Across the Grand Desert [Scouts]

Out of all the squads which had left Konohagakure no Sato that day, it was the 5th Squad the one who had to be more careful about keeping track rations. Unlike the squads in the Land of Rain or the Land of Grass who had been lucky enough to be sent to a place where wildlife is abundant, the 5th squad was tasked with crossing the great deserts of the Land of Wind where life itself was scarce and any creature they found gave them a hard fight before it could be killed. To make things worse, a killed creature was not the same as food, because many of the animals from the deserts were poisonous or simply too thin to be worth the effort to kill. Another issue was water, as there were very few points where one could get it.

This ended up working in their favor however, as it made tracking activity in the deserts much simpler because they knew that if someone was making a long journey then they had to pass through certain points. The men set up shelters hidden beneath the highest sand dunes, or above the rocky pillars of the stone deserts. From there they could monitor the activity in the land.

[Monitoring Land of Wind for activity and resources]