Of course, Xiao Ying won the race without a doubt.

"Sakura!

You're amazing! "Lee Lok, who lost, was even more excited." When do you usually come out for a run?

Why haven't I seen you before? "

"I didn't come out for a run."

Sakura could see that Lee Lok was carrying a heavy load, and she didn't try her best either. It was hard to say who was giving in to who in this race.

"Impossible!

Sakura must have worked hard to get to where she is now! "Lee Lok couldn't believe it.

"You worked hard," Sakura was still indifferent. "But how many people who stood at the top relied on hard work?"

"…" Lee Lok's expression froze for a moment.

"Ah, sorry."

After Sakura said that, she remembered that the person in front of her wasn't her childhood friend, Naruto Uzumaki. "My words were a bit extreme."

"No!" Lee Lok touched his head. "Maybe Sakura is right …"

He wasn't actually hurt by Sakura's words. If that could hurt him, he would have given up on becoming a ninja.

"Well, have you heard of a saying?" Sakura didn't know how to comfort the depressed guy in front of her.

"What saying?" Lee Lok was still smiling brightly, but Sakura could see that he was forcing himself to be cheerful.

"People who are more talented than you are also working hard. What's the use of working hard?"

"What?!" Lee Lok was shocked by this sentence.

"It sounds super negative, doesn't it?" Xiao Ying smiled. "But the people who say these things are still working hard every day."

"Then I'll work harder than those geniuses!" Lee Lok clenched his fist, unwilling to admit defeat.

"There's an even more depressing saying. Many people will comfort themselves like this. Although I'm not more talented than them, many people still haven't worked hard enough to compete with their talent."

Sakura really didn't know how to comfort people.

"Isn't that so?"

"Of course not. The competition of talent starts from the very beginning. The result is not hard work plus talent, but hard work multiplies talent. If you do your best, you won't be able to compare to others. That's the reality."

"I, I want to go back for a run. I've already wasted a lot of time …" Lee Lok didn't know why he wanted to be as far away from Sakura as possible.

He felt that he would have a mental breakdown if he continued to listen to her.

"But there's one more thing. Hard work may lie, but hard work won't be wasted." Sakura finally got to the main point, and she heaved a sigh of relief.

"This … What does this mean?" Lee Lok stopped in his tracks.

"If hard work doesn't lie, then the most hardworking person should be number one. But the truth is that things always go against one's wishes." Sakura had seen many hardworking people. Sometimes, hard work was just a foundation. In order to become a strong person, one needed more qualities besides hard work. But she admired people who were persistent. Some people, even if they couldn't reach the end of their pursuit, walked on the path of their passion for their whole life, which was also another level of success.

"Even so, we can't give up on hard work. We have to find the answer through hard work, and we have to become better people through hard work."

"Sakura …" Lee Lok's eyes were filled with tears. He remembered Teacher Kai's encouragement to him. Kai had once encouraged him that he was a hardworking genius, and that one day his achievements would surpass Ningji's. But in fact, he also had doubts about himself.

Could he really surpass a genius? Or was surpassing a genius really his goal?

The next day, when they gathered for training, Lee Lok, who had always foolishly shouted slogans with Teacher Kai, was surprisingly quiet. Sometimes, he would even suddenly giggle.

"… It's a little scary?" Tiantian shuddered.

"Don't worry about him."

Neji has been accustomed to his teammates and Sensei being normal people who often have seizures and intermittent normal people, so he can face it indifferently.

"Ningji!

I know you're laughing at me again! "Lee Lok suddenly rushed over like a bull.

"I'm not laughing at you." Ningji just looked cold because of his personality, but he actually recognized Lee Lok in his heart.

"You're no longer my goal!" Lee Lok proudly announced.

"Then what's your goal now?" Tiantian asked curiously.

"My goal now is!" Lee Lok made his signature move, "To become a better person!"

"Little Lee!

You said it so well! "

Hearing his disciple's words, Maito Gai was moved to tears, "You've grown again, this is youth!"

"I didn't say that!" Lee Lok and his Sensei cried together. "This is what Sakura told me!"

However, at this time, Sakura, who was fed a poisonous chicken soup, was lying in bed with a high fever, gasping for breath.

She didn't know if it was retribution for deceiving others, or if there was something missing when she rebooted yesterday. In short, she inexplicably triggered the body's immune system. At this time, she was clearly not injured or infected by the virus, but she still had a high fever.

What is my body fighting against?

Xiao Ying, who was in a daze from the fever, took some time to wonder, before she fell into a deep sleep very quickly.

