She hadn't meant to pry. Not exactly. It was just such a strange thing to hear that Neji had fought with him, and then to hear what he said. She can understand why Lee is hurt by the whole thing. None of what Neji said seemed particularly fair.

For a long moment she's silent, fiddling with her straw as she takes that in, a clear frown forming at her mouth as she does. "If you want to be promoted keep working toward that. People say things sometimes in the heat of the moment that they don't mean. Maybe this is one of those moment." Considering she'd only been dating his teammate for a few months she could hardly say for sure if it was, but it was meant to help ease the hurt, or at least take some of the sting out of it.

"And I don't think I've ever seen for myself what you can do in a fight. Perhaps when you're healed we can have a spar so I can."