Naruto : Minato back to the past

Hatake Sakumo stood on the branch in front of the five people and chuckled. Minato and the others immediately walked out. Among them, only Minato was surprised. Hatake Sakumo had suddenly appeared there; how could he instantly determine their location? Even with great strength, it is necessary to observe and perceive a little.

"You mean, we passed the trial?" Miyazaki's voice was inevitably a little excited. After all, he never thought that he could pass the trial at the beginning. His strength is not the top among the students of the ninja school, not to mention that there are dozens of ninjas.

Sakumo smiled lightly when he heard it and said, "I only said that the Ninja trial is over, but I didn't say that you passed. Now, follow me to the central tower of the Death Forest. Whether you have passed or not, you will know when you get there."

After Sakumo spoke, he rushed forward. Minato and the others looked at each other and followed. During the journey, Miyazaki and the other two looked worried, and Kushina kept staring at Minato. Minato, on the other hand, kept observing Sakumo in the front.

He didn't think that Sakumo had suddenly found him, Kushina, and the others by chance.

"Could it be?" Minato immediately had a guess in his mind. When he and Kushina entered the Forest of Death, the Anbu who usually stayed with her did not follow. He initially thought that this was the Third Hokage's way of testing his ability, but he was just a student of the Ninja School. Although he didn't know Kushina's specific identity, he knew they wouldn't allow her to make any mistakes.

Then there was only one answer left. It was not that there was no one around Kushina to protect her, but that with his current ability, he could not detect the existence of this guard. And that person was most likely Hatake Sakumo in front of him, which could also explain why he could suddenly appear in front of him.

But this was just a guess in Minato's mind. Hatake Sakumo was also observing Minato, who seemed to be worried.

"It seems that, just like what the Third Hokage said, this kid's senses are really sharp."

When Sakumo accepted the task of being the chief examiner of the Ninja Trial, he also received a task, which was to protect the red-haired girl named Kushina behind him during the trial. But now it seemed that the Third Hokage's task was a bit redundant. Kushina herself was strong enough, and beside her was a kid who was stronger than her and more thoughtful.

On the way to the tower, Minato also noticed that there wasn't even a single figure in the huge Death Forest.

"Have they all been taken there?" Looking at the tower that was getting closer and closer, Minato gradually let go of his inner speculation.

However, what Minato did not expect was that after entering the tower, there was still no one inside.

"This is the gathering place for the Chunin Exam, don't walk around casually." Sakumo left such a sentence and disappeared in front of the five people. His appearance and disappearance were not something that the five people could see through now.

After a while, a person who looked like a Chunin walked in with three people.

"Shikaku, Choza, and Inoichi!" Miyazaki Satoshi stood there and waved his hands to greet the three of them.

"Oh, it's Miyazaki. I didn't expect you to survive." Akimichi Choza also rushed up to talk to him, but he seemed a little bad at speaking. Miyazaki suddenly became a little embarrassed. Indeed, with his ability, if he hadn't met Minato and Kushina, he would have been eliminated on the first day.

"You idiot." Nara Shikaku smiled lightly, and then met Minato's eyes. He looked a little surprised because Minato, Kushina, and the other four looked younger than him and Miyazaki Satoshi.

At this moment, another Chunin led a girl with long black hair in. When Kushina saw the girl, she ran over directly, took the girl's hand, and said, "Mikoto, I finally see you. Are you okay?"

Mikoto's expression was obviously a little excited. After responding to Kushina, she greeted Minato again. She was not surprised that Kushina and Minato could survive. What surprised her was that her classmates Akasaka Yu and Takenouchi Rin were also there.

Swish!

Not long after Mikoto came in, a black figure also rushed in quickly. Following him was a Chunin with a slightly angry face. Uchiha Yoruki. He still had that indifferent expression, but the gaze in his black eyes was also focused on Minato, filled with fighting spirit. For three days in the Death Forest, he had been trying his best to find Minato, but he didn't expect to see him here. What he said a year ago was not false.

"There are already ten people. Those who have passed this time will not all be students of the Ninja School, right?" Miyazaki looked at the exact number of people now, and his expression was a little excited.

Beside him, Minato smiled and shook his head, saying, "It doesn't look like it."

Outside the gate, three figures came in again. The one in the middle waved his hand to greet them as soon as he came in.

"Minato, you're here first." Nawaki followed his two teammates. After that, Hyuga Hiashi and his twin brother Hyuga Hizashi, who had been seen the night before, and another team of Genin were also brought in. So far, there were already eighteen people gathered who had not been eliminated. However, this seemed not to be all the personnel. Under the leadership of a Chunin, a student wearing black sunglasses and a hoodie was also brought in. He was the nineteenth contestant whose chakra mark had not been eliminated.

When he arrived, Hatake Sakumo appeared in front of everyone again.

"You all performed very well in the three days in the Forest of Death and have been able to support it until now," he evaluated everyone first.

"In this case, are we qualified?" Nara Shikaku asked.

Sakumo smiled faintly and said, "Although you performed well, the rules cannot be changed. In the end, only ten people can pass. Now, there are still nineteen contestants with chakra marks, so we have to conduct an additional test."

"Rather than saying it's the rules, it's better to say it's your loophole. Why didn't you consider the problem of too many people being left at the beginning?" Shikaku instantly revealed some of the shortcomings of this Ninja Trial, and Hatake Sakumo could only smile awkwardly.

"Then how do we conduct an additional test?" Uchiha Yoruki looked indifferent, and it could even be said that he was a little excited because this meant that he still had a chance to fight Minato.

At this time, Sakumo had a wooden box in his hand, and there was a hole with a diameter of ten centimeters in the box. He placed the box in the middle of the crowd, and then said, "The additional test of the Ninja Trial is a duel. The order of the battle and the opponent will be determined by this."

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