"What happened?"
Juzo Biwa woke up with a bewildered look on his face, his head splitting with pain. Uchiha Akira had only hit him once, so why did two places on his body hurt?
"Huh? Why did Uchiha Akira leave? Has the battle already ended?"
He looked curiously at Kisame Hoshigaki and Kakuzu.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Kakuzu, Kisame, you two must have won, right?"
Kakuzu's expression immediately turned even uglier.
He wanted nothing more than to crawl into a crack in the ground.
Damn it!
He had gone too easy on Juzo Biwa just now!
With a smile that did not reach his eyes, he said, "Juzo, we won that battle. If you run into Uchiha Akira again, make sure to teach him a proper lesson!"
At the side, Kisame Hoshigaki felt a chill run through his entire body.
Yet Juzo Biwa noticed none of it. He hefted the Kubikiribōchō onto his shoulder and grinned.
"Don't worry, Kakuzu! A nobody who pads the ranks can't be the leader of the God Organization!"
Uchiha Akira did not return to the village with the main force.
Instead, he instantly returned to the Senju Clan.
But the moment he arrived, his eyes narrowed. The figure who should have been here had vanished at some point.
"Stop looking, Akira. The old man sent Naruto and Neji to the battlefields at Iwagakure and Sunagakure respectively," Tsunade said.
Akira turned around, narrowed his eyes, and stared at her. "Forget that. What's with this outfit?"
Ever since Shimura Danzō died, Tsunade seemed to have let go of something. She no longer wore that old outfit of hers with its "gambling" motif. Besides, that outfit no longer suited her current appearance—that of a vibrant, beautiful twenty-year-old woman.
Today, she wore a slim, white, high-necked cashmere sweater that