"Kurenai, Rin, Shizune... Why hasn't Rin come back yet? Does sealing a Tailed Beast take this long?"
Tu Susu looked at Shizune and the others with curious eyes.
"Well... when Rin gets back, you can ask her yourself."
A flicker of embarrassment crossed Shizune's face as she answered Tu Susu quietly.
Chapter 439: Crushing Through
Though Tu Susu was far older than Shizune and the others—even older than Uchiha Yin—she looked like a little girl, so calling Anko and the others her big sisters didn't seem strange at all.
Tu Susu was happy to do so.
Anko and Kurenai, however, felt a little resentful.
They had never expected Rin to be gone for an entire day.
They couldn't help feeling a sense of urgency.
First Shizune, then Rin. Who would be next?
Who else?
The battlefield against the Stone Ninja was rather dull.
The Stone Ninja forces never launched a full-scale attack. At most, they harassed Konoha's troops for a while, then hid again.
For Konoha, though, that was probably a good thing.
As for Uchiha Yin, it made little difference which battlefield he was on. The only real change was who kept him company.
Of course, Uchiha Yin also visited Konoha and the other battlefields from time to time to check on his women.
But since he was stationed near Iwagakure, Shizune, Rin, and Kushina naturally received a little more of his attention.
Rin and Shizune were quite shy at first, but after spending more time with him, much of that shyness faded.
That only made Anko and Kurenai more resentful.
Meanwhile, the other Ninja Village battlefronts were changing too.
Iwagakure kept Konoha's forces tied down on one front while fighting fiercely against Kumogakure on another.
Kumogakure, in turn, was fighting fiercely against both Iwagakure and Konoha.
After the