"Ino, how much longer do we have to follow behind Sakura and the others?" Choji said impatiently, even taking out a bag of chips and munching on them as he spoke.
"Idiot Choji, stop eating! Even Kiba could smell your chips from several hundred meters away!" Ino roared at her useless teammate.
Pineapple-headed Shikamaru spoke up: "Ino, you've insisted on focusing the test on Sakura and Naruto. It seems those two are exceptionally strong."
Ino seemed to remember something extremely troublesome and sighed. "Sigh, you didn't train with them, so you don't know. Those two freaks have already become so strong that I can't keep up with them at all."
"Sakura can already use more than a dozen Water Release techniques proficiently. And that idiot Naruto actually learned the A-rank ninjutsu, Shadow Clone, and his chakra reserves are terrifyingly huge!"
"Shikamaru, have you thought of any strategies?"
Shikamaru activated his high-IQ brain and pondered for a while. His eyes sharpened as he said, "Let's surrender!"
Seeing that Shikamaru had instantly joined the ranks of the useless teammates, Ino couldn't help roaring at him too. "With your intelligence, that's all you could come up with?"
"The gap in strength is too great. No amount of strategy can make up for it." Shikamaru returned to his usual lazy state.
Ino raised her fair little fist and said through gritted teeth, "I don't care! Come up with a few plans for me. I refuse to lose so easily to big-forehead Sakura!"
"Women are such a pain." Seeing Ino's fist growing larger before his eyes, Shikamaru immediately changed his tune. "Besides us, there are others who have noticed Sakura and Naruto."
"Let's wait until they make contact first, then adapt to the situation."
Ino was somewhat dissatisfied with that answer. "What if no one