Consultations

Within Konoha Star.

Present-day Konoha Star was very similar to the Konoha of the past.

All its buildings had been constructed according to the old Konoha, though the village itself was far larger than before.

Though Konoha Star was small now, it still far surpassed the village of old.

Even the Hokage Rock bearing the five Kage had already been built.

Five head statues stood upon the cliff. Four were exceptionally clear, but the fifth was merely circular in outline.

Originally, the fifth head statue had been decided upon collectively by the people of Konoha, but at Kushina's forceful insistence, only an outline had been made.

In her words,

"Minato was only imprisoned, not dead. There's no need to elect a Fifth Hokage."

Tsunade and Hashirama Senju had no choice but to temporarily design an outline.

No one could do anything against Kushina's resolute stance.

At present, they had no ability to snatch Minato Namikaze back from Uchiha Jin.

But since Kushina was the candidate for Fifth Hokage, they could only follow her wishes.

Minato Namikaze's imprisonment had affected Konoha in every possible way, but Kushina's presence had suppressed the undercurrents.

But if anyone had been affected the most,

Sasuke had something to say about that.

He watched Naruto fighting fiercely against Ebisu ahead of him.

Especially the wounds all over Naruto's body—his clothes were soaked through with blood.

Even so, Naruto showed no intention of stopping.

Ebisu was equally helpless. He had no way to deal with this young prince before him.

He could only keep fighting him without relaxing in the slightest.

"Rasengan!!"

Naruto Uzumaki clenched a Rasengan in his hand and smashed it fiercely toward Ebisu.

Ebisu swiftly grabbed Naruto Uzumaki's wrist, trying to stop him, but Naruto directly twisted his own wrist out of place, spun