"Damn it!"
After resting for a moment, Naruto looked at Sasuke and Sakura and felt a deep sense of helplessness.
He summoned a Shadow Clone to carry Sasuke, while his real body carried Sakura toward a safer place.
After all, they still had to survive for four more days.
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
"Trash!"
A red-haired boy dressed in Sand Village attire, with a huge gourd on his back, glared viciously at the ninja pinned to the ground by his sand.
"Hey, stop it, Gaara!"
Temari urgently tried to persuade Gaara to stop, while Kankuro could only stand to the side, sweating nervously.
"What right do you have to lecture me?"
Gaara turned to glance at Temari, not showing his sister the slightest respect.
"I..."
Temari raised a hand as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, no words came out.
Seeing her like that, the violence on Gaara's face did not fade, but he ultimately sighed and chose to stop.
"Just this once."
He withdrew the sand and released the ninja. The ninja pulled out his scroll from his pack, handed it over to them, and fled in panic.
Temari let out a sigh of relief, but then a miserable scream rang out from the direction the ninja had fled.
Hearing it, Gaara instantly shot sand from his gourd toward the source of the scream.
But instead of the pained groan Gaara had expected, there came a dull sound of something striking a wall.
"Hm?"
Gaara frowned when the sound he expected did not come.
He crossed his arms, and a rare look of confusion appeared on his murderous face.
Temari and Kankuro realized that their enemy's defense was strong, but after observing Gaara's expression, neither dared to attack rashly.
"Come out!"
Seeing that the other side could