The standoff between the nearly hundred Konoha Ninja did not last long.
After the "misunderstanding" between Lord Tsunade and the Third Hokage was cleared up, everyone dispersed.
The seriously wounded were sent to Konoha Hospital, while some of the lightly injured were taken away by the Interrogation Department to be questioned about what had happened that night. The others began tracking and investigating based on the traces left by Kakuzu's escape.
Tsunade and Sarutobi Hiruzen, master and disciple, went aside to talk.
Sahara Mizu watched them from afar.
Although he had already witnessed the Third Hokage's so-called indecisiveness in the original story—
Only now that it had happened to him did he truly understand how unbearable the bias brought by those so-called bonds could be.
It hurt. It hurt so much.
When Sahara Mizu thought of the storm of humiliation and targeting Shimura Danzō would soon inflict upon him, he felt as though pretty girls were crawling all over his body.
Who could put up with that?
He could only hope Tsunade would carve a few more chunks of flesh off the Third Hokage.
At the edge of the street.
Tsunade and Sarutobi Hiruzen stood facing each other.
In the distance lay the vast ruins caused by Sahara Mizu and Kakuzu's battle.
Stones and rubble that had blasted over a hundred meters away silently testified to the battle's intensity. The air between them was stagnant with silence.
Tsunade folded her arms and merely looked toward the battlefield that had nearly destroyed half a block. She said nothing, yet it was as if she had said everything.
Sarutobi Hiruzen stood where he was, lifting his head slightly.
Only then did he suddenly realize that the little girl who used to trail after him had become a mature adult.
When little Tsuna