Even Naruto sensed that something was off about the atmosphere.
Shikamaru and the others were terrified that Ino might lose her temper and blow up.
Fortunately, perhaps because she cared about Sasuke's impression of her, Ino did not immediately start a fight with Sakura.
After all the rookies had finished receiving their injections, they went to wait in the hospital courtyard.
After all, staying there would only get in the way of others.
Kiba Inuzuka asked, "Neji, do you know what exactly we were injected with?"
"Why would you think I'd know what this medicine is?"
"Aren't you from the same clan as the Hokage? Shouldn't you have access to information ordinary people can't get?"
Kiba Inuzuka scratched his head. Even after all this time, he was still not used to calling Hinata the Hokage.
Neji sighed. "I don't know much more than you do. I only know that this medicine is beneficial to the body after injection."
"Beneficial?" Naruto fell silent for a moment before voicing what he felt. "After getting injected, I just feel warm all over. Nothing else seems different."
The Nine-Tails inside Naruto understood the changes in Naruto's body even better than Naruto himself did.
And precisely because he understood, he became even more frustrated.
"That guy's scent, and..."
The Nine-Tails recalled the man from decades ago who had said something like, "You're too strong," before pinning him down without even letting him say a word.
He had felt indignant. Did that man really not know how strong he was?
But... he could sense a deeper power within Naruto, stirring restlessly.
That Chakra was incomparably familiar to him.
Or rather, he could never forget it.
"So it was you... Then that brat is Indra."
Through his senses, the Nine-Tails looked at Sasuke outside, his emotions impossibly