The following morning.
After a night of rest, the teams from the Major Ninja Villages left one after another, each heading back home.
As for the Chunin Exams results, because of the atrocities committed by Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and Otogakure, only Konoha's Shikamaru Nara and Rock Lee passed.
Everyone else failed!
At the Konoha Gate.
Hozuki Suigetsu folded his arms and impatiently tapped his right heel against the ground as if he'd been shocked. "Hey, what's with that Old Woman? If she doesn't show up soon, I'm leaving!"
They'd agreed to meet at the village gate at eight, and it was almost nine already. Where was she?
She really had some nerve!
Thinking of the Four Great Ninja Villages ganging up on Konoha yesterday made Hozuki Suigetsu wish he could sprout wings and fly away right then and there! What if Namikaze Minato changed his mind and held them hostage? They'd be in real trouble then!
At the same time, he couldn't help grumbling furiously about Genji!
That old geezer had done something so terrifying while I was taking the Chunin Exams. If I'd been caught up in it, wouldn't I have died here for nothing?
Damn it!
The more Hozuki Suigetsu thought about it, the angrier he got. The angrier he got, the more annoyed he became—and the more he wanted to get out of this hellhole!
"Mei Terumi probably isn't coming," Yuki Haku sighed. He looked at the others and said quietly, "Let's go."
"Huh? We're really not going to wait? Is that okay? Maybe we should wait a little longer. Just a little." Hozuki Suigetsu kept saying they should wait a little longer, but his body was already moving.
Yuki Haku followed with a wry smile. "The village joined forces with Sunagakure, Otogakure, and the Sky Ninja Village