"Just have Liusha and Ōnoki come. I know both of them well, so we'll have more to talk about."
Minato acknowledged this, then called his secretary and told her to inform the Tsuchikage and Kazekage at their Apartments that Torikaze wished to see them.
This was merely Torikaze's initial meeting with them, not the Five Kage Summit.
The actual Five Kage Summit would begin in four days. Today was simply a chance to catch up.
After all, it had indeed been some time since Torikaze had seen the two of them. He could not say he missed them terribly, but he did want to see them, one way or another.
As for Tsukishiro, whom Torikaze had heard had also come, the man could only be considered a friend. They were certainly not close enough for Torikaze to want to know more about him.
The last time Torikaze saw him, he had still been full of youthful vigor. Now, he was already frail with age.
Time truly spared no one. No matter what Kage one was, in the end, they would become a handful of earth.
As time gradually erased them, no one would remember them anymore.
No matter how brilliant or great their records in the history books, it would all be useless.
Torikaze believed he had already witnessed enough life and death, enough partings, yet he still could not help feeling melancholy now.
Back at the Five Kage Summit of his Shishou's generation, only his Shishou remained alive today.
The other Kage had all turned to earth. Torikaze had felt this deeply even then, and now that the Third Mizukage Tsukishiro had grown old as well, this would probably be their last meeting.
Torikaze could not help feeling somewhat uncomfortable.
Not long after Minato sent someone to deliver the