"Well Naruto, Sasuke this is it." Sakura voiced.
Team 7 just arrived at the academy. They could see other teams going inside already. So far none of the team they've seen seem intimidating.
"Finally after years of waiting to participate we are really here. I don't even care about being promoted. I just want to fight against other teams." Naruto voiced with excitement.
"You and me both Naruto. I feel sorry for the fools who has to face Sakura." Sasuke smirked.
"I do too, come on boys let's go." Sakura walked ahead to go inside the building. Her brothers were a step behind her.
Teams all around were all on the first floor. Thankfully none of them seem to care enough to bother them. Heading up to the second floor. It was pretty quiet until going further down the hallway. Several teams were in front of a door. Blocking the way inside were two chunin who team 7 instantly recognized.
"Is that Izumo and Kotetsu?" Naruto asked.
"Seems like it, what's up with the henge? It looks horrible." Sasuke commented.
"What's worse is that none of those teams seem to be able to tell it's a henge." Sakura said. When she looked at the room number, the pinkette felt disappointed in the other teams. "Wow no one has noticed the genjutsu that was placed?"
"That's just sad, you're not cut out to even be a genin if you can't see that simple genjutsu." Sasuke voiced.
"Should we help them out?" Naruto questioned.
Sasuke and Sakura shook their heads. "No, I'm assuming the goal is to weed out the weak. Less cannon fodder the examiners have to deal with. Let's just head on up." Sakura replied.
While walking away, none of them noticed someone was staring at them.
When they got to the third floor. The team was walking through a big room. Before they got halfway across the room someone yelled from behind them.
"Hey you there stop!"
Team 7 all turned around to see a boy wearing a green jumpsuit. He had a black hair with a bowl cut. Black bushy eyebrows that don't look natural. Orange leg warmers on his calves. He wore bandages from his hands down to his forearms.
"Uhh who are you?" Naruto asked the million dollar question.
"I am known as the Handsome Devil of the Leaf! Rock Lee!" Lee was in a thumbs up pose. When he smiled, his teeth had a shine to them.
This was definitely an odd situation for team 7. For starters, none of them has ever seen Lee before. Second thing is why was he stopping them. Third, what the hell is up with his eyebrows?
'Handsome..?' Sakura scoffed mentally. 'This guy must have both a lot of confidence and delusions. Because he definitely doesn't fit with the term handsome.'
"Ok..? So why are you stopping us?" Sasuke wondered. He was finding Lee weirder by the second.
"First things first." Lee looked at Sakura. "May I please know your names."
"Sasuke Uchiha."
"Sakura Haruno."
"Naruto Uzumaki."
"It is nice to meet you all, but I wanted to ask you a question Sakura-chan..would you please go out with me!" Lee asked passionately.
If they weren't annoyed before, they definitely were now. Sasuke activated his sharingan to glare at Lee. Naruto's eyes were now blood red with slits. Also glaring in the bowl cut genin's direction. Sakura sighed, she was annoyed by the guy but didn't want to be rude. It didn't help that her little brothers were staring holes into Lee.
"Look Lee, sorry but I'm not interested. I don't even know you." Sakura said as even toned as she could.
Lee looked dejected but then perked you. "I see that is too bad. This means I will have to work harder for your affections! If I can't do that then I will run 500 laps around Konoha!" He yelled with literal fire in his eyes.
"Ok that's enough you are really testing my patience pal." Naruto growled.
A confused expression appeared on Lee's face when he noticed Naruto and Sasuke's expressions. "I'm sorry but what does it matter to you?" Lee questioned Naruto.
"She's our sister dumbass. You're being a pest. She told you she wasn't interested." Sasuke voiced with irritation laced in his tone.
Lee seemed to be apologetic once he heard that. "Ah! I apologize for that then. Wait now that I think about it. I'm sure I've heard your names before? Oh! You're the so called Golden Trio from the academy!"
All members of team 7 groaned.
"Oh god do people still call us that?" Sakura facepalmed herself.
"Looks like it, I hoped they would have stopped by now." Sasuke said.
"Well it has only been about 5 months since we graduated. Still that name is embarrassing." Naruto turned his attention back to Lee.
"Do you mind if I fight the strongest one of you three? Rumor has it that is you Sasuke Uchiha." Lee questioned.
