"Hyuga Sho!"
Seeing Hyuga Sho suddenly barge in.
The first ones to step forward and block him were not the Cloud Village envoy delegation inside, who were all staring in confusion.
But...
The "Konoha ANBU" guarding the outside!
After Hyuga Hiashi had killed the one-eyed ninja leader with a single palm strike.
Once the Konoha High Command learned of it, they immediately dispatched more ANBU.
They had them surround the lodging where the Kumogakure envoy delegation was staying.
On one hand, this was to prevent another incident in which someone was killed.
On the other, it was also to protect Konoha and stop the delegation from coming and going as they pleased.
They never expected...
Hyuga Sho to suddenly appear here.
What was he here to do?!
"Hyuga Sho, don't act rashly!"
The deputy captain with the best hearing—and the strongest abilities among the ANBU—
immediately stepped forward and removed his mask.
It was Kano... in other words, Yamato.
Yamato glared with a pair of dead-fish eyes similar to Kakashi's, his expression solemn.
His face was covered by armor resembling the face guard worn by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.
His entire appearance was plain yet resolute.
After being won over by Kakashi's Talk no Jutsu and joining the ANBU...
Yamato had kept pace with Kakashi.
The two had become Konoha's two Gold Medal Enforcers.
The number of missions they carried out had risen steadily.
They even seemed poised to surpass Minato Namikaze's lifetime mission count.
They were chasing after Jiraiya.
In other words...
Among the younger generation of Konoha experts—
in terms of experience from life-and-death battles and the number of completed missions—
Kakashi was first.
Yamato was second.
The two of them were elite in every sense of the word.
Therefore...
Kakashi and Yamato had grown increasingly composed.