The memories of those days when meteorites were raining down on the Earth and it really felt like the last days of their existence were still fresh in Shino’s mind. Most of the village had been repaired by now, but if you took one step outside the village, you’d see the leftover scars from that time still remaining. No matter how many months or years passed, you still wouldn’t be able to perfectly restore all the trees that had been moved down by the meteors, or the meteor craters left behind.
Shinobi had gathered to protect the village from the meteors raining down on them, and in the midst of this a team had been assembled to rescue Hanabi, who had been kidnapped by the mastermind behind the occurrence.
It was a team assembled to find the hideout of the mastermind as well as rescue Hanabi.
A mission like that was Kiba’s specialty, since he was a ninja dog user with his own keen sense of smell. He’d been brimming with confidence, saying how likely it was that he’d be picked due to his connection to Hinata via Team Eight.
But, Kiba’s name hadn’t been on the list of those selected for the mission.
Kiba had become incredibly depressed about that matter.
“What aren’t I on it…? If it was me, I could find where Hanabi was straight away…I could definitely help out…I really wanted to find the creep’s hideout and whoop his ass with my new jutsu…I wanted to help stop the moon from falling…”
Even now, Shino could clearly remember Kiba’s endless grumbling about the subject.