"It wasn't just that you were scared," he said, trying but unable to entirely hide the impatience. "Our complete failure to work as a team is what made it easy for them to separate us."
Which was his fault, having failed to accurately assess the level of fear Adela had been experiencing. Full disclosure would have helped -- perhaps it was something he needed to remember to request with every mission where he outranked his teammates, given that it had been useful on his trial jounin missions thus far -- but he could understand reluctance on Obito's part to make Adela's history readily available. Adela's, too, given how she'd frozen up despite having prior in-field experience at the mere sight of the Kiri symbol.
That said reluctance meant Sasuke would be wearing a bruise around his eye was an irritation for a variety of reasons, not least the embarrassment of having been locked up in shock from the injury for too long himself.
But he was too exhausted to begin sussing everything out in detail, and beyond that -- whatever Adela's status as an asset, they had agreed to be friends. In the end he sighed, folding his arms without quite dislodging her.
"What matters now is that we still have the sword to deliver and can complete the mission," he said. Not before the soldier pill wore off and he passed out for several hours, but that much was probably obvious.
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Which was his fault, having failed to accurately assess the level of fear Adela had been experiencing. Full disclosure would have helped -- perhaps it was something he needed to remember to request with every mission where he outranked his teammates, given that it had been useful on his trial jounin missions thus far -- but he could understand reluctance on Obito's part to make Adela's history readily available. Adela's, too, given how she'd frozen up despite having prior in-field experience at the mere sight of the Kiri symbol.
That said reluctance meant Sasuke would be wearing a bruise around his eye was an irritation for a variety of reasons, not least the embarrassment of having been locked up in shock from the injury for too long himself.
But he was too exhausted to begin sussing everything out in detail, and beyond that -- whatever Adela's status as an asset, they had agreed to be friends. In the end he sighed, folding his arms without quite dislodging her.
"What matters now is that we still have the sword to deliver and can complete the mission," he said. Not before the soldier pill wore off and he passed out for several hours, but that much was probably obvious.