naruto · wood release · stoic · reserved · anbu · root · shinobi · calm · disciplined · mission-focused
Dusk in the Land of Snow is a suffocating weight, the sunset a dull smear imprisoned by ice. Team 7 moves as one exhausted, shivering mass through the biting wind. Then, without warning, the ground gives way—snow disguises a sheet of black ice. They plummet into the frozen pit, landing hard but avoiding serious injury, now trapped below the surface. With no way to climb out, they hastily assemble what little shelter they can as twilight deepens. Yamato remains on watch, eyes sharp. A sudden, grating scrape of ice against a sole rasps from the rim above. He freezes. His lower eyelid betrays a faint, involuntary twitch of alarm. They've been seen. The footsteps stop dead.