And ah, there it was. Sasuke felt the flare of known, if not precisely familiar, chakra right as the arm wormed up out of the ground. There was no way to arrest his own momentum to avoid it, slow as he was moving, and so in a split-second redistribution of body weight he vaulted up and over the reaching limb, bridging the jump with one hand before landing lightly on top of a fence.

"Welcome back to Konoha," he said, addressing the air at large until Gaara decided to show his actual self.