Gaara: Combing His Hair Like a Grown-up. An Attack from the Sand Sea, the Sand Sea Battleship

Tetsuya pondered which movie monsters might still be out there. He remembered another monster that was somewhat like Gō.

"Right, I think it was in the Naruto's Death movie. There was something in the Land of Demons..."

"Tetsuya!"

While Tetsuya was still recalling the movie's plot, a shout came from outside his study.

Hashirama casually pushed the study door open.

"Tetsuya, I heard something happened in the Land of Fire?"

Madara walked into the study behind Hashirama and reminded him.

"Hashirama, the Land of Fire is a thing of the past. It's just a province of the Federation now."

"I know, I know. I've just been calling it that for so many years that it's hard to adjust all at once."

Hashirama waved a hand with an awkward laugh, then looked at Tetsuya.

"How are things, Tetsuya? We heard about it on our way back. What's the situation now?"

"Yes, I've already sent people to handle it. It was the work of survivors from the Sky Ninja Village, which Konoha defeated during the Second Shinobi World War.

"After their defeat, they retreated overseas. Now that they've built themselves back up, they've returned to stir up trouble."

"So that's what happened? Survivors of a defeated village..."

Hashirama spoke with a sigh.

"Sure enough, war only brings hatred, and hatred breeds still more hatred.

"The survivors of the Sky Ninja Village attacked the cities, and the people who lost their homes in those attacks are bound to hate them."

Madara gave a cold snort.

"Isn't that all Konoha's fault? If they'd done a thorough enough job back then and left no survivors from that so-called Sky Ninja Village, none of this would have happened."

"Madara!"

"All right, all right!"

Seeing the familiar scene begin to play out again, Tetsuya hurriedly interrupted them.