Chapter 19: Lateness
"Whoa!"
The next morning, around five o'clock in the morning, Naruto was washing up in front of the mirror.
He hadn't remembered it so early, but his biological clock habits for many years had made him not as friendly as he had been with the warm quilt in his previous life.
Supposedly at this time, he should have rushed to the training ground near the memorial monument, because Kakashi's trial was there today.
However, he naturally wouldn't go there stupidly and wait, so he just washed up and prepared unhurriedly.
Naturally, he would eat breakfast, although he was confident that he would not be the one tied to the stake, but people were iron rice or steel.
I'm too lazy to cook today, and he plans to eat the leftover curry from last night for breakfast and lunch box, anyway, he makes a lot of it, enough for today.
After eliminating breakfast and preparing the bento, Naruto, who was idle, looked at his watch, it was only six o'clock, but he was still planning to go out, because there was nothing to do at home, so it was better to go and observe the venue earlier, and by the way, think about how to deal with Kakashi's assessment today.
Still a simple T-shirt and a shoulder bag with a bento and tea on his back, Naruto walked out of the house.
The exercise ground was in the northwest direction of Naruto's house, and it was a bit detour to walk, so he simply jumped directly onto the roof and walked all the way in the way of a ninja.
This is one of the benefits of the ninja world, you don't have to go far to get around, as long as you avoid the houses of the confidential department in the village, you can go however you want.
Soon, he came to the agreed place, and sure enough, he found Sasuke and Sakura, who had been waiting here for a long time.
"Morning." Naruto greeted them with a smile.
"Naruto, do you know you're late, but luckily Kakashi-sensei didn't come either, otherwise you'd be miserable." Sakura, who had been waiting for a while, was the first to speak.
At the same time, she shouted inwardly, "Damn! Since it's late, why not be late. ”
"Yes." Naruto responded perfunctorily, walked under a tree, took out a napple and thermos from his backpack, laid it out and sat down, he knew that it would take a while to wait, so there was no need to wait there.
And the way he came out for a picnic made Sakura Sasuke and the others stunned, compared to himself who waited here stupidly early in the morning without even eating breakfast, Naruto was too leisurely.
"Kindly remind, you guys should also relax a little, judging from yesterday's situation, our instructor Shangnin seems to have a bad habit of being late, and he has exhausted his physical strength before the other task has started." Knowing that Kakashi's guy wouldn't arrive until eleven o'clock in the plot, Naruto couldn't bear to remind the two who were standing there stupidly.
Although he wasn't sure if Kakashi would be as outrageous as the original, he would have to wait at least an hour or two.
"Do you know what the mission is?" It seemed to hear the sound of Naruto's words, which was very rare, Sasuke asked.
Sasuke is still quite concerned about Naruto, an opponent who has never been defeated in the actual combat class, even after a long time, he is now confident that he can defeat Naruto, but his attitude towards Naruto is completely different from Sakura.
After all, in Sasuke's current state of mind, only when his strength is recognized by him can he have the value of equal communication.
"What? Does Naruto know the specific mission today? Sakura on the side heard the affirmation in Sasuke's tone, and asked curiously.
At the same time, in my heart: "Bastard! Why did Sasuke-kun respond as soon as Naruto spoke, why! ”
"Hmm...... I don't know what to say. Naruto unscrewed the thermos and poured himself a cup of tea, "But I can probably guess it, after all, it's not a secret, I've heard that many upper ninja instructors are used to using 'grab the bell' as a test for the lower ninja team, of course, there are exceptions, it's just a guess." ”
Naruto, who had no interest in this so-called trial, had the slightest intention of telling the two of them the contents, and he wished that after the two of them knew, they could consciously embody a little bit of "teamwork" in the subsequent bell grabbing, so that it would probably be easier.
"Grab the bell?" Sasuke and Sakura asked almost at the same time.
It was the first time the two of them had heard of such a thing, and they looked at each other for a while, not knowing why.
