New Member, New Beginning

Land of Rivers.

Dark clouds blanketed the sky, with muffled thunder rumbling through the thick cloud cover. It seemed as though rain was about to fall.

In a remote village within the Land of Rivers, the atmosphere was entirely different from that of the villages beyond.

A faint layer of dense fog seemed to shroud the village, making its scenery impossible to see clearly.

At that moment, two figures slowly emerged from the distant forest and arrived outside the village.

"Drip... drip..."

As the two gradually set foot on this land, raindrops began falling from the sky.

Gradually, the rain grew heavier.

Before long, a curtain of pattering rain enveloped the village already shrouded in dense fog.

Fine droplets fell upon the two of them, slowly sliding down their red-and-black garments.

Amid the misty moisture, the ominous red clouds on their black cloaks appeared especially striking.

One of them slowly raised his head and looked at the sky covered by heavy black clouds, muttering hoarsely.

"It's already been fifteen years..."

He was massive in build, yet he crawled along the ground in an extremely strange manner. His voice was like the harsh, unsettling scrape of sand and gravel.

Hearing him, the young man beside him with long golden hair glanced at him and mocked him.

"Uncle Sasori, I never thought you'd make such poetic remarks."

As he said this, the eye exposed beneath his bangs narrowed with a light chuckle.

"By your ninja way, a mere fifteen years should have passed in the blink of an eye. Why would someone silently pursuing eternity care about such time?"

Sasori did not get angry at his words. He merely glanced at him and said hoarsely.

"I'm merely... still waiting for a promise..."

After saying that, he shifted his burly body and continued