After leaving the Hokage Building, Soji said, "So, do you have time? To fulfill our promise from last time, I'm treating you to barbecue today."
"What are we waiting for, then? Let's go already." Uchiha Homura was the most impatient of them all.
"We don't have any other plans, so let's go together." Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki exchanged a glance and nodded.
Under Soji's lead, they soon arrived at a pretty good barbecue restaurant.
"Soji, you're now the youngest elder in the Hyuga Clan. You must have a lot of authority, right?" At the barbecue table, Uchiha Homura spoke with half envy and half teasing.
"Don't mention it. Family matters are such a headache. I don't want to deal with them at all. Just the Main House meetings that pop up every so often are enough to make my head hurt."
Hearing Uchiha Homura say that, Soji waved his hands repeatedly in exasperation.
"Well, Soji, you really look like Shikaku Nara right now." Kushina Uzumaki grinned wickedly from the side.
"Stop teasing Soji about the thing he hates most." Only Minato kindly came to Soji's rescue as he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Minato really gets me." Soji looked deeply grateful.
"Now that we've all been promoted to Special Jonin, do you have any plans for the future?" Soji asked another question.
"It'll probably be difficult for us to carry out missions together in the future. Unless it's an especially high-level mission, one that requires all four of us at the same time."
The moment Minato said that, everyone fell silent.
The only sound at the table was the sizzling of barbecue.
"Hey, hey, hey! The meat's about to burn! Seriously, why did we suddenly start talking about something so depressing?" Kushina Uzumaki shouted with a conflicted expression.