Another Setback

"What more do you want?" Senju Tobirama frowned.

Uchiha Chen folded his arms. The Flowing Light Starfall Blade was planted in the floor beside him as he waited, perfectly composed, for Senju Tobirama to give him an explanation.

But Senju Tobirama made no move to respond. Gradually, the expression on Uchiha Chen's face turned cold. The atmosphere, which had begun to ease, instantly returned to freezing point. Shikaku Nara was miserable. He'd been a little relieved when things seemed to calm down, but it seemed he'd hoped in vain.

Things weren't going to develop the way he'd wanted. Shikaku Nara was anxious, but what could he do? He was simply too weak. Even if everything he said was right, would the two of them listen?

Senju Tobirama could make concessions for Konoha, but Uchiha Chen... Well, they hadn't found anything that could be used to restrain him.

Shikaku Nara couldn't help feeling dejected. He was, after all, a prominent figure in Konoha, but no one here paid him any heed.

The two sides seemed to have returned to their earlier standoff, neither willing to back down. Senju Tobirama was simply furious, while Uchiha Chen was different. He knew Senju Tobirama would eventually give in, just as he'd been the first to admit defeat at the start. Chen had already put himself in an unbeatable position.

As the saying went, misfortunes never came singly. While the two sides were at a standstill, Uchiha Chen sensed a slight disturbance in his Flying Thunder God mark.

"What's this...?" Sensing the disturbance coming from a thousand miles away, Uchiha Chen thought for a moment. Was that direction the Land of Rain?

"Konan!"

Before Konan had left, Uchiha Chen had given her a specially made kunai and told her to keep it on her at