Everyone's Progress

"Forget it." Seeing that he wouldn't get any answers, Sasuke simply wrote his name on the scroll.

"Do you know what Neji's been doing lately?" Sasuke asked Ju Huo.

"No." Ju Huo shook its head. "Neji's in the Land of Waves right now. I don't know what he's up to, but he's doing pretty well."

Ju Huo knew Sasuke was someone Neji trusted, which was why it told him where Neji was.

"The Land of Waves? Isn't that a tiny country?" Sasuke couldn't imagine what Neji was doing there.

Meanwhile, Neji had spent these past few days studying the Four Symbols Seal.

Learning the Four Symbols Seal was considerably harder than Neji had expected. A few days of practice hadn't even been enough to get him started.

Neji thought his current situation was rather nice. He could arrange his time freely and do whatever he wanted. He reveled in days like these.

Day after day passed, and before he knew it, Neji had spent a month in the Land of Waves.

A month had passed, but the laboratory Neji had asked Gato to build was still under intensive construction.

Over that month, Neji had finally learned the Four Symbols Seal and replaced the Five Elements Seal on his body with it.

No wars had broken out in the shinobi world during that month. There had only been minor friction between nations, with each side trading verbal jabs.

Konoha had essentially given up searching the Land of Water for the delegation that had visited the Kaguya Clan.

Konoha's Anbu and Kirigakure's Anbu had searched the Land of Water for a month without finding so much as a trace.

As far as they could tell, those members of the Hyuga Clan had simply vanished into thin air.

Over this matter, Hiruzen Sarutobi,