu kicking session under the table.
Shisui had drawn his feet up onto his chair to get them out of the designated combat zone and now wraps his arms around his knees. He says, “I hope she joins. Maybe she’ll be nice.”
It turns out she’s weird.
But Shisui kind of likes weird.
First of all, they’d been expecting some kind of Intel-oriented ninja, probably someone who’d gone right into an apprenticeship. It turns out she’s actually some kind of country bumpkin, not that you’d know it from literally anything about her. She’s been in the village for less than six months.
Second of all, she has a lot of questions. If she were an Intel ninja, then that would make sense. It would be suspicious as hell still — the clan is wary of being investigated by their own village in the current political climate — but at least it would make sense. She asks everyone all kinds of questions, and never seems off-put even by rude or cagey answers.
Third of all, she... takes her job very seriously. She takes the training seriously, she listens seriously to everything that’s said to her, and she turns around and puts obvious effort into learning all of the Konoha Military Police regulations and then performing her duties.
Shisui does the obvious thing, the thing none of his clanmates have thought to do, and asks her why she petitioned to join the police, what she’s hoping to get out of it, how and why she convinced Shikaku to get the Hokage to bend on the rules about allowing non-Uchiha ninja to join the KMP.
She blinks at him. “Well, I’m not really allowed to take any interesting missions yet,” she says. “And I’d rather not be trapped in Nara Research and Development for the rest of my natural life, so I can’t let them get their hooks into me.” She shrugs, and gestures around the room with her coffee cup. “Anyway, what better way to get to know the village than to work with the people who protect it?”
The fifth time they meet, Nara Shikako says, “Sorry, I’m sure you know my name, but I never actually caught yours.”
“Oh,” Shisui says. Embarrassing. “Uchiha Shisui. I’m in the field, I just stop by a lot to see Tokimi-baa-chan.”
She smiles at him. “I noticed. Sometimes you bring a cat.”
Shisui forgets for a moment that Shikako isn’t clan and says, “The Perp gets lonely when his parole officer takes long shifts.”
“The Perp?” Shikako asks. “Tokimi-san named her cat ‘The Perp’?”
The embarrassment of forgetting that Shikako wouldn’t know is quickly swept away by the delight of knowing that he gets to show her The Perp’s permanent record. “Put that away,” he says, waving at the work in front of her. “We have to go look up the arrest record. Words can’t do it justice.”
Shikako lets him drag her away to the archive room to look at the most frequently pulled record in the entire department: Uchiha Uzume’s first (and last) arrest.
She’s on the night shift for the first several months — not actually a hazing, but definitely related to her being new. The night shift isn’t less important but it does involve less interaction with the general population, less moving parts. And less people to see Nara Shikako in police uniform before they’re sure she’s going to stick around — “If she leaves,” Tokimi had said in a tone that meant When she leaves, “then we want it to be as quiet and unremarkable as possible.”
Months later, though, she’s still there, still pulling files. Shisui hears that Fugaku offered to see her into the field, or one of the Tower departments, once her initial three month assignment ended, but she’d declined.
She gets transferred to the day shift, much to the general bewilderment of the Uchiha. Police work isn’t glamorous, especially lately. She’ll get no accolades, no special commendations, no thanks for being an officer of the Konoha Military Police, and since she’s not an Uchiha it isn’t like duty is what’s driving her.
“Do you want to be a detective?” Shisui asks her when he finds her spending her break paging through cold cases.
He’s brought her lunch. For no reason. To celebrate her first week on day shift. To make sure she feels welcomed and his clanmates aren’t being mean or weird to her — or accidentally coming off as mean or weird, since out-clan people can never read them right and they’re all terrible at communication.
“I’ll probably go out on missions in the field again eventually, I think, but being a detective doesn’t sound too bad. Reading cold cases is a good way to acclimate myself to things without grabbing a file someone might need.”
She shrugs, and Shisui’s eyes are drawn to the Nara crest sewn into the shoulder of her uniform. That’s new. So he asks about it.
“Ah, Shikaku was giving me a hard time for not representing the clan,” she say sheepishly.
