"Where could they have gone?"
Carrying the ramen, Sasuke was about to try looking for Naruto and Hinata when Neji suddenly called out beside him.
"Hey, come look at this..."
Neji stood outside Naruto's room, staring inside in shock.
"What hap..."
Sasuke came over too, but before he could finish, the sight before him left him stunned.
In Naruto's tiny room, where everything was visible at a glance, a crack ran from the ceiling down to the windowsill, nearly reaching the bed. It split the room in two, as though something had sliced it open.
Through the crack, Sasuke could even see the rooftop opposite.
Despite the considerable distance, there was a mark on that building's wall too, as though something had grazed it.
Fortunately, no one lived there.
That was another building Sasuke had bought to use as a temporary warehouse.
"Were they attacked?"
"...No, look here."
Neji's Byakugan gave him extraordinary powers of observation. Following the crack, he approached the bed. "Doesn't this slash look like it came from here?"
The slash had been unleashed from a spot just above the bed.
"From this angle, rather than an attack from outside, it looks more like someone used some kind of piercing technique!"
Neji and Sasuke reached the same conclusion. Remembering how Naruto had been carrying Hinata, they both thought of the only possibility—
"Quick! They must have gone to the hospital. Naruto's new technique must have hurt Hinata!"
Meanwhile.
At the Hyuga Clan compound.
Hyuga Hiashi, who had received the news only a short while ago, hurried back to the compound with an anxious expression.
He had been investigating Shisui Uchiha's whereabouts, but upon receiving word that Naruto had brought an unconscious Hinata to the Hyuga Clan, he had immediately rushed back.
Thankfully, Lord Hokage had previously ordered