A few years ago, you had already done better than we did.
Mirai could not help but feel moved. Smiling faintly, he paid his respects to the Third Hokage before returning home.
"You're back."
Kushina seemed to have been waiting by the door all along. She was the first to sense Mirai's sudden arrival.
When the Flying Thunder God Technique shifted through time and space, it could be sensed because it resonated with the chakra in its markings.
Mirai nodded, then pulled Kushina into the house and told her about the Rōran mission, though he did not reveal his suspicions.
"So, this mission requires us to hide our identities as Konoha ninja. It would be best if neither Sunagakure nor Rōran noticed us." Kushina blinked after listening, then asked Mirai.
"Yeah..."
"In that case, we should hurry."
With that, Kushina grabbed Mirai and ran out of the house.
Mirai and Kushina ran swiftly through the streets.
"Kushina, where are we going?"
Mirai looked startled. She had not told him what she intended to do so soon.
Kushina glanced back at Mirai and smiled. "Since you said we need to hide our identities as Konoha ninja, of course we'll need props."
"Props? What props!?" Mirai was utterly bewildered.
Kushina did not answer. Before long, the two stopped in front of a shop in Konoha.
"I really missed this place. I still remember that this was the first shop we ever came to together."
Looking at the shop before her, Kushina's eyes carried a trace of nostalgia.
"Yeah..."
Mirai chuckled as well. The mask shop before them was the first shop he had entered with Kushina.
After so many years, the storefront had changed somewhat.
"The props you meant were masks, right?"
Mirai shot her a sidelong glance. Neither he nor Kushina