Dust rose, and the entire arena fell silent.
The genin in the stands were dumbstruck.
"That speed-" Kakashi sucked in a sharp breath too.
Apart from Xue Ge with Overload activated and his teacher, Minato Namikaze, none of the ninja Kakashi had ever seen could surpass Guy's speed.
Even Kakashi himself might not be able to manage it.
"Is this really the kind of destructive power taijutsu should have-"
Xue Ge's eye twitched wildly as he stared at the web of cracks blasted into the hard stone ground.
He felt as though his understanding of taijutsu differed just a little from Guy's.
Ameyuri covered her mouth. "Eek-is little Kisame all right-"
Asuma's expression, meanwhile, was one of shock mixed with a certain lack of surprise.
They were teammates, after all. He couldn't say he hadn't anticipated any of what Guy was showing now.
Still, the situation before him exceeded his expectations somewhat. Come to think of it, Guy never seemed to have gone all out before-
Oh, crap. Of the five of us classmates taking this exam, am I only stronger than Muzi, a medical ninja?
At that thought, Asuma's face fell.
"That speed and power-" Ao looked at Hiruzen as though he had seen a ghost. "Just how many geniuses is Konoha hiding?"
"Well-"
Hiruzen was bewildered too.
Guy? Which one was he? Oh, right, one of the batch who graduated early at the start of this year.
But why was everyone who graduated early these days so formidable?
Guy stood up amid the rubble and looked back. Kisame was lying motionless in the crater.
The next instant, "Kisame" dissolved into a spreading puddle.
"-" Guy frowned. Sure enough, something was wrong. When he grabbed Kisame earlier, he had felt something off about the way he felt in his