"Is the cleanup finished?"
"Well done, Naruto!"
Kakashi Hatake reached out and patted Naruto Uzumaki, who stood before him, on the shoulder, offering a few generous words of praise.
"Hehehe..."
Naruto had never been one to keep his composure. Hearing Kakashi-sensei praise him like that, he could not help rubbing the back of his head and grinning smugly.
Kakashi first motioned for the others to rest, then exchanged a few words with Naruto.
"Naruto, you summoned so many Shadow Clones just now. That used up quite a bit of stamina and chakra. Go get some rest."
"I'm not tired," Naruto said, waving a hand. He really was not lying. That amount of exertion truly was nothing to him.
"You still need to rest." Kakashi looked at him seriously. "Tomorrow-no, today-there's bound to be more fighting. When that happens, you won't have time to rest even if you want to."
"All right, I'll go rest, then."
Naruto had originally wanted to find Sakura and chat for a while, but then he remembered what he had just seen. Sakura was busy treating the wounded and certainly had no time to chat with him.
For now, he could only give up on the idea.
Whoosh!
Just as Naruto was about to leave, a flash of golden light streaked through the air, and Minato Namikaze appeared before him.
"Naruto!"
Naruto froze. "Dad?"
Given Minato Namikaze's strength, he should also have been eliminating White Zetsu throughout the Allied Shinobi Forces' camp alongside Naruto.
But he had been assigned another task earlier, so he had not joined in.
There were too many critically wounded soldiers on the battlefield who needed to be sent back to the field hospital promptly, and Minato Namikaze, who had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, was the best person to resolve