Not be broken? Sasuke had been trained in field medicine, and he'd seen and learned to heal a great many broken things, but in all of those cases there had been something to break. He wasn't even sure if -- he had no reference point for what had happened tonight. He hadn't even thought about it; nothing like it had existed for him.

But he'd seen that before, too, if he really thought about it. Shinobi gritting their teeth through surgery too urgent for anaesthesia, laughing afterward that they hadn't even know that they had muscles there to strain.

Laughing after this didn't seem possible. But for Hinata and Naruto ...

"If it had to be one of us, I'm glad it was me," he said, low. "If they -- would ANBU take care of it, if something like this happened to one of them?"