Naruto sighed as he poked his head into an alley and noted that it was already taken. Back during that whole Forest of Death debacle, he hadn't been able to pick up any supplies due to certain time constraints and the fact that Sakura had been watching him like a hawk the few times they had encountered someone who'd been incapacitated, whether or not it had been terminally so.

He'd fallen unconscious during the invasion and had been out for hours afterward, which meant that the village clean-up crews had already been through and been able to grab just about everything. His only hope of getting extra supplies was if he found something that the clean-up crews had missed during their first run through the village.

While his heightened senses gave him an edge, he wasn't the only one with an edge, and many others had far more experience than he did when it came to the acquisition of supplies. His senses had led him to this alley, but it had been too late. One of Hinata's numerous cousins - an ancient one who looked older than the village - had gotten here first.

"No wonder they tried invading." Hinata's elderly cousin grumbled as he examined his find. "This ninja wire is shit."