Anko Mitarashi darted to Naruto's side and said in a threatening tone, "A ninja as frivolous as you might be the first one to kick the bucket."
At this moment, Anko was pressed against Naruto's back. When another person presses tightly against a ninja's back, it often creates a great deal of psychological pressure. That's why powerful ninjas like to start conversations from behind others.
Naruto was indeed under a lot of psychological pressure at the moment. Since Anko was standing so close, he felt two soft, warm sensations on his back.
Naruto broke out in a cold sweat and thought to himself, "Oh my god, can these ninjas get rid of this old habit? Why do they always like to dart behind others? And when she comes behind me, she acts like she's got me all figured out."
Like a mantis stalking a cicada, only to be followed by an oriole. Naruto was the cicada, Anko was the mantis, and now another person had darted behind Anko and pressed tightly against her.
Anko was startled. She quickly took out a kunai and glanced behind her. There stood a kunoichi from Kusagakure Village.
"I'm here to return your kunai," the Kusagakure kunoichi said. "The kunai you threw almost hit me just now."
"If you don't want to die, don't stand behind me with such a murderous aura," Anko said as she took the kunai that the Kusagakure kunoichi had passed to her with her tongue.
The Kusagakure kunoichi's tongue was extremely long, over a meter by rough estimate, and as flexible as a snake. She could catch Anko's thrown kunai with just her long tongue.
Naruto observed secretly and suddenly blurted out, "Examiner! Didn't you notice? That kunoichi caught your kunai with just her tongue. Her strength is extraordinary. No normal genin has such an ability..."
Hearing Naruto's words, Anko suddenly realized and began to carefully size up the Kusagakure kunoichi.
The Kusagakure kunoichi had a pale face, a sharp chin, and wore a straw hat. Her eyes were full of cunning.
The kunoichi quickly defended herself, "I'm sensitive to blood. The smell of it gets me all fired up, so I had this super - awesome performance. Don't be shocked."
"Haha," Anko returned to her hearty smile and laughed, "There are really a lot of hot - blooded guys among this year's candidates. It's really exciting to look forward to."
"..." Naruto shook his head. It seemed that he would have to step in himself to deal with Orochimaru's invasion of Konoha Village.
The second - round exam content is an extreme wilderness survival challenge. Chief examiner Anko Mitarashi took out a map scroll from her bosom, unfurled it, and showed the exam site to everyone.
As you guys can see, there is a tower in the center of the exam site. The tower is your destination. Once you reach the tower, the exam is over.
But don't think it's that simple. Just finding the tower isn't enough. You also need to engage in a scroll - snatching battle. You will be randomly assigned a scroll. Anko said as she showed two kinds of scrolls, the Heaven Scroll and the Earth Scroll.
"The competition revolves around these two scrolls. Seven teams hold the Heaven Scroll (Ten no Maki), and the other seven teams hold the Earth Scroll (Chi no Maki). Only the teams that hold both the Heaven Scroll and the Earth Scroll and reach the tower will be considered qualified. Otherwise, they will all be eliminated."
"Do you understand? In the next five days, you have to snatch the scrolls from others to get a set of the Heaven Scroll and the Earth Scroll, and all three members of the team must reach the tower together."
"Five days!" someone exclaimed. "Then how can we eat?" The one who spoke was, of course, Choji Akimichi, the biggest eater in Konoha.
"You have to figure it out on your own," Anko Mitarashi said with a light smile. "The exam area is full of all kinds of creatures like snakes, insects, wild beasts, and birds of prey, and overgrown plants. There's food everywhere."
"I'll give you half a day to prepare. The exam will start after that. Finally, I'll give you a piece of advice: don't die!"
Naruto quickly slipped away, trying his best to suppress the strange movement inside his body. Naruto thought to himself: Nine-Tailed Fox, stop sending your chakra out. The wound on my rib is almost healed... The wounds on my body still have a great purpose...
Naruto ran to a secluded corner. Seeing that there was no one around, he just found a place and sat down.
"Um... Naruto-kun..." A very faint voice suddenly came from behind.
Naruto was overjoyed. He'd finally waited for this! He quickly turned around and, sure enough, saw Hinata's cute and shy face.
"Hinata?" Naruto pretended to be stupid. "Why are you here?"
"Um... I saw that you, Naruto-kun... were injured by the examiner's kunai, so I came..." Hinata quickly took out a jar of ointment from her body and held it in front of Naruto's eyes.
"Hehe." Naruto flashed a happy grin. At this critical moment, only Hinata would care about him like this.
Actually, Naruto deliberately arranged all this. He first provoked Examiner Anko Mitarashi, then deliberately jumped up to let her kunai graze the skin under his rib, all to get himself injured.
Naruto had two purposes for doing this. One was to direct Anko Mitarashi's kunai towards Orochimaru, who was disguised as a kunoichi from Kusagakure Village, in order to get close to the aura of the legendary ninja and prepare for what was to come.
The second purpose, of course, was to attract Hinata's attention. Letting Hinata see him injured, she would naturally be worried.
So, Hinata followed Naruto all the way. Noticing that there was no one around as Naruto walked to a secluded place, she finally summoned up the courage to come out and bring the healing ointment for Naruto.
"What's this?" Looking at the ointment Hinata offered with both hands, Naruto leaned in and looked at it, asking knowingly, "Is this for my wound?"
"Yes," Hinata said with a blushing face. "Seeing you, Naruto-kun, injured, please use this."
"Thank you, Hinata," Naruto said with a smile. "Among so many people there at that time, only you were worried about my wound."
"U-un... it's nothing..." Hinata's face turned even redder.
Naruto took the ointment and smiled, saying, "There's still the lingering warmth of your hand on the ointment bottle. The ointment inside can heal my physical wounds, while the warmth on the bottle is the driving force for me to change this world."
"Huh?" Hinata didn't understand at all and asked, "What?"
"Being with you makes me feel that this world is the most beautiful one. I seem to forget that this is a dark world." Naruto pretended to have a grand vision and said, "Thanks to you being in Konoha, I'm willing to stay here."
"Naruto-kun, do you want to leave Konoha?"
"With you here, I won't leave Konoha." Naruto thought to himself: It's time to eliminate the cancer in Konoha...
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