"Moshi moshi."
An incredibly familiar voice reached Hashirama's ears.
The pair of jokers clutched in his hand froze in place.
Familiar muscle memory made him hurriedly put his cards down and prepare to put them away.
"Hey, Grandpa Hashirama, what's wrong?"
Kushina looked at her teammate, who had gone AFK halfway through the game, and complained.
Well, now that she had gotten close to Hashirama, her Red Hot-Blooded Habanero personality had come straight out.
"Ahem, well, something's come up."
Hashirama rubbed his head and waved apologetically, then swiftly disappeared.
And according to the law of conservation of card players, whenever someone left, someone else would definitely fill their place.
And so.
A tiny Kurama appeared there, looking utterly bewildered.
Yep, the aura of nature chakra still lingered around him.
"***, seriously, you even activated Sage Mode just to drag me over to play cards?!"
A somewhat frantic Kurama deftly picked up the cards Hashirama had left with his tails.
(✪ω✪)
Apparently, perhaps this wasn't such a bad idea.
Hashirama had a pretty good hand.
Then Lord Kurama would reluctantly lend little Hashirama Senju a hand.
"Bomb!!!"
Under Kurama and Kushina's expectant gazes, Minato, the landlord, twitched at the corner of his mouth.
"...Pass."
Meanwhile, Hashirama had already reached the top of a large tree.
"Oh, Tobirama, it's you. What's going on?"
Hashirama wiped nonexistent sweat from his forehead as he addressed Tobirama, who was tinkering with this and that inside the blue screen before him.
"..."
Tobirama said nothing. He gently put down his research implements, folded his arms, and stared at his older brother.
(个_个)
"Never mind. Brother, did you see a blue screen too?"
Tobirama decided to let Hashirama off for gambling again for now. Once he thoroughly understood this screen, wouldn't he be able to find his