"Roger that." That's Team 10 for you. Even if the three of them haven't been together in over a year, teamwork is more natural than breathing in some respects.

Given how much time Shikamaru's spent in these forests, it doesn't take long for him to come along the river. It's a thirty minute wait at the most thanks to ninja skills, and the way people from Konoha use trees as their own personal highway. He shut his journal for the time being too, to speed up the process. Now it's just a matter of who spots who first.