The Times Have Changed

Land of Rain, Six Paths City.

Yahiko led several ninjas wearing Amegakure uniforms through Six Paths City. Looking at the bustling streets, he could not help but sigh.

"Who would have thought that just a few years ago, this place was still a wasteland with only a few shabby little villages?"

Back when Tenten was in Six Paths City, he had not felt much about it.

Later, when his work mainly took him to Amegakure and he had fewer chances to return, Yahiko realized just how quickly Six Paths City had developed. It was changing with each passing day.

Every time he returned after a while, he would discover new changes in Six Paths City.

Yahiko was one of the veterans who had joined Ninshu during its founding and had participated in the initial construction of Six Paths City, so these changes stirred him especially deeply.

The Amegakure jonin following behind Yahiko wore complicated expressions.

At the beginning, compared to Amegakure, Six Paths City had been nothing more than a remote, impoverished little village.

Yet in just a few years, Six Paths City had become far more prosperous than Amegakure. It had even surpassed the capital of the Land of Rain, shifting the nation's economic center from the middle to the east.

"It is all thanks to Lord Sōsuke," an Amegakure jonin said with a look of admiration.

Most Rain ninjas did not dwell too much on the development gap between Six Paths City and Amegakure, because most Amegakure ninjas now also held the identity of Ninshu ninjas.

Ninshu ninjas could work in Amegakure, and Rain ninjas who had joined Ninshu could also work in Six Paths City.

In the eyes of many, Amegakure and Ninshu had merely not officially announced their merger. In reality, they were already one ninja