"Taking a month off? Why?" Hatake Sakumo had never seen anyone ask for such a long leave during wartime. If it had been anyone else, he probably would've kicked them right out.
"Uncle Sakumo, Brother Inoichi is getting married. Here! This is the scroll the clan sent."
Yamanaka Tohru trusted Hatake Sakumo, and the scroll didn't contain any confidential information about the Yamanaka Clan, so he handed it straight to him.
Sakumo took the scroll and skimmed it quickly. "Fifteen days! Not a day more. Ten days is plenty to get to Konoha and back at your speed. You're one of the battlefield commanders, and you've got the nerve to ask for a whole month off during wartime. I can't believe you had the gall to come here."
"Uncle Sakumo, fifteen days is too little! Can't you give me two more?"
Yamanaka Tohru knew that, as one of the battlefield commanders, it was inappropriate to take a long leave at a time like this. But after a year and a half of nonstop fighting, he felt utterly exhausted.
The brutality of war had surpassed anything Yamanaka Tohru had imagined. He'd seen life and death countless times as a surgeon in his previous life, and had nerves of steel. Otherwise, he would've collapsed long ago.
So Yamanaka Tohru planned to use Yamanaka Inoichi's wedding as an excuse to return to Konoha, see his mother and Yugao, and ease some of his tension.
"Huh? What are you doing here, kid? Has something happened with the Sand Shinobi, Senior Sakumo?" Jiraiya asked.
"It has nothing to do with the war. Tohru wants a month off to go back to Konoha, so I called you here to discuss it," Hatake Sakumo said.
"What's the big deal? Just let him go, Senior Sakumo! Things are