I was wrong!
It wasn't that there had been no movement!
It was just... that I happened to arrive at that moment!
I had arrived at the exact moment Obito and Kakashi wounded the Iwa shinobi named Higure and went to undo Rin's genjutsu! No wonder I hadn't heard anything. Obito and Kakashi must have stopped moving just now, while Higure had been playing dead. Naturally, neither side made any noise!
At that moment, as he watched the white dust rise up, understanding and clarity flashed through Chiba's ecstatic eyes and across his tense face! Then!
Next...
Then, the instant that thought passed through his mind, the tense look of realization on his face and the gleam of wild joy in his eyes abruptly vanished. A stern expression of intense concentration gradually covered every trace of emotion.
Crack!
At that moment, as the dust rose, a crack split open in the seams between the stones that had originally fused together.
Crack crack crack crack crack!
Then, as if it were some kind of signal, the seams between the fused stones cracked open one after another, rapidly spreading outward from the stone at the very center of the cave ceiling! Tap!
At that very moment, just as the cracks spread, a figure suddenly shot backward out of the relatively narrow cave entrance. He was incredibly fast; in a flash, he had landed on the ground in a half-crouch.
Puff...
The instant he landed, a cloud of dust suddenly burst from the cave entrance. As if pursuing the figure, it spread sharply to both sides the moment it rushed out, scattering past the left and right sides of the young-looking Iwa shinobi, who wore an Iwa forehead protector and had slightly fluffy, disheveled hair as he raised his head slightly to look