[July 14th, open]

[not_thedragon]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke
When: July 14th
Where: The most remote training field he can find
What: Sasuke is between missions and has been kicked out of Hinata's recuperating room as gently as possible. Time to break some bones; it's equal parts penance and practical, he swears.

Things had actually seemed to be going well this time. Hinata had been careful not to show her feelings about which way the talks had gone while in the village, and the trip there had been so uneventful that the return seemed destined for the same.

Except it hadn't, and Hinata had gotten hurt because of it.

Sasuke strapped his shoe back onto his foot with vengeful yanks, glaring down the training log in front of him. He was stubborn -- he knew his own faults -- but he didn't entirely ignore advice received, either. The last time a teammate had been injured under his watch, Obito had told him to get stronger as a shinobi, get better as a med-in.

He would. And today, that just happened to mean breaking bones.

Taking stance, he carefully judged the angle he'd need to strike the log at in order to smash some of the finer bones of his right foot. It would force him to counter training ignrained into muscle memory for a long time, something that was likely to prove useful in itself, but for now: for now there was only the crack of flesh impacting wood in all the wrong ways, and Sasuke's stifled grunt of pain as he let the Sharingan flood his vision, watching his own chakra respond to the green glow of medical ninjutsu he applied to the injury, healing it.

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[abileunaspada]

"Good thing I'm on leave until the end of the month anyway," Her shoulders slumped and she sighed, though she inevitably grimaced and stiffened with the effort to not jerk away from him with each press and surge. Seriously, if she had to take sick leave because of this it'd just be beyond humiliating, on top of her shoddy mission record lately...

[not_thedragon]

"On leave?" He looked up at her, surprised out of immediate attention at the news. "I hadn't heard."

A glance back down revealed rapidly purpling bruising, however, plenty to return his focus to the injury. Nothing had felt broken after further examination, which meant that he just needed to search out the tear in the ligament.

Non-visible injuries were always something of a pain. Green healing chakra spread slowly over Adela's ankle, seeking the best point to begin knitting the internal wound back together.

[abileunaspada]

"Well, now you know," It was a quiet murmer as she looked away, inwardly cursing that she had even said it to begin with. At least the healing felt nice, but she'd probably just leave after. Between this and Kushina telling him about how she felt, she just wasn't sure of how to talk to Sasuke then

[not_thedragon]

"What for?" Sasuke scanned the rest of Adela over more critically now that he could let habit take over the healing. Nothing else seemed out of place besides a few bumps and scratches here and there from the fall -- certainly nothing that would put a kunoichi out of commission for a month.

"Did you get injured?" He asked anyway, just in case he'd missed something.

[abileunaspada]

"I requested to take it. That's all."

Really, she didn't want to give anything away then - not after what she had talked to Obito about regarding her leave. Sasuke was one of the ones she couldn't talk to about it, he just wouldn't get it... And things were already awkward enough.

[not_thedragon]

He gave her a long, considering look, and then released his chakra with a sigh. Sighing was happening a lot more than it used to, Sasuke grumbled internally, and gently pushed Adela's foot upward to test out the angle and decide if he'd healed it enough.

"Flex your foot slowly," he advised, and then added while his gaze was still directed at her ankle: "I don't have any right to pry into your business, Adela, so I won't.

"Now tell me how bad the pain is again, same scale of one to ten."

[abileunaspada]

That was... Surprising. She blinked at him, letting it show to her face before she finally let her lips quirk into a smile. At least he wasn't going to push, and it let her relax a bit more. Obediently she started to flex her foot then, suppressing a wince as she rotated her ankle before nodding, "It's about a three now. Maybe two. Way less than before."

[not_thedragon]

He almost missed the shift in her expression, glancing up only to catch the tail end of her smile, but it seemed he'd actually said the right thing. For once, he supplied mentally, and turned his attention back to what he knew he was good at before he could ruin his ruin of luck.

A three or two was a good sign, and he didn't want to introduce much more foreign chakra than this for an injury that would have time to heal on its own, so after another moment of slowly rotating the joint, he nodded.

"That's as much as I can do that will be helpful for now," he informed her. "Do you remember the chakra meditation I showed you a while ago?"

[abileunaspada]

"Yeah, I remember. I'll do that for my ankle a little later, once I've had a chance to rest a bit."

Adela paused then, frowning before she met his eye again, "Oiy, Senpai. Don't keep injuring yourself, okay? Or at least have someone with you if you're going to keep practising to help people recover. You don't want to end up accidentally messing yourself up too bad to end up on leave too, do you?"

[not_thedragon]

"Good," he said, leaning back to give his handiwork one last once-over before starting to stand. Her voice stopped him, though, making him pause and look at her with some surprise.

He didn't want to share the detailed reason behind the exact nature of his training today, but since it seemed like Adela wasn't about to go running for a medic-nin again, he hesitated only a moment more before sitting back down with a suppressed sigh.

"I won't injure myself too badly," he said. "If I had to go to the medic-nin at the hospital with a self-inflicted injury, they'd kill me before they even started to heal me."

[abileunaspada]

"You promise?" Those were the only words she spoke as she looked him over, making to stand as well and holding a slight limp so that her full weight wasn't on her freshly injured ankle. She could get back to the village like this, even if it'd take a while. She'd just have to take it easy. But if Sasuke ended up hurting himself too badly and no one was around to help...

She didn't want to think about that.

[not_thedragon]

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?"

[abileunaspada]

"I promise, so long as you keep yours," Adela nodded, pausing before she frowned, "Do a lot of people come through here? I mean, enough that someone'll find you later if you need it," The question was awkward, as if she didn't want to end up offending him on accident. Really, she just wanted to make sure he'd be okay... Even with all the awkward stuff that had happened.

[not_thedragon]

"A lot? Not usually," Sasuke said, though he directed a frown back in the direction of the training field. For a place where he'd trained numerous times without any disruptions whatsoever, this spot had turned out annoying popular today for some reason. "If I really need the help, I'll use the scrolls to find someone."

Preferably someone who wasn't a med-nin and so couldn't injure him any more.

[abileunaspada]

"... Yeah. All right, Senpai," She nodded, glancing at Sasuke before she finally left. She was still worried, but what the hell else could she do? She just needed to relax, maybe make something... She needed to relax and let her ankle heal, too.