Mirai patted his shoulder. He wanted Kakashi to know that there was much more to life than training.
"Yeah!" Kakashi nodded in reply.
Mirai chuckled softly, but beneath his blue eyes lingered a trace of concern for the soil...
Amid the vast desert stood ancient, magnificent structures. Their existence symbolized the strength and wisdom of a civilization.
The blond boy slowly opened his eyes, revealing clear blue irises.
He looked at the unfamiliar surroundings before him, startled.
"Where... am I?!"
As soon as the young man spoke, his voice ended on a strange note, trembling with emotion...
Looking at this utterly unfamiliar place, disappointment flashed through the blond youth's eyes.
"How did I suddenly end up here?!"
In the final moment before he lost consciousness, he had been swallowed by an enormous surge of energy.
"Damn it, it was all because of that guy!"
He shifted slightly, pain flaring through his neck and back. It was probably from the injuries he had suffered before passing out.
However, as a ninja who had arrived in an unfamiliar environment, he did not panic much. He merely looked around, confirming one thing.
"Could this... be Rōran?"
The young man muttered to himself, surprise in his voice. After all, what he had seen before had only been ruins.
Although he had never been to the place before him, he could see markings on the walls that resembled those he had seen on the ruined walls.
That immediately filled his youthful blue eyes with confusion. He could not understand the current situation, because the surrounding walls appeared completely intact, nothing like the shattered ruins he had seen before.
"Let's go out and take a look..." After thinking for a while, the youth fixed his gaze on a passage not far away.
He could not