Exposure

That second, as he gazed at Mei Terumi's breathtakingly beautiful face, Uchiha Yue even felt that he might have the makings of a lolicon.

However, that flutter of his heart lasted only a second. Uchiha Yue quickly calmed down, and even when he looked at Mei Terumi again, there was no trace of unusual emotion. After he and Mei Terumi finished talking about their dreams, they each went to rest. Just like that, Uchiha Yue successfully buried that one-second flutter of attraction toward Mei Terumi.

And he kept it buried for several years.

Then, the next day, Uchiha Yue first used Medical Ninjutsu to treat his injuries. Only after confirming that he would fully recover within a day did he leave the cave where they had been hiding with Mei Terumi and prepare to continue their journey. After all, there was nowhere absolutely safe within the Land of Wind. Even if the cave they had hidden in earlier had not been exposed, they still needed to change locations to ensure their safety.

Uchiha Yue possessed the Purple Eye, and he could use his powerful spiritual energy to cover both himself and Mei Terumi, preventing Sunagakure's sensory ninja from discovering them. Mei Terumi, as a ninja of Kirigakure, also possessed exceptionally strong concealment abilities to begin with. Thus, when Uchiha Yue and Mei Terumi traveled together, even though Uchiha Yue had to expend extra spiritual energy to conceal Mei Terumi, their pace remained swift.

Still, in an environment like the Land of Wind, no matter how fast they traveled, it could not compare to traveling through the Land of Fire or the Land of Water. The Land of Wind's environment was simply too harsh; it was fundamentally incomparable to resource-rich nations such as the Land of Fire and the Land of