Chapter 50 Poor Iruka

Konoha.

Death Forest.

Sob...

"So sad, that genius boy must have felt a lot of pain"

Ino said while wiping her tears her voice groggy as she heard the whole story that Gojo told Sasuke.

Though, Satoru didn't tell what choice the genius boy made at the end, but she still felt sad just thinking about what that boy had to go through.

"You are crying because of this?"

Shikamaru who heard her words was speechless as he never expected that she was crying at the story.

"How can you be so heartless, Shikamaru, don't you feel sad for that boy?"

Ino looked at Shikamaru with some anger on her pretty face.

"Oi~ Oi, don't be angry, that's just a story, and didn't you heard the whole talk"

Shikamaru raised his hands surrendering immediately as he didn't want to reason with a woman, and quickly changed the subject.

"Now that you mention it, Satoru Kun did mention something like teaching Sasuke and giving up everything for revenge"

Hearing his words, Ino remembered what Gojo had said to Sasuke.

"You should know what happened to Uchiha Clan, and you saw what Sasuke did to those Sound Ninja earlier, Like Satoru mentioned, Revenge seemed to have blinded him completely"

Shikamaru has always somewhat respected Sasuke and he was genuinely worried for him.

"Yeah, Sasuke Kun looks different from the past, more colder"

"Hey, if we don't hurry, we will be disqualified"

Ino remembered the cold aura of Sasuke and had to agree that he was changing, but at this moment the voice of Choji suddenly reminded them.

"Oops…"

Hearing his words, the two of them cursed and ran towards the tower immediately.

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Death Forest Tower.

"Satoru~ long time no see"

After talking with Sasuke, Gojo went inside the tower and Sasuke followed him keeping a certain and his eyes seemed a little distance.

Grouping up with Neji, Lee, Naruto and Sakura, Neji suggested to open one the scroll as Naruto did and "an Iruka" popped out with a burst of smoke.

Iruka greeted Naruto and others and seeing the familiar blindfold guy, he was ecstatic.

"Iruka Sensei~ you should retire now, look at those wrinkles on your face, worry not I will take care of the academy"

Iruka who had thought that Gojo who he hadn't seen for more than a year would greet him respectably, was stunned after hearing his words.

"Ha~ Ha~, I see you haven't changed a bit, Satoru"

A tic mark appeared on the forehead of Iruka and corners of his mouth twitched but he still held himself back and said with a forced smile on his face.

"Poor Sensei"

Naruto and others who saw Gojo teasing Iruka silently expressed their condolences.

Whether it was Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Lee or even Sakura, they all knew know how difficult it was to deal with a narcissistic guy like Gojo, and understood how difficult it would had been for Iruka to tolerate Gojo for six years.

"Calm down, Iruka, he is just a kid"

Said Iruka inside his heart and tried to console himself as he knew there was no point in bickering with Gojo.

"I'm proud of teaching of you all, I first doubted whether you can participate in the exam but you have proven me wrong"

Ignoring Gojo, Iruka entered the teacher mode and expressed his inner emotions and finally after telling the meaning of the words written on the wall, he stopped.

"Now you can enter the main hall, after coming this far don't fail now, I'm counting on you"

Iruka took the scroll from Neji as well and after cheering them the last time he opened the door of the main hall as everyone entered.

It was a huge hall with stands above by the wall to watch the fight from the above and right in front were two huge stone hands weaving a hand sign.

"It seems the second exam isn't over yet"

Looking at the huge hall, Gojo concluded something and said causally.

"What do you mean, Satoru?"

"Yeah! don't scare us Satoru Kun"

Naruto and other beside Gojo heard his words and couldn't help but ask with concern and Sakura already had a look of despair on his face.

"Can't you see, this is clearly a fighting arena, even a fool can guess that something is wrong"

Actually Gojo had seen Ninja repairing the arena in the last few days, so he had guessed this, so he bragged giving a petty reason behind his guess otherwise just looking at the fighting arena who could guess something so accurate.

"Why is the gap so big?"

Hearing his words, everyone felt suddenly felt inferior and wondered when will they have intelligence like Gojo, to be able to guess so much just after taking a look.

Soon, Gojo with Naruto and others arrived at the middle of the hall and as time passed more and more teams began to appear and the hall began to fill.