Kurama, I'm Here to Play With You!

Sasuke looked at the smile on Menma's face and faintly felt something was a little—

Ill-intentioned?

Menma raised both hands again.

The index and middle fingers of his right hand came together like a sword finger and lightly touched the center of his own forehead.

His left hand extended straight forward, five fingers spread, his palm aimed respectively at Naruto sitting on the ground and Sasuke standing beside him.

"Same as before. Relax. Don't resist."

Familiar words. A familiar posture.

The next moment, Sasuke and Naruto once again felt space being twisted and wrung by an invisible giant hand, along with an intense sensation of weightlessness and dislocation!

This "journey" seemed just a tiny bit longer than the previous one from Minato's house to the laboratory.

When all the twisting and discomfort vanished in an instant, a scorching heat completely different from the laboratory's temperature-controlled environment, along with a salty, fishy gale, slammed into their faces like a massive wave!

"Whoa!"

Naruto was staggered by the sudden gale and the drastic change in environment, nearly falling over before hurriedly steadying himself.

Sasuke also narrowed his eyes on instinct and raised a hand in front of his face, resisting the blast of moisture-laden wind rushing at him.

They focused their eyes, and the sight before them once again left them shocked, their mouths hanging open!

At this moment, they were standing on the edge of a gray-black coast covered in jagged rocks!

Beneath their feet was hard, rough stone. Behind them lay an endless vast desert gleaming with blinding golden light, yellow sand rolling as heat waves twisted the air.

And before them was a boundless sea, a blue so deep and beautiful it stole the breath away!

The blue seawater surged violently, rolling up white waves several meters high. Wave