Class A's classroom was filled with children wearing genin forehead protectors, eagerly speculating about which class they would be assigned to, what their team leader would be like, what life as a genin would be like, how they would surely become great ninja, become Hokage, and so on. The children were all fired up, and the classroom was noisy.
"Ah... Lee, have you seen Neji these past few days? He didn't even come with us to take our genin registration photos... ah..." Tenten wore a red embroidered short qipao, lazily stretching her pale legs beneath the desk. Bored out of her mind, she rested her fair neck against the desk, looking lifeless, ungraceful, and utterly gloomy.
After just a few days without seeing Neji—without training, fishing, gathering firewood, chopping trees, catching Black Bear, and doing other things with him—she suddenly found herself unable to adjust. Days without Neji were just far too boring.
"Didn't Neji say he was going to master Life Return? He was already amazing, but now he'll be even more amazing." Rock Lee answered completely off-topic. As he spoke, his eyes grew fiery, and he got worked up, beginning to imagine just how powerful the already formidable Neji would become after mastering Life Return.
Tenten rolled her eyes, feeling that Rock Lee was impossible to communicate with.
"Ah, Tenten, you're in love with Neji. You're not used to him being gone for even one day." A girl in the class who was close to Tenten said this with sparkling eyes.
Actually, whenever Tenten and Neji were together, the girls in the class had long thought they must be a couple. They just never said it aloud and had silently accepted it.
Now that they were about to be assigned to different classes and go their separate ways,