Naruto, who had been brimming with excitement, suddenly froze, as if he had belatedly remembered something, and shot Shion a startled glance.
Then he immediately called out to Kakashi Hatake:
"Big Brother Kakashi, wait a moment!"
Hearing him, Kakashi Hatake stopped and looked at Naruto in some confusion.
Naruto immediately asked:
"Um... now that we've all been assigned, Shion's the only one left. What will happen to her?"
Seeing that Naruto still remembered to care about her, Shion gave a gratified smile, though she still spoke with a haughty expression:
"Tch, I don't care about these Jonin teachers. None of them are as strong as my dad. Having Dad teach me is enough!"
Hearing this, Kakashi Hatake seemed to remember something and asked with the air of someone with a poor memory:
"You're Uchiha Shion, right?"
Shion crossed her arms over her chest and said proudly:
"That's me!"
Kakashi Hatake took a sheet of paper from inside his clothes, handed it to Shion, and said:
"The Fifth Hokage asked me to give you this."
Hearing that it was from the Fifth Hokage, Shion looked curious too. She took the paper Kakashi Hatake offered and lowered her head to read it.
Right at the top were the words:
"Chunin identification certificate!"
Shion raised her head in astonishment and looked at Kakashi Hatake, seemingly unable to believe the certificate was genuine and seeking an answer from him.
Seeing Shion's expression, Naruto Uzumaki and the other two also crowded over curiously, and all three were dazzled by the words "Chunin identification certificate."
Naruto Uzumaki even shouted, stumbling over his words:
"H-how is this possible? How did she skip Genin and become a Chunin straight away? Doesn't that put us a rank below her?!"
Sasuke Uchiha looked very unhappy as well, not because he