He couldn't help but recoil at the hand on his head, and almost snarled some kind of obscenity as an answer to Lab's cooing--but he managed to keep his mouth shut, although he did tug his sketch away from the middle of the table and prying eyes. Now that he'd figured out what symbol to use, he was itching to get up and get back to the apartment, the better to forget he'd ever been here and done this; but as frustrating as it was, he had more work to do and he knew he wouldn't be able to pull it off on his own. Staring over his own swirling lines, he began to chew on the inside of his lip, the gears of his mind whirring.

"Still too complicated," he muttered, running his finger over the outside circle. "Can't simplify or it won't look like koi, but I can't finish this in a week. Not without him seeing it." And there was still the matter of what to put it on. "Is it okay to be late with it?"

He had a feeling that Sakura or Ino would have cared, but he couldn't imagine Warsman making a fuss--and immediately a pang of guilt made him duck his head. "Fuck. I don't want to wiggle out of it, but I don't want to give him something rushed and half-assed either."

[[Based on the thread I did with Wars, there was chocolate-making involved--was thinking perhaps Sasuke ended up trying to make candies shaped like fish as a sort of preview?]]