These days, Shingetsu spent ten minutes or so after waking up and before going to bed casually searching for wherever that monkey Hiruzen Sarutobi had gone.
As for how efficient she was, well, there was no demanding too much. When Shingetsu woke up or got ready for bed, all she could think about was falling asleep.
But Monkey got lucky. That morning, Shingetsu made her usual halfhearted search after waking up and actually found Sarutobi's coordinates.
"Huh?!"
Shingetsu, who had nearly fallen asleep again, instantly opened her eyes wide and sprang upright, her face full of disbelief.
After hearing the news, the Senju brothers and Izuna all wore rather peculiar expressions. Their feelings were clearly complicated-
They were happy, of course. At least a little.
But whenever they thought of the Old Third and the two collections of love poems their monkey had published, all three looked at a loss for words.
Tobirama remained expressionless, happiness written all over his face.
After lowering his head in thought for a moment, he asked the other three in an extremely quiet voice:
"...How about we pretend we didn't see him?"
At that, Shingetsu, Hashirama, and Izuna all turned to glare at Tobirama with remarkably peculiar looks-seven parts disdain, five parts contempt, and three parts agreement.
Their stares sent a chill down Tobirama's back, and he immediately changed his tune:
"I was joking."
After some discussion, they still decided to retrieve Monkey. The four of them turned their eyes toward Madara again, intending to leave him watching the house.
But Madara had ideas of his own.
"This time, I'm going with Shingetsu."
In an instant, all four faces contorted, each displaying its own spectacular expression-
"Absolutely not!"
"N-no, no, no, you can't!"
"You can't go, Master!"
"Brother, don't do anything rash!"
The Senju