Chapter 244: Three Teams Clash

Finding herself in a perfectly lit room, Uzumaki looked in surprise at the ceiling, covered with white fuin lines, from which a glow emanated that was not inferior to daylight. Then the girl noticed the amethyst glow of the adamantine walls:

- Wow...

The two ended up on a small hill, the teleportation formation, its silver glow quickly faded, and then Shikamaru moved on. The teleportation hall was nothing special other than the formation and four doors in each direction. Like all doors in the tower, they had a clear division. They were mostly in recesses and were streaked with three lines of red funn seals, right in front of the doors there was another funn strip to activate.

Shikamaru approached one of the doors and leaned his hand against the side of the triangle, at the same moment the doors parted to the side with a characteristic sound.

Karin shifted her interested gaze from side to side in astonishment.

"Let's go," Shikamaru waved his hand, "I'll introduce you to Kushina, she'll show you everything." I still have a couple of things to do on the exam. Then we'll talk some more.

Karin adjusted her glasses and quickly nodded as she followed this amazing person.

The two went down a long corridor to an area with several doors. Karin continued to be surprised, in her opinion, everything here looked, though beautiful, but completely incomprehensible. A lot of strange symbols were just everywhere. Sometimes even the empty walls were splattered with words she just couldn't understand. In addition, there were doors not with red marks, but with white ones, and they looked different. The girl did not understand how to navigate here at all, since nothing was clear. But, she didn't ask questions, she just followed Shikamaru.

Finally, the guy came to one door, and it opened like the others. He called Karin and they disappeared inside together. The girl was amazed again! The cold walls were replaced by red wooden tiles, even the floor was decorated with multi-colored wooden mosaics. Chandeliers hung from the ceiling, the room had a large beautiful bed, a table with a TV, a bookcase and a mirror. It was no different from a normal bedroom.

The pleasant smell hit Karin's sensitive nose immediately, and she blinked in surprise as she noticed the beautiful girl nearby. Kushina was sitting on the pillow and was bored watching TV while eating chips.

Slowly turning around, the girl was surprised at first, as she was waiting for someone else, and then abruptly stood up and threw away the bag of chips, shaking her hands in embarrassment:

“It’s you…” she said slightly nervously, after which she finally spotted Karin and said in surprise:

- Your hair...

"I'll go," Shikamaru said immediately and turned around, "Meet me, there are five more rooms here, find a place for her."

“Ah… Well,” Kushina nodded, “Understood.

After seeing him with a thoughtful look, the girl lowered her eyes and somehow sadly asked:

"So what's your name?"

"I'm Karin... And you're Kushina, right?"

"Mm," the girl nodded, "he told you?"

“Yeah, he also said that you too… Uzumaki.”

A thirteen-year-old girl was clearly inferior to an adult girl in height and in some forms. But, in fact, Kushina was not that tall, only a head taller than Karin. Whereas Shikamaru easily towered over any of them. However, he was taller than most of the men in the village and reached almost two meters.

“So I guessed right.” Touching Karin’s short hair, Kushina smiled.

“It’s been so long since I’ve seen someone with hair like that…” Remembering Mito, the girl sighed sadly.

Too bright, huh? Karin sighed sadly, “There are so many problems with this hair… I even had to cut my hair.

Kushina frowned.

“Tell me about it…” Sitting comfortably on the pillow, she gave Karin exactly the same:

“The floor is cold here, Haku said that it will be solved soon, but I’m freezing as hell… I don’t even remember how warm it is on the surface.”

The girl was surprised

- On the surface?

- Well...

Karin and Kushina quickly found a common language, and the conversation dragged on. Even the girl who survived the unpleasant events not so long ago, quickly began to smile, admiringly listening to the older Uzumaki. At first glance, this girl struck her. Her hair did not seem ugly, but on the contrary, they were striking in their beauty! Kushina was so beautiful and bright at the same time that it was breathtaking. Karin wanted to learn as much as possible just by listening to her...

*

Forest of Death.

Hidden among the leaves, Shikamaru watched Team Seven. After meeting with Orochimaru, Sasuke and Sakura quickly found Naruto and continued their search for the second scroll. But when Shikamaru came to check if everything was in order, he was faced with an amazing picture...

First of all, the trio of sound - Team Dosu did a good job with the trio of genin from Leaf. Who could it be? To Shikamaru's surprise, these talents were not the genin from the seventh team, but the guys from the tenth team! Well, to be more precise, it was Ino and Chouji. Unfortunately, their third team member was not that strong, and he looked too frail, as well as slightly silly. At the time of distribution, they most likely slipped one of the most unpromising ones, since they understood well who would enter the rank of Chuunin next year.

— Pha! Weaklings,” Ino snorted, flexing her shoulders as she turned to Chōji.

- Well done!

- Yes, - the guy put on his hood and nodded gloomily: - This guy with his sounds... I'm deaf in one ear. Crap...

Ino giggled.

Nothing, it will live. These fools had a scroll, let's go finish it already. This exam got me, I want to see Shikamaru already.

Hiding nearby, the guy smiled, looking at the beautiful blonde, but then frowningly looked away. Suddenly, a friend jumped out of the bushes. The pale guy with lavender eyes is Neji Hyuga. Stopping in front of the trio, he narrowed his eyes at Ino's tender hands.

“They got the scroll… You are stronger than I thought.

“Hmm, finally arrived,” Yamanaka snorted, tossing the scroll to the skinny boy on her team. Then, the girl stood next to Chōji and said in annoyance:

“Maybe you’ll all crawl out, rats!”

A chuckle was heard from the nearby bushes, and then Sasuke appeared not far from Neji and Ino, followed by Naruto and Sakura. The six looked at each other with hostility, and then Neji snorted in displeasure.

- Everyone is assembled, only the princess is missing.

Sitting comfortably on a high branch, Shikamaru smirked in anticipation.

“Oh, now something will happen ...” - turning his gaze to the side, the guy smiled even wider. That's what this boring exam was missing! Even if Hinata finished this stage, there were at least five people gathered in this clearing who Shikamaru had already made stronger. Some of them took the pill, some like Naruto and Sasuke had trained before and the rivalry had increased their skill. Now they are all in conflict! Moreover...

Suddenly, two more silhouettes flew out of the foliage, stopping not far from Neji. The guy immediately grinned confidently and looked defiantly at Ino, and then at Sasuke.