"Well, although it may change according to the habits of different upper ninja teachers, but in general, the lower ninja team snatches the two bells on the upper ninja instructor, and the one who can't grab it will be punished and so on." Taking a sip of the herbal tea in the cup to dispel some of the heat, Naruto explained to them when he saw the two of them looking confused.
Speaking of which, Naruto didn't mess around, grabbing the bell is really a tradition, and even Jiraiya they also snatched the bell in the hands of the three generations of Hokage.
Naturally, I want to know that the unlucky guy who was punished at that time must have come from himself.
"Three people grab two bells...... Sasuke felt a lot more relaxed when he heard this, he was completely confident that he would grab the bells, and the one who was punished would definitely not be him.
"Punishment?!" Sakura couldn't help but scream.
Unlike Sasuke, although she is a nymphomaniac, she still has a clear understanding of her own level, and she is the weakest of the three no matter how you look at her, which makes her almost certain that she will be the one to be punished.
"That...... Naruto, what kind of punishment is it in general? Sakura, who became more and more scared the more she thought about it, even though she heard Naruto say that the mission was not sure to grab the bell, she couldn't help but ask weakly.
"Who knows, after all, each shinobi has different habits, it depends on how bad Kakashi-sensei is." Naruto said this when he heard this, but then after seeing Sakura-chan's face turn blue with fright from his words, he continued with some embarrassment: "But you can guess, if it is really as I thought, the task this time is to grab the bell, then Kakashi-sensei's last reminder yesterday doesn't seem to be necessary at the practical level, so I guess it's mostly a punishment for not being able to eat lunch or something, you say." ”
“……”
As soon as Naruto's words fell, Sasuke and Sakura's faces turned ugly at the same time, and they reacted to the fact that Kakashi was waiting here to remind them not to eat breakfast, it was really sinister enough.
"Damn, I see, damn it, I'm hungry now, if I get punished again......" Sakura began to have a bad feeling in her heart, and at the same time wondered if she should take advantage of Kakashi's absence and eat some prepared bento to cushion her stomach.
"......" And Sasuke, who also didn't eat breakfast, also secretly hated Kakashi's insidiousness in his heart at this time.
Before the two of them knew it, they were already convinced of Naruto's guess.
"Wait!" Sakura suddenly reacted at this time, and quickly looked up at Naruto, who was drinking tea leisurely, and asked, "Naruto, since you have already guessed this, then ...... you?"
Sakura actually wanted to ask Naruto if he had breakfast, and she complained a little about why Naruto didn't tell them this yesterday, but when the words came to her mouth, she suddenly realized that she and Naruto were not familiar to this point, so she didn't know how to speak at this time.
"Of course I came over for breakfast." Naruto, who knew what she wanted to ask, said as a matter of course.
At the same time, with a wicked taste, he then pretended to be innocent and asked the two, "You two can't really listen to Kakashi-sensei and didn't eat, do you?" I have some senbei with tea here, would you like to have some? ”
"......" Sakura and Sasuke were speechless when they heard this, and said in their hearts, how did we know that Kakashi would be so insidious, and at the same time, I heard that Naruto's heart was a little unbalanced when he was full for breakfast, and no one answered.
However, both Sasuke and Sakura underestimated how outrageous Kakashi was, and after waiting for nearly four hours, by nine o'clock in the morning they still couldn't even see the shadow of Kakashi, and finally the two had to sit down under the tree where the cloth was laid out at Naruto's invitation again, and said that Senbei was really delicious and the tea was so delicious......
And so, when it was eleven o'clock and almost noon, when Kakashi finally came here, he saw such a picture.
The canopy of the tree swept by the breeze shook slightly, and the leaves slowly fluttered down, and the three members of the seventh class under the tree knelt there with teacups in their hands, feeling the quiet beauty with a tranquil face.
“…… You guys? Kakashi froze there, not knowing what to say for a moment.