He couldn't actually remember the last time someone had made him promise not to hurt himself -- it was taken for granted that he could patch himself up with some level of competence -- but Sasuke was surprised at how much it seemed like genuine concern rather than a lack of faith. It made it harder to be annoyed by the whole fiasco, even if it had interrupted his training and ended up with yet another injury on Adela that was at least somewhat his fault.

"Yeah," he said finally, giving her a short nod to punctuate it. "I promise. Are you going to promise not to tell the med-nin on me?"