With a thunderous boom, screams rang out.
Not far away, the three Sand siblings stopped in their tracks. Temari abruptly turned toward the sound and asked nervously, "What was that?"
"Why not go take a look and find out?" Kankuro said confidently.
"That was the Nine-Tails," Gaara said coldly. "Go if you want to die. If the mission fails, bear the consequences yourselves."
Moonlight filtered through the forest, and an awkward expression appeared on Kankuro's face.
"Didn't Teacher Maki say that Nine-Tails brat was just trying to scare us?"
Gaara said nothing. He merely gave Kankuro a cold glance before turning and leaving without looking back. Temari and Kankuro exchanged a look, each seeing the helplessness in the other's eyes, then hurried after him.
By the river.
Naruto's ghostly speed left the three Grass ninja completely unable to cope. Their faces and bodies were covered in bruises.
Before long, the Grass ninja had all been shocked unconscious. Naruto did not want to kill indiscriminately during the Chunin Exams, so he shocked them back and forth four or five times. In truth, the Grass ninja had already pulled out their scrolls and begged for mercy after the second round.
But Naruto feared they were trying to deceive him, so he shocked them another two times, only stopping once all three were foaming at the mouth.
After the battle ended, Naruto looked somewhat disheveled as he bent down to pick up the kunai. Still, it was no big deal. Flying Thunder God could raise a ninja's upper limit of strength. Put simply, even if Obito came, he would still have to take a couple of hits.
Quite a few teams had already gathered nearby, but no one dared make another move.
They had seen what happened to the Grass ninja. Going up