Shisui accepts this, and as he divvys up their lunch — gyoza, she’d said it was her favorite, that her mom used to make it — he’s mostly distracted by thinking that she must be pretty close to her clanhead to be using such familiar terms for him. He’d initially dismissed the similarity in their names a general clan thing, but now he wonders if it’s a closer relationship. Probably she’s not his kid, since everyone would have heard of that, but maybe a first cousin or sibling?
And then she’s lighting up at the sight of the gyoza like she’s one of the crows and he’s brought her a pile of shiney ninja wire and Shisui is too distracted to even ponder her possible status in her clan.
“Meet me for dinner when I’m off my shift,” she demands when they’re clearing lunch away and she’s getting ready to go back on duty.
Shisui hesitates — he’s really not supposed to spend money outside clan establishments for anything as frivolous as eating out for dinner, but the clan no longer has anything even approaching a restaurant that one might bring an outsider to. Even the gyoza they’ve just finished eating had been prepared in an Uchiha house and then packaged into takeout containers left over from when the Mizuhame lineage had had a gyoza shop just off Tea Street.
“Or we could train together,” Shikako adds, waving an impatient hand as if to sweep away the details. “Or cloudwatch, or whatever. Just, uh...” And now she shifts uncomfortably. “Please say you’ll meet me somewhere to do something.”
He didn’t mean to embarrass her by balking at the idea of spending time with her. Spending time with her sounds great. He wonders if she really cloud watches. It sounds boring, but maybe it would be fun with her?
“I’m not picky,” he assures her. “Training with you sounds great. After your shift. I’ll be there.”
“I don’t like it,” Uzume tells him that afternoon in The Pit.
Amano doesn’t say anything. He likes more information before he voices an opinion, although Shisui knows he probably has one already.
“What’s not to like?” Shisui asks, scraping himself up off the bare dirt of The Pit and standing for another round. “She’s nice. Tokimi-ba likes her. And she’s new! She needs friends. I’m a good friend.”
“You’re a good something, alright,” Uzume says, nonsensically. She’s just being a grump because she’s protective and suspicious and doesn’t like new people.
Shikako meets him outside the police station still wearing most of her MP uniform. The parts that mark her as definitely on duty, the specific police-issued equipment, that’s gone, but — to Shisui’s surprise — she’s definitely dressed like an off-duty police officer.
Like an Uchiha, really, minus the high-collared indigo jacket.
They walk through the village towards the training fields. On Tea Street, an Akimichi man setting up signs outside the bakery waves Shikako over. He’s only obviously an Akimichi because he has the clan mon on his back and on his business — otherwise he’s clearly a civilian. This is Akimichi Hironobu, who married into the clan less than a decade ago on the strength of his wedding cake. He runs the most popular bakery in town, and Shisui has never been inside.
“Ah, Shikako-san, it’s so good to see you, it seems like it’s been months,” Hironobu says, and the respectful address doesn’t escape Shisui’s notice.
“I was on night shift for this last rotation,” Shikako says.
Sometimes it’s strange how easily she’s picked up the way Konoha ninja talk about things, though she is coming up on almost a year in the village.
Hironobu hums with interest and looks her over again. “I thought that getup looked familiar. I didn’t know they were letting non-Uchiha become officers.”
Shikako shrugs. “I asked nicely and everyone agreed it couldn’t hurt.” She gestures at Shisui and adds, “This is Uchiha Shisui,” as if the man hadn’t definitely pegged that Shisui is an Uchiha from halfway down the block and probably already made up his mind about what Shisui would be like.
“It’s good to meet you, Akimichi-san,” Shisui says warmly — always one for subverting expectations.
The man says, “Oh, no, please, Akimichi-san is my wife, I’m just Hironobu. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in my shop before — don’t tell me you don’t like baked goods.”
In point of fact, Shisui loves baked goods of all kinds. He tells Hironobu this, and then finds himself coaxed into describing just which baked goods he likes, and why. He finds himself mentioning that the Uchiha group home — “For our orphans,” he has to clarify for Hironobu — used to get day-old baked goods from the Uchiha bakery that had closed because of the clan’s relocation.
“Oh, that’s terrible,” Hironobu says, with real sympathy. “I’d be happy to provide day-old goods. In fact, I’ll provide some fresh baked goods for the kids, you just stop by anytime and we’ll organize it.”