The raven haired Uchiha gazed at Lee with a raised eyebrow. "Those rumors are wrong but we don't have time to waste fighting you anyways. We literally only have a few minutes before the test starts. Another thing is it would be foolish to reveal our abilities right now when it's possible someone could be spying on us. They'll use what information they gather to their advantage."
Realization dawned on Lee. "Oh you are right Sasuke-kun! Forgive me for asking such a foolish question. I will do 1000 push-ups as an apology to you!"
"Dude you're ok just stop fucking yelling so much. If you wanna fight so bad maybe one of us will get to fulfill your request." Sasuke told him.
Lee nodded. "Very well, before I go I must warn you. While I am very strong, I am not the strongest genin here. That title belongs to my teammate Neji Hyuga. I will look forward to seeing you all again." The bowl cut genin bowed slightly and left the area.
Watching him leave, Naruto said to his siblings. "That guy was weird as hell. I know I can be loud, but kami Lee takes the cake."
"Those bushy eyebrows have to be unnatural. There's no way eyebrows can grow like that." Sakura shuddered. Normally she wasn't one to judge people. However, Lee did weird her out with his approach. She knows it is very possible he could be a good friend outside of that.
"Well in any case, doesn't that jumpsuit remind you two of someone? Someone with very similar eyebrows?" Sasuke glanced towards Naruto and Sakura.
Thinking about it for a second. Naruto answered. "Oh Gai-sensei!" The blond snapped his fingers.
"Exactly." Sasuke nodded. "Rock Lee is literally a mini version of Maito Gai."
"Could they be related? Maybe they are father and son?" The pinkette shrugged.
"Maybe but I doubt it, mom would have mentioned by now about Gai having a son around our age. It's more likely Gai is his sensei but on a deeper level." Sasuke answered.
"So if that's the case, if he emulates Gai-sensei that much. Then he must be talented in taijutsu. Quite possible Eight Inner Gates type of talented. And I'm willing to put my money on it if he's confident enough to challenge us to a fight." Sakura mused.
Naruto whistled. "Damn do you really think Gai-sensei would go that far to teach him that already? I mean that move is really dangerous not to mention the after effects of it are pretty severe. It could kill you if you aren't careful."
Sasuke shrugged. "Who cares I'm positive Lee knows the risk of the Eight Gates so it's on him on how he decides to utilize it properly. If Gai-sensei made it this far using it various times throughout the years. Then why can't Lee? This makes the exams even more interesting. Also it's not like we don't know many powerful and dangerous techniques ourselves. Hell Sakura you will probably have one of your greatest fights against him since you are talented in taijutsu too."
"Yeah I am but not Eight Inner Gates talented." Sakura said.
"No, you're way better than that. Even if Lee knows how to open the gates, me and Sasuke have no doubt that you will still come out on top. Don't forget we still don't know the full capabilities of your bloodline yet. You're always discovering something new with it. Seriously warrior mode is a fucking cheat code. Luckily me and Sasuke have our own ways of keeping up. Anyways don't doubt yourself now Sakura-chan. You're stronger than Lee." Naruto spoke to his sister confidently.
"Well said Naruto, Sakura will easily destroy that guy. As if anybody has anything on our older sister." Sasuke smirked.
Sakura had a couple tears fall out of her eyes. "You guys…" They may be annoying idiots at times. But Sakura loved her brothers more than anything. Same with her mom. There is nothing in the world that can break the bond their family shares with each other. She wiped her eyes and nodded. "Of course I'll kick his ass. I'll make sure he forever remembers my name." She voiced with determination.
"Lets go, Naruto! Sakura!" Sasuke told the team.
"Yeah!" Naruto replied. Sakura nodded while smiling.
Team 7 walked out of the room they were in and continued until they arrived at room 301.
Arriving at the door, neither of them expected to see their mother standing on the side of it. "Well it's about time you three got here." Mikoto greeted her kids with a smile.
"Sensei? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked.
"I had to make sure all three of you showed up because if one was missing then your team cannot take the exams. And yes I knew you three would be here since I saw you off earlier. But this is just protocol for every jounin instructor in Konoha at least." Mikoto explained.
"Ah that makes sense. We would've been here sooner if Lee didn't stop us?" Sakura said.
"Lee?" Mikoto echoed, raising her eyebrow in confusion.
"A student of Gai-sensei's. We assume so since he's a literal mini version of Gai himself. He asked Sakura out for a date. She denied him then he asked if he could fight one of us." Sasuke shrugged.
