Re: [private]
Mmmmh. Three days of hard labor's hardly anything, and it sounds like it won't even be that bad. I'm not in much hurry to get started, though; I figure I'll just wait for them to come find me.
There's nothing I need to take care of in the meantime, is there? Anything I should know? You'd know better what duties we'd need to attend to here than I would, Itachi-san.
[The questions, the respect, the deference to his authority and knowledge.... it's all so automatic now. He hardly thinks twice about it, even after all this time, even after their separation, even with Itachi's age. Old habits die hard, and he's long been accustomed to abiding by Itachi's will.]