The Uzumaki Clan had been the core allies of the Senju Clan, one of Konoha's founding clans. Since the Warring States period a thousand years ago, the two clans had maintained a deep friendship and bond.
After Konoha was founded, Uzumaki Ashina, then head of the Uzumaki Clan, signed a friendship treaty with First Hokage Senju Hashirama. He also gifted Konoha the complete records of Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu, thereby laying the foundation for Konoha's Sealing Jutsu legacy. To demonstrate the generations-long friendship between the two nations, Konoha high-ranking officials had the Uzumaki Clan's emblem printed on jonin uniforms.
But to put it bluntly, the Uzumaki Clan's true allies were the Senju Clan. Now that Konoha had entered the era of the Third Hokage's rule, just how much friendship remained between them and the Uzumaki Clan was truly questionable.
Yet the most ironic part was that, in this era when the Senju Clan's young and middle-aged members had largely been exhausted in the First Great Ninja War, the ones ordered to support the Uzumaki Clan were the Uchiha—the arch-rivals they had fought bloody battles against throughout the Warring States period.
All one could say was that the world was unpredictable.
Uchiha Tokimitsu found it troublesome as well.
The Mobile Unit took four hours in total to race from Konoha to the Border of the Land of Whirlpools.
Ninja were naturally incredibly fast, and everyone in the Mobile Unit was an elite ninja. If they had not needed to accommodate the support ninja's pace, they could have reached the Border of the Land of Whirlpools even sooner.
Three Kirigakure ninja knelt before Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo, while more than a dozen Kirigakure corpses lay scattered around them, each having died differently.
Uchiha Genichiro, one of the Mobile Unit's Uchiha jonin, was