Chapter 231 : Kakashi Found Rat!!
"I've found their trail. Hmm... not only do I smell his scent, but I also smell the scent of my kind!"
Pakkun, the summoning dog, was leading Kakashi as they searched the outskirts of Konoha. Eventually, they stopped at one spot, but as Pakkun sniffed, his dog nose wrinkled.
"This scent... it's familiar. It's Pirou. He was summoned yesterday and hasn't returned!"
Huh?
The summoned beast didn't return?
Kakashi frowned, surprised by this. It wasn't what he had expected.
Normally, when a summoning beast's contract is broken, it should return, but this one didn't.
That left only two possibilities. One, the Rat team hadn't found Senju Hayashi and were still looking for him. Two, the summoning beast was already dead.
Thinking about it, the first possibility seemed more likely.
The Rat team probably hadn't found Hayashi yet and were still tracking him down.
After all, it's hard to kill a summoning beast, since they can break the summoning themselves—it's like a space-time jutsu that allows them to escape.