Chapter 268: Chapter 268: Yagura Returns Empty-Handed, Third Mizukage's Anger

Chapter 268: Chapter 268: Yagura Returns Empty-Handed, Third Mizukage's Anger



"Did you find some money on the way home? You look way too cheerful," Takuya teased.

Despite Tsunade's position as head of the Logistics Department, now one of the higher-ups in the village, going to work was still a miserable task for her. Usually, she came home looking completely exhausted, but today she seemed full of energy.

If it weren't for the fact that stimulants were mostly useless for shinobi, Takuya might've suspected Tsunade had taken a dose of something.

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That cheerful mood didn't last long. The moment she got home, it was destroyed by Takuya's words.

"And why, after you finished work, didn't you go home, but instead came straight to lie on my couch?" Takuya continued.

"Your house is only like thirty meters away from mine, what's the big deal?" she retorted.

"Just stay for dinner, then go back," Takuya sighed.

Tsunade resisted the urge to punch Takuya and instead rolled her eyes at him. "Because the old man actually showed some backbone today, wasn't swayed by those old farts, and that put me in a good mood."

The Third Hokage showed some backbone? He wasn't influenced by the other elders?

Did this mean something major happened in the village?

In the original timeline, nothing big seemed to happen around this period. It was still some time before Sakumo Hatake's tragedy, and Kakashi hadn't even started school yet-Sakumo's incident happened after Kakashi enrolled.

"What do you mean by backbone?" Takuya asked, curious about how far the Third Hokage

went.

"The Mist Village tried to threaten Konoha with war, and the Council of Elders wanted to muddy the waters, but they didn't even get a chance to speak. Danzo even acted like a decent person for once today."

Takuya's hand slipped while chopping vegetables.

He thought he must have misheard-Mist Village threatening Konoha with war?

"What's the reason? They can't just declare a fight without some excuse," Takuya asked, continuing to chop.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Was Mist trying to rise up suddenly? To threaten Konoha with war-what a bizarre move. The bigger question was, what kind of conflict led Mist to make such a declaration? Takuya figured the situation must be complicated.

After dinner, Tsunade quickly made her exit, fearing that if she stayed, Takuya would make her wash dishes. She stayed far, far away from any kind of household chores.

She'd rather treat patients at the hospital than wash dishes or mop the floor. Worst of all, she was terrible at them-leaving dishes dirty and the floor still dusty...

Sakumo Hatake took an unexpected route, escaping into the Land of Lightning and losing the Mist's pursuit. After tending to his injuries and resting for two days, he returned to Konoha. Back in the Mist Village, Yagura's expression was sour-he had just been chewed out by the Third Mizukage.

The Mist had deployed a lot of shinobi, but they still couldn't catch even one Sakumo Hatake.

If Sakumo had simply overpowered their forces, that would've been easier to accept. But the fact that he managed to shake them off and disappear? That was worse than if Yagura had been beaten outright.

When he returned to the village, Yagura was greeted with an angry tirade from the Third

Mizukage.

Fortunately, the elder, Gengetsu, wasn't as harsh. He even helped analyze the route Sakumo

might have taken to escape.

After some consideration, Gengetsu sighed, "Konoha truly is a cradle of geniuses. Sakumo

Hatake lives up to his reputation."

An average shinobi would have run straight towards the Land of Fire. But Sakumo did the opposite, heading into the Land of Lightning instead.

And now, hundreds of Mist shinobi had been searching the sea for days, without even a

glimpse of Sakumo's shadow.

"No wonder he's called the 'White Fang of Konoha'... If only such a talent had been born in the

Mist," Gengetsu lamented.

Yagura said nothing, his face still dark. The whole situation had been humiliating.

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