Tsk!
Lowering his head slightly and looking at the spot by his toes, Chiba could not help clicking his tongue.
What a pain!
The war was already drawing to a close, and things still were not peaceful?
After clicking his tongue, however, his brow furrowed slightly.
At that moment, four kunai had landed precisely at his toes. If he had not been on guard and stopped in time, they would probably have pierced his feet.
Clearly, the kunai carried both a warning and an intent to injure.
In other words, the kunai raining down from the wall and fired at Chiba were not merely warning him not to proceed. They also carried the intent to wound his feet. Whoever had launched that attack likely did not rule out injuring his feet and restricting his movements; if the strike missed, it would still warn him not to advance.
That meant the village was likely under an order from the Third Hokage: no one was permitted to enter the village, and any suspicious individual was to be attacked directly—but not killed.
Chiba understood exactly when such an order would be issued.
Something had definitely happened in the village, and it was quite serious. No one was allowed out or in. Perhaps the enemy was still within the village and Konoha had yet to capture them, so they had sealed the village to trap the turtle in the jar. At the same time, they were preventing anyone outside from helping that enemy escape, hence the ban on entry.
As for why the warning carried an intent to injure, it was because they wanted to strike first and use the opportunity to capture everyone who arrived afterward. If any of them were accomplices of the enemy within the village, capturing those accomplices would make