At noon, the sun blazed high overhead.
The temperature outside the Central Tower kept climbing, but inside, the mood was gloomy, like an Ice Age!
All thirty-six members of the twelve teams had entered the Central Tower, officially bringing the second stage of the Chunin Exams—the Forest of Death trial—to an end!
But most of the Genin who had passed wore dark expressions, their eyes full of hostility!
"Gaara, you bastard! How dare you trick me!" Hozuki Suigetsu glared viciously at Gourd Baby Gaara, baring his fangs as if he wanted to devour him alive!
If Haku hadn't stopped him just now, he would have been swallowed up in the sea of people surrounding him!
Gourd Baby folded his arms and stared at the ground without expression, not bothering to acknowledge Hozuki Suigetsu.
"Bastard, I'm talking to you! Why are you playing dumb?" Hozuki Suigetsu stormed over and got right in his face. But when he met Gaara's utterly inhuman gaze, he suddenly lost his nerve.
"Hozuki Suigetsu, I suggest you keep your distance from him. Otherwise, you might not even know what killed you," Kankuro, the fourteen-year-old uncle, said with a sinister sneer.
"Hozuki Suigetsu, we were only temporary allies, and we agreed from the start that either side could end the arrangement at any time. So stop making a scene. Nobody's going to indulge you," Temari said.
Bastards!
He didn't dare mess with Gaara, but did that mean he couldn't mess with the two of them?
Don't underestimate him!
Hozuki Suigetsu rolled up his sleeves and charged over to bicker with the friendly "siblings."
Meanwhile, Sasuke was also enduring all kinds of hostile looks.
"Sasuke..." Ino gazed at him with mixed feelings, her eyes filled with both resentment and grief.
"Sasuke, you've gone way too far! You're worse