A few days later, Chen Fan received the news as well. Uzumaki Naruto had really found Orochimaru and Sasuke, making Chen Fan sigh at the power of fate. The two had fought a great battle, after which Sasuke left with Orochimaru. The injured and unconscious Uzumaki Naruto was brought back by Kakashi. After that, Naruto went to train with Jiraiya, while Sakura became Tsunade's student and worked hard to learn Medical Ninjutsu. Chen Fan's daily life remained the same, lazy and leisurely, while everything seemed to be getting back on track.
During the first year, the Third Hokage announced that Tsunade would succeed him as the Fifth Hokage. The Third Hokage stepped into the background and became a member of the village elders. However, nearly everyone in Konoha knew that the man supporting the Fifth Hokage was not the Third Hokage, but a man named Chen Fan. A saying also became popular throughout the village: behind every successful woman stood an even more successful man.
Tsunade faced plenty of opposition in becoming the Fifth Hokage. Later, it was said that all that opposition had been dealt with by a mysterious person. The methods used ranged far and wide, but the matter had indeed been settled. He was supposedly mysterious, yet everyone knew who he was.
After Tsunade took office, she formed an alliance with the Land of Wind and introduced a partial mission-sharing policy. This allowed missions to be completed more efficiently while preventing situations where people slaughtered one another over the same mission.
Kurenai had already been pregnant for a year. Ordinarily, the child should have been born by then, but Chen Fan and Kurenai's child had only advanced one-tenth of the way through the process of nurturing life. Tsunade was still investigating the specifics. Kurenai's figure had not