"Yes, it's good news!" Shin Senju chuckled. "I'll summon the Jonin Commander to announce it later, too. There's no harm in telling you early, kid."
"Word just came back that the lady delivered safely and gave the clan leader a son. Mother and child are both well!"
"Really?"
Yura Senju was just as delighted. "Doesn't that mean I'm an uncle again?!"
Shin Senju chuckled, then suddenly put on a stern face. "Heh, an uncle? Why don't you think about taking responsibility yourself and becoming a father?"
Yura Senju instinctively scratched his head, accidentally touching his wound and grimacing in pain. "Ah, well, isn't the fighting on the front lines intense right now? I'm not thinking about that sort of thing for the time being..."
"Look at you! You're almost twenty, and you still haven't started a family? At your age, how can you sleep at night? Huh?!"
Shin Senju's anger flared, and he slapped the table in exasperation at Yura's failure to live up to his expectations.
Yura Senju shrank like an ostrich under the scolding, not quite understanding why the birth of his little nephew had earned him such a thorough tongue-lashing.
White Rock Forest.
It was a forest near the Senju Clan Compound, named for its abundance of white mountain rock.
After using "Mantra" the night before to ferret out the mole the Uchiha had planted among the Senju, Josen rested for the night and went to Shin Senju early the next morning to say goodbye.
This era was nowhere near as exciting as the later era. He did not want to get too involved in the slaughter between the two great ninja clans, and with his objective achieved, there was naturally no need to stay any longer.
The Senju Clan's past intelligence records mentioned driving away the