When everything returned to the years of the past, the intimacy between Wuye and Konan returned as well.
After that morning's embrace, after that passionate kiss, after those nearly candid touches, the next few months of life felt as though they had completely returned to what they had been ten years ago.
In the mornings, they would embrace each other and wish each other good morning.
Then they would wash up and eat. Konan would sit by the window folding paper, while Wuye summoned the Slug to receive messages from Konoha and make decisions.
Occasionally, he would even arrange a remote meeting, having the Slug transform into a little girl to attend...
Konan would sometimes go out, making an appearance in the newly established Rain Ninja Village, eliminating a few troublemakers, and bringing back some food along the way.
The two of them ate lunch together.
Sometimes, they would hold each other and take a nap in the afternoon.
In the afternoons, Konan would go out to pick flowers, then sit by the window arranging them. Wuye, meanwhile, would return to the village to comfort Kushina and Mikoto, tease Terumi Mei a little, and visit his sister.
At night, he would return and roast fish with her by the hearth.
Sometimes Nagato appeared at night, and sometimes he did not.
Unlike Konan, who gradually became peaceful and content, the loneliness around him seemed to grow ever deeper...
More than half a year passed like this before Wuye moved his primary base of operations back to Konoha.
Because the Land of Rain had only just stabilized, Nagato handed the Rain Ninja Village entirely over to Konan while he himself went out to recruit elite rogue ninjas.
Konan began to grow busy.
And as one diplomatic development after another unfolded, the eyes