At least it sounded like she hadn't done herself any permanent or major damage by avoiding her own bloodline jutsu, providing she could maintain the pace of progress. Sasuke hadn't run across the clan before now, and there hadn't been much in the library on Milani (at least not at his clearance level), so he didn't know what age she would normally have taken up training with it, but with any luck she'd make up for any time that might have been lost.

It was much easier thinking about her clan heritage from a practical standpoint than a political one. The conversation might have strayed into comfortable territory again, Sasuke running through some of the chakra-control exercises he'd gone through when first learning to better manage his reserves, but of course --

He stared, at first, but managed to stop short of saying: You were the one who ran away from talking about him. True, there had been other elements at play at that moment, but the topic had been filed away with a solid red flag over it in his mind. And now that he was thinking about it, if she meant to be Hokage -- but red flag.

"No, that's -- everyone needs a goal," he ended up saying, awkwardly trying to manage a way of working around the topic of the cousin without -- well, she couldn't exactly run away from the Academy and leave her students without supervision when the break ended, but the last thing he needed now was to get mired in a debate about whether her creepy cousin could be trusted. "I'm happy to spar with you if you want to test it on a real person again."

That was hopefully a logical change of subject from the Silver Terror.