Chapter 899

"Sigh… we didn't have that kind of luck—we got assigned an escort mission, but we didn't even see any bandits." Ino helplessly spread her hands; she had been looking forward to this mission, but unfortunately never got the chance to act.

Shikamaru looked just as uninterested. "No, weren't there landslides on the way? It's not boring—it's downright annoying."

"I used the Expansion Technique… just to move rocks. I'm too embarrassed to tell Dad."

Choji shoved a handful of chips into his mouth and crunched them noisily.

"By the way, Lin Cheng and Naruto, you weren't paired together, right? Then who were you assigned to work with?" Ino glanced at Hinata Lin Cheng a short distance away, who had merely laid a cloth on the ground and held a plain instant meal, yet somehow made it feel like a feast.

Deep inside, Ino had to admit the Yamanaka clan still paled in comparison to the Hyūga family.

"Of course it was me, Ino."

Girls of this age always unconsciously shift their focus.

Lin Cheng showed no sign of being affected; she gracefully set down her chopsticks and picked up a napkin to wipe her lips.

"I'm done eating."

Her eyes always seemed fixed on the courtyard below, but through the Byakugan's 360-degree, all-angle vision, her attention had remained fixed on Naruto and Sasune the whole time.