For the accompanying ANBU, this trip to the Land of Iron counted as their easiest long-distance mission yet.
After all, who got to stay in villas all the way through a long-distance mission?
Thanks to Naruto's Wood Release, four whole large villas had sprung up along the road from Konoha to the Land of Iron.
The kind that could house more than a dozen people.
At this, the ANBU who had never gone on missions with a Wood Release shinobi shed tears of envy.
How wonderful it would be to have a shinobi on their own team who knew Wood Release and could build houses whenever they wanted.
Of course, Earth Release could also build houses, but houses built with Earth Release were inevitably affected by chakra.
Once the chakra supply stopped, houses formed through Earth Release would gradually soften and eventually collapse.
So unless you had a teammate with enough chakra to keep the Earth Release solid all night, who also didn't need to sleep, you couldn't sleep soundly in a house formed through Earth Release.
Besides, there was already a fundamental difference between a house made of dirt and a wooden villa, okay?
Of course, a few of the ANBU had gone on missions with Tenzo.
Back then, Tenzo had just defected from-scratch that-been transferred out of Root and was following Kakashi on missions in the ANBU directly under the Hokage.
At the time, Tenzo had held Kakashi in great respect and had put some thought into his suggestions.
For example, he had developed a ninjutsu for building houses with Wood Release.
It had to be admitted that, offensive power aside, Wood Release really was very well suited to building houses.
And so, during that period, the ANBU shinobi who went on missions with Tenzo had enjoyed very