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"Chapter 47: Taijutsu Genius? Sorry, I, Uchiha, Can Fly"
Early the next morning.
The hallway on the third floor of the Ninja Academy was crowded with people.
Genin wearing the Headbands of Kusagakure, Hidden Sand, Amegakure, and Hidden Sound Village leaned against the walls in small groups, sizing each other up.
The three members of Team 7 stepped up the stairs and turned into this hallway.
Sasuke walked in front with his hands in his pockets.
Naruto was still wearing that green tight suit, looking around constantly.
Sakura's Ninja Tools pouch at her waist was bulging, filled with various sizes of scalpels and reagent test tubes.
As soon as this group popped up, a bunch of malicious gazes were cast from around.
"Are they Konoha's newcomers?"
"They will probably be weeded out in the first round."
"Hehe, it would be great if we could run into them during actual combat."
"Hey, I suggest you guys keep your voices down."
A young Ninja wearing round-rimmed glasses and an off-white ponytail approached.
A kindly smile hung on his face, and he held a stack of cards in his hand.
"I am Yakushi Kabuto, who has participated in the exams several times."
Kabuto shook the cards in his hand and whispered to the Naruto trio: "Not a single guy in this corridor is easy to deal with. For the sake of being from the same village, I will show you some good things for free."
As he spoke, his fingernail swiped across the card, and rows of bar charts immediately appeared on the card.
"My Ninja Identification Cards, the backgrounds of examinees from various countries are all here, mission experience, proficient Ninjutsu, physical stats..."
Kabuto pushed his glasses, waiting for the exclamation of this group of young newcomers.
"Hmph, boring tricks." Sasuke didn't even glance at the card and walked straight past his side.
The smile on Kabuto's face froze on the spot.
Sakura stopped her steps, glanced at the data on the card, and pouted with disgust: "Just this? Even Chakra flow frequency and muscle resistance are not marked, why look at such rubbish crib notes?"
Kabuto's eye twitched, his hand holding the card suspended in mid-air, neither taking it back nor letting it go.
Naruto waved his hand in disgust: "Having failed so many times, what use can the things he brings out be? A true powerhouse just smashes through with fists!"
After speaking, Naruto hugged the back of his head with both hands and quickly caught up with Sasuke ahead.
Kabuto stood in place, completely awkward.
The newcomers of this term... why is each one more arrogant than the last?
Just at this moment, a loud voice came from the stairwell: "Junior Brother Naruto!"
Rock Lee rushed over wearing the same green tight suit, followed by Neji and every day.
"Thick-browed Senior Brother!" Naruto's eyes lit up, and he greeted him with a howl.
Rock Lee grabbed Naruto's shoulders, tears flowing down: "Naruto! You are indeed wearing the youth battle robe bestowed by Guy-sensei! This is the resonance of youth!"
Naruto hugged Rock Lee back and also wailed bitterly: "These past two days of special training by Kazama-sensei were too bitter! But for the burning youth, all this is worth it!"
Before the surrounding people figured out what was going on, Guy rushed forward in a single stride, spreading his arms to embrace the two in his arms.
"Good boys! These are the tears of youth! Do not suppress your hot blood, release it to your heart's content!"
The three master and disciples hugged into a ball, wailing bitterly in front of dozens of Ninjas from other villages.
Vaguely, a huge red sun could be seen rising behind them, and waves constantly slapped behind them.
The Kusagakure Genin's mouth twitched, the Amegakure masked Ninja silently moved back three steps, and the Hidden Sound Village people were dumbfounded.
"Are these guys from Konoha out of their minds?"
Neji crossed his arms in front of his chest, turned his head to the side, pretending that he didn't know the three guys wearing green tight suits in front at all.
every day pressed her forehead and sighed several times in a row.
She instinctively turned her head to look at Team 7, just in time to collide with the sympathetic gazes cast by Sasuke and Sakura.
The moment their gazes met, several people smiled bitterly with tacit understanding.
"We share the same misery."
After crying for a while, Rock Lee wiped away the tears on his face and focused his attention on Sasuke.
"Uchiha Sasuke."
Rock Lee stepped forward and struck the starting stance of the Konoha-style Taijutsu.
