Damn it!
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
It has to make it in time!
Wind howled past his ears as emerald light flowed rapidly and irregularly through his eyes. Chiba streaked through the vast bamboo forest at his absolute limit. With each step, his body dipped slightly, and he landed several meters away. In just a few seconds, he crossed more than ten meters.
To any onlooker, he would probably have appeared as nothing more than a faint black shadow flashing past, followed by roaring wind that whipped up the air and blew his hair back.
Faster! A little faster! Please let it be here—the primeval forest has to be in this direction, not where the Shadow Clone Jutsu and Water Clone are!
Yet even at such extreme speed, Chiba's heart was filled with nothing but anxiety.
Chiba knew very well that if it was on the Shadow Clone Jutsu's or Water Clone's side, then his journey here would have been for nothing. Even if he used the memories returned when one of them dispelled to map out the shortest direct route, he would still waste a considerable amount of time.
By the time he discovered that Rin had been kidnapped and the moment of fate had already occurred, three to five minutes had passed since Rin's abduction and Obito and Kakashi had set off toward each other. He did not know how much time remained before Obito reached the place where Iwa was interrogating Rin for information. If Obito and Kakashi arrived before him and attempted a rescue, then the ending would be set in stone.
After all, Obito and Kakashi's coordinated killing of the camouflage-cloaked ninja had happened as soon as Obito arrived, with at most a few dozen seconds in between. After that, Kakashi would spend