Yuu going out to clear his head was great! Better yet, he should go clear his head every year!
"...Third Hokage-sama, if you're free, help me deal with the paperwork."
Minato looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi's utterly insincere expression, the corner of his mouth twitching as he spoke.
"Young man! If you can't even accept this little setback, how can you shoulder greater responsibilities?..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened as he launched into a long-winded lecture.
After educating the young man, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked thoroughly satisfied.
How long had it been? How long had it been since he had last lectured a young man like this?
Yuu, go clear your head a little more.
Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of smoke, pulled out a treasured bottle of fine wine, and carefully poured himself a glass.
This bottle had been hard for him to save.
Yuu had looted every last drop of his stash!
He could still get hold of other rare fine wines.
After all, the entire world was now supplying Konoha with fine wine.
No matter how much Yuu could drink, he was only one person. There was no way he could finish all that fine wine.
Naturally, those close to Yuu could get a share as well.
He had received quite a few peerless treasures that he had never even seen before.
That brat Yuu might have a rotten temper, but he had always treated his true allies well.
But Hiruzen Sarutobi's favorite was still the secret fine wine brewed by the Sarutobi Clan.
In recent years, every clan capable of brewing had been doing everything possible to develop new fine wine, all to win Yuu's favor.
Although the Sarutobi Clan had him, giving them the best relationship with Yuu among all Konoha's clans,
the cautious Great Elder did not