Knock! Knock!
Ino knocked on the door, an uneasy look on her face.
Click.
The door opened.
But... Ino didn't see anyone.
The room was pitch-black, like a demonic lair in hell.
Gulp...
Ino swallowed again and slowly walked inside.
"Is anyone there?"
As Ino entered the room,
the door slammed shut.
Click.
The lock engaged.
Ino immediately turned around and tried to unlock it.
But the mechanism seemed to be broken. No matter what she did, she couldn't open it.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She pounded on the door, wanting to get out.
"Uh..."
Yet she heard a sound from inside.
That voice... sounded somewhat familiar.
Following the sound, Ino groped her way through the darkness.
Soon, she found a figure in the dining room.
"Tenten?!"
The instant Ino saw Tenten, the lights came on.
Under the illumination,
Tenten's figure appeared.
"I-I can't eat anymore..."
Tenten's unconscious muttering made Ino turn pale with shock.
What kind of hell have I stumbled into?
"Yaaah~~~~!"
Ino let out a scream.
But it had no effect.
The lights suddenly dimmed.
Darkness descended upon the room once more.
Tenten's voice vanished along with them. No... it would be more accurate to say that Tenten herself had disappeared.
White Zetsu hoisted Tenten onto his shoulder and carried her away, heading in the direction of Konoha.
To Ino, this was no different from witnessing a person vanish into thin air.
It was utterly terrifying.
Trapped in the darkness, Ino groped around.
She began to lose her way in her panic.
Although she was a ninja, she had never experienced a real battle.
After all, this was a very peaceful world.
It was peaceful enough that even a delicate, soft-spoken girl like her could become a ninja.
As her fear deepened, Ino knocked over some vases and