Kisame wonders for a moment if the kid is serious or if it's just idle flattery, but decides that now isn't the best time to look into it. Perhaps later, when the kid has been introduced to the clan.

He doesn't give a verbal response, and just keeps walking. But as they get closer to the gates, he slows. His tail didn't follow him out--the last one had gotten dragged into a spar and passed out from chakra exhaustion, and the replacement is too wary--but will be waiting. What a shame it would be if this arrangement fell through before it could even begin.

"That basket of yours close enough to full, kid? I've got a tail who will be... supervising, inside the walls, and it would ruin your plan if they got suspicious, eh? We'll stop by old Tsubaki-san's; another delivery is about due anyway."