Naruto death agent

The next morning at 9 am

The search had not bared much fruit they returned as they returned but they felt like they were being watched but let it go for the next day. As Naruto heads to Training Ground, 7 he gives Tenten her date walking around the forest on a starry night as they eat in a restaurant he likes followed by some talking the next morning he eats a good breakfast. He arrived at the training ground and saw his teammates sitting on the training posts exhausted and irritable. They ignored his suggestion. "You're late!" shouted Sakura. "No, I said I'd be here at 9" Naruto pointed out. "And if you didn't know our sensei has a habit of being late to everything... I just showed up closer to the time he would appear." 

Sakura only scoffed and sat back down against one of the poles. Not even caring if she was close to Sasuke or not. With a shrug, Naruto began reading a scroll. An hour later, Kakashi appeared with his typical lazy attitude and his book in his hand. "Good morning my cure little genin," said Kakshi with his usual eye smile as Naruto hid his scroll in one of his seals to get down from the tree to join his team. "YOU'RE LATE SENSEI!" sakura shrieked. 

"I'm sorry, I'm late. It's just that a black cat crossed my path, and I had to take another route, and I got lost on the road of life." This made the other three genins sweat.

"Well since we're here let's start with the test," he said as he took out a watch and some bells from a seal "Here's the test you have to manage to get one of these bells, to pass the test," he said as he adjusted the watch and showed the two bells. "But sensei, there are three of us and there are only two bells," said Sakura. "Very observant, you see those who don't get a bell will return to the academy" This took everyone by surprise except Naruto. "With that said you only have till noon to get one. 

"Oh and before I forget come at me with the intent to kill or you won't have a chance," he said. "the test starts now!" Immediately both Sakura and Sasuke disappeared into the trees 'Well at least they know how to hide, but they should learn to hide their presence' At that he noticed Naruto hadn't moved from his spot. "You know this is the part where you hide right," Kakashi said looking at Naruto. "Yeah but I don't want to show everything I've got," said Naruto as he shrugged.

"Still maintaining your unpredictability" Kakashi didn't get to finish as Naruto threw shurikens that curved slightly only for Kakashi to catch them without looking naruto appeared behind him Kakashi dodged his head avoiding the hit only to grab Narutos outstretched hand and swiftly used one of his legs to throw him into the ground only for Naruto to disappear in a puff of smoke as Kakashi noticing the multiple kunai coming his way as Kakashi grabbed two and quickly deflected the rest only getting a graze on the shoulder.

 Naruto quickly went on the attack and went for a low kick as another Naruto appeared and used that Naruto as a board doing a head kick. While Kakashi uninterestedly dodged moving back with ease as Naruto tried to keep up with his pursuit with great speed and strength making Kakashi smile but noting places where Naruto missed or over extended of course due to lack of experience something he didn't fault. When Suddenly Naruto stopped as he puffed away surprising Kakashi. 'pretty well thought out using clones to distract me while he regroups and tries to make a plan, he's using a good tactic let's see how it plays out' 

With Sasuke 

The last Uchiha was livid . He refused to believe what he was seeing, the dead last not only on equal terms with their jonin sensei but also managed to injure him. 'no how can that dobe be so strong, this power should belong to me, a Uchiha elite' thought Sasuke angrily. 'I'll find out what makes that loser so strong and I'll take it doesn't matter what I do to find you and kill you itachi with my own hands' thought Sasuke a dark smile appearing on his face. 

different pov 

We find a bunch of figures hidden as they look on from afar their Chakra signature's hidden and use specialized seals that block their chakra from being detected. "This is different from what Ka-san told me about their genin exam." said a figure she had a three-tomo Sharingan. "Not only that but doesn't Lord Seventh look a lot like Boruto." said one "Don't be crazy while they look alike they are different," said the Sharingan user. "Well if I remember Boruto was a clone from lord seventh after he learned he couldn't have kids caused by an accident while fighting high-level threats during Lord's sixth term being his main bodyguard and person for s rank missions. " offered one voice.

