Time slipped by, and ten days soon passed. Throughout that time, Sōkyū Hatake had been doing all sorts of training with Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame.
Of course, for Mitaraishi Anko, that meant combat training, while Ayame worked on the basics.
By now, Mitaraishi Anko had gained a fairly proficient grasp of the Six Powers, but Ayame was still mostly working on extracting chakra and other basic exercises.
Over those days, reports about Iwagakure arrived one after another. Contrary to Sōkyū Hatake's initial expectations, Iwagakure had not only launched a surprise attack on Cloud Shadow Village, but had even included Sunagakure among its targets.
The Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, personally led the surprise attack on Cloud Shadow Village, while Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchūriki, led the others in an assault on Sunagakure!
However, Rasa had long been prepared and brought Bunpuku along to repel the attack.
Still, Sunagakure could not spare all its forces to attack Konoha in the short term. On the border with Konoha, Rasa directly appointed Chiyo to command the entire war effort, with Rasa and Pakura assisting her.
With that, the two of them finally found something to get fired up about.
After all, they had never been able to take the field before. Things were different now-they could join the fighting openly!
However, under their original agreement, neither side would attack the other for fifteen days.
Thus, until the final moment arrived, the two sides remained in their honeymoon period.
"Elder Hatake, Lord Hokage requests your presence." While Sōkyū Hatake was training, an Anbu ninja suddenly appeared before him.
"Understood. Lead the way. You two, keep training." Sōkyū Hatake glanced at Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame, who were still training, and spoke directly to them.
"All right. Come back soon." Ayame spoke up at once. Ever since she had