The pyramid in the ancient city of Rōran began to shake violently. The space-time distortion caused by the Chibaku Tensei seal closing the portal was spiraling out of control.
"Not good! The Space-Time Channel is about to collapse!" Sara's afterimage cried out anxiously.
Naruto looked up at the increasingly unstable rift. Dangerous black lightning flickered amid its blue glow. "Sasuke, we have to leave now!"
Sasuke's face was grave as he studied the structure of space with his Rinnegan. "It's too late. The space-time coordinates at both ends of the channel are shifting. If we try to cross, we'll be torn apart."
Karin leaned weakly against a stone pillar. "Does that mean we're trapped here?"
Just as the three of them were cornered, Nagato's voice came from the Land of Iron. "Yuki-onna, can you sense where they are?"
Yuki-onna closed her eyes. Her newly acquired Ice Release Kekkei Genkai had merged with the power of the Spring of Life, bringing her perceptive abilities to unprecedented heights. "I've found them! The space-time mark left behind when Naruto sent the spring water is still there!"
She formed hand seals, and ice-blue Chakra burst forth. "Ice Release: Time-Space Freeze!"
A terrifying chill crossed through space, precisely targeting the space-time rift in the ancient city of Rōran. The chaotic flow of energy froze instantly, the black lightning vanished, and the channel stabilized once more.
"Now! Jump!" Naruto scooped up Karin, and he and Sasuke leaped into the rift.
As soon as the three of them made it through, the Space-Time Channel collapsed completely, and the ancient city of Rōran disappeared into the currents of space-time once more.
The Land of Iron, at the ruins.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin tumbled out of the light and hit the ground in a heap.
"Thank goodness! You're