With a single turn of the tides, the world changed; from then on, sun and moon wore new faces.
The Hokage Building, which did not look particularly artistic, still stood where it always had. It had seen off the ruler who had occupied it for the second time and welcomed a new master whose stay might last who knew how long. Together with the massive Kage Rock, it watched one rise to power after another fell.
Hokage's Office.
Seated in a specially made, brand-new chair that was both wider and larger was an exceptionally burly figure. He wore the Hokage's Hat and white Hokage's Robes, having just returned from the hastily arranged inauguration ceremony. Even if he was only the Acting Hokage, he would be Konoha's highest ruler for some time to come.
No one would be tactless enough to suggest keeping everything simple.
On the contrary, the ceremony had been held as formally as possible. With the wholehearted support of so many clans, the scale of this inauguration had even surpassed that of the Fourth Hokage's. After all, when the Fourth Hokage had taken office, the Third Shinobi World War had just ended. Konoha had been ravaged by war back then and possessed none of today's prosperity.
"Have they been settled in?"
The Fifth Acting Hokage removed his Hokage's Hat and placed it on the desk, lovingly brushing away dust that was not there.
They had all grown up in Konoha and had all been the Second's students—even if only in name. Danzō was not the only one among them who had longed to become Hokage. The others had simply been able to face reality and abandoned that dream early on. Torifu Akimichi was no exception.
Yet he had never imagined that, with half his body already in the