Trigger {ALTERNATE STORY}

[Exams] Part 1

3rd person's POV
"Why not join?" Suzu came in the hokage's office the next morning while holding onto the gift Sakura gave her yesterday happily, only to hear the news that she wasn't allowed to partake the chunnin exams with this year's batch.

"It is for your own safety Suzu."

"... You mean civilians'."

"And that-" Suzu did not hear the rest of his sentence and stormed out of the room, holding the pink stuffed rabbit close to her chest as she sat outside of the building, puffing her cheeks out of anger and sadness.

"Hey midget, watcha doin looking depressed down there?" Looking up, she sees Anko whom had her hands on her hips with a questioning look on her face as she stared at her.

"Chunnin exams.." Anko managed to hear Suzu's mumbling who once again buried her face on the back of her stuffed animal.

"Ah yeah- I was told of that. Now that you mention it, I was given a task to watch over you during the chunnin exams, a little side job I suppose." seeing that the blue haired girl still hid her face on her stuffed rabbit, Anko sighed before dragging the said girl by her collar, careful not to make skin contact.

"Come on, some sweets might cheer you up- my treat."

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The purple haired woman stared at the girl infront of her who'd been scarfing down dangos one after another, surprised by her appetite.

"You're gonna get toothaches or whatever, you know that- right?" Suzu ignored Anko and continued to eat the dangos on her plate, asking for another one.

"Ah who cares--not like I cared for mine!" shrugging, Anko began to dig in as well, the people in the shop staring at the two whom looked like they were having a dango eating challenge, piles and piles of dango sticks stacking up beside them.

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Suzu's POV
"Ugh, my stomach hurts like hell."

Nodding at her statement, we sat at the bench just outside the dango shop with cherry the bunny sitting on my lap, my stomach full because I had eaten almost 23 dango sticks with Anko eating I think was more than that.

"Thank you." Anko looked at me before grinning and ruffling my hair, eyes staring back at mine with her smile never faltering.

"Guess what? I have a plan for us to do in the chunnin exams--you in?"

Nodding, I listened as she told me about her plan, suggesting some ideas here and there before deciding to head back to her house and talk more about it and what she was to do during the exams.

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Waving goodbye, I arrive home by sundown and placed Cherry at my bed, thinking of how my day went by before deciding to visit Sakura's room.

Peeking in her room, I see her sitting by her desk, staring at nothing with a somewhat distracted look on her face.

Knocking gently on her door, her attention snapped towards me before beckoning me to come in and sit by her bed.

"Is there something wrong?" shaking my head, I take a pillow from her bed and hug it to my chest, staring at her emerald green eyes.

"What you thinking?"

"Oh uhm.." seeing her look away for a moment and fiddle with her thumbs, her eyes stared back at me with a nervous look on her face.

"It's... Nothing--don't worry about it Suzu."

Knowing she was lying but deciding to not pry about whatever it was, I nodded and let go of the pillow I was hugging, standing from the bed.

"Okay."