With the information sharing complete, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju prepared to return to Konoha with Naruto and the others for a look.
Although the war was still going on, the fighting was not particularly intense.
After all, Obito had only intended to use the war to buy time, not actually destroy the Shinobi World with those brought back through Impure World Reincarnation and the White Zetsu army.
So everyone was in a hurry, but also not.
Since things on the front lines were not that urgent, the Senju brothers naturally wanted to visit Konoha first.
Using the Flying Thunder God Formation, the group soon returned to Konoha.
The Senju brothers kept nodding as they took in the thriving streets.
Tobirama Senju sighed inwardly. Sure enough, leaving Konoha to Monkey had been the right choice.
Huh, hadn't I thought that before?
Along the way, they also encountered their peers: Ino-Shika-Cho, Hinata's team, and Neji's team.
They knew that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had joined the war, and they were both envious and full of worry.
They were envious because some of them were still Genin, while even those who were Chunin had only recently been promoted. They did not meet the requirements to join the fighting and could only handle logistics in the village.
Yet Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, who were their peers, could already take part in a war of this scale. It felt like a dream.
When they learned that Naruto and the others were already about as strong as the Hokage, that dreamlike feeling grew even stronger.
Why?!
They were all the same age, so why were those three so strong when the rest of them weren't even among the stronger Chunin?!
That gap left them feeling somewhat dejected, and somewhat envious.
Their worry, too, stemmed from