The Genins were placed on the second floor of the tower, but the mentors were placed on the third floor, each of them given a rather spacious room with all the amenities, of course, Founder based on the seals, as no one had tried to sewer to the middle of the Forest of Death yet. In fact, there was one more urgent matter waiting for me there, besides meeting and instructing the students, so I picked up my pace, hurrying back.
Sending a pulse of chakra into the seal glued to the door jamb and edge, I peeled it off, removing the invisible barrier from the passage and stepped inside.
- How's she doing? - I asked the clone leaning over the bed where the dark-haired girl lay unconscious.
Actually, just at the moment when the chunin called me to take the team, came the memory of one of the shadow clones, whose partner snatched kunoichi Kumo under very sad circumstances for her and dragged to me for treatment. I had to leave the kage bunshin to meet him, and was glad of my own foresight - the walls were covered with fuin that prevented even Hyuga's gaze, not to mention the usual bugging, which was difficult due to the thickness of the walls, preventing the detection of ambiguous prey. Ai would have been pissed if he'd discovered his village genin had been kidnapped.
- She's been beaten up badly, but I've already stopped the blood and started on the most serious wounds," the doppelganger said without interrupting his work.
He'd already laid the cloth to keep the bed clean and cut away the rags that had once been the kunoichi's clothes, so I could freely observe the extent of the damage. In addition to the two kunai wounds the student had left, her side had been torn up, as well as her right arm, and it looked like it had been torn by teeth. A wolf or a dog had done it, something I'd learned to recognize on the fly with Inuzuka on the team. I wondered what had happened there.
Turning to the corner with the small table, I commanded the shadow beneath it:
- Disperse.
At the same moment it faintly brightened, and I received a new packet of memories. After habitually filtering out only the most important things with the Yamanaka technique and deleting the rest, it became clear what had happened to Kumogakure's team.
As Surizawa had expected, the wounded genin didn't get far - the smell of blood had quickly attracted the attention of several tigers and the trio was faced with the dilemma of whether to take the fight to the trees or to keep moving further into the trees, fleeing from predators and taking advantage of the short breaks to heal their wounds.
The genin had only broken off and found shelter half an hour ago, occupying someone's empty cave and bandaging themselves up properly. The kunoichi and the injured shinobi were already exhausted, having lost a lot of blood, and the swarthy contact was tired of fighting off beasts and helping his partners.
It's no wonder that he missed the appearance of a pack of wolves by a dozen and when he returned he found only animals with bloody faces in front of the cave. Actually, he couldn't even kill them all to bury the remains of his friends humanely, having to save himself and couldn't detect some shortage in the surviving remains of exactly one kunoichi.
Otherwise, the watcher wouldn't even bother stealing a clan kunoichi during a joint event. As it is, all ends are closed and in a couple of days there won't even be any traces left there except dried blood and scraps of clothing. No one will even investigate - everyone is already used to the fact that there are quite a few deaths at the exam and one more wouldn't surprise anyone, even if it was a clan girl.
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