Shisui stutters out a bewildered thank you and then makes clumsily, ineffectual attempts to ward off Hironobu’s further invitation to come inside right then to set something up. The idea is tempting, but Shisui is supposed to be training with Shikako. Shisui gives her a slightly panicked look.
“We reserved a training field, but I’m sure Shisui will stop by soon,” Shikako breaks in, although Shisui is certain she wouldn’t have had time to do that between now and their lunch together. Maybe she could have flagged a clanmate down to arrange to have one of her clan’s training grounds, but even if the Nara do have training grounds (which is a subject of hot debate in Konoha gossip rings) Shisui knows it’s unlikely that Shikako could use them with an out-clan training partner. With an Uchiha, especially.
Hironobu backs off. “He’d better,” says the civilian man, with good cheer.
As they walk away, Shisui reels from the easy, unsuspicious nature of that conversation. He’d kind of forgotten it could be like that with people on the street.
Shisui bounces back to his feet after their first spar, taijutsu only, breathing hard.
Shikako is looking at him perfectly calmly, looking more like she’s been sorting files or reading cold cases than sparring with a Konoha jōnin.
“You,” Shisui says a little breathlessly, “are most definitely under-ranked. Who in their right mind called you a chūnin?”
“I might have held back a little during the evaluation,” Shikako admits sheepishly, as if she doesn’t know that even being able to hold back that much is impressive.
Shisui means to compliment her but what he says is, “Wow, you’re really great at pretending to suck, then, I guess?”
Had he said this to another acquaintance, to some other Nara, Shisui knows it would be taken as the worst kind of Uchiha arrogance, as Shisui trying to shore up wounded pride after being beaten so easily. He winces right after he gets the question out, knows it’s not going to land as the kind of sharp-tongued joke that Uzume and Amano trade.
And then Shikako smirks at him and says, “Just pretending. What’s your excuse?”
It’s not even really funny. It’s mild shit-talking at best. But Shisui is so relieved and so surprise that it startles a chuckle out of him anyway, a small but delighted thing.
Their spars become flashier, more complex, as Shisui becomes more and more certain that Shikako can keep up with him. By the end of it Shisui is exhausted but satisfied and even Shikako isn’t looking so fresh and untouched anymore.
“Let’s do this again,” Shikako says, to Shisui’s delight, and they make concrete plans to meet again.
“I don’t like it,” Uzume says. She uses exactly the same flat tone she’d used before, delivers the sentence exactly the same.
This time, instead of staying silent, Amano says, “You haven’t even met her.”
Uzume whirls to look at him. “You haven’t met her either,” Uzume says.
Amano raises his eyebrows.
“You rat bastard, you spied on them and didn’t invite me?” hisses Uzume.
“It’s not like you would have been able to see anything anyway.”
Uzume’s chopsticks reach out and snag a croquette from Amano’s plate. “Traitor. You don’t deserve this. It’s mine now.”
Thus begins a jōnin-level struggle over the contents of their plates.
Shisui edges his chair away from them and looks at Tokimi. “What do you think?”
“She works hard, she obviously respects us, and no one’s had any complaints,” Tokimi says thoughtfully. “Well, there were a few objections to her adding the Nara crest, but I don’t think that that was a such a bad idea, given what prompted it.”
“What prompted it?” Shisui asks dutifully, because Tokimi-baa is the kind of crafty old lady who won’t say anything more if you don’t ask, although this time not even that works.
She just gives him an amused look and says, “I think that’s something you should ask her on one of your little lunch dates.”
Shisui does get around to asking about it, although not during a lunch date because they don’t have lunch dates. Just... lunch. That Shisui brings for her. Because the police station is really far from everything now, so it’s not like she can go out and buy her own lunch. It’s just a friendly thing to do, especially when you’re going to be asking questions.
Shikako’s eyes are sharp and her expression satisfied when she explains: “I had a misunderstanding with a citizen. He thought I wasn’t doing my job very well and demanded that I take him to speak with my clan head to complain.”
“Oh no,” Shisui says. Because he can see where this is going — he’s wandered past Fugaku’s office when some civilian has made the same request to, well, literally any other Konoha Military Police officer.
