As soon as the sandstorm ended, Naruto hurriedly wanted to run outside the cave.
"Wait a minute, Naruto."
Kakashi stopped where he was. The hawk that had been circling the edge of the sandstorm landed in front of him.
"What is it, Kakashi-sensei?"
Naruto was anxious to get going, but Kakashi stopped him again, so he just pouted and looked at Kakashi.
"What's with that hawk?"
Temari had obviously noticed something strange too, and looked to Kakashi beside her.
Their Sunagakure Village did use hawks to send messages, but their location was constantly changing.
For it to find them so accurately seemed a little weird.
And judging by the way the letter was attached to the hawk, it didn't seem like it was from the Sunagakure government.
Kakashi took the letter off the hawk. He didn't even use Chakra to hide anything. The writing was just there, out in the open.
Open to read.
The sender was obviously very confident and didn't think the letter would be intercepted by someone with bad intentions.
"At a time like this, who would send such a careless letter?"
Kakashi couldn't help muttering. Then he quickly scanned the contents of the letter. His face fell slightly.
It wrote the location of the kidnapped Gaara.
The letter had no signature, but Kakashi knew the flamboyant handwriting all too well.
It was a message from Hatake Satoru to him.
"Who's the message from?"
Naruto, Sakura, and Temari weren't familiar with Hatake Satoru to that extent. When they saw the message, their expressions all became a little serious.
"What is it, Kakashi-sensei? Is this a message to confuse us?"
"Yeah, a letter like this at this time seems suspicious."
"Who could find us so accurately in the sandstorm?"
Kakashi scratched his head, a little troubled, and quickly made a new plan in his head.
"This letter is definitely not a problem. There's no time to explain now; we'll talk about it later. We need to change our plan."
"Temari, you take Sakura to Sunagakure Village to treat the wounded."
"Naruto, you come with me, we're going back."
Naruto was stunned for a moment and blinked his eyes in confusion. He pointed to Sakura and then to himself.
"Why, Kakashi-sensei? Didn't we just get here?"
Kakashi frowned slightly and confirmed the information in the letter.
"They've already left with Gaara. Now we need to go directly to Gaara's current location."
"Take this address back to Sunagakure and have them send reinforcements."
Sunagakure wasn't far from here, so Temari and Sakura should be able to get the message to them in time.
Kakashi quickly stuffed the address into Temari's hand and dragged Naruto off in another direction.
Temari looked at the letter in her hand, a little hesitant, and then quickly ran back to Sunagakure Village with Sakura.
"Who sent that letter? At this time, information like this seems like a trap deliberately set for us. Isn't that strange?"
"Shouldn't you be more suspicious, Kakashi-sensei?"
Naruto asked as he ran quickly alongside Kakashi.
"Although it does seem like a trap, I don't need to suspect my brother."
"Besides, only he could do something so reckless."
In this situation, writing such important information directly without using Chakra to create a code.
That would be Hatake Satoru for you.
But it wasn't that Hatake Satoru didn't want to use a code, but that he didn't have Chakra.
And the hawk flew straight to Kakashi, obviously just looking for him.
If it was given to someone other than Kakashi, they probably wouldn't be able to tell who sent it just by the handwriting.
Kakashi sighed quietly.
He was a little worried about Hatake Satoru. Although his brother's strength was unfathomable, this time they were up against members of the Akatsuki organization.
Each member of the Akatsuki organization had the power to destroy a small country.
Hatake Satoru must be rushing in there alone again. Was that guy really going to be okay?
…
The nine pale blue dragons that came out of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path quickly wrapped around Gaara.
The nine intertwined pale blue gases wrapped around Gaara, and red Chakra kept coming out of his mouth, devoured by the big mouth of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
"The enemies are getting closer to our base."
"Seems like two separate groups of people."
Zetsu, who was in charge of monitoring the situation outside in his plant-like form, suddenly said.
"Uzumaki Naruto and Hatake Kakashi are closer."
"Former Mizukage Hozuki Mangetsu and a Konoha ninja of unknown strength are further away."
These names sounded familiar. He didn't expect to attract the attention of the former Mizukage.
Hozuki Mangetsu had disappeared without a trace since the new Mizukage took office.
Out of the four people, three of them weren't easy to deal with.
That Konoha ninja of unknown strength probably wasn't going to be a pushover either.
Their goals all seemed to be here.
The situation was a little delicate, they chased after them so quickly.
It seemed like Sasori and Deidara had left some clues he hadn't noticed, which led the pursuers to catch up so quickly.
"So noisy, Deidara."
Pain glanced at Deidara. One group of pursuers wasn't enough, they had to get two.
"No, this Jinchuriki is just a little harder to deal with than the last one."
Deidara protested awkwardly, since he was beaten pretty badly.
Sasori watched the show from the side like it was no big deal.
"That's why I told you before that your ninjutsu isn't suitable for stealth attacks."
"Attracting so many powerful pursuers so quickly, as expected of you, Deidara."
Sasuke was always being provoked by Deidara because of his Sharingan, and he took the opportunity to fight back this time.
"Weren't the traps you set up, Sasori, pretty exaggerated too?"
"Don't talk to me, Sharingan brat..."
"Don't start fighting amongst ourselves. We need to focus on the jutsu."
Pain stopped the argument between the people in time.
"Let's use that jutsu."
Most of them are just shadows now, they can only use the Shapeshifting Technique to stop the enemies.
The Shapeshifting Technique used 30% of the main body's Chakra. Having to maintain the sealing jutsu and use 30% of your Chakra at the same time.
It would be a burden on everyone except Kisame.
"Kisame, you go and intercept Hozuki Mangetsu and his company. Sasuke, Itachi, you two deal with Kakashi's people."
As soon as Pain finished speaking, a muffled complaint suddenly came from outside the boulder.
"Eh~ Is there no one here to deal with me?"
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