"..."
Although the members of Root were all fairly young, they had taken on plenty of bizarre missions of every kind, great and small. Attending a wedding, however, was a first.
Xia Yu led the group into the wedding hall.
Looking at group after group of beautiful, fair-skinned brides, the Root members remained expressionless. They simply stood quietly to one side, like a group of bodyguards.
"Make yourselves at home. Eat whatever you want. No need to be so stiff. I'm going to keep my wives company." After hastily tossing out a few words, Xia Yu ran into the crowd of brides to get down to business.
Four kids stood at the very back of the Root group.
They had only recently joined Root and had yet to undergo Danzo's bloody final training. They still retained some of their original childlike innocence and had not had all their emotions erased.
Looking at all the delicious food on the tables, surrounded by the pervasive scent of milk, they were positively drooling.
But their seniors in Root stood ramrod straight without moving at all. No matter how hungry they were, they did not dare move while their seniors stayed still. They could only struggle to contain the saliva constantly filling their mouths, swallowing over and over.
Just then, a young voice came from beside the four kids:
"Huh? Your outfit looks a lot like my classmate Aburame Shino's. Are you from the Aburame Clan?"
The speaker was Sasuke, who was eating a tomato rice ball.
"Yes, I am." The Root boy wearing glasses nodded.
Sasuke looked the four of them over carefully, then smiled happily.
"Xia Yu told me about you. You're an elite unit that Grandpa Hokage put under his command. You only look a few years older than me. Great,