The Senju Main Residence was as peaceful as ever. Since the end of the Warring States era, Mito Uzumaki had never taken to the battlefield herself, and had scarcely encountered anything that required her to fight. The sole exception was when she sealed the Nine-Tails at the Valley of the End. That was the last time Mito Uzumaki had unleashed her full strength, sealing the monster beast inside her own body. After that, she had never fought again, even when the tide of the Shinobi World War turned against them.
As the First Hokage's wife, Mito Uzumaki was deeply respected throughout the village, and she had little to complain about herself. Now that peace reigned over the shinobi world, all she needed to do was ensure that the Nine-Tails did not break free of its seal and spend her remaining years in peace.
There was nothing to worry about in the current Konoha Ninja Village. Its reigning Hokage, Kazemori Masaki, was young and strong, and the six Consultants possessed strength approaching his own. The previous Hokage, Tobirama Senju, had also devoted himself to the Research Department, working tirelessly to strengthen the village's foundations. By any measure, it deserved its place at the head of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Thus, the one thing still weighing on Mito Uzumaki's mind was her birth clan, which had yet to grasp the state of the shinobi world as a whole. Her son-in-law, Kazuhiko Uzumaki, understood what lay ahead for the Land of Whirlpools, but unfortunately, he was merely a prince whose words carried little weight. He could not influence the entire country.
Mito Uzumaki had once possessed that kind of influence. But she had married into the distant Senju Clan, and although she still maintained the bond between the two sides, a woman