Kabuto Yakushi... giving up?
Watching the white-haired, bespectacled young man pause, seemingly say something to Uzumaki Naruto, linger briefly before his teammates, then walk out of the training ground without hesitation, Hada Ichiba frowned slightly.
"How strange!"
At that moment, Hada Anna behind him suddenly spoke. Looking somewhere in the distance, she crunched away at her snacks and squeezed out those words between bites.
"What is it, Anna?"
Hada Ryuhiko was, after all, the one most concerned about Hada Anna. Though the embarrassed flush had yet to fade from his face, giving him the striking prettiness of a little girl, he still turned around at once and looked at her.
At the same time, his gaze followed Anna's.
Hmm? Isn't that Konoha's genius? Second Pillar, the one that idiot Ichiba told us to pay special attention to.
At that moment, Hada Ryuhiko had that thought as his gaze settled on the handsome young boy.
In other words, Hada Anna was currently looking at Second Pillar.
"That big brother seems to be in a lot of discomfort. From the way he looks, he should be injured and enduring the pain."
Naturally, Hada Anna told Hada Ryuhiko everything she knew. What she found strange was the problem she had noticed with Second Pillar's body.
Although he looked as if he were injured and enduring pain, she could not tell where exactly he was hurt. There were no wounds on his left shoulder, where the pain seemed to originate.
"Is that so..."
Hearing Anna's words, Ryuhiko blinked. In the end, he did not say much, merely nodded, and responded.
Hmm? But soon, he frowned as the corner of his eye caught sight of someone else.
Doesn't that idiot Ichiba care at all?
After glancing over, he looked back toward Second Pillar. The people