Sasuke Uchiha had found no clues, and Naruto Uzumaki, who had taken the passage on the left, encountered the same situation.
"What's going on here...?"
Naruto scratched his head as he looked at the empty stone chamber.
Why was there nothing here?
The Jonin who followed him inside carefully scanned the room, then shook his head too.
"It must have been deliberately cleared out. That's why this room is so clean!"
"Keep looking!"
Naruto backed out and continued forward.
Along the rest of the passage, he came across a stone chamber every fifteen or twenty paces. Some were on the left, some on the right, and sometimes there was one on each side, their entrances facing each other.
He checked them one by one.
The chambers had much the same layout, with slight differences in size, but their structures were similar: square, with smooth walls and no decorations or markings.
Perhaps there had once been some, but they had all been thoroughly removed.
In one of the chambers, however, Naruto and the Kirigakure Jonin named Yuan found a small clue.
"This is..."
Naruto reached down and ran his fingers over the dust-covered scratches on the floor.
"There are some on the walls too." Yuan had found similar marks.
"And here..."
The two found quite a few similar marks in this room.
"Marks like these look like they were made by projectile weapons, such as Kunai or Shuriken."
As Ninja, they naturally used Kunai and Shuriken frequently, so both Naruto and Yuan recognized what had caused the scratches at a glance.
But why were there so many scratches from Ninja Tools in this room?
Naruto and Yuan exchanged a glance and said in unison, "This room was used for training!"
That was right. Only that could explain why there were so