"What's wrong, Squad Leader?"
In the forest, Kakashi watched Xia Yan stare into the distance with his brow furrowed and couldn't help asking curiously.
"Some people are coming. They're being pursued, and they're still some distance from us."
Xia Yan spoke calmly, but his expression looked somewhat strange.
He could clearly sense that, among those being pursued, quite a few actually had chakra he recognized!
That meant one thing: the people being pursued were definitely people he knew.
Moreover, this chakra was clearly somewhat different from that of Xia Yan's former classmates. Xia Yan could basically be certain that its owners were most likely members of the Anbu.
What struck him as strange, though, was who would dare pursue Konoha's Anbu within the Land of Fire?
Could this be one of Kakuzu's crime scenes?
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, an exceedingly strange chakra signature entered Xia Yan's sensory range.
This chakra was of extremely high quality. It wasn't Kakuzu's, but it was in no way inferior to his!
A fighter who was most likely Kage level, pursuing a group of Anbu?
Could these guys have drawn the Kazekage here?
No, that wasn't right either. Although Xia Yan had never met the Fourth Kazekage, he was at least human.
This chakra, however, had a very, very unusual feel to it.
That feeling even made Xia Yan think that the owner of this chakra shouldn't be human!
From the time he discovered his sensory ability to its development today, Xia Yan had sensed countless things.
Naturally, he could distinguish the characteristics of human chakra from those of other creatures.
This Kage-level fighter's signs of life were extremely strange. Although he had human characteristics, he seemed far more like a puppet!
A puppet-like person... could it be Chiyo?
Xia Yan thought to himself. The route these