Indeed they do. These shinobi move quickly. Occlus lends strength to Ani or Anakin if it seems like they need it.

Anakin more often than Ani.

Ani needs some help, though - she's never felt like she fully recovered from Vader's injuries, and while she is very good at compensating with the Force, this pace tires her out over time.

- And, of course, Tobi notices.

She loops back. "Do we need to slow down?" she asks. (She's acting like their current pace is already a slow, rambling walk.)

"Unless there is pressing need not to. Typically we would use vehicles to cover this sort of distance at speed."

"...Like a boat?" She signals up to Kakashi to slow their pace. (And signals her grandfather, whose attention turned to them recently, that there's no issues of concern.)

"In broad strokes, yes, like a boat. Intraplanetary transportation technology in our world is primarily based on repulsor technology, which allows vehicles to float or fly above the surface."

She makes an interested noise. "We don't really use vehicles for anything except over-water travel - but there's not a lot that can fly, and we can't go off planet - though I think the air issue is a bigger deal than getting up there." Thoughtful frown. "Depending on how you define 'interplanetary,' it's possibly 'we can't do that anymore' - like, the moon got up there somehow."

"Moon are typically a natural phenomenon. And in cases where they are not, the implied level of physical and engineering knowledge is high enough that I would be surprised to find the associated society had since regressed far enough to lose powered flight."

"It's hard to spot the absence of something in the archeological record, especially something in the sky - but there's detailed celestial charts from three thousand years ago that don't describe a moon, and then poetry fragments from five hundred years ago that describe one. But the oldest narrative records we have are eight hundred years old, with no detailed records until about three hundred years ago."

"But, those charts are some of the only strong evidence we didn't used to have a moon - there's a thick layer of ash and large patches of heavily disturbed landscape we think is at least a thousand years old, worldwide, which seems to have destroyed most older evidence of - everything."

"...Also if I wanted to stick a second moon in the sky I'd use chakra. I'm not sure how you'd actually get up there without it... And chakra techniques can fail to be passed on very, very easily, especially if they're higher powered or more complicated, and techniques resting on a rare bloodline effectively never get passed on."

"Ah, a different paradigm entirely." Occlus nods. "That evidence sounds consistent with what I would expect for the creation of a moon from the planetary crust, rather than miscellaneous spaceborne debris."

"Yeah."

"You can affect stone the same way with normal techniques - Kage-level fights tend to rearrange the landscape, same if anyone picks a fight with a bijuu - but it's usually like... A hole in a mountain range, or a new island. Not something that big."

"And Kages are... leaders?"

"In a formal, political context, they're the leaders of the five most powerful shinobi groups on this continent. 'Kage-level' is also a shorthand for really powerful shinobi, and you sometimes hear the leaders of less powerful but still significant shinobi groups calling themselves Kage."

"But leaders of non-shinobi have others things they're called."

"A separate political structure, then?"

"It varies, a little... The daimyo - the leaders of the actual countries - are all samurai, and in most places the shinobi are either subordinate to the daimyo or are an autonomous territory closely allied with the surrounding country. All of the five great villages except Kiri are at least in theory autonomous, and Kiri's doing a third thing - their government is fully integrated, and they don't really distinguish between traditions of chakra use."

"I see."

(They are going so slow. Tobi hasn't escorted civilians in a while.)

"...It's going to be a really long walk if we stick to this pace," she says. "Do you mind being transported by other people?"

"Yes," Occlus says. "I do."

She doesn't make a face. Her emotions are kind of grumbly though. "I could just use Hiraishin, I wouldn't be carrying you... And then it'll be less than a minute."

"What is Hiraishin, and why did you not suggest this in the beginning?"

"It's a space time technique. I still need anchors for the long distance version, so I can't use it arbitrarily - but I've got an anchor on sensei, so I could loop back a bit more slowly."

"I didn't suggest it at first because if there's no emergency, I need clearance to inform visitors what my range and speed are, and to even bring visitors in with it in the first place - especially someone like Jakuan, and Hokage-sama had been busy."

"Also it's chakra intensive, and the non-emergency anchor isn't the most efficient one, so I don't use it if it wouldn't save me more than a few hours. But we're, like, a bit more than a thousand kilometers out still."

"Quite a distance." She glances at her companions.

"I'd be alright with being transported."

"I would, too."