"Then I'm going to bed too. Are you sure Kazune will be all right?"
At ten at night, in the brightly lit living room of the Konoha guesthouse district for Kusagakure, the bearded Kusagakure Genin stared at the boy before him, who looked no more than thirteen or fourteen and was calmly sorting documents across a long table. With a frown, he spoke.
His eyes flickered with suspicion.
As if he deeply distrusted the boy in front of him.
At the very least, he distrusted him greatly right now.
"This is Konoha, and she is the Jonin instructor for the Kusagakure group here to take part in the Chunin Exams. Leaving aside the fact that she is far stronger than you, even if she truly needed someone to protect her, nothing would happen to her in Konoha. At least, not now. If something happened to Kusagakure's Jonin instructor in Konoha, then for a major village trying to recruit us, it would be more than just Konoha losing face. All of Konoha's hidden intentions for these Chunin Exams would probably collapse.
Relax. With Konoha protecting her, neither you nor the others need to worry.
Perhaps, because they need to recruit Kusagakure, she has been invited to visit one of Konoha's prestigious clans to demonstrate Konoha's respect for Kusagakure."
The boy who appeared to be thirteen or fourteen spoke without looking up from the documents in his hands.
He seemed completely unconcerned by the bearded Kusagakure Genin's suspicions.
He even seemed entirely uninterested in what the man had said.
It was as if the documents in his hands had consumed all his attention.
"Really? You guarantee it?"
At those words, the Bearded Man's mouth visibly twitched. Yet despite the boy's words and manner making it seem as though he did not care