"I wouldn't be worthy of being here if I couldn't walk through the fire," Yuki said with pride.  While he considered ALL of his defensive capabilities to be advantages, there was no real need to make her think he had more than one layer.  The more Kasumi thought he was just a one trick pony with taijutsu and the Byakugan, the better off he was when she told every other Mist Shinobi about it.<br/><br/>For what it was worth, he considered Makoto's situation far less of a problem than the other way around.  After all, if there were less vital organs below your waist, even if many lethal blows were still possible.  Of course, he also was not the one who forced himself to be stuck inside of a puppet as part of a combat style (even if that combat style was badass). "You should have jumped out of that thing and started throwing knives.  It would have been a good test of my adaptability."<br/><br/>He pats the puppet softly.  If Kasumi couldn't work out what had happened on her own, she didn't deserve the intelligence.  "If it were a straight fight, Makoto, I wouldn't just be able to stay on defense and avoid and evade, or else you'd be able to ignore me as a threat.  Those upgrades will do wonderfully when they are put to the test in the exams.  No amount of work put into preparing for these trials is wasted...even if it might be a little better to get your rest."<br/><br/>This was coming from the guy who prided himself in being able to sleep half as much so his squad could get more sleep.  He had perfected the 'half shift sleep' in his training, and put it to use in the field many a time...