“I did try to tell him that my clan head was a very busy man, but he just really wanted to see Shikaku, so I took him up to the Jōnin Commander’s office.” She shrugs, a lazy and predatory roll of her shoulders. “Shikaku thought maybe a slight augmentation of my uniform would keep it from happening again, and Tokimi-san agreed. I think it’s stylish. Shikaku even paid for the embroidery.”
She turns to really show the crest off and Shisui studies it, glad to have the excuse. He hadn’t thought about it before, but he doubts any of the clan seamstresses know how to embroider a Nara crest the way they know how to embroider an uchiwa, since the Nara embroidery pattern wouldn’t have been handed down and perfected for generations, traded from one Sharingan user to another.
This embroidery is high quality. Probably done by whoever does Shikaku’s own clothes. Expensive, in other words.
“I wouldn’t think he’d want the Nara symbol on our uniform,” Shisui says idly, though he’s certainly looking at proof that Nara Shikaku had approved the addition. It could be really bad PR for the Nara.
Shikako sniffs, twisting back to how she’d been sitting before and returning to her lunch. “Your uniform? It’s the Konoha Military Police, not the Uchiha Military Police.”
Shisui looks up, stomach twisting. “Ah, I didn’t mean to sound possessive about it,” he says. “I know it’s — we serve the village. We all know that. The whole clan is glad to have you on the force.” Actually most of the clan is wary about it at best, but that’s only because they haven’t met Shikako. The ones that have actually worked with her are mostly sure she’s not trying to spy on them, though.
“Uh,” Shikako says. She’s looking sheepish. “Sorry, Shisui, I was teasing. It is basically an Uchiha uniform. Although I don’t know why it’d be a problem for the Nara symbol to be on a police uniform. We wear them with other uniforms all the time.”
“It might be misconstrued as a show of support,” Shisui says, “from the Nara towards the Uchiha.” Especially considering... well, they’re still not sure and it’s seemed too rude to ask, but it’s at least likely that Shikako is main family, of some description, however the Nara organize those things, although the current Nara heir is definitely in Sasuke-kun’s class and hasn’t been disowned as far as the Uchiha have heard.
Shikako laughs into the bowl of curry Shisui brought her for lunch. “No, that wouldn’t be misconstruing,” she says. She looks delighted — she looks incredible, her eyes lit up, a smile curling her lips, letting Shisui in on a secret. She says, “Of course we support you.”
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Date: 2018-12-09 07:35 am (UTC)god i wish we could have seen how fast that person who wanted to see shikako's clan head backpedalled when he came face to face with the jounin commander instead of the chief of police.
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Date: 2018-12-09 09:54 am (UTC)that must have been the biggest moment of 'oh i have made a mistake'. and you know Shikako goaded whoever it was into it, just for this very purpose, because she had a winning move there and was dying to play it.
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Date: 2018-12-09 11:28 am (UTC)In other words, I love it whenever Shikako makes ripples, especially when she does it in ways that doesn't necessarily need combat prowess but something that anyone 'could' do but only Shikako actually 'does'.
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Date: 2018-12-09 03:46 pm (UTC)I know I love showing her doing her benevolent social manipulation stuff!!! She doesn't gotta fight to fix things she can just be extremely well connected and very crafty.
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Date: 2018-12-09 12:16 pm (UTC)I kinda wonder how things are doing with her and the Nara clan, though she seems to be integrating pretty well? At the very least things don't seem so bad from the outside?
I love her doing everything she can to subtly change things. Just putting in the work! I wonder how much is happening in the background that Shisui doesn't see, if it's mostly networking? I kind of do wonder if any of those cold cases are more than *just* cold cases or things she might know about from world hopping for a bit or knowing ROOT exists and such. Then again, even such an open show of support could be enough, though I also don't see her leaving things alone if she can help.
Anyway, thanks for this! Is there a catchy Garden name for this verse? WNOAOF? Watch!Garden? I'd love to see more recursive of this for sure!
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Date: 2018-12-09 04:23 pm (UTC)Shikako is networking SO hard in the background. Joining the police makes it kind of hard because, uh, no one networks with the Uchiha, but she established herself as a regular at Hironobu's ASAP and Hironobu is a HUGE gossip. At minimum, Hironobu could introduce her to Aoba, who could introduce her to Anko, who could introduce her to Kurenai, who could introduce her to everyone else, although that was probably slightly slowed down by her being on night shift for three months.