"Oh so you met one of Gai's students eh? Well don't underestimate them by any means. I've told you all plenty of times how excellent of a teacher Gai is. Not to mention he's one of the strongest jounin in the village. He's definitely in the top 3 or 5 depending how you wanna rank him, Me, Tsunade, Kakashi, Tenzo and Jiraiya." Mikoto replied.
"Don't worry we already made sure to be wary of him and anybody else who seems strong." Sasuke assured Mikoto.
"Good now you only have a few minutes until the exam starts. So get in there and make me, Tsunade and Shizune proud." Mikoto told her children.
After saying bye to their mother. They walked inside the room and were instantly met with glares from the competition.
'Are these guys trying to intimidate us with that weak killing intent they are giving off? Sakura asked her brothers telepathically through their shared link.
'Looks like it, Kurama is laughing his ass off at their attempt. He says we should give them a glimpse of true intent.' Naruto replied mentally.
'I agree, let's show them we aren't average genin.' Sasuke said.
All three members of team 7 simultaneously unleashed a wave of killing intent that easily overpowered the intent being directed at them. Fear was put into the hearts of the opposition. Some of them even saw their own deaths. Resulting in them shaking as if it's below 0 degrees. Luckily for them the intent only lasted a few seconds before it stopped.
You could see smirks all over Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke faces. Telling the opposition to that they dare them to try their team again. Unfortunately their satisfaction didn't last as long once a voice broke through the intense mood.
"Sasuke-kun!"
Sasuke cursed internally before he was hugged by none other than Ino Yamanaka. One of his former classmates. And sadly from what it seems like. Still one of his fangirls.
"Hi Ino do you mind letting me go?" Sasuke asked politely.
"But Sasuke-kun, it's been forever since I last saw you. Didn't you miss me? because I know I missed you." Ino asked. The blush on her face was very apparent.
"Honestly didn't even think about you. A lot of things have been going on the last few months so my mind has been elsewhere." Sasuke answered her bluntly.
"Aww but you get to think of me now right Sasuke-kun?" Ino cooed.
Sakura was not pleased in the slightest with Ino's actions. "Oi Ino get off of him already." She stated.
Ino let go of Sasuke to look at Sakura. "Oh please forehead. You just want to hog him all for yourself like always." The platinum blonde rolled her eyes.
"Oh my god for the last time. I don't see him in that way, for fucks sake he's my brother you pig!" Sakura yelled.
Before Ino could retort, Shikamaru spoke up from behind. "Ino would you give it a rest already. You're being too loud."
"Oh shut up Shika." Ino grumbled.
Walking back further into the room. Team 7 also saw that Team 8 was taking the exams.
"Hey you guys are here too!" Kiba voiced as both team 7 and 8 walked up.
"Looks that way." Shikamaru replied.
"It's been awhile since all of us have last saw one another." Shino spoke up in the same stoic tone he normally uses.
Choji wasn't saying anything. He way too busy eating a bag of BBQ chips. But he was paying attention to the conversation.
Hinata was subtly staring at Naruto. The blunette could only look at him a few seconds at a time. Before she had to turn her attention away from him. She would return her attention back to him after several seconds of looking at something else. Hinata hated how she did not have the confidence to talk to her crush. She constantly berated herself for always passing out when trying to talk to Naruto.
"Man I'm really itching for a good fight. Wonder how long do we have to wait until we can fight?" Naruto said.
Sasuke, who was standing next to Naruto, answered. "Just be patient Naruto, you know it's more to chunin than just battle prowess."
"Of course but I'm starting to feel the need to burn off some energy. It's that Uzumaki thing mom told me about. She said my birth mom had the same thing." Naruto replied.
"Oh yeah that extra energy of yours is waiting to be released. Normally we would be sparring or training by now. That's why you're feeling that way." Sasuke figured.
"Yeah I'll be fine though, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait when it's all said and done." The blond said.
"Hey you rookies should tone it down. You're drawing a lot of attention to yourselves." A tall boy with gray hair and glasses said to the rookies.
All three teams looked over in Kabuto's direction. He was a Konoha shinobi according to his headband. Kabuto also looked a few years older than them.
However Naruto was the first to notice three things about Kabuto. One was thanks to Naruto being able to sense negative emotions from people. He could feel a lot of negative intent coming from Kabuto. Second judging by his levels of chakra. He has jounin level reserves. Something normal genin don't usually have. While that could be explained by him just being a few years older. The third and main thing that stuck out to Naruto heavily, is that Kabuto's scent reeks of snakes. As if he's bathed in a pool of snake blood. It didn't help that his chakra also felt somewhat sinister.
