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Chapter 30- Bunshin Match: Who has the better Clones?

'Normal thoughts...'

"Kyuubi/Bijuu speech..."

"Normal speech..."

Jutsu name...

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Kabuto, Sasuke, Sakura and Naruko, who still wore Kabuto's jacket, stormed fastly through the forest.

"Are there really still enemies around?" Sasuke asked seriously.

"Yes, no mistake." Kabuto told them calmly. "If you think about it, you'll understand. Do you know the cleverest way of fighting in battles in jungles and expansive forests such as this?"

"No." Sakura looked at him curiously.

"The tower located in the center of the forest, the common goal for us test-takers. That means when the last day of the test is here...the area near that tower is the easiest place to gather scrolls."

Sakura's eyes widened in understanding. "I see. Ambush, right? In other words, we go after the scrolls of the teams that have both the Heaven and the Earth Scrolls and are setting out for the tower."

"That's one third of the answer." Kabuto said seriously.

"What?" Sakura looked at him confused.

Kabuto looked at her. "I mean that you guys are not the only ones thinking like that! Near the tower, the same badgers have probably already set traps, so..."

"I see." Naruko giggled cheerily. "That means they are lots of enemies waiting there to engage us. Having a handicap makes it more exciting." She smiled in excitement.

"That's true but this is still two-thirds of the answer."

"What's the remaining one third of the answer?" Sakura asked Kabuto curiously.

"The collectors who are certain to appear during an exam of this nature."

"Collector?" Sakura blinked in confusion.

"In this exam, with the tower just a stone's throw away, you definitely can't rest easy... Those particular conditions are what create them. In other words, those who gather extra scrolls... as compensation for sparing them when coming across an unexpected enemy. Also, those who get information to proceed favorable through later exams by providing the lacking scrolls to comrades sharing the same village. And those who are thinking of, under conditions favorable to them, annihilating the powerful ones who will probably get through the third exam. It goes without saying, but these guys are quite the big guns and the worst enemies, who are definitely not conceited." Kabuto told them seriously.

"I see." Sasuke smirked cheekily. "I understand the reason why you appeared before us. You're scared too, right?"

Kabuto looked at him. "That's right."

Later, that night...

"Now then, the tower has finally come into sight." Kabuto said in relief, as they stood on the ground and looked at the tower. "From here on is the hard part."

Naruko giggled cheerfully. "Let's go!"

Kabuto, Sakura and Sasuke narrowed their eyes seriously.

"An enemy already?" Sakura shouted in surprise.

Naruko narrowed her eyes and threw a kunai fastly behind her. "There!"

Her kunai bored right into a giant centipede and pinned it to a tree.

She looked at it. "Oh, it's just a centipede...I'm sorry Mr. Centipede."

Sakura shuddered in horror. "Yikes! It's huge. All those legs are gross."