At that moment,
another Root operative was thinking the same thing.
When he first saw Gua looking at the other Root operative, he hadn't thought much of it, assuming Uchiha Gua was simply idle farming again. But when Uchiha Gua looked his way, he froze.
The boy was staring straight at him.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
By the fifth second, the Root operative was almost certain Gua had spotted him.
But when?
The Root operative couldn't help slowing his breathing.
"Gua, what are you sitting out here for?"
Kabuto came out of his room and saw Gua sitting alone in the courtyard, staring blankly upward. Curious, he couldn't help asking.
Gua turned to glance at Kabuto.
You're the only one who would ask me that.
Anyone else who saw me sitting here without moving would know I was idle farming.
"Idle farming."
Gua brushed him off with a casual answer and turned back, though he stopped looking at the Root operatives in the trees.
Curious, Kabuto looked up in the direction Gua had been staring.
He didn't notice anything unusual.
Soon, he looked away.
The Root operatives relaxed a little. Although Kabuto Yakushi was only nine, his strength was definitely already at Chunin level. If even he hadn't noticed them, how could Gua, a little academy student who hadn't even graduated?
It seemed it had just been a coincidence.
Meanwhile,
as the Root operatives secretly watched Gua and Kabuto, Kakashi was watching those Root members from the shadows.
He was extremely well hidden, too. None of the five or six Root operatives had even noticed him.
His reputation as a genius was certainly well earned.
Naturally, Kakashi had reported the situation here to the Third Generation, but the Third Generation had no good solution either.
That old bastard