Ino and Shisui fell in love. Then he went missing only to resurface 5 years later, but she was already dating his best friend.What is she to do?
Obito and Itachi were speechless with dumbfounded expressions evident on their faces. “Why are you two looking at me like that?” Shisui asked in a doubting tone, uncomprehending as to why his cousins looked at him as they had, but Obito soon let him know the thought behind their confusion, “What are you asking us for?” to which he retorted, “What do you mean? I always come to my cousins for advice” matter-of-factly.
“Not with this, dating is more your forte” Itachi stated, and Obito interjected with a scoff and, “Yeah, we couldn’t even help you if we wanted to! I mean between the both of us; I still hadn’t figured out how to ask out the one woman I’ve been in love with for the past 30 years, and Itachi has never, well… he’s never even liked a woman let alone dated one!” to which upon hearing, Itachi swallowed a lump in his throat, and Shisui gave him a knowing look.
Obito noticed the exchange and asked with an inquisitive brow, “What was that?” causing Shisui to hastily meet his gaze and retort cheekily, “What was what?”, “That look you gave Itachi, what was that?” Obito repeated his question again more assertively. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, anyway, are you going to help me figure out what to do on this first date or not?” Shisui diverted the subject to avoid ratting out on Itachi’s one time affair. “Didn’t you hear what I said, we suck at that stuff, besides, haven’t you gone out with several women before Ino?” Obito responded, and Shisui retorted smugly, “Yeah… but those dates are different than this one” a self-assured smirk was beaming on his face, “And how is this different, exactly? Just recreate a date that you or one of your dates had enjoyed in the past” Obito said as if he was stating the obvious.
Itachi arched his own eyebrow too, but for a different reason. He knew Shisui had been infatuated with Ino for a while, but he had seen him infatuated over others before and would eventually always grow bored. Could it be that this Ino Yamanaka had succeeded in capturing his cousin’s heart?
“I want this to go well, and I doubt taking her back to my place immediately to get her down on all fours will give that impression!” Shisui jibed. “That’s what you do on first dates?!” The eldest Uchiha barked in amazement and then turned to Itachi to discern if he knew about this, but Itachi avoided meeting his gaze which had informed him that he did in fact know about Shisui’s conquests. A dumbfounded expression returned onto his face, as he realized Shisui wasn’t the traditional type as he and Itachi had been. He let out a sigh and asked, “Just out of curiosity, how many women had you been on these “first dates” with?”
Shisui started counting the women in his head and used his fingers as an abacus to keep track. When he had passed the tenth, lapping another finger count, Obito’s eyes widened in astonishment. Soon Shisui was done counting, and Obito’s look of astonishment morphed into vehement shock as he gasped, “forget Uchiha standards, even by the village’s standards, you’re practically a manwhore!”
Shisui’s smirk turned into a grin as he claimed, “Getting jealous, Obito? Bet you can’t wait to do that with Rin”, to which a flustered Obito started to incoherently mumble objections. “Hah! Thought so!” Shisui called him out. Obito’s face was turning red, and so he diverted the attention away from himself by asking, “Anyway, how do you end up moving so fast on a first date?” to which Shisui smugly replied, “wouldn’t you like to know” as a cheeky smirk evidently formed on his face. “Do you want our help or not!” Obito barked, and Shisui responded, “Yeah, yeah” with an eye roll.
“Perhaps a public setting would be in your favour, one where you could talk and get to know one another. That way you would be forced to behave.” Obito supplied. “Hah! You know, all my dates started out like that. I’m not the one who initiated the misbehaving” Shisui supplied, and Itachi’s lips slightly curled at the corners. He heard all about Shisui’s first dates. Obito was looking dumbfounded once more. “I got nothing” he gave up and raised his palms up to register his resignation.
“Why don’t you ask Ino what she would like to do on your date?” Itachi asked, and Shisui cupped his chin into the tub of his thumb and index finger, and replied pensively aloud “Huh, I never considered that. Thanks Itachi! At least one of my cousins is actually helpful” he snubbed Obito, who scowled at him in return. “You want some helpful advice? Put on a chastity belt fucker!” he howled at Shisui who had already left to make his way to see Ino. He then turned to Itachi, who met his gaze.
“So… are you going to tell me what that look between you two was about?” Obito asked, he had decided to relegate his prying to when Shisui had left, knowing that it would be easier to corner Itachi without his excessively quip-equipped counterpart. Itachi felt a lump forming in his throat, but his expressions remained indifferent as he responded, “To what do you refer?”
“So, you don’t want to tell me either?” Obito tried once more, but Itachi remained silent with the same indifferent expression. “Fine, you can choose to play dumb too, but I’m only letting this go because I’m getting the sense that I don’t really want to know the answer” Obito resigned, and Itachi was relieved that his cousin had the good sense not to pester him anymore about it.
