Chinatsu lay fast asleep in her cozy big bed. She dreamed of nothing at all; her brain had completely shut down. In truth, the people outside no longer needed to keep quiet. In this state, unless someone deliberately touched her skin to wake her, nothing would rouse her.
She had built up far too much stress, so she really would not wake from this sleep for at least two or three days. Kaguya, lying on the sofa outside, was much the same.
Both slept soundly. With Kaguya asleep, Naruto and Sasuke had lost the judge overseeing their statue-making, and their statue grew increasingly abstract until it plunged into the "abyss."
Konan watched from the sidelines, lending a little help as she observed. She could not actually help much-not because she lacked the ability, but because she felt as though she and her crazed companions lived in different worlds.
Once they settled on their plan that morning, Naruto immediately rushed from the Land of Whirlpools to the Land of Earth and asked Iwagakure for a huge stone. But when he saw the stone itself, he propped his chin in one hand and fell silent.
If only raw gemstones came in such enormous sizes. He really wanted to ask Iwagakure for a gemstone as big as the stone before him. Unfortunately, there were none.
"Oh well. This one will have to do."
"..."
The Tsuchikage was speechless, but there was nothing he could do. When Naruto flew over as a streak of golden light, their village had immediately gone on its highest alert. Even an old man like him had thought he would have to put his life on the line today.
Fortunately, Naruto only took a high-quality block of stone. For them, that hardly even counted as a loss.
"Shall we