He entered Konoha through the Shadow World without anyone noticing him.
He returned home.
"Yo." A shadow clone was watching television at home and greeted the original as he returned.
With a pop, the shadow clone vanished, and a flood of memories appeared in his mind.
Konoha had been much the same lately. Nawaki had mysteriously gone off somewhere to train again, and Aburame Chūki still came over whenever she had nothing to do.
Today, she had gone shopping with Hyuga Xia Nai. Hyuga Xia Nai was still using Hyuga Akira's Transformation Technique and had no intention of going home.
Root's Second Squad was training as usual, and Danzo had not issued any missions, though their numbers had increased considerably lately.
The original twenty-person unit had expanded to forty. Machi was doing very well in Root. Somehow, she had caught Danzo's attention and was now serving at his side.
The biggest news was probably that Minato Namikaze and Kushina had graduated. They had not been assigned to the same team, however, but split between two teams instead.
"So that means the incident where Kumogakure tries to capture Kushina is about to happen." Hyuga Akira rubbed his chin.
I could farm a little experience from that.
Hyuga Akira headed toward Minato Namikaze's home with a gift.
Minato had given him a gift when he was promoted to Jonin, so he needed to return the favor.
The area where Minato Namikaze lived was rather hard to describe. It was in a relatively remote part of Konoha, full of old houses.
Many people on the street wore patched clothes.
Konoha had its poor, too. These people had lived here since their grandparents' generation, gradually falling on hard times for various reasons.
Still, they had no intention of leaving Konoha. They hoped another