June 1, Year 41 of Konoha.
The monthly Jonin Meeting.
As a regularly scheduled meeting, this one had over fifty jonin in attendance...
It was the highest turnout for a monthly ninja meeting since the war had broken out five years earlier!
Apparently, at its sparsest, only three jonin had attended besides the Hokage and his assistant-if you asked Akaseki, they would have been better off finding a mission and heading out... Having that many leaders hold a meeting "especially" for them sounded unbearable...
After all, during the war, more than half the jonin were on the front lines or stationed along other defensive lines. A few were away on "missions that had to be completed," and even the jonin in the village had duties... Naturally, that left few people able to attend.
Before the war, there had only been around a hundred full-fledged jonin with voting rights at the Jonin Meeting. Most of the time, the number had been below a hundred.
Five years later, a third of the Konoha ninja who had already been full-fledged jonin before the war had died in battle. But with even more newly nominated jonin joining their ranks, their numbers had grown to over a hundred and fifty...
Now that things had eased considerably on the Sunagakure front, a third of the jonin had come to this meeting.
But Akaseki noticed at a glance that Hatake Sakumo had not come...
It seemed his claim that he "didn't want to be a ninja anymore" really had been more than just talk.
Four full-fledged jonin from the Uchiha Clan were present, including Jiancheng and Akaseki, and all wore solemn expressions...
Before the meeting, the jonin from the Yamanaka Clan, Ranwu, and Minato came over to greet the Uchiha. When Yamanaka Sansan approached, the other three