"All right, all right, stop talking. It looks like they're about to come out. We'd better keep quiet, or they'll hear us. Let's stay as well hidden as we can. If we show ourselves now, it'll all be our fault!" When one of the enemies noticed that Ruri and the others were about to leave the forest, he whispered to the people beside him.
"We're finally out! The air in the forest was pretty scarce! I was practically suffocating. It's much more comfortable out here, isn't it? The air's so fresh! And there's plenty of it!" As Ruri walked out of the forest, he took a deep breath of fresh air, then spoke loudly.
"Ruri, keep your voice down. It won't be good if the enemy hears you! Besides, we don't even know whether there are any enemies here!" Uzuki Yugao walked over to Ruri and whispered to him, though she put a little force into her last sentence.
Clearly, when those enemies had come out ahead of Ruri and the others, Ruri had gone over to the rest of the group and told them what had just happened.
"No way. They definitely wouldn't ambush us here. Besides, it's so open here that they couldn't possibly set up an ambush. If they really were lying in wait here, we'd be able to spot them!" Ruri turned to Uzuki Yugao and said with a smile.
"All right, all right, we'd still better be careful. If we walk into their ambush, we'll be in trouble!" Uzuki Yugao shook her head and said to Ruri.
At that moment, Kakashi walked up to them and said, "All right, we'll rest here for now and sort out our equipment while we're at it. We'll set off again in half an hour!"
As Kakashi spoke, his