"I think for the next few weeks I'm going to have you on high clearance paperwork duty." He shook his head, humming softly. "I know you want to make the family proud... but it worries me to see you this exhausted."

He may never have gotten to know her personally, it's true, but he made it a point to at least know in a general sense about his shinobi, family especially. He'd seen what Fugaku had pushed on Itachi, after all.