"Oh, it looks like there's a fire over there."
"Yeah, it might be a forest fire caused by some accident."
Shindai and his group arrived at the edge of the forest, and from a distance, they could see the sky over there was red and filled with smoke.
Many animals were also escaping from the forest.
Shindai, quick-eyed and quick-handed, caught a rabbit, expertly twisted its neck, and then hung it at his waist.
He planned to roast the rabbit meat later to improve their meals; constantly eating Military Rations Pills made Shindai feel like his blood was diluted with Military Rations Pills.
Kakashi looked at the map and frowned, "How unlucky. Beyond the forest is a crossroads. Taking the rightmost path would lead us directly to the front-line supply depot. A detour would take us far out of the way, possibly delaying us by more than a day."
Obito asked, "So what do we do?"
Shindai spread his hands, "What else can we do? We have to take a detour. It's a forest fire, are we going in to roast ourselves?"
Kakashi looked at the sky and made a decision, "We're going through the forest!"
Shindai reached out and touched Kakashi's forehead, "Kakashi, you haven't gone crazy from the heat, have you?"
Kakashi unhappily slapped Shindai's hand away, "I'm serious. Look at the sky. The air over there is rapidly heating up due to the forest fire, creating rising air currents. These rising currents then form cumulonimbus clouds, so the temperature will continue to rise, and it should rain very soon."
Shindai looked up at the sky above the forest. Dark clouds had already gathered, and it really looked like it was about to rain.
Obito was utterly confused, "Kakashi, where do you learn so many strange things?"
Kakashi put away the map, his tone seemingly light, but it carried a strong sense of sarcasm, "You'd know if you did less pointless things and read more books."
Obito retorted unhappily, "Who's doing pointless things?"
Kakashi glanced sideways at Shindai, "Do I have to reveal what you and Shindai were talking about?"
Shindai's expression was first one of disbelief, then he immediately stood ramrod straight, "Hey, I didn't provoke you, it has nothing to do with me!"
Under Shindai's winks and gestures, Obito also realized that Kakashi knew, and he decisively caved, "I was wrong!"
Rin Nohara asked curiously, "What was it about?"
Since Obito and Shindai had a good attitude about admitting their mistake, Kakashi didn't say anything, only stating, "Let's go."
Shindai and Obito simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.
Shindai glared at Obito in dissatisfaction, "Hey, did you expose it?"
Obito immediately shook his head, "I didn't expose it!"
Shindai 'tsk'ed, "Then Kakashi must have eavesdropped on our conversation. That's too much. We need to be more careful in the future, understand?!"
Obito nodded again, "Understood!"
These days, Shindai was thinking about his future.
Now he had nowhere to go except Konoha, so after the war, if Shindai didn't want to be a Ninja doing missions, he would have to earn money himself.
So Shindai was pondering how to make money in the future.
Shindai didn't want to work for others, so opening his own shop and being a boss was the best option.
What kind of shop?
After thinking for a while, Shindai immediately had an idea that combined his interests with something he was good at.
And Shindai's inspiration came from Jiraiya.
It was puppets.
Adult puppets specifically designed to solve the loneliness of future single men.
The target customers would be future bachelors like Kakashi, Iruka, and those guys.
As for funding, if he asked Jiraiya for investment, Jiraiya would definitely be very interested.
First, he'd make it big and strong in Konoha, then slowly expand the business to other countries, and finally open adult puppet chain stores all over the Ninja World!
This! This was Shindai's ambition!
Because it was still in the conceptual stage, Shindai would occasionally talk to Obito during their evening rests, asking Obito, excluding Rin Nohara, what kind of girls he liked, to prepare for making adult puppets in the future.
However, because Shindai was still quite thin-skinned, he felt a bit shy and didn't want anyone else to know besides Obito.
Under Kakashi's lead, Shindai, Obito, and Rin Nohara still entered the forest.
Just as Kakashi predicted, not long after Shindai and the others entered the forest, a torrential rain began, stopping the forest fire from spreading further and causing the flames to diminish.
However, after Kakashi and the others went deeper into the forest, they all stopped in unison.
"How come I hear fighting?"
"I hear it too, it sounds quite intense."
"Could this forest fire have been caused by the guys fighting over there?"
Shindai and Obito discussed back and forth.
Rin Nohara looked at Kakashi, "Kakashi, the ones fighting here should be our Konoha Ninja and the Rock Ninja. Should we go support them?"
Kakashi frowned deeply. Their mission was to transport supplies. The situation over there was completely unknown, and approaching rashly could be very dangerous.
After thinking for a while, Kakashi decided, "Our mission is to transport supplies. The mission takes priority. We'll bypass their fighting area, quickly deliver the supplies to the front-line depot, and then tell our comrades at the front-line depot to come here for support."
Shindai gave Kakashi a thumbs up, "Good decision!"
However, before Shindai could retract his thumb, a fireball fell from the sky and landed not far from the four of them.
After the fireball hit the ground, lava splattered everywhere.
Shindai, Kakashi, and Rin Nohara all dodged in time, but Obito was unlucky; some lava splattered on his butt, making him jump up and down from the heat.
It wasn't that Obito didn't want to dodge, but Shindai's way of dodging involved pulling Obito in front of him, which led to Obito getting caught.
Shindai's 'Divine Kick' directly extinguished the flames on Obito's butt caused by the lava.
Obito clutched his butt, rubbing it frantically, and complained, "What's going on? How did a piece of lava fall from the sky?!"
Kakashi looked at the burning lava not far away and said gravely, "This is Ninjutsu!"
Shindai looked up at the sky and warned, "Look up!"
Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara all looked up at the sky. There were many small red dots.
Obito activated his Sharingan to observe and exclaimed in horror, "Those are fireballs in the sky! No! They're lava fireballs just like the one before!"
A large number of lava fireballs were falling from the sky.
Kakashi judged the landing points of these lava balls and said seriously, "No, these lava balls falling to the ground and splattering lava are hard to dodge. Shindai!"
Shindai immediately understood Kakashi's meaning, formed hand seals, and pressed his hands on the ground.
"Magnet Release! Sand Iron Top!"
Shindai controlled the Sand Iron from underground to rise. Unlike the previous Sand Iron Top that wrapped around Hakuto Ju and spun, this time Shindai created a top-like Sand Iron that rotated in a circular motion around them, blocking the lava splattering from the lava fireballs hitting the ground.
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