TBH I'm not sure if any of the cold cases are ROOT related — probably, I guess? At least, Shikako is reading them because she thinks they might be ROOT related.
Watch!verse seems best??? I didn't really think that part through lmao. I'd love to see more recursive in this verse too! Hopefully I'll get around to it now that I've set it all up, but I hope other people will jump on it too.
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Date: 2018-12-09 12:48 pm (UTC)Shikako messing with people, Shisui totally not taking her on dates, the suspicious Uchiha in the background, great.
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Date: 2018-12-09 04:44 pm (UTC)Half the Uchiha are suspicious and half of them are like "oh no he's In Love that idiot."
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Date: 2018-12-09 04:45 pm (UTC)Precious!
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Date: 2018-12-09 05:15 pm (UTC)Arright so questions I have:
- what's the relationship between Kako and Shikaku like? He's gotta Know some things about her past, probably more than anyone else in the village? Did they tell the Hokage? Does Inoichi know? He must realise Kako is his daughter-that-wasn't (based on name and physical characteristics) and has given her a backstory, is okay with her dragging random peeps in from the streets demanding to speak with her clan head. Is she being treated like his niece? Close but not super close? Or what?
- not a question but THE PERP
- actually yes question: how much did Kako love that? So much I bet. How much did she mourn for Sasuke's family on the dl? Same amount I bet
- "since she’s not an Uchiha it isn’t like duty is what’s driving her" RIGHT OF COURSE NOT
- "For no reason. To celebrate her first week on day shift. To make sure she feels welcomed" Shisui you're already gone for her
- "“Please say you’ll meet me somewhere to do something.”" Shikako: he fed me gyouza He Must Live I must be seen to be friendly with him
- is it a law that Uzume never like Kako? I don't like this law. Make it different.
- no really I bet Kako would love this badass Uchiha field kunoichi they'd spar in the Pit all the time eventually Kako would do the sealing style: forest of pillars or something there are mess with her (either like. for training. or for a prank. where's your Pit now???)
- HIRONOBU HE'S THE BEST
- AKIMICHI-SAN IS MY WIFE
- Hironobu is a gift what a kind soul and! soon everyone will know the Uchiha orphans need pastries and food. Akimichi will provide and then Yamanaka will start bringing over flowers :D :D
- okay but like. For reals. Kako 100% set that up on purpose, right? Probs a "let's see what'll happen" type thing but it was TOTES on purpose.
- typo alert: "Shisui is reels"
- Uzume and Amano are Squad Goals but also Kako is trying to save your entire clan Uzume!!! Stop being mean!!!
- to be fair to Shisui the lunch justification is exactly the kind of thing Kako would say.
- I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY'RE THE BEST THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:20 pm (UTC)Like I was saying up thread, Shikaku (and Toushoudai) definitely know the truth, probably Yoshino as well bc Best Mom Is Best Mom. Everyone else thinks that Shikako is Shikaku's bastard half-sister, most likely — with her being about Shisui's age, Shikaku would have been 17 when she was born and Yoshino would have been 15 and the Third War would have been going down, so everyone's like. Really sure that she's not secretly Shikaku's 'cause someone woulda noticed Yoshino being pregnant and giving birth at the front lmao.
Inoichi might be able to tell that something is a little hinky with the story, might even know that the story is A Complete Lie, but he trusts Shikaku and respects his right to have clan secrets. The girl is Definitely A Nara and Shikaku is sure she can be trusted so like... that's good enough for Inoichi.
Hiruzen is Hokage right now and LMAO NO HE DOES NOT KNOW god I think Shikako would break out in hives just at the thought of telling him. He's probably too checked out to really be suspicious, anyway, bc like. Inoichi and Shikaku both say it's fine?? Clearly it is????
THE PERP!!! Kako loved it so much. She's really excited to eventually meet The Perp but hasn't yet bc, you know... Uzume. Eventually Shisui will just bring The Perp into the station for her to meet, I think. Also, like, consider how much Shikako loves that after so many universes there's still interesting cute information to learn??? The Perp is a NEW THING. Delightful.
Stop making this sad Linny!! It's fluff time ok!!! Blocked and reported.
They're meant to be and I'm not ashamed to say it.
