He didn't expect either of them would be available soon, if Adela was keeping Academy hours and given the primary use of Sasuke's time these days, but he'd only seen that bloodline out of the corner of one eye while another was being poked at with highly unpleasant fingernails. The normal thing he'd have done in the past, before, would have been to ask for a spar.

And it felt more natural than anything else in the conversation, now that he'd asked.

"I'll look for you when you're free, then," he said, and then -- mouth twisting into something wry: "With any luck, you won't be injured this time."