Ino, seated beside Sakura, leaned close and whispered, "Sakura, why didn't Lord Yeyu come?"
Although Yeyu was now the Fifth Hokage.
He had been in the same class and the same graduating class as them.
Since Yeyu had not appeared at this gathering, Ino had assumed Sakura had not invited him.
Sakura explained, "Lord Yeyu worked all day and was exhausted, so he went to rest."
Ino did not doubt her.
She nodded. "Lord Yeyu really is serious when he works, and he's so handsome too."
Seeing Ino's infatuated expression, Sakura gave a wry smile.
She turned to look at Tsunade, who was talking with Kakashi and Jiraiya.
Both women were blond, but the difference between them was enormous.
Ino had grown up now, and both her figure and looks were beautiful.
But her rival was a peerless beauty praised throughout the Ninja World.
Ino seemed delicate and understated in comparison.
But Sakura could not say that.
Only a few people close to Tsunade and a few people close to Yeyu knew about it.
Age no longer meant anything to Tsunade.
Others believed she merely used ninjutsu to maintain a youthful appearance.
But only Sakura knew that Tsunade's appearance and body had truly returned to their twenty-year-old state, and were even far stronger than when she had been twenty.
Sakura felt a little sorry for Ino.
Ino was being kept in the dark, yet Sakura had no way to tell her the truth.
"Ino, Shikamaru is actually pretty good. Why do you have to be so fixated on Yeyu?"
Ino looked at Sakura speechlessly. "Easy for you to say. You and Sasuke are already together, so of course you don't understand how I feel about wanting to be with Yeyu too."
"Then Neji would work too. Why do you have