Sasuke's Resolve, First Meeting with Gaara

Three days later, inside a ward at the Konoha hospital.

Sasuke slowly opened his eyes.

"Stuck-up face, you're finally awake! How are you feeling?"

Naruto squinted his eyes, looking at Sasuke with a face full of concern.

However, Sasuke could clearly see that Naruto looked extremely exhausted, with thick dark circles under his eyes.

"Sasuke, you really should thank Naruto properly for these days you've been hospitalized!"

"To take care of you, he hasn't had a single good night's sleep for three whole days."

"I asked Hinata to make you some Vitality Replenishing Soup to restore your chakra, and it was Naruto who fed it to you spoonful by spoonful."

"That's the only reason you were able to recover and wake up so quickly."

At this moment, Lin Fan said with a smile from the other side of the hospital bed.

"Hmph, who said I needed him to take care of me? Such a meddlesome dead-last."

Sasuke tilted his head up, speaking with a haughty expression.

"Nani? So all my efforts were just fed to the dogs?"

"The clown turned out to be me all along!!!!"

"If Brother Lin Fan hadn't asked me to take good care of you, I would have tossed your stuck-up face out into the wilderness to fend for itself a long time ago."

Naruto rolled his eyes back instantly, shouting angrily at Sasuke.

He felt like his lungs were about to explode from rage.

Lin Fan just looked at Naruto and shook his head with a smile.

Who told you two to be a pair?

You have to take good care of the good wife you chose for yourself, even if you have to do it with tears in your eyes.

Whoosh.

At this moment, Kakashi suddenly appeared in the ward using Body Flicker.

"Hmm, so Sasuke has finally woken up. It seems your body has recovered quite well."

"However, I must warn you now: do not enter Lin Fan's illusion again just to upgrade your Sharingan. Doing so will cause irreparable damage to your body and mind in the future."

Kakashi said sternly to Sasuke.

He was the first person to have tasted the power of Lin Fan's genjutsu.

Even with books to keep him company, he had been plagued by nightmares every night for the past few days.

The Third Hokage had told him to discipline the three little ones in Team 7 properly.

If Sasuke really discovered something extraordinary inside Lin Fan's illusion, it would be a huge problem.

"Oh, I know."

Sasuke said indifferently.

"And Lin Fan, your genjutsu also places a huge burden on the body. Remember not to rely too heavily on those eyes."

Kakashi clenched his right hand into a fist and tapped Lin Fan lightly.

Lin Fan nodded in response.

"Alright, now I'm going to talk about serious business."

"I have recommended the three of you for the Chunin Exams. These are your application forms; whether or not you sign up is up to you."

"Chunin Exams? If even I, the future Hokage, don't participate, is there even a need to hold them?"

Naruto smiled, squinting his eyes.

After Kakashi handed the application forms to the three of them, he took out Jinling Pool Creature and began to read it seriously.

Then, he vanished from the ward using Body Flicker.

With Sasuke's body recovered, Naruto yawned and left the ward to go home and catch up on sleep.

Soon, only Lin Fan and Sasuke were left in the ward.

"Lin Fan, is everything you showed me in the illusion real or fake?"

Sasuke asked urgently.

"I don't know very clearly whether everything you saw inside the illusion is real or fake."

"I can only tell you that my genjutsu uses the target's emotional pain points to create suitable scenarios for precise strikes."

"As for whether this scene is real or illusory, you will have to verify it yourself."

Lin Fan said earnestly.

For his part, he naturally knew that the dark hand digging out eyeballs in the illusion represented that old schemer Danzo.

But the gap in strength between Sasuke and Danzo was currently too vast; telling him the truth now was not a good thing.

It would also be a waste of the painstaking efforts Itachi has made for his little brother.

"I understand. You have already helped me enough by helping me awaken the Two-Tomoe Sharingan."

"I will train hard to become stronger, and then I will seek out the truth of the clan's extermination myself!"

Sasuke said, full of determination.

That afternoon, having recovered, Sasuke immediately processed his discharge from the hospital.

After the three members of Team 7 gathered at the hospital entrance, they headed together toward the Chunin Exams registration office.

With the Chunin Exams approaching, the foot traffic in Konoha was several times higher than usual.

Among the crowds, there were many unfamiliar ninjas wearing headbands from Sunagakure, Amegakure, Otogakure, Takigakure, and Kusagakure.

Naturally, this was Naruto's first time seeing so many new faces in the village, so he was looking around with immense excitement.

Thud.

With a dull sound, Naruto felt the impact and fell heavily to the ground.

"That hurts, brat. Are you blind?"

"Huh? A Konoha headband? Can a shrimp like you really be a genin? Has Konoha fallen this far?"

Kankuro said mockingly.

Naruto instantly flew into a rage. "Who are you calling a shrimp? Do you want a beating?"

He jumped up immediately, threw a punch, and lunged toward Kankuro.

Kankuro didn't move, merely flicking his left arm and curling his fingers slightly.

"Nani?"

The next second, Naruto's feet slipped, and he crashed hard toward the ground.

Konoha Strong Whirlwind!

Bang!

Just as Kankuro was about to mock Naruto's skills, he felt the right side of his face instantly deform.

His entire body was sent flying into the air, crashing directly into the bushes by the roadside.

At that moment, Sasuke moved in a flash to catch Naruto before he hit the ground.

"You want to act this arrogant and start a fight in someone else's village?"

Lin Fan landed steadily on the ground and shouted coldly.

This speed...

He really is a remarkably impressive man!

Standing to the side, Temari looked at the exceptionally powerful and strikingly handsome Lin Fan, her heart racing as she muttered to herself.

"Damn you, brat. You're looking for death."

Overcome with shame and rage, Kankuro cursed loudly.

He instantly pulled the bandages from his back, and the Crow puppet flew forward.

"Black Secret Technique: Poisonous Dagger!"

Kankuro shouted, his ten fingertips quickly connecting to the sky-blue chakra threads.

A dagger mechanism coated in poison suddenly extended from the arm of the Crow puppet.

It lunged rapidly toward Lin Fan's heart.

"Hmph, is that all?"

Lin Fan let out a cold snort and vanished from his spot.

"Taijutsu Body Flicker?"

Kankuro and Temari were both struck with horror at the sight.

To be able to perform such a fast Body Flicker Technique... does this Lin Fan possess the strength of an elite jonin?

The next second, Lin Fan appeared above the Crow puppet.

Rasengan!

He shouted, and the sky-blue sphere of gathered chakra in his hand smashed fiercely toward the head of the Crow.

Bang!

At the critical moment, Lin Fan felt his Rasengan blocked by a thick Shield of Sand.

"Kankuro, don't embarrass me in another village."

Gaara stood hanging upside down from a tree, his face cold as he spoke.

You are reading Naruto: Starting with Infinite Skill Points by the great Shenqi Xiao Sima.