Whoosh, whoosh!
Konoha's main gate.
Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki were registering trading caravans and ninja teams one after another.
Suddenly, Izumo Kamizuki looked toward the road outside the gates.
Tap, tap, tap!
At the front was a young man wearing a forehead protector, his hair tied in a ponytail and a sword on his back, leading three teammates in ninja vests.
They walked over step by step.
Izumo Kamizuki nudged Kotetsu Hagane. "Hey, it's Hayama and Tonbo. Those two actually went on a mission together."
Kotetsu Hagane looked outside at the words, watching their two former classmates slowly approach.
"Damn it, Hayama and Tonbo can work missions together,
while we still have to fill in as gate guards. This is so unfair!"
He was somewhat dejected. They clearly wanted to go out on missions too.
"Hey, old friends. Why are you filling in as gate guards again? Honestly, why doesn't it ever fall to me?"
As the four approached, Tobitake Tonbo spotted the two old classmates handling registration duties.
Hayama Shirakumo also smiled and nodded to them.
Izumo Kamizuki finished registering the four of them and sighed. "Stop gloating. I want to be like you too, traveling all over the different countries!"
"I don't like running around everywhere. Other than work in the Analysis Division,
guarding the gate is already my dream." Tobitake Tonbo scratched his head.
What was the point of running around? After all these years, what had he not seen? It was exhausting, and he could not even see his wife.
Thinking of his wife, he was already a little impatient.
"Big brother."
Just then, an adorable spiky-haired child appeared and happily shouted at Itachi Uchiha.
Then, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, he rushed over in tiny strides.
Whoosh!
He happened to