Naruto thought for a second about asking his old man to completely stagger Hayate Gekko and Uzuki Yugao's schedules, as a way to retaliate against him.
Hayate, completely unaware, immediately started the next match, the names scrolling on the big screen before finally settling:
[Neji Hyuga vs Tenten]
Naruto turned his head to look, heh, well done!
Naruto, holding Hinata, turned around and left, walked to the edge of the arena, looked at the three-to-four-meter-high viewing platform, and decisively decided to take the stairs.
Twelve-year-old Hinata was one meter forty-eight tall and weighed thirty-eight kilograms, not even as heavy as the weights Naruto wore during training.
He could dash up to the viewing platform in a few steps, taking at most a second, but... holding her a little longer wasn't tiring, and any straight man knew what to choose.
He happened to meet his brother-in-law Neji coming downstairs as he went up.
"Hmph." Neji didn't give Naruto a pleasant look.
Naruto: ???
What's wrong? Didn't we have a good chat during the first exam?
Hinata buried her head even deeper, so shy, being seen like this by Neji-niisan.
Kushina looked at her son with satisfaction, then looked at Minato, truly father and son, some things don't need to be taught at all, can this stuff be inherited?
Neji and Tenten walked to the center of the arena and stood ready, Naruto also carried Hinata upstairs, not crowding into the crowd, nor going to his parents' side, but stopping in a relatively open area, preparing to watch the battle on the spot.
"Naruto-kun." Hinata called out weakly.
"Hmm?"
"Put me down." Hinata's face was flushed.
"I'm not tired." Naruto really wasn't tired.
"But..." Hinata's face was even redder, there were so many people here.
Alright, the little girl was thin-skinned.
Naruto gently put Hinata down, and created two Shadow Clones: "Go, move our sofa here."
The clones disappeared, of course, a Flying Thunder God mark was left at home, the style of the mark was "Fountain".
Three seconds later, the clone returned with the sofa from the living room, placing it behind Hinata, and also brought a small round table, setting it with tea and snacks.
"Uzumaki Logistics Company wholeheartedly serves you, please give a 5-star rating if you are satisfied!"
The clone saluted and disappeared, although they liked to play and be funny, they were generally sensible, and couldn't delay the main body's important life events.
Naruto pulled Hinata to sit on the sofa, poured tea, and handed a piece of snack to Hinata's mouth.
Hinata was already used to Naruto's erratic Shadow Clones, took a small bite of the snack, her mouth was sweet, and her heart was also sweet.
Sasuke glanced over here, then glanced again, unable to understand why Naruto didn't come over.
Sakura looked at Naruto and Hinata with envy, then looked at Sasuke, and then looked at Sasuke again.
Inner Sakura: Damn it, if Sasuke had half of Naruto's flirting skills, I'd have three kids already!
"The second match of the preliminaries, Neji Hyuga versus Tenten, begin!"
Tenten jumped back a large step, simultaneously throwing out a pile of shuriken and kunai, wanting to create distance. She understood Neji; close combat was simply impossible.
Similarly, Neji also understood Tenten. The consequence of her creating distance was facing countless ninja tools, either being smashed to death or exhausted to death.
Therefore, under the assistance of the Byakugan, Neji either dodged the shuriken or knocked away the kunai, constantly closing the distance.
These two were like Gaara meeting Daruma, ice meeting Wanhao, or Little Black meeting Doom.
One had a long range, the other had a flashy movement.
In the end, Neji's skill was superior. He blocked a pile of scythes, broadswords, maces, and other miscellaneous ninja tools, successfully breaking through to Tenten's side.
Tenten took out a three-section staff to resist a few moves, but Neji used his fingers to touch her neck.
"I give up." Tenten had long expected the result. Although she still had the Twin Dragons she hadn't used, Neji also had Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
"Winner, Neji Hyuga." Hayate announced the result of the match.
Naruto thought the match was wonderful, but it was a pity that there was no battlefield commentary from Tenten, the number one Neji fan in the Hidden Leaf Village. He felt that the program's effect was a bit lacking.
Naruto held Hinata's small hand and silently changed a plate of snacks.
I only ate two pieces from this plate just now, how did it disappear so quickly...
Neji and Tenten left the stage, and the screen began to scroll again:
[Haruno Sakura vs. Uchiha Sasuke]
"Pfft~" Naruto spat out a mouthful of tea. What did this mean? An annual blind date meeting?
"Naruto-kun?"
"It's nothing." Naruto wiped his mouth, then frowned. In order not to spray it on the table and dirty the sofa armrest, wouldn't he get beaten when he got home?
Sakura also frowned. She envied Hinata and Naruto's match. After losing, she was carried up in a princess carry and could then snuggle together to watch the match.
But with Sasuke's style, even if he held back against her, he would still use 70% of his strength, even if he was in a good mood and taking care of his teammate.
Sasuke was a little surprised, but he didn't say anything and simply jumped off the platform. As everyone knew, in the original story, Sasuke only had three types of people in his eyes: Older Brother, Naruto, and others.
Now that his family was alive and well, he should probably add his parents, but he really didn't take Sakura seriously for the time being.
Sakura and Sasuke stood facing each other, and Hayate announced the start.
Sasuke didn't even activate his Sharingan. He instantly moved over and used a hand chop towards Sakura's neck. Sakura... dodged it.
After all, she had trained with Naruto and Sasuke in the same team for a long time, and her eyesight and reaction speed were far superior to ordinary Genin.
Sasuke followed up with a set of Uchiha-Style Taijutsu, flashy like he was street dancing. Coupled with his handsome face, it was pleasing to the eye. He was indeed a member of the Uchiha dance king's clan.
Sakura didn't act like a fangirl during the battle. She responded seriously, showing off the Shadow Clone Technique, Substitution Technique, Shuriken throwing interference, and various dodging movements one by one, applying them appropriately, highlighting a solid foundation and an extremely strong desire to survive.
Sasuke wasn't surprised either. Sakura's life-saving skills were developed by him and Naruto one by one.
In the end, Sasuke put a kunai on Sakura's neck, and Sakura raised her hand to admit defeat.
Naruto realized that his previous thoughts were too naive. Putting a kunai on his own wife's neck and forcing her to admit defeat was something that a normal person could really do.
Casually swapping out a plate of snacks, Naruto thought viciously, If this bastard wasn't so handsome, he'd definitely be single for life!
"Winner, Uchiha Sasuke."
The names on the screen began to scroll again, finally settling on:
[Nara Shikamaru vs. Temari]
Naruto calmly took a sip of tea, not forgetting to feed Hinata a piece of pastry. Matchmaking, huh? Let them match.
Wait, Naruto spotted the key point, reviewing the names from the previous matches:
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Hinata Hyuga
Neji Hyuga vs. Tenten
Nara Shikamaru vs. Temari
Only the previous match was:
Haruno Sakura vs. Uchiha Sasuke
Ah, this...
Naruto had seen through everything: As expected of Sakura Bro, you don't want to change your surname to Uchiha, but want Sasuke to change his surname to Haruno!
Or even if Sakura Bro changed her surname to Uchiha, in the end, she'd probably be the dominant one... ahem.
As Jia Yi said in "The Faults of Qin," "A change in the balance of power between offense and defense occurs when benevolence and righteousness are not practiced."
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