"Oh yeah? And who the hell are you?" Kiba questioned Kabuto.
"I'm Kabuto Yakushi. So you're the rookie nine that just graduated from the academy, correct?" Kabuto introduced himself.
'Guys this guy is someone we need to watch out for. Do you guys smell his scent?' Naruto asked his siblings through the seal.
'You mean besides him having jounin level reserves. How he reeks of snakes? Yeah it's only two people I know who would have a similar scent.' Sakura replied.
'Do you feel any ill intentions from him Naruto?' Sasuke said.
'Yes, this guy has a few red flags about him. What should we do?' Naruto answered.
'It's nothing we can do for now. Unless he gives us reasons to be more suspicious of him. It's possible he has a pet snake. He looks older so that might explain his high reserves. I can't explain his ill intent though. So for now just be wary of him.' Sasuke responded.
"You mean you have information on all of the chunin exam participants?" Ino asked Kabuto. While team 7 was talking telepathically to each other. Kabuto had been talking to the other rookies.
"Yes I do, anybody in particular you guys want information on?" Kabuto looked around between the rookies.
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke didn't need information on anyone in the exams. The biggest threat in the exams to them is Gaara. They already knew all they needed to know about the other rookies. Lee was talked about between the three of them earlier. Judging by the chakra reserves of the rest of the room. None of them were a threat.
"Yeah I want information on Uchiha Sasuke!" Kiba stated loudly.
Kabuto smirked, he was about to pull out one of his cards to read off Sasuke information. Sadly that did not work out in his or Kiba's favor.
"Oi." Sasuke voiced in a bold tone.
When Kabuto looked up at Sasuke, he widened his eyes.
Sasuke was glaring hard at him with his sharingan activated. The intensity of his glare was frightening. Kabuto didn't realize that he started breaking out into cold sweat. He felt himself being overwhelmed with fear. Never in his entire life has he encountered a glare like the one Sasuke is giving him.
"I would suggest you keep your mouth shut if you know what's good for you. I don't take too kindly to people giving away information about me without my permission." Sasuke voiced in a curt tone. His glare never breaks away from Kabuto. Sasuke could see the boy shaking.
"What's wrong Sasuke? Afraid you'll lose if we find out some of your secrets?" Kiba tried to make fun of him.
He immediately regretted that decision when Sasuke turned his glare onto him. The poor Inuzuka felt his chest beating rapidly. His legs shaking out of nowhere. A cold shiver coming down his spine. Kiba has never seen a sharingan so up close before. Back in the academy, Sasuke would rarely activate it, unless he felt like cutting loose in his sparring against Sakura and Naruto. Even that was rare. This is the first time Kiba has actually been the focus of attention of a sharingan user.
"No we're ninja, we gather information on enemies all the time. However you must be a fool if you think I'm going to let any of my information be leaked out right in front of me. Especially with this many people around. What decent shinobi would let that happen? You want information? Do it the old fashioned way you fucking idiot." Sasuke snarled at Kiba.
If Sasuke really wanted to scare Kiba. He would have released some of his chakra. Like his mother's chakra, Sasuke's also carry some of those intense dark qualities. While it wouldn't bother Naruto or Sakura in the slightest if he released it. He can't say the same for the other genin in the room. It's possible some of them may even die due to feeling suffocated under Sasuke's chakra.
The air was still tense. All of the participants were watching the scene take place. The other rookies all felt nervous being next to Sasuke. Seeing a full blown sharingan flared the way Sasuke's is, honestly is pretty intimidating.
Thankfully Naruto broke the tension, he slapped his hand onto Sasuke's shoulder. "Alright Sasuke, I think you proved your point. If you keep glaring like that at him. Kiba is going to piss himself."
"He's probably holding it in as we speak." Sakura grinned.
Sasuke deactivated his sharingan and smirked. "I bet you if I released a bit of my chakra. He would've started pissing like a newborn baby."
His comment made not only Naruto and Sasuke laugh. But team 10 as well. Kiba felt extremely embarrassed. Before he could try to regain his dignity. A small burst of smoke appeared in front of the room.
Once the smoke passed, it was revealed to be none other than Ibiki Morino in front with a bunch of other shinobi dressed in two different types of gray. "QUIET DOWN, YOU PUNKS!" Ibiki yelled out loud.
