The instant he left the land of Rōran completely behind, Tobirama Senju felt everything around him dissolve into chaos. Now, in his perception, nothing but himself was real. Everything else had vanished into nothingness, including Uchiha Izuna beside him.
Uchiha Izuna felt exactly the same.
Tobirama Senju had anticipated this situation, so it stirred no other emotions in him.
Thus, Tobirama Senju began examining his surroundings directly.
He wanted to see whether this leap through spacetime might give him some inspiration for improving his Flying Thunder God Technique.
Everywhere he looked, tiny, transparent things resembling ribbons of light flowed through the expanse, like torn fragments of a river of stars.
Countless threads of pale gold and deep blue light crisscrossed around his machine. Tobirama Senju recognized them as changes produced by the interweaving of Ryūmyaku energy and spacetime barriers. These were precisely the forces their journey through spacetime relied upon.
During the leap, the spacetime leap machine was not stable. Instead, it shook violently throughout the journey, so Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna kept themselves attached to the machine with chakra the entire time.
Every slight jolt of the machine drew out spatial ripples stretching dozens of feet.
Throughout the leap, tiny black fissures could be seen everywhere, silently opening and closing. These were breaches in spacetime, their depths churning with absolute darkness that devoured every particle of light passing by.
The light and shadows throughout the tunnel remained in a constant state of unstable disorder. One second, light flowed brightly; the next, it abruptly dimmed. There was no pattern to the alternation between light and dark.
Tobirama Senju calmly recorded all of this, and the place he recorded it was his own mind.
"How long will we stay like this?"
Eventually, Uchiha Izuna spoke, breaking the silence inside the