"What!? Sōkū and Han are fighting?" Minato Namikaze, who was desperately dealing with the mess Jiraiya had left behind in the Operations Command Room, heard the news too. For a moment, he did not know what to say.
He had thought Sōkyū Hatake was only joking. Who would have thought he would actually go over there?
"Yes, Lord Minato, well... uh..." When the Konoha ninja looked up, Minato Namikaze had already vanished from the office at some point.
Clearly, the fastest man in the world had left using Flying Thunder God...
"This is a blast! What a blast!" Han shouted. The steam had flushed his cheeks slightly, but trading blows with Sōkyū Hatake gave him a thrill he had not felt in a long time.
"Come on, keep going!" Sōkyū Hatake was much the same as Han. The rush of hot blood was going to his head.
The two attacked each other again.
"Kakashi, what's going on?" After using the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the scene, Minato Namikaze arrived right beside Kakashi Hatake.
"Minato-sensei, Sōkū said he wanted to take a look at Iwagakure's Operations Command Room, and then... then it turned into this," Kakashi Hatake said, somewhat speechless.
How was he supposed to know what had happened?
"Wait... they're evenly matched?" Minato Namikaze had intended to step forward and rescue Sōkyū Hatake, but he froze when he saw the scene.
Since when... had Sōkyū Hatake grown this much?
Indeed, the battlefield had become a two-man show between Sōkyū Hatake and Han. The other ninja had returned to their own battlefields and were watching the fight intently.
"Hah, hah, hah, you're really good, but this is as far as you go, Sōkyū Hatake!" After punching Sōkyū Hatake, Han leaped backward. His clothes were already in tatters,