A Thousand Years Turn (Part 2)

Time passed quietly. Inside Konoha's Hokage's Office building, Namikaze Minato was handling the documents in his hands.

He looked somewhat more mature. Although there did not seem to be any major change in his appearance, a closer look revealed quite a few differences, especially the mature air he now exuded without restraint.

He was forty years old. He had now reached the age of forty. Thinking back to when he became Hokage sixteen years ago and had Naruto, his child had now become a qualified ninja, while he himself had gradually grown old.

However, forty was also the age when a man possessed the most vigorous energy.

The same was true for a ninja. He could feel that his energy, Chakra, and physical strength were all at an absolute peak. Perhaps because of Kurama's help, his current strength was something the entire Ninja World could hardly imagine.

However, tilting his head slightly, he looked toward Uchiha Kei beside him and could not help sighing again at the sight of that guy.

Uchiha Kei really had not changed at all. Even though the person before him was merely a Shadow Clone, a Shadow Clone that had persisted for three years without dissipating and still carried such terrifying pressure—was that really something a person could achieve?

Besides this Shadow Clone, Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta also seemed as though time had frozen around them.

Neither of them was particularly young anymore. If one truly counted, they had either already entered their thirties or were close to that age. Yet the two of them still retained the appearance of people in their early twenties, without the slightest change.

If neither of them had changed at all, then what changes could there possibly have been in Uchiha Kei, their teammate and the one who