"Even though you guys recognized me, why do I feel insulted instead? Why am I not happy about being acknowledged by my teammates at all?"
Uzumaki Naruto narrowed his eyes as his two teammates walked over and stopped beside him.
Even with his usual lack of sensitivity, trapped in this unfamiliar and somewhat frightening environment, he could still sense the discomfort welling up from deep inside him when his teammates had looked at him earlier and, in a dazed tone as if they had found something strangely familiar and confirmed it, said that it was him.
The feeling that he had somehow been insulted.
That feeling left a trace of discomfort that spoiled all the joy he should have felt at finding his two closest friends and seeing that they were both safe.
And he felt that his two close comrades seemed to have some kind of wrong misunderstanding about him.
One that instinctively made him feel annoyed.
"What should we do now?"
Yet, as always, his somewhat resentful protest received no proper response and was ruthlessly ignored by Haruno Sakura.
"Naruto, how did you find us?"
At Haruno Sakura's question, Second Pillar frowned, then looked at Uzumaki Naruto and asked.
"Me?"
Uzumaki Naruto, who had still wanted to voice his dissatisfaction, froze slightly. Clearly, he had not expected this rival of his to ask him something at a time like this, and he responded instinctively.
"Yes."
Second Pillar nodded.
In the end, he swallowed the words "dead last." The most important thing now was to figure out what exactly was going on here and escape their current predicament first.
No matter what, they were still under the enemy's control and in danger. Starting an argument now would serve no purpose. Not only would it be pointless, it would be