The next day at noon, in the Hokage's office.
The Third Hokage was handling his routine duties with two huge dark circles under his eyes.
"Haah..." He yawned, seeming rather tired.
"I shouldn't have gone wild with the youngsters last night. Those little brats kept bouncing around until nearly dawn..."
The kind and benevolent Third Hokage had spent the entire night dancing with the villagers of Konoha.
Now, severely sleep-deprived, he deeply regretted it.
"That brat is getting more and more outrageous. I need to come up with a foolproof way to keep an eye on him and stop him from causing any more trouble..."
The Third Hokage felt that sending people to monitor him would be inappropriate, so he decided to create an entirely new ninjutsu to remotely keep watch over the culprit behind Konoha's recent major incidents.
If someone was secretly protecting him and others were sent to monitor him as well, the nature of the matter would change entirely.
It would be fine if they were not discovered, but if they were, some clan head would surely shamelessly storm into the Hokage Building and make a scene.
"I never expected Koharu and Homura, those two who are usually so serious, to join in the nonsense too..."
"They even said they wanted to make up for the youth they lost back then. As I recall, weren't we perfectly happy playing with mud in the past..."
The Third Hokage kept muttering to himself, evidently rather displeased with those two high-ranking advisors.
If those two former teammates had not stopped the Chiken Clan Head's father-son showdown, they would not have kept dancing until dawn.
He maintained that he was a serious person and would never admit that he had wanted to dance all night himself.
"Hm? Is this a report