"Wait you mean" "Yes that Boruto was Lord's seventh with full potential." said another "He just keeps getting mysterious I guess that's why most fell for him." said another one getting a glare from a few of the figures. "Focus it doesn't matter we knew coming back to the past was going to change the future and our lives and with him here there will be more changes from the looks of it Lord Seventh and Lord Sixth are stronger or at least better equipped for what they'll face." Said the leaders everyone focused on the fight. "Well I won't deny his cuter but what is our plan now." said one. "We'll make contact with him to try to see what changed and if we need to reveal ourselves." said the leader as they decided to focus on the fight impressed with their leader's abilities.

With Sakura 

The cherry blossomed was out of her mind as she watched the events unfold from her hiding place, hidden in some bushes. Naruto-Baka, the dead last was sparing with their teacher seemingly at an equal level. It was more surprising when Naruto turned into smoke showing it was a shadow clone. 'Who knew Naruto was so strong?' inner Sakura stated. 'I may dare say he's stronger than Sasuke-kun!' 'There's no way Naruto-baka is stronger than Sasuke-kun' Her outer self proclaimed vehemently denied. 

'That little display says otherwise' chimed her inner self laughing. 'Though now that I think about it Naruto is kinda cute. Especially with those whisker marks. I wonder what he looks like without those clothes.' "Shut up shut up" Sakura shook her head trying to ignore her inner monologue. 'I love Sasuke-and we are destined to be together!' 

"Psst Sakura-san," said a voice from behind her, Haruno was about to scream only for Naruto to cover her mouth to prevent her from making any noise, looking better at the person who was silencing her, the cherry blossom could she the blonde jinchuriki standing in front of her. "Don't shout, or you'll give away our position," Naruto said signaling her to shut up seeing how the girl calmed down. The Uzumaki removed his hand from her mouth. "What do you want Naruto-baka" she glared at him, though quickly blushed now that she realized she was IP close to his face due to their proximity to each other. 

'Those whisker Marks do make him look cute' she thought to herself before shaking that line of thinking away. If Naruto noticed he gave no indication that he did. "We need to work together if we want to pass this test." He bluntly started. "Why should I help you?" she shot back defiantly. "Besides, Sasuke-kun will easily pass this test once he gets the bells from Kakashi-sensei, and then he and I will be on the same team." "Tell me sakura-san" Naruto couldn't help but mentally chuckle at her ignorance. Supposedly the smartest kunoichi in the class, yet she hung on to her delusions. "Have you ever seen a cell composed of two people?" 

The Pinkett's mind quickly began to search her memory for anything she had seen of a genin team of two people. Seeing how the girl did not answer his question, the Jinchuriki decided to press on. "Do you think that a group of green genins fresh out of the academy have a chance against a jonin, a shinobi who has experience on the field and missions behind him?" said the blonde earning the pink-haired girl's full attention. She looked at him with a clear need for answers to her doubts. "If I had to take a guess this test is about teamwork the thing the academy tried to teach us" finished Naruto making the girl's eyes widen at the statement. Since she didn't find any flaws in his arguments. 

"OK, so how are we going to work together?" she relented with a heavy sigh. "And does Sasuke-kun know?" "Sasuke is too proud to accept help," Naruto said holding his hand up stopping the girl from speaking in defense of the emo but the hanyou didn't give her time to speak "So when he's fighting Kakashi-sensei, I'll help him so it at least appears like we are working together. While Sasuke and I are fighting sensei, you sneak up from his left side since it's his blindspot due to the headband covering his eye and go for the bells." 

Sakura blinked for a moment at how well-thought-out the plan was. "This better work or else-" the pinkett girl threat died as Naruto began to walk away. "It will work," said the Jinchuriki.

With Kakashi

The silver-haired man was looking at his book with great interest while walking through a small, half-cleared meadow, at that moment he jumped back when a pair of kunai struck where he previously stood. 'well let's see what you can do' he thought as he watches Sasuke fall from the tree. "taking after Naruto and attacking me head-on, huh Sasuke?" Kakashi said without taking his gaze off his book. " Pfft, I'm nothing like that weakling" scoffed the Uchiha." And I'll be taking those bells" 

He launched himself towards Kakashi and began a taijutsu fight. "I see," said Kakashi as he put away his book and began to dodge the blows of his potential student "The Uchiha taijutsu. The intercepting fist" Kakashi said causing Sasuke to throw a couple of punches at him again. "I'm glad to know that you know the style that I'll use to defeat you," declared the Uchiha as he launched another kick at Kakashi who simply stepped back to avoid them. 

