After seeing Orochimaru off, Shin Uchiha turned to look at the wall covered in masks behind him. After a moment's thought, he swept his hand and stored the entire wall in his space.
These things will only slowly rot away if I leave them here anyway. I might as well take them back for Kushina. They'll make a nice little surprise.
At that thought, the corners of Shin Uchiha's lips lifted slightly, and in the next instant, he vanished.
However, Shin Uchiha did not return to Konoha Hospital. Instead, he went straight to the Hokage Office.
Now that he had sent the final piece of the puzzle back, it was only natural to return what belonged to Madara Uchiha as well.
Tsunade, who was in the Hokage Office, looked a little surprised when Shin Uchiha appeared. She raised her fine, pale-blond brows slightly and parted her red lips.
"Shin, what brings you here?"
Naturally, Tsunade knew everything that was happening in Konoha.
If she remembered correctly, Uchiha Itachi should have been close to death by now. As the Uchiha Clan's Clan Leader and the Leader whom Uchiha Itachi had loyally served from beginning to end, Shin Uchiha should have been at Konoha Hospital to see him off.
Shin Uchiha naturally understood what Big Sis Tsunade meant. He casually picked up a snack Shizune had just brought over and spoke as he popped it into his mouth.
"Oh, I think Itachi would rather spend his final moments with Sasuke. I won't intrude."
After all, Itachi was hopelessly obsessed with his little brother. Surely the person he most wanted to see before he died was Sasuke.
Just as Tsunade nodded thoughtfully, Shin Uchiha took a palm-sized glass bottle out of his space. It was filled with clear liquid, with two pale-purple eyeballs