NOVEL WEB Chapter 23: chapter 23
"As you know, the chunin exam would be held in four days" Hayate said seriously while eyeing his three students carefully
"I have nominated you all to the chunin exams. if you are all willing to participate then fill in those forms and give it to me by tommorow" after finishing, he handed them the three forms
the genins immediately took it and said in unison "thank you sensei"
Hayate smiled which was, by the way, rare before adding in a soft voice "everyone, please do your best" then puffed away
"Finally some action! I am sick of beating those pathetic bandits in every missions we take!" Seiza grinned with excitement
Natsuki only sighed helplessly in return then said with a stern face "don't get your hopes up Seiza, we may be the one who got their ass beat down instead. who knows what is waiting for us there"
"I totally agree with her" yumiko chimed in with a thinking position she continued telling her thoughts "maybe we won't make it considering it's our first time doing the exams"
Seiza looked at yumiko with betrayal and yelled
"not you too yumiko! stop exaggering. with our skills and the byakugan adding Sasamaru I doubt anyone can sneak on us, and we trained like hell in those two months!"
yumiko rolled her eyes not impressed at all, while Natsuki sighed again, pissed off
"anyway, make sure you two sign up the forms, because if one of us doesn't, our team will be automatically disqualified"
Seiza and yumiko nodded at Natsuki in understanding.
after that interaction, each of them went to their home without uttering a world, mind filled with their own thoughts.
the next day, standing by the large main gate of konoha, team Hayate
of course before coming here, the three of them submitted their application to the chunin exams, the exam that will start after three days from now
yumiko still doesn't understand why are they going this late
but didn't ask since she knows that Hayate has his own reasons
what surprised her that neither her teammates asked, that shows how much they trust their sensei
"are you prepared?" Hayate asked after he finished his coughing fit
the genin nodded at him with determination, adding sasamaru barking loudly in the background showing his excitement.
after looking at his students faces carefully, Hayate grabbed three scrolls from his ninja pouch and tossed each one to his precious students
Seiza raised his eyebrow in question at his sensei and asked "what is this?"
they all looked at the scrolls confused, wondering what is inside the scrolls
Hayate smiled and explained calmly "each scroll contains dozen of kunais and shurikens, twenty explosion tags and twenty packets of ration bars, and of course ornaments, use them wisely they are high quality and the most effective"
yumiko month hang open in shock as she analysed 'how much did he spend on this? I have a feeling that he didn't say the amount of kunais and shurikens on purpose...'
yumiko looked at Seiza and Natsuki who shrugged as it wasn't that big of deal and throw the scroll on their ninja pocket after thanking their sensei.
yumiko left eyes twitched in annoyance at their lack of reaction as she thought bitterly 'damn clan children, they don't value such prize since their clan provide them with everything they need and more' she sighed before thanking her sensei a second later
what she didn't know that Hayate doubled the amount of her weapons, not out of favoritism but rather because of her status as an orphan and circumstances
Hayate smiled then said in serious voice "now enough wasting time, let's go" with his signal, they all started jumping from tree to tree in a rapid speed
they were all nervous, each one of them sinking in their own thoughts
while doing so, yumiko realised something.
albeit a little important
'thinking about it, I've never had read the bingo book. its available to genin... shit! no wonder I don't know whether Deidara is a missing-nin or not...that's not important though, the important thing is me never reading the bingo book since I become a genin! where my mind was?' she facepalmed herself, disappointed at her foolish actions
'well I was just training like a maniac before and after graduating to increase my surviving chance, so blaming myself won't help in any way...I should probably write the things that I should do in the near future for not forgetting again...' sigh
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Iwagakure
while it wasn't the biggest of the five hidden villages, it still was a sight to see
yumiko and her teammates awed at the spectacular view.
since they never went to any hidden village in their live except their own respective village, so it was a new experience .
they showed the Iwa gate-guards their ninja cards for confirming their identities
after that they went to an inn located in the centre of the hidden rock village.
not before gaping at every detail of the village.
after settling in the inn, Hayate called them to the living room then said with a serious
face
"take a rest for today, and you can go wondering off tomorrow, but at one condition; stay together in all times and don't separate at whatever reason because this is not konoha and being alone is not the safest"
he then looked at Seiza and added "also don't cause troubles. apart from coming here for the chunin exams we also should show off to the daimyo so be on your best behavior"
the three students nodded