After entering the Land of Rivers, the four of them and their dog had been extremely cautious, keeping away from populated areas as much as possible and avoiding contact with anyone.
At last, they reached the border between the Land of Rivers and the Land of Wind without incident.
Next, they changed their appearance. Each of them put on a sand-yellow cloak to conceal their figures, making them less conspicuous in the Land of Wind, where yellow sand stretched in every direction.
Since Hyuga Shinichi's Byakugan made him stand out too much, he had deliberately wrapped bandages around his eyes and let down his long hair, which he normally wore tied up.
With Ninja Dog Black Charcoal on a leash in his left hand and a wooden stick gripped tightly in his right, at first glance he looked exactly like a blind man.
As for the other three, each carried a backpack filled with all kinds of heat-resistant fruit.
Fruit was an extremely scarce resource in the Land of Wind, after all, and had to be imported from other countries.
So the four of them—Hyuga Shinichi and the others—were posing as fruit sellers who had come from the Land of Rivers to the Land of Wind. Their cover seemed perfectly plausible.
Why had they chosen such a sensitive time to come to the Land of Wind to sell fruit?
In fact, they looked even more like people who had heard the Land of Wind was going to war and had hurried there to make a profit by selling fruit.
After all, fruit could also be considered an important supply.
They had heard this news while still in the Land of Rivers, from the Sound-Stealing Bugs Aburame Tomohiro had sent out.
So they had disguised themselves and set off for the