Yamanaka Tohru was wandering down the street when an Anbu Ninja stopped him.
Being stopped by an Anbu Ninja made Yamanaka Tohru nervous. He immediately recalled yesterday's operation and, after confirming that he had left no flaws behind, finally relaxed.
"Lord Tohru, Lord Hokage wishes to see you." The Anbu Ninja conveyed the Hokage's order.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Yamanaka Tohru asked no questions and immediately ran toward the Hokage Building.
This time, the Anbu Ninja did not disappear directly. Instead, he went with Yamanaka Tohru to the Hokage Office.
When Yamanaka Tohru and the Anbu Ninja pushed open the door and entered, the Third Hokage was sitting behind his desk, smoking with his brows tightly furrowed.
"Tohru, you're here! I'll skip the formalities. Take a look at this intelligence report." As he spoke, he handed the scroll on the desk to Yamanaka Tohru.
The scroll contained a report on the frontline situation that Orochimaru had sent back to the Third Hokage. According to its contents, Iwagakure's Explosion Release unit had inflicted heavy casualties on the Konoha Ninja, while Orochimaru was also helpless against the Explosion Release Ninja and could only request reinforcements from the Third Hokage.
When Explosion Release was mentioned, the first person Yamanaka Tohru thought of was Deidara, one of the two artists in the original story. The other was the Explosion Release Ninja Gari, who had been brought back through Impure World Reincarnation by Kabuto. (P.S. Deidara used Explosion Release, and Hanzo of the Salamander, who had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation, had said that Gari and Deidara were both Explosion Release Ninja.)
The other Explosion Release Ninja had never appeared in the original story. Yamanaka Tohru had not expected the Stone Shinobi to actually have an entire Explosion Release unit.
"Tohru, what are