[Well. He is a genius, after all, he'll figure it out on his own. Or he'll ask someone, but that is far less likely of the two possibilities.
He listens to her response readily enough...but of course even civilians have chakra networks with which to extract chakra via the proper jutsus. It wouldn't be very much, and their networks would be easily overloaded...but with more powerful shinobi like themselves present, civilians could provide some supplemental benefit.
The question would remain 'why', however. It's not a question Tenten could hope to answer directly, so he doesn't bother to ask it. Instead, he notes the names she speaks. Shino Aburame and Sasuke Uchiha. Shino she'd already mentioned, but Sasuke was new information. Tenten ought to be able to recognize the way his expression clouds at the mention of Sasuke.]
From when between us did Sasuke arrive? The war or the exams? [He needs to know whether the lack of a -kun means that he'll have to deal with a dangerous traitor without chakra (easy enough, considering their respective styles) or that it's a sign that she has spent entirely too much time with a young traitor-to-be.]
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He listens to her response readily enough...but of course even civilians have chakra networks with which to extract chakra via the proper jutsus. It wouldn't be very much, and their networks would be easily overloaded...but with more powerful shinobi like themselves present, civilians could provide some supplemental benefit.
The question would remain 'why', however. It's not a question Tenten could hope to answer directly, so he doesn't bother to ask it. Instead, he notes the names she speaks. Shino Aburame and Sasuke Uchiha. Shino she'd already mentioned, but Sasuke was new information. Tenten ought to be able to recognize the way his expression clouds at the mention of Sasuke.]
From when between us did Sasuke arrive? The war or the exams? [He needs to know whether the lack of a -kun means that he'll have to deal with a dangerous traitor without chakra (easy enough, considering their respective styles) or that it's a sign that she has spent entirely too much time with a young traitor-to-be.]