After confirming Chen's identity, all sorts of questions followed.
"Can you answer a few questions for me?" Kakashi asked Chen.
"Hmph. For Ino's sake, I'll satisfy your curiosity. Go on, make it quick!"
"I want to know how you left Konoha. Was it really as Ino said, that Sasuke took you away?"
"You could put it that way. I did leave with Sasuke." Chen had indeed followed Sasuke out of Konoha.
"Then why weren't you with Sasuke?"
"I only said I left Konoha with Sasuke. I never said I'd follow him!"
"Is that so? In that case, you'd already recovered while you were still in Konoha. You weren't actually the idiot everyone said you were, were you? But you didn't tell anyone. Instead, you kept it hidden—even from your only family in Konoha, Sasuke Uchiha. Why?"
"Of course it was so I could leave Konoha. If you'd known, you wouldn't have let me leave so easily, would you?"
"Leave Konoha? Were you planning to find Uchiha Itachi and take revenge on your own?"
"Then why did you impersonate Sasuke and do all those things? Were you trying to hide your identity?"
"Tch. I never said I was Sasuke. You all just assumed I was, and I couldn't be bothered to explain. It had nothing to do with me."
It was true that Chen had never once claimed to be Sasuke Uchiha, but when people mistook him for Sasuke, he hadn't corrected them.
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"So, are you done with your questions?" Chen asked impatiently.
"For now. We'll talk about anything else once we're back in Konoha."
"Back to Konoha? I think you've got it wrong. I never said I'd go back with you."
"Hmph! Sasuke was the