"Of course I know it, the Uchiha way of fighting, the technique of anticipation and counterattack, it's one of the most versatile and remembered taijutsu by the Uchiha clan" When Kakshi said that a smile appeared on the Uchihas face "But..." At that moment Sasuke felt a sharp pain in his stomach that made him release all the air from his lungs. "It's no use since you still have much to go," said Kakash, causing Sasuke to raise his gaze, which was filled with annoyance "And besides what's use is an invincible technique, if you can't keep up with your opponent," said the silver-haired jonin. This caused Sasuke to quickly get up and try to hit the silver-haired sensei again, but after about 20 seconds the Uchiha was frowning as he gritted his teeth in frustration. 

Since Kakashi was dodging all the blows he was sending him what made him angrier was that it seemed like the Jonin wasn't taking him seriously, so he decided to go with plan B. And he began to make some hand seals, causing Kakashi's only visible eyes to widen a bit as he recognized the seals. 'Don't tell me he can also...' Kakashi thought as he watched Sasuke go through the last hand seals. "Fire style great fireball jutsu" Shouted the Uchiha as he spewed a large fireball from his mouth in Kakashi's direction. 

Generating a large explosion that caused the small area of the ground where the jonin was standing to be burned, which made Sasuke smile to see the results of his jutsu, but his joy turned into frustration when he saw how in the middle of everything there was only a burnt log. "You're right, you are different from Naruto, because unlike him," Kakashi said as if his voice was coming everywhere. "you are too confident," he said as the ground cracked, causing Sasuke to jump barely avoiding being captured by Kakashi. "And that's why your shinobi path will end here," said the silver-haired man watching as Sasue turned in the air and landed on his feet on the ground only to launch himself against Kakashi again. 

Where again Kakashi moved faster than the black-haired boy, causing him to quickly become further frustrated, but when one of his attacks left the dark-haired teen exposed for another elbow thrust. Kakashi quickly looks away to the side to see Naruto appear between the trees, where he charges at him, quickly the silver-haired man puts away his book and begins to fight with the blonde. Seeing this, Sasuke grits his teeth once again stands up, and heads towards where the group was. "Interesting, do you think you two can beat me?" Kakashi said to his two opponents as he began to block and dodge. He was about to throw a punch at Sasuke but had to cancel it when he had to block a kick from Naruto. "I don't need your help loser," said Sasuke throwing a punch at Kakash, which he dodged and was about to retaliate, but had to cancel it to block another kick from Naruto "Yes yes of course," said NAruto as he continued his attack towards the silver-haired sensei accompanied by the Uchiha. 

While the two distracted Kakashi, Sakura crept out of her hiding spot and got closer to the action. Coming in from the left, just as Naruto had suggested. To her surprise, the plan was working perfectly as she was able to get just beside Kakashi and made a reach for the bells. Until she suddenly found herself in an entirely different location with Naruto being where she once was. Just in time to receive a powerful punch from Sasuke. 

Sakura didn't know what to make of what she just witnessed. Did her Sasuke-kun purposely attack just so she couldn't get the bells or did Naruto switch places so he could get the bells for himself? None of it made sense to her. Only Kakashi who had seen that scene along with the Uchiha's actions, but before he could say or do anything he heard the sound of the clock, meaning the time had ended which made him let out a sigh. "Time's up," Kakashi said as he watched Naruto get up without difficulty, so he decided to continue as saw his three students approaching him "None of you managed to take my bells off," said the thesilver-hairedd sensei making Sasuke frown while Sakura looked distressed. 

"Although they didn't manage to defeat me, much less take my bells away I have to say the plan was pretty good, but things are what they are and I only have one thing left to tell you," said Kakashi seeing the frustration and helplessness of two of his students. "Congratulations, you passed!" said Jonin with an eye smile, earning surprised looks from two of his students, who were confused by that so Jonin decided to explain it to them. "This test was made to see if you can work as a team if you're wondering why that's very simple," said Kakashi as he looked towards where the village was. At the official revelation, sakura's mouth dropped as she cast a glance over towards Naruto her question being, How did he figure it out?

