Madara Uchiha's Hiding Place

Victory should have been worth celebrating, especially such a great victory. Yet not one person present showed even the slightest hint of joy. There was only endless grief.

"Long Ye, he won't die!"

Rin still refused to accept reality. She kept muttering to herself, repeating the same sentence over and over.

Obito's face was streaked with tears, and his body trembled with sobs.

The only eye Kakashi had left was dim and lifeless.

Shisui recalled the year and a half they had spent fighting side by side, risking their lives together. The impact seemed to have struck him hard mentally, and his Sharingan opened unconsciously.

The Three Tomoe in his eyes trembled.

Minato Namikaze arrived last. He was also the only one who did not know exactly what had happened. But after looking at everyone and finding Long Ye nowhere, then glancing at the collapsed cavern, he seemed to have guessed the truth.

"Minato-sensei! Hurry and use a jutsu to save Long Ye! He was buried in the cave, and he must be waiting for us to rescue him!"

When Rin saw Minato Namikaze, she seemed to grasp the last straw, her eyes filled with desperate hope.

Kakashi and Obito said nothing. They knew there was no hope left.

Because from outside, they had no way of determining where the passage inside the cavern wound toward, or where Long Ye had been buried.

Besides, the chasm Long Ye had fallen into was more than ten meters deep.

What kind of ninjutsu could turn the earth upside down?

Although Minato Namikaze knew the chances of finding him were slim, he faced Rin's plea without a word and used Earth Release to search for Long Ye's whereabouts.

The search lasted for an hour.

They turned over every inch of ground within a