Everybody was staring at Ibiki. Seeing that he had their attention, Ibiki smirked. "Sorry to keep you waiting, I am the first examiner of the Chunin Selection Exam, Morino Ibiki. And from this very moment, your worst enemy."
'Mom did say that the people he interrogates normally end up fearing him.' Sakura commented telepathically to her little brothers.
'And he likes to play with his prisoner's mind. So we can expect some sort of mind game from him.' Sasuke added.
"No physical force will be allowed during this stage of the exams unless I give the ok. Anybody who fails to follow those orders will be immediately disqualified from the exams." Ibiki held up a small piece of paper with the number 1 on it. "You will be given a number, that number determines where you will sit. Once you are seated, we will begin the written test."
Soon everyone was given a number. When everyone was seated. Ibiki started to explain the rules of the exam.
While that was going on, on the upper level some of the jounin instructors were waiting in the lounge. They were able to watch how their teams are handling the first part of the exams.
"Well it seems this year's bunch has a lot of participants." Asuma commented.
"I agree, it's hard to believe that we have so many rookies in it this year." Kurenai said.
"Yeah but it seems that Mikoto's son can be just as scary as his mom. I mean kami, did you guys see his glare? If I didn't know any better, I would've thought that was Mikoto standing in his place." Anko brought up.
Mikoto smirked. "What can I say? Sasuke took after me a lot more than Itachi did. He's like the male version of me."
"Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Sasuke isn't the only one to watch out for on your team Mikoto. All of your kids are strong. I wonder how my team will fare against them." Kurenai voiced.
Mikoto smiled, feeling pride for her kids run through her. "Thank you Kurenai."
"I feel bad for the rookies though, they'll have it tough with Ibiki." Asuma spoke.
"Why would they? What's so special about Ibiki?" Kurenai wondered.
"Oh that's right, you're a new jounin Kurenai. You see Ibiki is the head of the T&I force." Asuma answered.
The genjutsu mistress's eyes widened in shock. "Wait you mean that Ibiki? How are they supposed to pass if he's the proctor?"
"Ibiki will get at least half of these brats to drop out before the 10th question." Anko snorted.
"Not my kids, Ibiki is an excellent interrogator and shinobi. But he won't be able to break the will of my kids." Mikoto stated.
"You have a lot of confidence in them." Asuma noted.
The Uchiha Matriarch smiled. "Of course I do, I've been teaching them even before they attended the academy. You guys will see just how special all three of my babies are."
Back in the testing room, Ibiki explained the rules of the test. So far only 10 minutes have passed since the start of the test. Leaving 35 minutes left until it's time to hear the 10th question. The test was only an hour.
For team 7, they immediately caught on to the true purpose of the test as soon as they looked at the test. All of the first 9 questions were clearly too complex for an average genin to answer. The goal was to cheat without getting caught. For a bookworm like Sakura, they were very easy to answer. Sasuke had no troubles either. Although he didn't finish as fast as Sakura did. Naruto took the longest of the three. He wasn't the smartest of his siblings. But he was far from being unintelligent. Naruto received excellent grades when he was in the academy. It's just that Sasuke and Sakura were always academically better than him. Not that he cared about it. Once they were all done, team 7 used their seals to go over their answers telepathically to make sure they all had the same answers.
During the test, Ibiki had called out several people for cheating. Cutting down the number of teams little by little. Eventually the 45 minute mark came around. It was time for the final question.
"Alright stop writing right now, it's time for the 10th question. However be warned, if you answer incorrectly, you will never be able to take the exams again. If you decide to forfeit before hearing what the 10th question is, your whole team fails. But you will be able to retake the exams another time." Ibiki stated.
As he expected, he received an uproar for a reaction. Many of the participants were complaining about the choices they were given.
"Hey that bullshit! What kind of question is that? There have been a bunch of people who has taken this exam before!" Kiba yelled defiantly towards Ibiki while pointing his finger at the proctor.
Ibiki chuckled. "I guess you are just unlucky kid, I wasn't making the rules before. But I am now, of course if you don't want to take it, you don't have to."
Seeing the looks of disbelief, Ibiki continued. "If you aren't feeling confident then by all means skip it. You can always try again next year." He chuckled again. "Now then if you're ready, the 10th and final question. Those of you who don't want to take it raise your hand. Your number will be recorded and then you're free to go."
