Dragon and rider streaked through the sky above Sunagakure.
Smaug spread his enormous wings high overhead, his dark-gold scales gleaming fiercely in the afternoon sun.
He hovered briefly at the edge of the clouds, his slit-pupiled eyes looking down at the village surrounded by windblown sand.
Yongye stood at the center of the dragon's back. The perception granted by Clear Sword Heart spread out like a tide, sweeping through Sunagakure's streets, earthen walls, and rooftops. It pierced gaps in the packed earth and sandstone, tracing the faintest fluctuations of Chakra.
He soon found his target.
The One-Tail Jinchuriki's Chakra came from the western side of the village. Heavy and murky, it differed from everyone else's—vast, turbid, and dark, like a swamp sealed beneath a thin shell.
Yongye raised his hands and formed Hand Seals. Dustless Bewildering Cover!
As the technique took hold, a thin, transparent film seemed to envelop him from head to toe. It concealed his presence, his Chakra, even the slightest disturbance in the air around his body, leaving him invisible.
Yongye leaped from Smaug's back and descended soundlessly.
Smaug briefly folded his wings, then spread them again and climbed back into the clouds, circling as he waited.
Yongye slipped through the air and crossed the Chakra Barrier without a sound.
His soles touched lightly down on an earthen wall on Sunagakure's western side. He pushed off with his toes, glided to the next rooftop, and landed silently behind Gaara.
Dustless Bewildering Cover blended his form and presence completely into the sand-laden wind and shifting light.
No one knew an uninvited guest had entered Sunagakure. Everyone went on with their day.
A stone flew from the alley to the left, accompanied by a chorus of gleeful jeers.
"Stone him to death!"
"Kill that monster!"
"Hahaha, I hit him!"