"There is a reason why Konoha is the most powerful village among the 5 nations and that strength lies in cooperation and camaraderie," said Kakashi as he turned to see his students. "In this village, all shinobi have a law, those who abandon a mission for their companions are trash, but I think that those who abandon a companion for a mission are worse than trash," When the silver-haired sensei said those words Sakura was surprised but at the same time inspired by the jonin words, Sasuke simply stared at his sensei with an indifferent look. For his part, Naruto knew the meaning behind those words and why they were so heavy to Kakashi. A weight that he has tried to change ever since Kakashi started training him.

"Sasuke, I'll let what you did earlier slide, but I hope it doesn't happen again in the future," Kakashi said a serious look at the boy, who only growled at being scolded. "With that said, see you in two days for our first mission," he said vanishing in a swirl of leaves. "So do you guys want to get something to eat to celebrate passing the test?" Naruto openly offered to his new teammates. Not that he cared if they accepted to not and didn't want to be near the Uchiha after the stunt he pulled. 

"Like I would want to waste time with you losers," the Uchiha grunted as he walked away from the two. Naruto shrugged and walked in a separate direction not bothering to see if Sakura was following him or not. He had left the invitation open, it was up to her if she wanted to take him up on his friendly offer. 

Different Pov 

"No way he did just did that," said the person with the Sharingan. "He shouldn't become a genin," said the leader not happy with the Uchiha's actions. "The council will do anything they can do to keep him a shinobi even if they spoil him." said one sighing. "You're right one of the reasons why Konoha is destroyed is the civilian council." said another person remembering all the times they changed things and the problems they had with the Seventh Hokage. "How will we make contact." said one, "I think it's you Sarada is our best option Mitsuki you could be confused with Orochimaru who's still an S-rank missing-nin that the village hates." said the leader. "What about Delta or Eida I'm also capable of getting close," Said one as it revealed two more people. "One reason she's a Uchiha even if she just flashes her Sharingan it would make him interested." Said the leader "But Mirai we still have" "Sumire that's enough we know you like Boruto and your extreme loyalty to the seventh Hokage but we have to think" Mitsuki said. "Hmmph I just didn't want Sarada to make him fall in love with her first like with Boruto-kun," she said this made some blush memories of spending time with Naruto and Boruto( his literal clone).

Ichiraku's stall 

"Hello, Naruto-kun," Ayame said with a warm smile but he noticed a blush on her face as they hugged. "Hello, Ayame-chan sorry I haven't been here for a little while," he said as the affectionate suffix made Ayame blush again. "It's alright I know you were preparing for anything that might happen. " Could you give me 10 bowls of ramen with everything, please," said Naruto as he sat down. "And a small miso ramen please," ordered the pinkett, as she sat down next to Naruto. A little embarrassed about being here. Afraid of people getting the wrong idea. "Who is she, Naruto? Teuchi asked, trying to annoy the blonde hanyou. "Is she your girlfriend?" Upon hearing those words, Sakura blushed slightly while Ayame looked at her father with annoyance at his supposed joke. 

"Of course not Old Man" Naruto quickly shot it down, which made Ayame calm down. "She's my new teammate, We are celebrating passing our final test." "Nice to meet you, I'm Sakura Haruno," said the pink-haired girl introducing herself to the father and daughter duo, with the two cooks returning the genins' greeting as one went back to preparing the two orders. "if I may ask why such a small bowl?" asked the browned haired ramen chef/waitress asked curiously. "I'm on a diet. " answered Sakura earning a quirked eyebrow from both Naruto and Ayame. "why?" asked Naruto. "Because Sasuke-kun likes thin girls," she stated glaring at the blond. "And just so you know, I am only here because you ordered to celebrate being a team. so don't think for a second that this is a date."

Ayame only rolled her eyes at the pink-haired girl's antics and disappeared into the kitchen to prepare the orders. Naruto for his part only shook his head and sighed. "Okay firstly while you are cute. " this caused Sakura to blush, a bit taken aback by the compliment. "I'm already engaged to Anko-chan" 'As well as the others' "Also I already shot down the old man for even implying you as anything other than a team-mate." he continued "Secondly, Did Sasuke himself say she likes thin girls?" "Well, no," she answered, still blushing over his compliment. Not even Sasuke had called her cute. "So how do you know he likes thin girls?" countered Naruto. "And Just how much do you know about him" 

Sakura had no real answer for this like the horde of fangirls had all started dieting when a rumor began to circulate that the last Uchiha would only date skinny girls. None of them even questioned it. "Honestly, editing is harmful for a kunoichi." he continued ignoring the glare he received from Sakura. "You will never be a peak condition and will lose energy a lot faster. Making you a liability for the rest of the team. Now if you train like you should, you won't have to worry about gaining any weight because your training will burn off all the calories you take in." 

