[So not a friendship thing, then. Once he's out of the hospital, he's going to need to look up more information on this particular topic. (Good luck with that, Sai)]
I'm not particularly familiar with your profession. Such things aren't common where I am from.
[Because lbr here if Narutoverse had anything resembling competent mental health services a lot of the plot probably wouldn't exist.]
Hm...
[An interesting piece of the puzzle that might slot into place, here, is that there seems to be an obvious hesitation, but not one of someone intentionally withholding information. It's as if there's a disconnect, there--a lack of instinctual understanding of the emotion, like he consciously needs to think on its presence or absence.]
...Not since, I don't think. [Beat] Though admittedly, the past days are somewhat muddled.
[i.e. he probably spent a lot of it in indeterminate distress over nonexistent assailants to Naruto, but now that he's lucid again he can't really separate that out from the actual swear-in's events.]
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I'm not particularly familiar with your profession. Such things aren't common where I am from.
[Because lbr here if Narutoverse had anything resembling competent mental health services a lot of the plot probably wouldn't exist.]
Hm...
[An interesting piece of the puzzle that might slot into place, here, is that there seems to be an obvious hesitation, but not one of someone intentionally withholding information. It's as if there's a disconnect, there--a lack of instinctual understanding of the emotion, like he consciously needs to think on its presence or absence.]
...Not since, I don't think. [Beat] Though admittedly, the past days are somewhat muddled.
[i.e. he probably spent a lot of it in indeterminate distress over nonexistent assailants to Naruto, but now that he's lucid again he can't really separate that out from the actual swear-in's events.]