After their serious discussion about peace, the three had slept on floor bedding in Hui's small room the night before. Naruto actually had terrible sleeping habits, but he had been unusually well-behaved last night.
Although both of them had felt uneasy, especially Sasuke, seeing that Hui still seemed perfectly normal, they gradually relaxed.
While Konoha was still dealing with the elders' problems, the Uchiha had also arrived somewhere entirely new.
Early that morning, Chuanhe brought Hui and the other two to the Uchiha's new clan grounds, then vanished without a trace.
On a distant island, the morning mist had yet to fully disperse, and the sea gleamed silver-gray.
A few scattered crooked trees along the shore swayed lightly in the breeze, while the sound of waves gently lapping against the coast drifted over from afar.
The scenery was completely different from Konoha, and completely different from that small town.
Hui quietly watched it all. He had experienced too much lately, so he was not looking at this unknown place with the excitement of an ordinary child.
Uchiha children generally matured early, and Hui seemed to be no exception.
This island was not marked on any ordinary shinobi world map. It lay in the sea farther northeast of the waters between the Lands of Lightning and Water.
Hui found it rather incredible. How had Chuanhe managed to locate this place so precisely? Even with Hui's Four-Dimensional Perception, finding such an inconspicuous little island on the open sea would have taken an astronomical amount of time.
"Oh! So this is the ocean? I've never seen it before. Hui, Sasuke, let's go catch some fish!" Naruto looked extremely excited beside them.
Having lived in Konoha all his life, he had never been anywhere like this.
Sasuke, beside him, said something rather familiar. "Idiot