Searching for a Valley

Whenever Chisato saw him like this, she could only feel helpless.

Time passed in a hurry. For two consecutive days, Torikaze stayed in the village handling all sorts of trivial matters.

Today, he was finally free. Early in the morning, Torikaze changed into a clean set of clothes and mentioned it to Chisato.

"Are you leaving today?"

Torikaze nodded. "Yeah. I'll probably be back soon. Nothing will happen."

"Alright. Be careful." Chisato spoke with a hint of worry.

Torikaze waved the map in his hand, signaling for Chisato to go back inside.

Then he turned into a mass of clouds and flew into the sky, vanishing from sight.

Chisato looked up at the sky, but Torikaze was already nowhere to be seen.

Though she did not know what Torikaze was going to do, all she could do was wish him success and hope he would return soon.

Then she went back into the house.

Meanwhile, Torikaze was moving steadily through the clouds.

Although he had reached the Six Paths Level and could travel incredibly fast, he had never been to the location marked on the map.

He was afraid that moving too quickly would make him overshoot it.

"The more I look at this map, the stranger it feels. There's actually somewhere in the Land of Fire that I've never been?"

He felt that this map might just be a prank, something the system had made to mess with him.

After all, Torikaze had spent so many years in the Land of Fire that he considered himself thoroughly familiar with it. He had even visited the deepest parts of those dense forests.

The map clearly marked a valley located near Konoha's border.

When he was young, he had often gone to the border to wipe out rogue shinobi. There was