On the other side, Kakashi and the other team leaders were gathered in the Hokage's office for a meeting. The content of the meeting was the beginning of the Chunin Exam registration.

"I, Kakashi's Team 7, recommend Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sakura Haruno to participate in the Chunin Exam under the name of Kakashi."

Starting from Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai, two recently graduated Chunin Teams, also signed up for the Chunin Exam.

"What?!" Iruca exclaimed, "It's too early for them to take the Chunin Exam!"

"Isn't the bottom line to complete eight tasks?" Kakashi's dead fish eyes looked very innocent.

"In the past, it was sixteen tasks …"

"Kakashi's Team 7, a total of twenty-one completed tasks, twenty D-level tasks, and one B-level task. All the tasks were completed efficiently without any loss of personnel." Kakashi said that even if the standard was sixteen, they still met the requirements.

"Tsk, tsk, they're beaten!" Asuma heard Team 7's record and sighed.

"B-level task?" Kurenai was also very surprised.

"But when these children were in school …" Iruca was still very worried.

"They are good enough, I don't think they should be blocked by age."

Kakashi seriously answered Iruca and the Hokage, "My Team 7 is the strongest among all the Chunin Teams."

"Kakashi!

Don't talk big! "

For a time, the fighting spirit of the team leaders in the Hokage's office was ignited.

"In that case, let's go back and prepare." The Hokage nodded with relief, and the matter was decided.

However, when Kakashi took the three registration forms and wanted to find his three students, Naruto and Sasuke were making trouble on the street.

Naruto was fine, but how could Sasuke be involved?

"Looking at your clothes, I can tell that you are not from the village. Kiba Maru has already apologized, if you continue to make trouble, do you want to solve it by force?" Naruto's voice came from the center of the chaos. Kakashi, who was about to come forward to solve the problem, paused.

The style of this sentence was so similar to Sakura's, and the person who said this sentence was Naruto.

"If you want to solve it by force, if you win, you will run to other people's territory to make trouble, and if you lose, won't it be worse?"

Naruto usually didn't need to reason with people like this, after all, he was usually only responsible for rushing to fight, and the task of choking people was left to Sakura.

But now Sakura was sick, and only Naruto and Sasuke were there. Naruto felt that it was better to count on himself than Sasuke, after all, Sakura taught him to be polite before resorting to force.

We are all people with brains, so why can't we calmly express our respect by shooting our mouths first?

"I won't lose." A red-haired man with a big gourd on his back said with murderous intent.

"Oh?" Sasuke, who was sitting on a tree not far away, sneered at Naruto.

"Gaara!" Temari didn't want things to get out of hand. "And you, Kankuro, don't make trouble!"

"Hey." Kankuro had to put down Kiba Maru in his hand, and the three turned and left.

Kakashi suddenly felt a strange sense of joy, like a child who had grown up.

"Ah!

If Kiba Maru wasn't in his hands! "As soon as the three left, Naruto couldn't maintain his calm facade." I would have beaten him up long ago!

That annoying fat pig! "

"…" Kakashi paused again.

But this was Naruto. Naruto's sudden quick-wittedness was really creepy.

"Naruto, Sasuke!" Kakashi appeared from his hiding place. "And Sakura?"

"Kakashi sensei!" Naruto jumped in fright. "Sakura is sick!"

"Sick?"

The three decided to visit Sakura's house together. Naruto was of course very supportive. After all, although he and Sasuke were Sakura's teammates, for some reason, Sakura's mother didn't like them very much. If Kakashi sensei went with them, it would be different. Kakashi sensei and Sakura's father were acquaintances.

"Sakura!"

Naruto, who hadn't seen Sakura since returning from the Wave Country, excitedly rushed to Sakura's bed. "I finally see you!"

"…" Sakura was dumbfounded. Sasuke also looked at Naruto with disdain.

We haven't seen each other for only four days, right?

Is there a need to cry so much?

"Are you okay?" Sasuke put the fruit basket he bought on Sakura's bed.

"I'm much better. I should be fully recovered soon."

Sakura had plenty of ways to reduce her fever, but she hadn't found the cause of the fever, so she just let it go.

"Really?!"

Naruto raised his head after crying on Sakura's quilt. "Is Sakura really okay?"

"Don't cry …" Sakura felt goosebumps all over her body. "You're making me feel like I'm going to die from a terminal illness."

"Bah!" Naruto immediately jumped up. "Sakura won't die!"

"You're right." Sakura nodded.