"Junior Brother Naruto often mentioned you during cultivation, saying that you are the recognized genius of this term. Before the official exam starts, please make sure to fight with me once to test the results of my cultivation over the past few years!"
The examinees in the corridor suddenly perked up.
"Genin from the same village are infighting?"
This is a good thing!
Sasuke leaned against the wall, his hands still tucked in his pants pockets: "Are you sure you want to fight in this place?"
"Please enlighten me!"
Rock Lee exerted force under his feet, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the wooden floor to produce a trace of white smoke.
The next moment, Rock Lee turned into a green light and shadow, heading straight for Sasuke's front.
"So fast!" Kankuro exclaimed in a low voice.
With this movement speed, ordinary Genin simply couldn't catch the trajectory.
Sasuke stood in place and activated the Two-Tomoe Sharingan!
Rock Lee slammed an uppercut towards Sasuke's chin.
Sasuke tilted his head back to avoid this blow.
Without waiting for Rock Lee to change his move, Sasuke pulled his right hand out of his pocket and pressed his palm downwards along Rock Lee's wrist.
Borrowing the force to twist his body, he dodged Rock Lee's subsequent roundhouse kick.
Between breaths, the two dismantled five or six moves continuously in the corridor aisle.
"Heh, your speed is too slow." Sasuke sneered.
Rock Lee's expression changed slightly, his figure leaped back three meters, opening up the distance.
"Truly powerful, ordinary moves are completely ineffective against the Sharingan."
Rock Lee grabbed the bandages on his arms, intending to untie the weights.
"Lee! That's enough!" Guy spoke to stop him.
Sasuke glanced at Rock Lee's arm: "Since you made a move, courtesy demands reciprocity, you should also take a move from me."
Before the words fell, Sasuke's feet continuously stepped at high speed in the air, rising into the upper sky.
"Stepping on the air to go to the sky... How is this possible?" Neji activated the Byakugan instinctively.
The dozens of Genin from various countries watching the battle in the corridor all widened their eyes, looking up at the black-haired boy in mid-air.
In mid-air, Sasuke's right leg lashed out rapidly.
"Rankyaku."
A half-moon-shaped vacuum Wind Blade roared out, heading straight to chop down at Rock Lee's face!
Seeing that Rankyaku was about to slash Rock Lee.
Guy appeared in front of Rock Lee and punched directly at that half-moon-shaped Wind Blade!
Boom!
The air blade was smashed to pieces by Guy's punch, turning into scattered airflow blowing toward the surroundings of the corridor, blowing the clothes of the surrounding examinees rustlingly.
Sasuke executed a nimble roll in mid-air and landed steadily, his hands tucking back into his pants pockets.
Guy withdrew his fist and looked at the white marks scraped on the ground by the aftermath of the air blade, shocked in his heart.
Creating vacuum slashes purely by relying on leg swinging?
This kind of technique, even he, a Jonin who has studied Taijutsu for twenty years, has never heard of!
That lazy bum Kazama, what kind of messy moves did he teach Team 7?
"Lee, put your hands down."
Guy turned around and shouted to stop Rock Lee who was about to move again: "The exam is about to start, do not consume unnecessary physical strength here."
Rock Lee lowered his head and tightly clenched his fists unwillingly: "Yes, Guy-sensei."
"What do you mean by genius defeating hard work? Stop saying words like that! Do you know what I paid to gain this kind of power?"
Sasuke responded, and internally couldn't help recalling the scene of using the Harem Technique in front of Jiraiya previously.
The whole audience was dead silent.
Those Genin from other villages who originally looked down on Team 7 all changed their minds at this moment.
Stepping into the air, and still able to kick out Wind Blades out of thin air...
You call this a newly graduated Genin?
In a corner of the corridor, the three people of the Hidden Sound Village gathered here.
The leading Dosu tugged at the bandages on his face: "Uchiha Sasuke... That's right."
Zaku exercised the exhaust vents on his wrists: "Lord Orochimaru's vision is indeed vicious and sharp."
Kin said in a lowered voice, "Don't rush, once we enter the second exam, there will be plenty of opportunities to make a move."