"So, old man, what are you planning to do?" Jiraiya said in a low voice.
Hiruzen felt a trace of unease as well, but he remained firm. "This information only comes out of your mouth and goes into my ears. We absolutely cannot let anyone else know!"
"As for what to do? The difference between Jin and Madara is that he has people in the village he cares about, bonds he can't cut. After all, he is someone I personally acknowledged as having the Will of Fire. We have to trust him."
"Heh, old man, looks like we were thinking the same thing..."
The tense mood relaxed in an instant, and master and disciple began discussing other matters again—which bathhouse had the better angles.
Outside the door, a fierce pair of eyes flashed past. "Uchiha Jin? Hmph! I will never allow anyone to destroy Konoha, and I will never allow anyone to become the next Madara!"
Time flew by, and Anbu Squad One finally got on track...
"In that case, we'll leave the mission to you." Owl, the captain of Anbu Squad Two, chuckled as he looked at the boy before him, who was quite a bit shorter than himself.
The boy wore a mask and nodded steadily. "You've worked hard these two months."
"It's nothing. We're all brothers." Owl waved it off, then handed the monitoring room over to Jin and his team before leaving with his squad members.
"Captain, are we just going to stare at this monitor?" Morichika Makoto asked quietly. After getting along for half a month, the three of them had developed deep admiration for this "young" captain, and had also discovered that this captain was not that... hard to get along with.
On the contrary, he was rather humane. The three of them