It's a law that Uzume is suspicious and protective, especially where Shisui is concerned. In this verse Shikako at least isn't showing up as a strong slightly eldritch enemy ninja, so it's better than usual, but instead she's showing up as a politically powerful romantic interest for Shisui which honestly Uzume might consider more dangerous. An enemy ninja can be fought and killed, but the Jounin Commander's daughter??? From the Uchiha POV, with village opinion turning against them, Shisui mooning over her seems like it's not gonna go over well with Shikaku.
Hironobu feels so bad that he put out a bakery who was Giving Pastries To Orphans out of business and has 100% picked up that Shisui WAS one of those pastryless orphans. Also, plus, he's definitely seen Shikako select her acquaintances very very carefully (mentioned up thread: Aoba -> Anko -> Kurenai -> probably Gai, Genma, Ebisu, etc.) so if she's hanging with this Uchiha, Hironobu's gonna pay attention.
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I love writing Uzume and Amano so much I'm so glad
It absolutely is, except Shisui is just hella in denial about his feelings and Kako is still at that "he's my friend gotta stop him from being murdered" stage. Although, I mean, Kako is aro-ace as hell so even when they DO start dating she's still gonna be in Friendship Mode.
THANK U FOR GIVING IT LINNY YOU'RE INVITED BACK ANY TIME
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Date: 2018-12-09 10:24 pm (UTC)The whole dinner table conversation was great. Especially Tokimi telling Uzume and Amano to stop kicking each other right in the middle of saying something else.
Aw, Shisui gives his crows ninja wire? That's sweet.
Shisui hesitates — he’s really not supposed to spend money outside clan establishments for anything as frivolous as eating out for dinner, but the clan no longer has anything even approaching a restaurant that one might bring an outsider to. Even the gyoza they’ve just finished eating had been prepared in an Uchiha house and then packaged into takeout containers left over from when the Mizuhame lineage had had a gyoza shop just off Tea Street.
The Uchiha really are terribly isolated on multiple levels. Shikako has her work cut out for her.
Like an Uchiha, really, minus the high-colored indigo jacket.
Should probably be collared.
“You rat bastard, you spied on them and didn’t invite me?”
I love those two.
(And re: comments: of course it never crosses anybody's mind that Kako could be the kid of Shikaku and someone-not-Yoshino, because as if that would have happened! Secret sister is much more plausible.)
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Date: 2018-12-10 04:31 am (UTC)Amazing
Date: 2018-12-09 10:36 pm (UTC)I really loved the way you showed the uchiha perspectives on a non-uchiha joining the police. Like, they're all just waiting for the ulterior motive to pop up, and it just doesn't.
Uzume and Shikako's eventual meeting in this verse is going to be so interesting.
Shisui is such a sweetie, I love him.
The image of a petty civilian being dragged up to the jounin commander's office is hilarious, thank you XD
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Date: 2018-12-10 04:14 am (UTC)Thank you for your comment!
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From:no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 09:45 pm (UTC)asdfdfjkgfkfggfbhjgfbhjgfbhjgfgtgf
(I need a Shikako/Shisui icon!)
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Date: 2018-12-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(also look at the snazzy new icon that shelfie made me!)
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From:no subject
Date: 2018-12-11 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-11 03:10 am (UTC)This is awesome.
Date: 2018-12-13 08:38 pm (UTC)Re: This is awesome.
Date: 2019-01-07 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-21 04:08 pm (UTC)(I still don't get how comments and responses and following threads works on this site, all the nesting is confusing, lol!)
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Date: 2019-03-23 05:08 pm (UTC)Also nested comments are great but they can be kinda hard to get used to. I really like having the comment hierarchy turned on to help keep track of that — go here and look for "Comment Hierarchy", the check the "Display Explicit Comment Hierarchy Indicators" box. Then when you look at comments again you'll see that top-level responses to a journal entry have a number, and responses to those responses have a letter, like this:
Journal Entry
1. Top level comment
1a. Second level comment
1b. Second level comment
1b1. Third level comment
2. Top level comment
2a. Second level comment
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Date: 2019-04-25 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-25 05:34 pm (UTC)I think i forgot to comment on this??
Date: 2019-06-11 12:28 am (UTC)