Sasuke whistled in a low tone. 'He's good, his bluff already has some of the others dropping like flies.' He said to his siblings telepathically.
It was true, other participants were dropping out. Some of them apologized to their teammates before walking from their seats. Sasuke couldn't blame them. Clearly Ibiki knew how to mind fuck people. If Sasuke was an average genin, he was positive he wouldn't be able to tell that Ibiki was bluffing.
'Definitely, I could learn a few things from him.' Naruto replied.
'I can't believe the genin from other villages are falling for his shit. Ibiki has no say whatsoever in any of them being able to take the exams again. Even with Konoha genin, he can't do that. Only a kage or the genin's jounin instructor have that type of control. And the jounin doesn't have any power if the kage believes the genin is ready to take the exams again. I know he's intimidating with his mind games. But kami they need to use their heads.' Sakura voiced.
'The pressure of the consequences most likely affected their ability to think through the situation properly. Remember Sakura, most of them are just regular genin.' Sasuke reminded his sister.
'I know I know, but you would think some things are just common sense.' The pinkette said.
Ibiki noticed that nobody else was dropping out. '78 left huh? That's more than I expected.' He thought to himself. Ibiki looked over to some of the other chunin by the window. He received a few nods on confirmation.
"Well then I'm glad to see the rest of you have the backbone to stay. For those of you who remained, it's only one thing left for me to tell you." Ibiki blinked before smirking again. "It's that you all have passed the first exam."
That seemed to throw everyone but team 7 in a loop. None of them were able to figure out how they passed. Ibiki explained the true purpose of the 10th question. Saying that it was to test their will as genin to see if they are able to face the unknown in a tough situation. He even showed him the scars on his head to get his point through.
Eventually Anko made her unique entrance. Busting right through the glass window. "You guys! This isn't the time to be celebrating! I am the proctor for the second exam! Anko Mitarashi!" Anko introduced herself.
"She reminds me of Naruto." Sakura said to herself.
"You're early Anko, again." Ibiki grumbled.
Anko looked a bit sheepish after hearing that. She looked over the participants. She then turned her gaze back to Ibiki. "How many are there? Ibiki? You let all of these little brats pass? Either your test was or you're losing your touch."
"Maybe this year's crop of candidates are stronger." Ibiki replied.
Anko smirked while turning her attention back to the genin. "Hmm sure don't look like they are. Oh well, by the time I'm done with them. More than half will be eliminated."
That caused a few murmurs between the remaining teams.
"Alright you maggots have had it easy so far. But not anymore, things are going to change starting first thing tomorrow morning. I'll let your jounin senseis know where you can meet me. You're dismissed." Anko said.
All of the teams began leaving the academy. Team 7 was walking down a road. They didn't feel their mother's chakra inside of the academy anymore. Meaning she's either at home or out somewhere. So they decided to head home to tell Mikoto, Tsunade and Shizune the news.
When the group of three arrived home. After taking off their sandals, they walked into the living room.
Tsunade, Shizune and Mikoto were all in the living room talking amongst one another. The slug sannin was the first to speak to them.
"Welcome back brats! I take it you passed?" Tsunade asked while smiling.
"Come on, of course we did! It would be embarrassing if we didn't." Naruto grinned.
Mikoto beamed proudly at her kids. "I'm proud of you three, but I expected you to pass. Hell we all did."
"Do you guys know where the second part of the exam is being held?" Shizune asked.
"No, all we were told that our jounin sensei would tell us where to go." Sakura answered.
"You have to be at the Forest of Death at 9 in the morning." Mikoto informed them.
"Ummm isn't that a little too dangerous for genin?" Shizune wondered.
"Maybe regular genin, but not these three. They've been training in the Forest of Death for a long time now. By now they know that whole area inside out. One time, they told me that they were only going to stay in there for a couple days. It turned into a week before they came back home. I almost went to go bring them out of there." Mikoto explained to Shizune.
"That was Naruto's fault, it was his idea to stay longer." Sasuke said.
Naruto scoffed. "Oh like you two didn't agree!"
"We only agreed, because if we would've left without you. Mom would've kicked both my and Sasuke's ass before going to drag your ass out of the forest." Sakura brought up.
"You know you three never cease to amuse me." Tsunade voiced in an amused tone.
"Alright well since you are here, I can start dinner. Sasuke-chan it's your turn to help me out. So let's head to the kitchen." Mikoto told her son.
Sasuke didn't mind. "Hai Kaachan."