Red Nara

- We're coming," his partner announced, and Uchiha Genryu nodded curtly, keeping up his pace.

The patrol team jumped out into the open, followed by two others. When he landed on the fire-scorched ground, he looked around warily and whistled in surprise, not expecting to see a real battlefield in front of him. The activated sharingan easily found traces of all five elemental techniques and residual traces of chakra that had already begun to erode.

When the border guard's staff sensor detected a huge chakra flash from the hinterlands, as one of his senior officers, Genryu quickly organized the nearest patrol teams to check it out, sending a message to the village. And after a few hours of running, he did not expect at all to find a real battlefield quite close to the small town.

- Spread out and search thoroughly," he ordered the Chunins.

It was clear that whoever was encountered here had long since fled or were lying in the ground. While his subordinates were turning over every pebble, the Uchiha tried to reconstruct the picture of what had happened by turning on the dojutsu. The further he went, the less the jonin realized, there wasn't a single lousy senbon, kunai, or shuriken on the battlefield, nor was there any blood at all.

Considering that at least two teams of powerful shinobi had clashed here, maybe more, this was out of all proportion! What, they came in, threw their techniques around, wiped out a huge chunk of the forest, and then peacefully dispersed?! Who would believe that?

- Captain," the chunin jumped up to Henry, holding out two halves of a shattered mask, "this was on the edge of the destruction zone.

A mask?

- Seal it, send it back with a report," the Uchiha ordered, himself heading towards the huge crater where residual chakra traces could still be discerned by the sharingan.

One could not find the yang component of the user, but one could get an idea of the strength.

Whatever technique was used here, it was what the sensor detected even at such a great distance. And just from indirect signs, it appeared that someone at the level of tailed beasts in terms of volume was having fun here. The only thing was that biju chakra always took much longer to disappear from the affected areas, he had a chance to see for himself, but there was nothing like that here. It's clear that nothing is clear.

Grinning, the Uchiha spat and stopped racking his brain. It was up to him to investigate and report, but it was not his problem to let his superiors think and wonder what had happened. And the head of the clan would have a personal report with all the nuances and details.

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