"So what, I should just give up on pursuing Sasuke-Kun" inquired the cherry blossom with sarcasm. "IF you want to pursue him, go ahead." Naruto shrugged. "But don't endanger yourself doing it." Sakura frowned at this. It sounded like he was concerned for her well-being. This was something new to her. She was used to the constant rejection and apathy from her obsession and even her parents didn't question her choices or try to change her mind. "So what should I do then?" she asked lost. 

"First off ignore rumors. Rumors are hardly ever true." The blonde boy stated. "Secondly, try to get to know him on a personal level. For example Anko-chan and Myself. We know everything about each other. Dreams goals, even some of the odd quirks we have." In a word, Sakura was shocked. She had half expected the blonde boy to tell her to give up together on Sasuke and maybe even pursue him instead. Perhaps that latter part was due to being with Kiba too much since they were friends and she sat near him in class. However, to see just how much he understood about the importance of a strong relationship surprised her. She was shaken out of her thoughts when their orders arrived. 

Thanking Ayame both began to dig into their respective meals. As one thing kept pestering Sakura. Well with a little goading from her inner self. "Naruto" she spoke leaving out her usual insult to his name. "What happened during the bell test? Why did you switch places with me?" Naruto could only sigh, knowing she wasn't going to take this well. "You want the truth?" He asked, seeing her nod her head. "When you were reaching for the bells, Sasuke saw you and went to punch you instead of Kakashi-sensei. I switched myself with you to take the hit so you wouldn't get hurt." 

Sakura was silent as she digested what the blonde boy had told her. Deep inside she knew it was true but she just didn't want to admit it. Maybe it was an accident? Yes, it was an accident. Sasuke-kun would never do that to her. "Maybe it was an accident?" she offered, causing Naruto to raise his eyebrow in response. "Maybe" he relented knowing it wasn't. 'I just hope she wakes up soon about the prick before she gets hurt.' 

On the rooftop, Sarada looked on in disbelief having heard mostly everything. 'My mom was this obsessed with my dad, just she isn't severely hurt if I remember right.' 'Now's My chance' she thought as she noticed Naruto getting up. 

Hokage tower

Throughout the room were all the Jonins that were assigned to this year's new academy graduates, who were giving their report to the Hokage on the new genin's performance. "report" Hiruzen said to the Jonins of teams 1 to 6 who had failed or needed some work. "team 8 passed, but they need work of work said a woman with long black hair and red eyes with purple eyeshadow over them that looked to be around 20.

Her ordinary outfit consists of a red armor mesh blouse with only the right shirt visible, over which he wears a suit that resembles large bandages on which had a pattern that was similar to the thorns of a rose, on his hands and thighs were wrapped with some bandages and he wears his ninja headband and ninja sandals. The woman was Kurenai Yuhi, who was currently the Jonin-sensei of Team 8 and was currently satisfied with her team only a little worried about Hinata's change but she could work on that. 

"Team 9 is still in operation and more youthful them ever." said a man with short black hair and a somewhat exaggerated bowl cut, but what stood out most were the enormous and thick eyebrows he had, his clothing consisted of a jonin vest and full body green spandex underneath it, his ninja band was worn as a belt. This is Maito guy who by saying that whole phase made the other people in the room form a drop of sweat on their heads.

"Team 10 passed they need some work but they show promise as the Future Ino-Shika-Cho," said a man who had a dark complexion, brown eyes, short colored hair, a beard, and long black sideburns, wearing his ninja band on his forehead, his clothing consisted of the standard Konoha jonin uniform, with bandages on his arms below the shoulders and a pair of bracelets on his wrists, he also wore a sash that had the kanji (Symbol) fire engraved on it. The man was Azuma Sarutobi, the current leader of team 10. After finishing giving his report, the man took out and lit a cigarette, which annoyed more than one of those present. 

Everyone turned to Kakashi who just opened the door as he put away his book in his kunai pouch, "Seems like you were surprised." spoke first the Hokage. "Ah yes well there were a few surprises," said Kakashi holding his bandaged arm to surprise everyone present. Since Hatake's strength was famous even if he was caught off guard, it took great skills to hurt or scratch him. "It seems so, Report," Hiruzen said cutting all the thoughts from the rest of the Jonins. 

