Gekko Hayate had barely announced Hinata's victory before he covered his mouth and coughed twice again. "Cough, cough, cough..."
Everyone was speechless (ー_ー)!!.
If you felt sick, just go home and get some rest, okay?
We were all afraid you'd die right there on the Fighting Platform, proctor.
The Konoha examiners were used to it, though. Hayate had suffered from this condition for years, but nothing serious ever seemed to happen to him.
Bending BD, kidney deficiency.
Before long, Gekko Hayate recovered.
His pale fingers unfurled the scroll, the rustling paper drowning out the lingering noise from the stands. "Next match: Konoha ninja Akimichi Choji versus Cloud Village ninja Karui."
"Holy shit—!"
Qingwu suddenly straightened in a corner of the stands. His smiling eyes lit up astonishingly, and his elbow accidentally bumped Guang beside him. His voice brimmed with irrepressible excitement. "Guang, did you hear that? Choji and Karui! These two are..."
He stopped himself mid-sentence, but his grin nearly stretched to his ears. His thoughts went wild. These two are a future married couple! After the Fourth Shinobi World War, they not only get married, they have a daughter, Chocho Akimichi, who loves eating just like Choji and has a straightforward personality!
Father and daughter even eat Potato Chips the same way.
Damn, I'm watching the juicy stuff firsthand.
Hehe... pictures, pictures. This might become embarrassing history someday. I can show it to their kid later.
Look, here's the famous scene of your mom beating up your dad.
Perfect.
Guang rubbed her sore arm and followed his gaze toward the Arena entrance, her voice full of confusion:
"Akimichi Choji? That Konoha ninja who hasn't put down his snack bag since the Preliminaries?
Karui from the Cloud Village... I remember her. She's the short-haired girl who showed up with that