"Uh... you're charging me, too?"
[Ding. Host, do you believe in free lunches?]
"Fine. Even brothers should keep their accounts straight."
Naruto darted through the towering, dense forest and soon left No-Man's Land.
Just then, he picked up twelve faint chakra signatures.
"Someone's here?"
Naruto frowned, landing atop a large tree and turning toward the distant forest.
"This may be the Land of Fire Border, but there aren't any villages nearby. Why would twelve chakra signatures appear here now?"
A moment's thought told Naruto where those four ninja squads had come from.
"Along this stretch of the border, I can't think of anywhere you'd be heading except the Land of Waves."
With that, Naruto vanished into a Space-Time Vortex.
"Whether you're ANBU or Root, if you're going to the Land of Waves to demand answers, you can all die."
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Twelve figures raced through the dense forest, each wearing a Jonin's leather armor and a mask.
"Wait. I think I sensed Chakra Fluctuations."
One of the twelve Jonin, a short-haired masked man, raised a hand.
At his words, all four squads immediately stopped and carefully checked their surroundings.
"Hey, are you sure?"
"This is the Land of Fire Border. People don't usually come here, do they?"
The Sensor Ninja who had detected Chakra Fluctuations formed hand seals and closed his eyes, sensing the chakra around them.
Yet after a careful search, he detected no unfamiliar chakra anywhere nearby.
"Strange. I definitely felt it."
But the moment the Sensor Ninja spoke, a Space-Time Vortex swirled into existence behind him.
Shhk!
A dark gleam flashed past, and the Sensor Ninja died on the spot.
"What?!"
"What is this?"
The remaining eleven Root Jonin dodged as countless yellow paper talismans appeared around them.
But the yellow talismans moved faster,