"Team seven Passes," said Kakashi, earning the surprise of everyone present, since he had failed all the previous genin teams he tested even the Hokage was slightly impressed by this fact. "Please explain," said the old Hokage wanting some context to which the silver-haired man agreed. "As the reports say, Sasuke Uchiha is very promising but he has problems accepting help from others has a huge superiority complex, and is too overconfident, I'm going to have to work on that," said Kakashi while sighing a little. " Sakura is good at creating strategies and is book smart but has trouble putting them into practice her fangirl attitude towards the Uchiha was severely downplayed as well as her dieting and her strength and stamina are bad. I'll have to change that." 

"Finally Naruto"When Kakashi said those words he caught everyone's attention "he's the most impressive out of the team, to say the least, not only could he keep up with me he also managed to injure me slightly the only thing he lacks is combat experience." These words surprised the jonin as they could not believe how the kyuibi's Jinchuriki could achieve such a thing. "The academy reports you gave me are incorrect, Naruto Used that to his advantage." "Kakashi" hiruzens words brought everyone out of their thoughts "Naruto Used that", said the Sarutobi causing everyone to tense slightly as they understood what their leader was referring to. "No, Hokage-sama, Naruto didn't use that, He more simply used Taijutsu style I'm guessing he made as I can still see mistakes he did or is in the process of creating." Said Kakashi what no one noticed was his slight anger. 

"WOW that's impressive, that young man's flames sound very youthful!!" Shouted Gai while having a huge smile on his face, since being a taijutsu specialist and hearing the silver-haired man say that his curiosity was piqued. "Hey Kakashi, do you think I could train him?" asked the man with expenders. But at that, Kakashi soon turned his gaze to see him somewhat confused. "Sorry, Gai did you say something." said Kakashi making Gai scream "Damn you and your hip and cool attitude." 

"enough," said Hiruzen silencing everyone present and staring at the Silver-haired man "Continue Kakashi" Demanded the leader of the lead to which the aforementioned nodded. "The teamwork of the entire group is acceptable at best," Kakashi said " Since when both Naruto and Saksi attacked me simultaneously, the latter seemed to be reacting to working as a team," said the Hatake earning curious glances from both the Hokage and his fellow jonins. "Since when they were distracting me, Sakura took advantage to try and get the bells, but then Naruto had to replace him receiving a blonde that Sasuke had thrown and was gained at Sakura," said the silver-haired sensei. Causing everyone's eyes to widen at the statement. 

This caused some of those present to groan at the Uchiha's actions for doing such a treacherous act, but before anyone could say anything the Hokage spoke again. "Well that's interesting," said Hiruzen keeping his own displeasure at the actions of the Uchiha.

With Naruto

After leaving the ramen he suddenly felt a presence appear behind him on a rooftop making him anxious as he hadn't felt anything and her presence not only matched Sasuke's and Sakuras but also Suki-chan and Mikito-chan. As he walked the presence followed him something that he noticed and slightly started guiding the figure to a dead end. When the figure didn't see him in the dead end she turned on her Sharingan only to feel a chill behind her spin when she saw golden chains wrapping her arms and legs as they banished into his shadow these made the figure's eyes widen. "I-impossible H-how do you have the Adimantium chains I thought only a few full-blooded Uzumaki's could materialize them like your mother and what's this place." asked her confusion increasing as she looked at Naruto. "This is my shadow world and you are going to answer some questions I have. How do you know of my mother's abilities? Who are you? Why do you have the same chakra signature as Mikoto-chan Suki-chan and Sasuke-teme?" he asked making the girl tense. "How did you know I have their chakra signatures you aren't a sensor type until later and even then you have to use Senjutsu?" asked Sarada seeing the clear difference between their Leader and this one. "Until later?" asked Naruto his gaze hardening. "Seems like a time travel jutsu," said Kurama yawning. "What I thought was impossible without intense Fuijutsu and Space-time ninjutsu knowledge." thought Naruto "Maybe someone created a space-time ninjutsu that allowed them to do it" said kurama.

calming down naruto nodded. "Are you from the future" he asked only to see the shock and surprise in her face giving him the answer.