"How about this?"
As he spoke, Tetsuya took out a kunai and cut off part of the scroll.
The Eight Gates Formation recorded on the scroll was now missing a gate. The final one, the Gate of Death, was gone.
"I'll give him the first seven gates for now. Those should be enough. Once I find a way to deal with the Gate of Death, I'll give him the last one. How does that sound?"
Then he added something else.
"If all else fails, I'll find a way to bring him back to life. At worst, it'll cost some money."
For a moment, Izuna had no idea what to say. After all, Tetsuya had already gone that far.
"All right, but it's still too early to give them a secret technique of this caliber. Let them grow a little more first."
"Yeah, you have a point."
Nagato and the others were still far too weak. They had only just begun training in ninjutsu, and forbidden techniques were still well beyond their reach.
Meanwhile, in Kumogakure, in the Land of Lightning.
Yeruka and Yurubi finally returned to their village.
The moment they stepped through Kumogakure's gates, other ninja gathered around them.
"Yeruka, Yurubi, why are only the two of you back? Where are the others? Where's the Uzumaki Descendant?"
"The mission failed, but we brought back something else."
"The mission failed? That's all right. What matters is that you're back. It was Konoha, after all. Come on, I'll take you to see the Raikage."
"All right."
The Raikage Building.
The powerfully built Raikage sat behind his desk, but there were no documents on it. All the paperwork was on another desk nearby, where an assistant was handling it.
"Lord Raikage."
The door to the Raikage's Office opened, and the ninja led