"Hey, it looks like there's a fire over there."
"Yeah, maybe it's a forest fire caused by an accident."
Kamishiro and his companions arrived at the outskirts of the forest. From afar, they saw that the sky over there was red and filled with smoke.
Many animals were also fleeing from the forest.
Kamishiro quickly caught a rabbit. With a skilled twist of its neck, he hung it on his waist.
He planned to roast the rabbit later to improve their diet. Having Military Rations Pills every day, if they didn't have a change of food once in a while, Kamishiro felt like his blood was just diluted liquid from the pills.
Kakashi frowned as he looked at the map. "We're really unlucky. Beyond the forest is the crossroads. Taking the rightmost path will lead us smoothly to the front - line positions for Transporting Supplies. If we take a detour, it'll be a long way around, and we might be more than a day late."
Obito Uchiha asked, "So what should we do?"
Kamishiro spread his hands. "What else can we do? Take a detour. It's a forest fire! Do we want to go in and roast ourselves?"
Kakashi looked at the sky and made a decision. "Let's cross the forest!"
Kamishiro reached out and touched Kakashi's forehead. "Kakashi, are you out of your mind?"
Kakashi angrily swatted Kamishiro's hand away. "I'm serious. Look at the sky. Due to the forest fire, the air over there is rapidly heating up, creating an upward airflow. The upward airflow then forms cumulonimbus clouds. So the temperature keeps rising, and it should rain soon."
Kamishiro looked at the sky above the forest. Dark Clouds had gathered, and it really did seem like it was going to rain any minute.
Obito Uchiha was completely confused. "Kakashi, where did you learn all these strange things?"
Kakashi put away the map. His tone was casual, but it carried a strong sense of mockery. "Do less silly stuff and read more books."
Obito Uchiha grumbled, "Who's doing silly stuff?"
Kakashi glanced at Kamishiro out of the corner of his eye. "Do I have to tell everyone what you and Kamishiro were talking about?"
Kamishiro first widened his eyes in disbelief, then immediately stood up straight. "Hey, I didn't provoke you. It's none of my business!"
With Kamishiro winking at him, Obito Uchiha realized that Kakashi already knew. He quickly admitted his mistake. "I'm sorry!"
Rin Nohara asked curiously, "What happened?"
Since Obito Uchiha and Kamishiro had shown good attitudes in admitting their mistakes, Kakashi didn't say anything. He just said, "Let's go."
Both Kamishiro and Obito Uchiha let out a sigh of relief.
Kamishiro glared at Obito Uchiha discontentedly. "Hey, did you expose it?"
Obito Uchiha quickly shook his head. "I didn't expose anything!"
Kamishiro tsk - tsked. "Then Kakashi must have eavesdropped on our conversation. How outrageous. We have to be more careful from now on, got it!"
Obito Uchiha nodded again. "Got it!"
These days, Kamishiro has been thinking about his future.
Now, he has nowhere to go except Konoha. So after the war, if Kamishiro doesn't want to be a ninja and do missions, he has to make ryo on his own.
So Kamishiro is thinking about how to make ryo in the future.
He doesn't want to work for others. Opening his own shop and being his own boss is the best option.
What kind of shop should he open?
After a moment of thought, Kamishiro got an inspiration right away. It was both his hobby and something he was good at.
And the source of Kamishiro's inspiration was Jiraiya.
It was Human Puppets.
Human Puppets specifically designed to solve the loneliness problem of single men in the future.
As for the target customers, well, guys like the future old bachelors Kakashi and Iruka.
In terms of ryo, if he asks Jiraiya to invest, Jiraiya will definitely be very interested.
He would first make the business big and strong in Konoha, then gradually expand it to other countries, and finally open Human Puppet chain stores all over the ninja world!
This! Was Kamishiro's ambition!
Since it's still in the planning stage, when resting at night, Kamishiro will occasionally chat with Obito Uchiha and ask him what kind of girls he likes, excluding Rin Nohara, to prepare for making Human Puppets in the future.
However, since Kamishiro was still a bit shy, he felt a little embarrassed and didn't want anyone else to know except Obito Uchiha.
Led by Kakashi, Kamishiro, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara entered the forest.
As Kakashi had predicted, not long after they entered the forest, it started to pour. The heavy rain stopped the forest fire from spreading further, and the flames gradually died out.
However, after Kakashi and the others went deeper into the forest, they all stopped in their tracks.
"Sounds like there's a fight going on?"
"I hear it too. It seems quite intense."
"Could the forest fire have been caused by the guys fighting over there?"
Kamishiro and Obito Uchiha discussed back and forth.
Rin Nohara looked at Kakashi. "Kakashi, the ones fighting here should be ninja from Konoha and the Iwagakure ninjas. Should we go and support them?"
Kakashi frowned tightly. Their mission was Transporting Supplies. They knew nothing about the situation over there. If they got close rashly, they might be in danger.
After considering for a while, Kakashi made up his mind. "Our mission is Transporting Supplies. The mission comes first. We'll bypass the area where they're fighting, quickly deliver the supplies to the front - line positions, and then tell our comrades at the front - line positions to come here for support."
Kamishiro gave Kakashi a thumbs up. "Good call!"
However, before Kamishiro could pull his thumb back, a fireball dropped from the sky and landed not far from the four of them.
After the fireball hit the ground, magma splashed everywhere.
Kamishiro, Kakashi, and Rin Nohara dodged in time, but poor Obito Uchiha was hit. Some magma got on his butt, making him jump around in pain.
It wasn't that Obito Uchiha didn't want to dodge. Kamishiro pulled Obito Uchiha in front of him as his way of dodging, that's why Obito Uchiha got hit.
With one awesome kick, Kamishiro put out the flames that had started on Obito Uchiha's butt because of the magma.
Obito Uchiha covered his butt and rubbed it desperately, complaining, "What's going on? How did a piece of magma fall from the sky?!"
Kakashi looked at the burning magma not far away and said seriously, "This is ninjutsu!"
Kamishiro looked up at the sky and reminded, "Look up at the sky!"
Kakashi, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara all looked up at the sky. There were many red dots.
Obito Uchiha activated his Sharingan to observe and exclaimed in horror, "Those in the sky are fireballs. No! They are magma fireballs just like the one before!"
A lot of magma fireballs were falling from the sky.
Kakashi judged the landing points of these magma balls and said seriously, "No, when these magma balls fall to the ground, it'll be very hard to dodge the splashing magma. Kamishiro!"
Kamishiro immediately understood what Kakashi meant. He made Hand seals and pressed his hands on the ground.
"Magnet Release! Iron Sand Gyro!!"
Kamishiro controlled the underground Iron Sand to rise. Different from last time when it wrapped around Hakuto Ki, this time he created a gyro - shaped Iron Sand that spun around them, blocking the splashing magma when the magma fireballs hit the ground.