Smack!
Pants and clothes covered in muddy water, stains, and clumps of dirt crashed heavily onto the wooden floor that served as the office, infirmary, and Hokage Assistant's living quarters. Amid the dull thud, a small amount of muddy water splashed out and slowly seeped into the cracks between the floorboards.
Sigh...
Really, when it rains, it pours! Chiba wiped the rainwater from his face, glanced back at the torrential rain outside, and silently sighed.
Last night, as he listened to the pattering rain gradually subside, Chiba had slept quite soundly. But when he woke that morning, he had been startled. He had originally thought the rain would stop by daylight and would not interfere with the day's work. Even if there were a light drizzle, it would not matter.
They were ninja, after all. They possessed the miraculous power of Chakra. Under certain circumstances where ordinary people would have no choice but to stop working, they saw no reason to halt their work.
Originally, he had not thought much of it.
But when he woke early that morning, the sound of rain was like a roaring flood. Visibility was less than a meter. This was no longer a curtain of rain, but a wall of rain.
And by the time he woke up, because the terrain of this primeval forest was low in the west and high in the east, two small rivers had already formed around the camp. The water level had nearly risen over the lowest layer of the log walls—reaching the height of the diameter of a log thick enough for three people to wrap their arms around.
Fortunately, the camp was shaped like an irregular triangle, with one pointed corner facing the higher eastern side of the forest, splitting the flow of water. Otherwise, the