On the road to the Land of Water, three men and a woman strode along without a care, looking nothing like ordinary ninja.
"Hey, Sasuke, do you think... we'll find that guy this time?"
Naruto spoke with his eyes half-closed, his pupils turning into vertical slits as he sensed the malice far in the distance.
In his perception, Kirigakure was in utter chaos, black energy permeating every level of the village. It seemed to represent the hostility between its people.
He didn't sense any malice directed at him, though. That didn't prove much; it only meant that, at this particular moment, no one within his perception harbored intense malice toward him.
If the mysterious Masked Man who had appeared during the Night of the Nine-Tails showed up again, he should theoretically register in Naruto's perception.
"Barring any surprises, he should definitely still be controlling the Fourth Mizukage right now. But whether he's already run off, I have no idea."
Sasuke shook his head. Obito seemed a little too cautious.
Both he and Kakashi had left Flying Thunder God marks in the Kamui Dimension, and they had kept an image-recording orb inside year-round to monitor it, but they had never discovered anything.
Instead, Sasuke had filled the Kamui Dimension with all kinds of bizarre things, such as toxins and kikaichū.
He wanted to hit Obito hard, but he had never caught so much as a glimpse of him.
That was very strange.
At any rate, Sasuke couldn't understand why Obito hadn't appeared on the Night of the Uchiha Massacre either. Two years of searching, both openly and in secret, had yielded no trace of him.
Apart from the disturbances in the Land of Water, it was as though he had vanished without a sound.
*Should I really head to the Land