Ryoko froze as she spoke to Lee and shivered noticeably, turning about to look behind her toward where Naruto and Sasuke were both lying with towels on their foreheads.
The heaviness of the chi flowing out of him had grown...more so and she could feel it creeping out of Sasuke to fill the air around him, pushing outward.
Behind her Neji also turned his look away from the anomalous girl and his own teammate and their unnecessary challenge. He felt the pressure of an intense chakra and frowned, casually activating his byakugan again to look over towards the source.
Dark and cluttered chakra whirled about the young Uchiha's form. Lee and Ten-Ten, noticing the attention of the other two, turned to look toward Sasuke and though they could not see the chakra itself, they could see the spreading of what looked to be a strange sort of bruise over Sasuke's body over the left side.
For his part, Sasuke sat up and looked about, immediately noting a lack of apparent hostilities as everyone was focused on him and were apparently drinking tea from some of Ryoko's cups.
"Where's Sakura?" he asked sharply.
"Ano..." Ryoko said, a bit confused. "Haruna-san is not on any teams, Uchiha-san."
"I know that, but she was here," he said.
"Was she that pink-haired beauty?" Lee asked then.
"That was her," Sasuke said.
"I found her defending you not more than an hour or two past," Lee said. "But she left once your attackers saw fit to leave. I don't know where she went after that."
"This isn't the time for someone to be wandering alone," Tenten said. "Especially not someone who doesn't have a genin team to support her. How'd she even get past the proctors?"
"These attackers," Sasuke asked. "Where they of the Otokagure?"
"I believe so, yes," Lee said.
"Then I'm going after them," he said firmly, and started to move to look for tracks.
"Ano..." Ryoko said. "Sh...shouldn't we wait for Uzumaki-san?"
Sasuke hesitated, remembering Naruto coming back and bravely, or stupidly, attacking that freak Orochimaru the night before.
"Fine, but we're going after them as soon as possible," Sasuke said coldly, the strange bruises slowly receding as it looked like he wasn't going to get to expend that power immediately.
"There is no need," Lee declared. "They left behind their scroll and Ryoko-chan and I have determined a contest to see which team shall acquire the scroll."
"What?" Sasuke asked, before turning toward Neji and nodding toward Lee. "You've got one of those too?"
Neji grumbled and nodded.
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