Chapter 65: Just Checking

Chapter 65: Just Checking

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"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

-Author notes-

Chapter 65: Just Checking

"He wants the Sharingan," Naruto stated.

Since Sasuke was the only Uchiha left in the village, that seemed like the most likely motivation for Orochimaru to have.

"That man is known for his cruel experiments with human beings. Whatever he wants from Sasuke is not going to be good for him," Kakashi said.

"Sasuke..." Sakura had barely slept since that day. She could not stop worrying about that monster coming back to take Sasuke away.

"Fine, let's leave that aside for now. What else happened after that? How did we get away from him?" Naruto asked.

"A team of ANBU found your smoke signal and went to check. They were already suspicious of an infiltration after they found the real body of that Rain ninja that Orochimaru had supplanted."

"The examiner, Anko, was with them. She wanted us to give up on the exam," Sakura explained.

"But Sasuke..."

"He insisted on continuing with me unconscious?" He saw Sakura nod.

"And they call me reckless..."

"Sorry..." Sakura felt bad for that. Instead of taking him to a hospital, they dragged the unconscious body of Naruto all across the forest for three days."

"It's fine." He wasn't really upset. They could not continue without him anyway. And it's not like his life was in danger afterward. His body probably healed in a few hours.

"And?... How did the rest of the exam go? Did we pass?" he finally asked.

"We did! But barely... we were the last team to arrive," Sakura said.

"We got attacked by a team from the Sound Village on the second day... it was very scary."

"The Sound Village?" Naruto now remembered them. One of the guys who attacked Kabuto in the first exam was from that team.

"So you beat them. Well done!"

Sakura made a complicated expression.

"We received help from other teams..." She felt a bit embarrassed about it.

She opened a small chest that was placed at the foot of the bed and pulled out a set of dark green pants and a shirt.

"Here, you can put these on."

Naruto chose to put the green shirt over his naked body and decided to leave the pants for after the girls left.

"All covered, you can look now," he announced.

"How are you feeling?" Hinata tried her best to avoid direct eye contact.

"I feel completely recovered. Sakura was just telling me what happened over the last few days," Naruto said.

"Oh, we can help with that." Ino walked up to the chair left by Kakashi and sat down.

"That forest was very scary..." Hinata said.

"Yes, Sakura told me that your team helped us out. Thank you for that," Naruto told Hinata.

She hid behind her hands.

"N...n... it was nothing!"

"You are also welcome!" Ino added with a grin.

"You didn't help us at all!" Sakura frowned.

"What do you mean?" Ino looked genuinely surprised.

"We were watching you for almost the full four days."

"What?!" Sakura obviously had no idea.

"Well... I wasn't watching you. Mostly, I was looking at my Sasuke, and..." She glanced at Naruto.

"Just checking on Naruto's condition."

"You were spying on us?!" Sakura raised the tone of her voice.

"C-calm down, Sakura... I'm sure that..." Hinata mumbled in a low tone.

"I was checking on you! And it's not my fault you didn't notice!" Ino shouted.

The two girls proceeded to engage in a shouting match that continued to escalate until one of the chunin overseeing the exam came to tell them to shut up.

But he also told them to go down, as they were about to begin the next part.

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