The instant Xuandou received Rin Nohara's telepathic message, he activated Flying Thunder God.
With him came Temari, who had only recently passed out.
The moment he landed, Xuandou saw Rin Nohara crying inconsolably.
"Xuandou! Yunyou is missing!"
Rin's voice shook with sobs as she threw herself at him, clutching his right hand with both hands, tears streaming down her face.
Xuandou's heart tightened.
Uchiha Yunyou.
The child he had had with Rin Nohara had recently become the disciple of Madara Uchiha, the "Uchiha Ancestor," and had been perfectly fine all along.
Besides, Anbu had always accompanied Yunyou whenever he went out over the years. How could something have suddenly happened?
"Rin, don't panic. Tell me what happened first."
"Yunyou can't sit still. Recently, he took another escort mission at the border... to bring a wealthy merchant fleeing the Land of Wind safely back to the village."
"The mission was simple, and Yunyou kept making such a fuss."
"So I agreed."
"But who could have imagined that a massive sandstorm would strike just as he reached the Land of Wind's border, and we would lose all contact with him!"
Xuandou's heart tightened at her words.
The Land of Wind had always been plagued by disasters.
It could be sunny at noon one moment, then turn to night within ten seconds, the entire country becoming a battlefield ravaged by chakra storms.
On top of that, the struggle between Sunagakure's ninja and the Land of Wind's nobles was now raging, with constant clashes between the two sides.
If Yunyou had been unlucky enough to run into any of those... he might well...
"The Land of Wind's sandstorms contain vast amounts of chakra energy. Quite a few Sunagakure ninja die because of them every year."
"But as long as he didn't encounter a front