Naruto: First Love

Chapter 384 Before the Chunin Exam

Time passed quickly, and when July came, Xinzi finally became busy.

Because of the approaching Chunin Exam, many Genin are practicing, and those who exchange kunai and shuriken are becoming more and more frequent, and Xinzi's business is starting to pick up.

But Xinzi was not happy.

I didn’t contact Itachi last month. I wonder if Itachi has completed his mission now?

"Madam Boss, I have decided to take part in the Chunin Exam!" Naruto rushed in with the Chunin Exam registration form.

Xinzi responded without any surprise, "Yeah, come on."

Haruno Sakura looked at him helplessly at the door, "Okay, let's go, quickly hand it over to Kakashi-sensei, and then go to training!"

"I heard that you guys were injured when you came back from the Land of Waves?" When Xinzi saw Sakura, she immediately thought of what Kakashi said. She thought, she hadn't seen Sasuke for several days. Could it be that Sasuke was injured?

When it comes to the mission in Wave Country, Naruto is very depressed. "Well, Sasuke was injured trying to save me."

Although he was a little unhappy, he did not deliberately distort the facts.

Xinzi frowned slightly and walked out, "Qingfeng, take care of the store, I'm going to be out for a while."

Qingfeng, who was used as a lucky cat, was stunned and woke up from his sleep. When he was about to refute, he could no longer see Xinzi's back.

Naruto looked at Aomine in confusion, "Aomine, is your new master a ninja? He seems to be more powerful than Sister Kokoro."

Aomine rolled his eyes. Naruto was a little stupid. He didn't know that Koko was Usami. He actually thought that Koko was dead and Aomine recognized Usami as his master. Maybe Naruto was a little face-blind, so he couldn't recognize that the two were the same person.

Kokoro has not used the Mangekyō Sharingan, and rarely uses Ice Release after returning to Konoha, so her hair color has gradually turned back to black.

The hair color has returned to normal, and there is not much difference from before, except that the hair is still short, the height has grown, the body has developed, and the appearance has become more extraordinary, there is not much change.

But Naruto just couldn't recognize her and stubbornly believed that this person was Usami, the proprietress, not Kokoro.

Xinzi went to look for Sasuke specifically, but didn't find anyone at Sasuke's house.

After waiting for a long time, Sasuke came back.

Seeing Xinzi at the door, he was obviously stunned for a moment, then opened the door, "Why are you here?"

He never called her Xinzi because he had seen her before, but he had no impression of her without a mask, nor did he know that this person was Itachi Uchiha's friend, not Izumi's friend.

He felt that Izumi was dead, and all of Izumi's friends who were killed by Itachi would definitely hate Uchiha Itachi, so he and this man named Usami had mutual understanding.

"I heard from Naruto that you were injured during the mission in Wave Country? How is he?" Xinzi followed Sasuke in, and without saying anything, her chakra covered Sasuke's back.

Before Sasuke could say anything, he felt Kokoro's movements and obediently stopped moving.

He only found out a few years ago that Usami used to work at Konoha Hospital, but later retired and opened his own shop.

Medical ninjas are relatively rare.

After confirming that Sasuke had no wounds on his body, Xinzi finally felt relieved. Just as she was about to withdraw her hand, she inadvertently saw Sasuke's eyes.

It was no different from before, but only she who had the Sharingan could see that his Sharingan was open again! Chakra swept over Sasuke's eyes and found that there were no major changes between some nerves in his eyes, so he was completely relieved.

"Don't use the Sharingan casually. Strengthening your own power is the real thing. The Sharingan also has side effects."

Feeling a little worried, Xinzi emphasized one more sentence before leaving.

Itachi always liked to use the Sharingan. In the past, her medical skills were not good enough to detect it. Every time they met, she felt that there was nothing wrong. It was only when Itachi's body became weaker for unknown reasons that she began to doubt.

Later, a rule was directly formulated that Itachi could use the Mangekyō Sharingan at most once a month, and the ordinary Sharingan five times. If he used more than that, he would suffer from neurasthenia, and if he was discovered by her, he would be criticized.

Itachi didn't take it seriously at first, but later he found out that Xinzi could really find out, so he had to meet her every month without being discovered, and he began to train himself constantly.

There was no obvious improvement in the Sharingan, but his illusion techniques and fire escape techniques became more and more advanced.

On the day of the Chunin Exam, Xinzi closed the store and ran to the Konoha Ninja School.

She walked in the corridor with a swagger, and no one cared about her.

"What are you doing here?" Kakashi appeared behind her and asked in a bad tone.

Xinzi curled her lips. She knew clearly that she would never do anything bad, but every time she tried to stop her, she acted as if to say, "Are you going to do something bad? As a Konoha ninja, you must stop it."

"Alright, I'm just here to join in the fun. I've never participated in the Chunin Exams, I just want to see what it's like. Don't worry, I've told the Sandaime."

Having said that, he ran into the classroom dressed in the clothes of an invigilator.

Kakashi was stunned for a moment, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just silently watched Sasuke and the other two who were fighting with Lee below.

Tiantian yelled loudly from the other side of the corridor: "Li, hurry up!"

Kai interrupted their fight and asked Li to go to the examination room first.

Naruto, Sasuke and the other two walked up. On the way, Sasuke thought, as expected, his taijutsu is very good, no wonder Usami admired Rock Lee so much before.

However, in front of the Sharingan, Sasuke believed that he could make a better choice, but the Sharingan had not yet been fully developed.

Naruto was very surprised when he walked into the examination room and saw Kokoro.

"Madam boss, why are you here?"

Koko rolled her eyes, not wanting to answer, because every time Naruto called her the boss lady, it always made her feel old.

"Usami." Tenten came over happily and took Kokoro's hand, "Why are you here? Are you planning to take part in the Chunin Exam as well?
Xinzi shook her head, "I'm just here to watch the fun."

That's right, she came just to watch the fun.

She was indeed interested in the Chunin Exam, but she came here knowing that something was going to happen during the exam.

As for why I came here, it’s because I know someone here.

And, the most important thing, of course, is Sasuke.

Sasuke was going to take part in the Chunin Exam, then be bitten by Orochimaru, betray Konoha, and improve his strength to kill Itachi. How could she let this happen?
No matter what, we have to stop Orochimaru from causing trouble and prevent him from putting the curse on Sasuke.

However, after all, she had only heard about those things, and she didn't know the details. She only knew it was the third scene, the Forest of Death, and she didn't remember anything else.

(End of this chapter)