"Killing intent, but no malice."
Gazing calmly into the depths of the mist, Naruto rubbed his chin. In his perception, the other party's killing intent was strong, and so was his hostility, yet toward Naruto specifically, there was none of that so-called "malice."
"Huh? No malice?" Sakura had been bracing herself for a formidable enemy, but Naruto's words made her whip her head around, utterly bewildered.
She knew this teammate of hers had powerful sensory abilities. He could detect malice from a great distance, especially after he and Sasuke entered a certain state, when their perception seemed capable of covering the entire Land of Fire.
But why would there be no malice? Even she could feel that killing intent.
Sakura couldn't make heads or tails of it.
"If there's no malice, why are we still going to fight them?"
"It's not hard to understand. We're simply on different sides, with no personal grudges between us. If anything, that shows the other party has an extremely high level of professional discipline as a shinobi."
Sasuke shrugged, scarlet light flickering in his eyes. He could see the figures in the mist perfectly clearly.
Originally, his Sharingan had been at the stage of seeing mountains as mountains-the classic scarlet interface. After adding the Purple Demon Eye, his eyes had shone purple for a while, reaching the stage of seeing mountains as no longer mountains.
Now they displayed the classic scarlet interface again, but he had reached the realm of seeing mountains as mountains once more.
A return to simplicity and truth, essentially.
Still, Sasuke sometimes wondered whether his eyes would start glowing purple again once he awakened the Rinnegan.
"With killing intent of this level, yet none of that so-called malice, there should only be one person from Kirigakure who could show up