Ameyuri Ringo tilted her head and looked at him. "My Lord is reminiscing about the old days, isn't he?"
Gekkō Raito didn't speak, only nodding gently.
Just at that moment, a lazy figure walked out from inside the Konoha Gate, featuring signature silver hair, deadpan eyes, and that little Icha Icha book never leaving his hand.
"Returning with such fanfare during this sensitive period, I don't even know whether I should say I welcome you."
Gekkō Raito raised an eyebrow. "Kakashi-sensei's information network is quite sharp, knowing I arrived?"
"Lady Tsunade notified me."
Kakashi closed the book in his hand. "However, shouldn't you have kept a slightly lower profile and snuck in?"
Right now, Konoha's situation was tense like a drawn bowstring, and Gekkō Raito appeared right at the main entrance swaggering along with such a murderous bunch of Mist Ninja, practically agitating everyone's nerves.
"Since I came, I have to do it openly and aboveboard."
Gekkō Raito adjusted his collar. "Back then I walked out openly and aboveboard, why should I sneak back in now like a thief?"
Kakashi let out a helpless sigh, then revealed a single eye curved into a crescent.
"So be it. Fortunately that brat Naruto isn't in the village, otherwise... he'd probably have rushed out and hugged your thigh crying by now."
"Naruto isn't here? Where did he go?"
"Seeing that his emotions weren't right after returning to the village, Lord Jiraiya threw him off to Mount Myōboku to train in Senjutsu."
Mount Myōboku?
Gekkō Raito was lost in thought.
This was actually good news, meaning Naruto came into contact with Senjutsu more than two years earlier than in the original work.
He just didn't know if that idiot could master it.
While they spoke, Kakashi's gaze swept over the ninja behind Gekkō Raito.