Kazemori Masaki was pleasantly surprised to see Hatake Sakumo emerge from the Command Tent. He knew Roshi must have been brought here already; there was no dejection on Sakumo's face to suggest they had failed.
"Teacher." Hatake Sakumo hurriedly stopped. "You're back."
"Yes. Thank you for your hard work. You must have run into plenty of trouble on the way here?" Kazemori Masaki spoke as he entered the Command Tent with Sakumo.
Once they entered, the others quickly rose to greet Kazemori Masaki. Asuna and Mizuki saw him often and felt nothing particularly unusual, but Yamanaka Risa and the others rarely met him. With the Hokage standing so close before them, they could hardly contain their excitement.
Kazemori Masaki answered their greetings one by one, his gaze passing over Uchiha Ken and Fujimura Yuki. No one knew what he was thinking at that moment.
After the Uchiha Setsuna Incident, Kazemori Masaki was all but certain that Uchiha Ken was Indra's Reincarnate. The connections between the events were simply too convenient not to arouse suspicion.
And once he had identified Uchiha Ken as Indra's Reincarnate, finding Asura's Reincarnate was no great difficulty. One basic requirement was being a descendant of Asura, which made both the Senju and the Uzumaki possible candidates. But because of the destined opposition between Asura and Indra, their chakra would draw them toward each other. All he needed to do was look for a descendant of Asura among the people around Uchiha Ken.
Kazemori Masaki soon settled on Fujimura Yuki, whose Senju blood ran relatively strong. He had also quietly gathered records on the two and discovered that their birth dates were very close. That was enough to make him fairly certain that Fujimura Yuki was Asura's Reincarnate.
To be honest, even after identifying Indra's and Asura's