“Y'know, I'm okay with not being able to teleport to Sakegakure. Big chunks of the why I don't get, but I'm good with the basic idea. But could someone explain why we decided to circle around the village instead of, say, getting the damn beer?”
Naruko whacked Kiba gently. Well, gentle-ish anyway. “It's been three days, Kiba. When are you going to let that drop?”
“We could have been done with this test in less than two hours!” Kiba whined.
“We've been over this. The shortest route between two points is the most heavily guarded. Taking such a route would undoubtedly doom us all,” Naruko said reasonably.
“That doesn't explain why we didn't just go a mile or two to one side,” Kiba pointed out.
“Are you mad?” Naruto asked. “We're ninja. The second most obvious routes would be even more heavily trapped than the first!”
“Which is the most heavily trapped of them all,” Kiba checked.
“Right,” Naruto said. “So imagine how much worse they would have to be.”
Kiba let that thought run around a couple times. “I can find no flaw with your logic,” he admitted at last. “And for some reason that makes me very sad.”
Akamaru face-pawed. “Arf.”
“What he said,” Naruko agreed.