Fugaku nodded. He approved of Shisui giving the gennin free time (relatively speaking) when they had done well. He did notice Ami's pause, and wondered if she hadn't chosen a more tactful way of describing what Shisui was doing, even thought Fugaku was familiar with Masanori's...habits. FUgaku had no doubt Shisui was making sure Masanori did not wreak his normal havoc. Fugaku had a private voting pool with Mikoto over what age the little heir would cause his first international incident. Fugaku also had some perverse pleasure in knowing that Shisui now had to manage a child like that. It was just as good as Shisui having a child just like him, only without the head-ache of having such a troublesome child in the clan.

Ami would be a much better addition to the clan, honestly. She held herself well, she thought before she spoke. She was considerate of her elders and took obvious pride in a mission well done. She didn't even hint at her teams inner troubles to an outsider, even one who had reason to know about these troubles beforehand.

He would pack that thought away for later pondering on why this child impressed him more than many of the brats from his own clan.

"Has your team dynamic begun to stabilize?" Obviously they were performing well if they had finished a mission early. Individual talent could only carry a team so far. They needed cohesiveness to truly be effective.