[He doesn't expect it in the least, not with Sakura, but something about this kind of surface-level banter -- not addressing their actual chances, where they are right now, how likely they are to survive the war -- is oddly comfortable in a way they hadn't been even on Team 7.
They're older now, maybe that's why. Or they've seen more. Whatever the case, he looks away to hide the amusement on his own face under the pretense of scoping out the square again, eyeing the sign reading Backwater Brig speculatively.]
i'm a little troubled by this phrasing unless that is what you're into which no judgment
[He doesn't expect it in the least, not with Sakura, but something about this kind of surface-level banter -- not addressing their actual chances, where they are right now, how likely they are to survive the war -- is oddly comfortable in a way they hadn't been even on Team 7.
They're older now, maybe that's why. Or they've seen more. Whatever the case, he looks away to hide the amusement on his own face under the pretense of scoping out the square again, eyeing the sign reading Backwater Brig speculatively.]