A Couple's Tag Team: Minds as One

The roar of Explosive Tags and the glow of Great Fireballs rose and fell in succession.

But the couple did not continue fighting. After gathering the supplies and making their final arrangements, they silently withdrew from the front-line camp and returned to Konoha overnight.

On the road, Chiri finally could not hold back any longer. "Toji, how did you do that just now?"

"Hm? What exactly do you mean?" Toji pretended not to understand.

"Scaring off the Three-Tails."

"That? I suppose I was borrowing Hashirama's prestige." A nostalgic look appeared on Toji's face as he explained, "Back then, didn't I go with Hashirama to the Five Kage Summit? At the time, Hashirama had suppressed all nine Tailed Beasts in a single valley."

"I saw all nine Tailed Beasts then."

"Hashirama mixed my chakra with the Wood Release he used to suppress the Tailed Beasts, leaving behind an extra safeguard in case it proved useful someday. Turns out those Tailed Beasts really weren't that bright. They actually mistook me for a Wood Release user."

"So just now, I merely awakened the fear the Three-Tails once felt when it was being controlled."

"Ahahaha—You really gave me a scare just now."

Damn it, Hashirama again.

Toji had once again dragged Hashirama out as a shield. The dead could not speak, after all, so anything he said would be right. Only by tying it to Hashirama's Wood Release could he explain how that miracle had just happened.

After putting another layer of gold on Hashirama's face, Toji was actually a little unhappy about it.

He only waited for the day when he could declare before everyone, I don't eat beef.

"So it was the First Hokage—but standing before a Tailed Beast at a time like that, Toji-kun, you looked very handsome." Chiri did not