Nohara Rin (Seeking Subscriptions~)

Night fell, and soft moonlight caressed the earth.

Across Konoha's scorched land, countless tents had been erected, along with quite a few houses constructed with Earth Style.

On this day, everyone in Konoha had gone through far, far too much. It could be said that in a single day, they had experienced nearly everything a person might have to face in an entire lifetime.

Life and death—the gravest issues one could face in life were likely these two.

Death in particular was something everyone had no choice but to confront, yet found difficult to face calmly.

But today, they had truly faced death and truly entered the Pure Land to sleep!

If Lord Kei had not displayed a miracle and pulled them all back, their bodies would probably have been buried by now.

To come back to life was practically like being reborn. This was undoubtedly a day worth celebrating.

Although Konoha had been destroyed, Konoha still remained. As long as its people were alive, the village could be rebuilt once more!

Thus, amid Konoha's ruins, everyone sang and danced.

Whether ordinary people or Ninja, children or adults, even the elderly, they all sincerely celebrated everything that had happened today.

Although Namikaze Minato had not joined them, he sat nearby with his wife, Kushina.

A smile rested on his face, one arm around Kushina's waist as he quietly watched it all.

"It's unbelievable." Kushina suddenly spoke. "I never thought there could be a technique like this in the world. And thank goodness there was one, otherwise..."

"Yeah. You know, I was truly despairing at the time." Minato nodded. Looking at Naruto sitting with a group of children in the distance, he said with a smile, "Everything that happened today had practically doomed me to become Konoha's greatest failure of a