So there was sentience remaining when this It emerged, at least on some primitive level. Sasuke could see that the man was built for speed, particularly, and though he had clearly been steady enough to attract woodland creatures to roost on him, his movements were far from a shinobi's trained precision. Still, that cloud of chakra ... even an Academy student could do damage with a fraction as much.

"You're too close to my home," Sasuke said, tone blunt. "If this It can do as much damage as you're suggesting, I'm not going to leave you unsupervised."

Even with Konoha's proximity (and the nearness of the outlying civilian settlements) aside, he wasn't particularly confident about the structural soundness of a cave built this low into the rock face. If too much damage happened to the interior, there was no guarantee that the stranger wouldn't end up buried under a rockslide, and though Sasuke had no particular allegiance to him, he also had no particular desire to leave someone buried alive.

Reaching out to pull some of the vines aside, he glanced inside, eyes adjusting to the dim interior to see that the hidden location had at least relaxed some of the physical tension, if not the chakra.

"Since that's the situation, shall I seal your legs?"