Late at night, the lights in the Hokage Office were still on. Faced with a deskful of documents, Tsunade had no heart to read them. Anyo and Kikyo had been missing for most of the day, and even after she sent out large numbers of Anbu to search, they had found nothing.
The two had left Konoha without a sound, leaving not a single trace of where they had gone. Thinking of everything that had happened that day made Tsunade inexplicably irritable.
"Sister Tsunade, have you calmed down yet?" A lively voice drifted over.
Tsunade abruptly stood up. There was only one person in this world who would address her that way.
Sure enough, Kikyo pushed the door open and entered with a smile.
Tsunade hurried over and hugged Kikyo tightly. Although less than a day had passed, she had already been tormented by worry, and now her emotions finally spilled out.
She asked one question after another. "Where did he take you? I couldn't find you anywhere. I was worried sick! Do you know how worried I was?"
Kikyo answered with a grin, "Dad took me somewhere fun."
After the Rinnegan was sealed by Moon in the Well, Anyo simply taught Kikyo senjutsu in Ryūchi Cave. Of course, he could not bear to let the White Snake Sage bite his daughter.
Instead, he condensed a seed of senjutsu chakra himself and lodged it inside Kikyo's body. Once she gradually gained complete control over the violent natural energy, she could let the seed bloom and naturally learn Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu.
When the White Snake Sage saw Anyo's methods, the look in her eyes changed completely. If she had maintained a somewhat superior attitude before, she now treated him entirely as an equal, even showing a faint hint of eagerness to