"Sasuke?!"
Naruto's pupils contracted sharply, and the chakra around him instantly ran wild.
"He's over there?!"
Seeing Naruto's agitation, Hashirama grew even more confused. "What? Is this Sasuke famous? Why does every Konoha ninja know him?"
At the name, Sakura's previously dull eyes instantly lit up with hope.
Sai gave a wry smile beside them. "Lord First, Sasuke isn't famous, but to the person standing before you, Sasuke matters more than his own life."
Hashirama: "?"
Were young people's relationships really this complicated nowadays?
Naruto took a deep breath and turned to Hashirama, his gaze utterly serious.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the man who's going to become Hokage!"
"Although I still can't be completely certain of your identity, since you call yourself the First Hokage, please help us carry out our mission!"
"What mission?" Hashirama asked instinctively.
Naruto pointed toward the distant explosion and declared firmly:
"Bring the rogue ninja Sasuke Uchiha back to Konoha!"
A rogue ninja? An Uchiha?
Hashirama's gaze sharpened. No wonder everyone from Konoha had their eyes on the boy. He was a traitor from their own village.
"All right! Since this is a family matter, as an elder, I naturally have to step in!"
Meanwhile, in Kirigakure.
Gekkō Raito looked at the village, now restored to life, and nodded in satisfaction.
He now had a formidable force at his disposal.
He had casually sealed the One-Tail and Two-Tails and tossed them aside. Added to those were the Three-Tails inside him and the Three-Tails through Seven-Tails that Kirigakure already controlled.
Rounding things off, he already commanded the power of eight tailed beasts!
If he also brought back the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, through Impure World Reincarnation, he would have the Yin Nine-Tails too.
He could even try to assemble the Ten-Tails!
A gleam of ambition flashed