They told us this in school, dobe. If you leave the village without formally retiring it's grounds for execution for the village's own protection.

[He can't seriously be this dumb. He knew Naruto failed the test three times but he can't seriously be this dumb. Sasuke likely wasn't going to stop being pissed off or a while as a result.]

That's why they would have executed me! That I wasn't probably meant that I wasn't seen or I was too strong for them to apprehend, not that the village was letting me live!