“Call it an interest. My old student was an Uchiha after all. And he went through some drastic measures to obtain his eyes.
Let’s say… I know the pain he faced to get those eyes of the clan, so I suppose I wanted to make sure you weren’t forcing yourself through pain to try and get them too, hm?”
”Is it really that obvious?” He turns away, a slight blush on his cheeks although he felt a bit embarrassed to hear that from the Hokage. He starts stammering an excuse to hide the fact that it had bothered him for quite some time.
“I-It’s not that— I’m not really forcing— I j-just…I feel like…it’s important, ya know, t-to have a Sharingan? I’m already Chuunin. I-I feel like I’m lagging behind.”