Shihōin Naraku had left behind such a huge question and simply walked away.
This left Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno utterly baffled.
"Was Big Brother Naraku (Lord Naraku) joking?" Naruto and Sakura asked in unison.
But both immediately rejected their own words.
Both Naruto and Sakura could hear that there had not been the slightest hint of a joke in Naraku's words.
Besides, something as important as stepping down as Hokage could not be treated as a joke.
It was inappropriate!
Moreover, Naraku had no need to make that sort of joke with the two of them.
"What even is all this?!"
Naruto frantically scratched his head with both hands, looking exasperated and speechless.
Why did he have to think about something like this?
He was not the Hokage now!
He had to tell Kakashi-sensei about this. Only he would know how to handle it.
"That's right, I'm going to tell Kakashi-sensei." Naruto made up his mind.
Sakura hurriedly reached out and grabbed Naruto. "Hold on, Naruto."
"Lord Naraku sounded very serious just now. He told us not to tell anyone else about this!"
"Don't forget that!"
At any rate, Sakura did not believe Naraku lacked the means to threaten them.
That was why she had decisively stopped Naruto.
As Konoha's Hokage, Shihōin Naraku could deal with the two of them with the greatest of ease.
Even if Naruto was not worried, she was scared.
But this only troubled Naruto even more.
"Then what should we do?"
"How are we supposed to come up with anything without telling anyone else?"
By now, Sakura was beginning to catch on.
Even if Shihōin Naraku told them about something like this, there was nothing they could do.
Exactly. That was it.
Only now did she understand why the Hokage had so readily revealed