With Shingetsu and everyone else helping him reconcile with Tatsuki, Hashirama was in such high spirits that he finally returned to normal. He shaved his beard, washed his hair, lost the dark circles under his eyes, and dumped all his work on his dear little brother Tobirama.
Unsure whether to feel relieved or furious, Tobirama opened the documents Hashirama had reviewed, and his temper instantly flared. The pages were covered in meaningless doodles!
His dear older brother nearly drove Tobirama to an early grave with rage. Wonderful. Now he would have to work through the night cleaning up Hashirama's mess again. On the verge of exploding, Tobirama grabbed the documents and hurled them to the floor, cursing furiously:
"Hashirama Senju, you bastard!"
But Hashirama, who had recovered from his despondency, couldn't hear Tobirama's curses. He was busy with something important: writing letters to the other four Kage.
He wrote during the day and at night, before meals and after meals, before bed and even more after waking up. Countless pieces of junk mail produced by Hashirama bombarded the Four Great Ninja Villages' mailboxes nonstop, reminding the four Kage that the time was approaching. Stop dawdling and hurry over!
As the Five Kage Summit drew ever closer, and with Hashirama's maddening reminder letters piling up, the Kage of the Four Great Ninja Villages began arriving in the Land of Fire one after another.
Convoys passed through the Konoha Gate constantly during those days. Aside from the Kage of the various villages and their guard contingents, all sorts of uninvited guests arrived. Besides shinobi from smaller nations and envoys of the Daimyō, there were, of course, spies and assassins with death wishes.
For a time, the Konoha Military Police Force, the combat shinobi, and the Anbu deployed almost in full force. The