More during peacetime. It sounded counterintuitive until it didn't, but that seemed to be most of what was happening tonight: impossible until it was possible. Of course there were more in peacetime: apparently Sasuke had thought that the peace came free, even with the number of regular missions that still dealt with death and assassination.

His silent question had been answered, too, in a way that made him want to -- something. It was there, an inarticulate heat in his throat that wanted out and wouldn't be pretty when it emerged, and so he swallowed it -- breathed, remembered breath -- and then looked up in surprise: "Why?"