Then it was time to consider how he could join Kakashi's team!
The wind roared past his ears. Amid the faint whitening sky in the east, Chiba raced across the vast grassland. As waves of grass rolled around him, he became a grass-green blur. In the blink of an eye, he covered dozens more meters, and the boundary between the grassland and the forest was already faintly visible.
Before long, he would plunge into the forest. At his speed, entering from this point, he would emerge diagonally from the woods in no more than ten minutes. Once he was out, he would reach one of the Konoha Army's forward outposts.
As someone who had participated in wartime decision-making and effectively served as a strategist, Chiba knew the frontline deployment quite well. Moreover, this outpost stood at a crucial junction. Even if Konoha's formation changed, this outpost would not.
That was one reason Chiba had chosen this direction. Although he understood Konoha's deployment, the battlefield changed by the moment. Some camps were relocated according to the time and situation, and he had been out of contact with frontline reports for a while. If he chose another camp, he might find that it had been moved and come up empty-handed.
Thus, although this supposedly unchanging camp required a slight detour compared to another one, it was the safer choice.
Besides, the village still did not know whether he was alive or dead. Hirohiko and Yukina might do something extreme, such as desperately searching for him on the battlefield. That would be extremely dangerous. Letting the village know he was alive as soon as possible would help the two calm down sooner and prevent anything dangerous from happening.
And perhaps he might even run into Hirohiko and Yukina at this outpost. They had