April 5th, noon.
The Uchiha-Akimichi joint squad had traveled through the night before deciding to rest in place for eight hours, then continue traveling under the stars and rest during the day. It would be more covert and faster that way.
"The four squads will take turns handling sentry duty—" Akimichi paused before adding, "The pace of travel is intense, so us Jonin will shoulder more of it."
The reason for this was—
The original plan had been to launch the surprise attack in four and a half days, with the squad arriving no later than four days from now. But the three Uchiha Jonin had insisted on cutting it down to three days!
Although the time of the attack was fixed, they said this would give them more time to prepare—
The facts proved that the Uchiha Clan weren't the sort to "always push everyone to travel themselves to exhaustion when they were captain," but rather the sort to "manage upward and push the captain to travel everyone to exhaustion even when they weren't captain."
And when ordinary Uchiha weren't captain, if their attempts at managing upward failed, they would start sulking. If they were not handled carefully, the entire squad would fall apart.
Fortunately, when faced with this situation, Akimichi compromised with these Uchiha while fondly remembering the gentle Kagami—
But the price was that Torifu Akimichi and the other two Akimichi were visibly exhausted!
After all, the Akimichi Clan was not good at maintaining high-speed travel over long periods. Although the clan possessed secret techniques that rapidly burned fat in exchange for bursts of chakra, they could not use those techniques while traveling. The fat that normally stored chakra would instead become a burden at times like this.
Torifu Akimichi was strong enough that he was still