Sasuke was getting impatient. They were late. He sensed the area to see if he could pick up any chakra signatures, but he wasn't sensing any. He started to wonder if something had happened to the two of them while they were on their ways.

"You're late" he said with an annoyed voice the moment he sensed their arrival.

"That's on me, I'm afraid. I wanted to make sure we weren't being followed so I asked Himawari to make a thorough scan of the environment first. We ran into some trouble on the way here and we both have a bit of an awry feeling about it."

Sasuke wasn't surprised by this news. He too had seen signs that whoever this apparent Ôtsutsuki person was, he or she wasn't working alone. Suddenly Himawari softly touched his arm, but before Sasuke even had the time to shot her a questioning look, she started explaining.

"Its my mark for the Flying Rajin jutsu. That way, I can reach u in an instant, should you get in trouble or injured. While scanning the area with my Byakugan, I found a well-hidden spot, that Shikadai and I decided to use as a base for as long as were on this mission and I left one of my kunai there. If one of us gets injured or we're about to be overwhelmed by enemy forces, I can teleport us there from almost any location. I'm not sure if this jutsu works over different dimensions tho, so be prepared to have a back-up plan ready, just in case."

Sasuke was surprised. He knew from Naruto that Himawari had been training excessively ever since the rescuemission after the Isshiki incident, but he had no idea she had been able to master the fourth Hokage's jutsu in this short amount of time. Boruto had tried once, but he had failed miserably, he just didn't have the patients to practice the jutsu until he had completely figured it out. He was used to getting a jutsu right after only a few days of practicing, but apparently, in a way, it was Naruto's daughter who had the most potential of the two.

"Alright, you two, ready to go? Most of the activity is taking place in one of the other dimensions. We can teleport there with the help of my rinnegan, and come up with a plan."

"Sounds good to me!" said Himawari and Shikadai in unison.

Sasuke opened the portal the dimension of their destination and waited until Shikadai and Himawari reluctantly entered it, joining soon after them and closing the portal before someone even noticed it was there in the first place.

The dimension was dark, and it worried Shikadai. Without an extra light source to cause a shadow, he won't be able to use any of his father's jutsu and would have to rely entirely on his windstyle jutsu. This wasn't a disaster, but if they were to capture someone to bring back to Konoha, it would be easier to do that using his shadow possession jutsu opposed of his windstyle jutsu.

"I'm concerned about the lack of light in this place. I won't be able to use my shadow possession or shadow strangle jutsu like this, and I would prefer to use that jutsu for making a captive."

"It shouldn't be that big of a problem, right? You still have your windstyle." Himawari pitched in.

"Yeah.. But still.."

Shikadai thought deeply. He wasn't sure of the number of enemies and thus struggled to come up with a plan.

"Sasuke, how much do you know about the enemy?" Shikadai asked

"Currently, not much. I do know there is a group, but there isn't much known about their numbers and the information surrounding them is vague. We do know they have a hideout in this dimension, as well as always having members down in our dimension. It is rumored their leader is around here as well and that their leader is another Ôtsutsuki, but this isn't confirmed yet." Sasuke explained.

This bothered Shikadai. He doesn't like going into a mission without a plan, but with the current circumstances, he would only be able to come up with a basic formation and hope that he has enough time to pass changes through to his teammates.

"Okay, this is what we're going to do. We don't know the numbers of our enemy, so I will use my windstyle and Sasuke will use his long-range jutsu to keep them at bay until we have a better idea of their numbers. If there are not so many of them, Sasuke will us a firestyle jutsu to light up this dimension and will hold in long enough so I can capture the enemy with my shadow possession. Himawari will than take them out using her shadow clones and the gentle fist. If there are to many, we retreat, ask for back-up and wait until back-up has arrived and I have come up with another strategy. Does everyone agree?"

Himawari nodded, but Sasuke looked concerned.

"I like your original idea, but if we're outnumbered, we might not have the time to wait around for back-up to arrive. It will take to long and by then, the enemy could already have disappeared, never to be found again."

"We can you my teleportation jutsu for that. I left a mark in my father's office, so that eliminates the problem of time. Depending on the number of our allies, it will exhaust me, so that's another problem…"

"I'm sure I can figure something out about that. If it's necessary, we'll let you sit out the battle until the very end, and you just deal with healing minor injuries and finishing the enemy off."

"Yeah, that sounds like it could work" Sasuke said.

The three shinobi looked grim. They didn't know what they were getting themselves into, but knew that whatever was waiting for them was not going to be easy and each and everyone of them couldn't shake the awry feeling…

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