Silence, and more silence. Silence filled the Hokage's office that day.
How should one put it? Calling Wood Release a matter of faith for Konoha would be a little excessive, but it was not far off.
It was the exclusive ability of Konoha's founder, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju!
Besides, how should one put it? Hashirama Senju had been far too powerful. That kind of strength was difficult for anyone who had never witnessed it to imagine, but Hiruzen Sarutobi had been fortunate enough to see it. He really had played with tailed beasts like figurines!
It was hard to imagine that the tailed beasts, so invincible in the shinobi world, had been so helpless before Hashirama Senju's Wood Release.
But no one had been able to use Wood Release since the First. Oh, except for Yamato, who had survived Orochimaru's experiments. But his Wood Release was, at most, just wooden-object release. It could not begin to compare to the First's Wood Release, which had possessed the power to destroy heaven and earth.
That raised the question: where had Su Yu's Wood Release come from? Could he have some connection to the First?
What a headache!
In the end, the discussion reached no conclusion. The main problem was that they still knew very little about Su Yu's strength. Even the mere glimpses they had seen were already terrifying. Besides, Su Yu currently bore no ill will toward Konoha, which meant they still had a way out. As long as people had a way out, they would lose the courage to forge ahead without hesitation.
Early the next morning, Sasuke and Sakura arrived at Naruto's home.
Sasuke was still the same cold, handsome boy as before. But whereas he had previously been like ice and snow buried in a dark