"But expanding the village's territory isn't a simple matter. Not only would the barrier's range need to be addressed, but there would also be a whole series of other problems. We came to ask what you thought," Hashirama Senju said.
This time, he made no effort to hide his intentions.
"You'd be better off discussing this with the Hokage than coming to me. I'm not the one in charge of the village, so why are you treating me as the key figure in this matter?" Kitahara Kaede asked in confusion.
Going to Naruto or even Minato Namikaze would have been more appropriate than coming to her.
If that did not work, it would have been perfectly normal to discuss it with Shikamaru and Shikaku. Only coming to Kitahara Kaede to solve this problem seemed strange.
"Naruto said you have plenty of ideas. We've actually discussed this before, but we haven't reached a conclusion yet," Tobirama Senju said.
The reason they had not reached a conclusion was that his opinion differed somewhat from Hashirama Senju's and Naruto's.
According to Naruto's idea, they should apply Hidden Leaf Village's original model to the newly developed territory, but Tobirama Senju did not agree.
He believed they should take this opportunity to break apart Hidden Leaf Village's original structure and rebuild it from scratch.
The two sides held completely opposing views on the matter.
"Ha, Second Grandpa, there's actually a time when you can't persuade Naruto? Then Naruto probably wasn't just being unreasonable, right?" Kitahara Kaede said with a smile.
If Naruto had simply been unreasonable, Hashirama Senju could not possibly have sided with him.
So the only possibility was that Naruto had presented reasons even Tobirama Senju could not refute, leading to the current situation.
"That kid has indeed grown quite a bit. He