Chapter 863

"No need to go back to the village. I can tell Kakashi-senpai all about Konoha properly, but let's wait until we get to Kumogakure to talk about it—after all, we're already right at their doorstep."

Yamato let out a helpless laugh beside him. He actually thought Kakashi was being treated pretty unfairly—just led astray by the contents of certain novels, that was all.

Besides, Kakashi had been away from the village for so long and had never gone back at all, so he had no idea what the current situation in Konoha was.

But as someone who had just rushed over from Konoha, he was very clear on what the Fourth's couple and the Second-sama meant, as well as the Uchiha looking on coldly from over there.

Everyone lived in the village, so naturally they knew what had happened since the Chunin Exams.

"Then I'll leave it to you. Make him sober up properly, or else I'd really suspect he's about to become the next Jiraiya!"

Tobirama glanced over and said no more. That kind of book was supposedly quite popular among single male ninja before, but after Sarutobi Nisshin became the target of universal hostility across the whole village, a certain someone's books very consciously got destroyed from their followers' collections.

Especially a few days ago, when Jiraiya was questioned face-to-face by Tsunade, and even his old mother was humiliated—no one would collect them anymore.

After all, Tsunade's question substituting his mother had triggered a lot of people's inner self-examination.

"You bastard Sasuke, get down here!"