After half an hour of waiting, Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, and the others finally met Naruto.
Naruto sat in a reclining chair made of Wood Release. Hashirama Senju sat to his left, Madara Uchiha to his right. The two were solemnly sizing up the current Five Kage, occasionally showing doubtful looks.
"Monkey, this is the Fifth Hokage? Why is his hair color somewhat like Tobirama's? Could he be Tobirama's?"
Before Hashirama Senju could finish, Tobirama interrupted him impatiently. "Big Brother, you know me. I have no wife, no children. My only interests are researching Forbidden Jutsu and guarding against the Uchiha. There's a causal relationship here..."
Hashirama Senju revealed an embarrassed expression, then continued, "So that's how it is. Still, I remember that you, Fifth Hokage, are Monkey's disciple. Monkey did so many wrong things, but making you the Fifth Hokage was something he did right..."
The Third Hokage and Jiraiya both looked somewhat awkward at those words.
Jiraiya had risen to power through a coup. It had not been any normal election at all. Without resorting to that method, there had been no way to bring down the deeply entrenched Third Hokage and Shimura Danzō in Konoha.
However, the First Hokage's image had undergone quite a major change in everyone's hearts.
The awkward small talk between the Hokage eased the tense atmosphere, but Madara Uchiha sat beside them with vacant eyes fixed on them, which was still rather frightening.
After all, not long ago, Madara Uchiha had shown them the power of the Shura of the Ninja World.
It could be said that aside from certain utterly overpowered monsters, even the Five Kage combined would not be enough to fight Madara Uchiha. The fact that Madara Uchiha was sitting here so obediently clearly was not because he had suddenly