Chapter 134: The Chunin Exams - 60

Chapter 134: The Chunin Exams - 60

As soon as her name appeared on the electronic board, Sakura had frozen up.

She stared at her name displayed on the screen like a deer caught in headlights.

"Looks like it's your turn Sakura-chan!" Naruto didn't read her mood very well and thumped her on the shoulder happily, "All you need to do is kick this guys ass and all three of us will have made it through!"

"....Yeah..." she replied dazedly, biting her lip.

Kakashi didn't say a word to her, not that Daiki blamed him, while Sasuke looked at the pink haired girl with a raised eyebrow and didn't say a word either, he was just waiting for her choice.

She should have known it was coming at this point when Hinata and Kankuro got called up, it had left only three possible options for her opponent and prepared something at the very least.

Her head turned almost mechanically and she glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes, meeting his own.

She seemed to want to say something to him.

"...What are my chances of beating this guy with that jutsu you gave me?" she asked.

He'd like to tell her she had a chance. Maybe give her some advice that would let her gain an advantange-

"Close to zero," he replied bluntly and truthfully, "If you could get an actual hit on him with it, you could win, the problem is, you're nowhere near fast enough, experienced enough or skilled enough to do so right now."

As much as he'd like to do that, he couldn't, because he didn't have a solution for her right in this very moment that could allow her to defeat Neji.

Sakura's shoulders slumped, "...I see." she grimaced. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

"Get in there then and show us what you can do." he grinned lightly.

She returned the look before leaving them behind and making her way down to the arena to face off against Neji.

"Quite the pep talk," Kakashi commented as she left, not even looking up from his book now that she was gone, "And as usual your knowledge is something else."

"It's really not," Daiki snorted, rolling his eyes before glaring at the man, "But just as usual, I'm doing your job for you, why didn't you speak up and give her advice?"

Kakashi shrugged, "Her best option is to surrender here and try again another time, this was just bad luck on her part."

"...Maybe if you did your job properly she would have had a better chance." Sasuke cut in with a huff.

Kakashi rolled his singular visible eye at them, "You do realise being a Jonin-sensei isn't about teaching you all jutsu and the like, right? That's something you can learn on your own time," the elite jonin pointed out, "My job is to get you guys experience on the job, show you how to do your jobs and make sure you don't die on the way, teaching new jutsu isn't required for that, getting taught new jutsu is not a privilege you're entitled to."

"Excuses," Daiki scoffed, "You're just a lazy bastard."

"Well you're not wrong." Kakashi shrugged the accusation off.

Daiki rolled his eyes and looked away from the scarecrow looking jonin and turned his attention to the pink haired girl making her way down to the arena.

She was going to have a hell of an uphill battle, that was for sure. 'But if she can just make some decent moves, and then-' he paused as a thought came to mind.

He extended his chakra outwards in a rippling wave, directing it towards Sakura while he focused chakra to his eyes.

'Sakura.' he said with the chakra transmission jutsu he learned from Fu.