"What's wrong? Why did you suddenly stop talking?"
Seeing Kabuto Yakushi suddenly fall silent, seemingly frozen in place, the nine of them exchanged looks and unconsciously spoke up.
"Did you suddenly get a stomachache? The restroom is over there."
As everyone spoke, Uzumaki Naruto stepped forward and looked concernedly at Kabuto Yakushi, whose face had gone pale and whose forehead was faintly sweating.
He casually pointed toward a direction outside the classroom—the location of the restroom.
To Uzumaki Naruto, Kabuto Yakushi's condition—his ugly expression, sweat on his forehead, and stiff body—could only mean one thing: a stomachache!
That was how Naruto reacted whenever his stomach hurt.
So this senior Kabuto must have suddenly gotten a stomachache and needed to use the restroom.
"Uh..."
Naruto's actions and words successfully made the corners of the other eight people's mouths twitch.
Could this guy be an idiot? At the same time, his actions inadvertently eased some of the hostility the surrounding Genin felt toward them.
At this moment, nearly every Genin in the classroom who heard that remark had the same thought.
"Hm? What's this?"
Just then, Naruto, who had crouched down after mentioning the sudden stomachache, lowered his gaze slightly and caught sight of the card on the ground, along with the text and image printed on it.
"Ha... da... I... chi... ba..."
Then, he instinctively read out the most conspicuous information on it.
"Hada Ichiba! Ichiba?"
The next instant, his blue-green eyes widened sharply, and a startled cry burst from his mouth!
"What!"
Hearing that cry, Second Pillar and Haruno Sakura, who had maintained considerably greater calm than the others, also cried out. They quickly took several steps forward, arriving in front of Kabuto Yakushi, who was crouched on the ground with the expression of someone suffering from a "stomachache," and