"Of course I heard you."
Hayashi smiled at the three people in the doorway.
"The noise from your training last night carried all the way here, you know."
The air in the doorway froze for a moment.
Naruto swallowed and ventured, "Then... what about anything else?"
Anything else?
There was plenty else.
Throughout the entire night, Mind's Eye of the Kagura had taken everything in-how those two idiots had traded punches, how they had gritted their teeth and shouted what was really on their minds, and even the words someone had murmured while standing alone at the edge of the woods.
He had heard every last bit of it!
But he absolutely couldn't tell them that.
"I'm not sure about anything else." Hayashi blinked, looking utterly bewildered.
All three people in the doorway breathed a sigh of relief.
Naruto patted his chest, panting, Sasuke turned his face away, and Kakashi coughed loudly.
"All right, the patient needs rest." He grabbed the two boys, one in each hand, and hauled them outside. "You two, come with me."
"Hey-"
Woken by the commotion, Sakura groggily lifted her head from the edge of the bed. "What anything else...?"
"Nothing!!" two voices answered in unison.
The door closed behind them.
Naruto's protests still drifted faintly through it. "I can walk by myself! Hey, hey, hey-"
The voices soon faded into the distance.
"The towel..." Sakura hurried to the doorway with the towel in her arms, but the door was already shut.
She stood there blankly for a moment, then returned to the bedside, still holding the towel.
Leaning against the headboard, Hayashi couldn't help chuckling.
Another two or three days passed in a flash.
Hayashi's injuries hadn't fully healed, but he felt he could get out of bed and walk around without much