'Blonde hair, oversized clothes, that's Tsunade alright.'
'Is she using her age changing justu to trick another gambling house?'
Sato calmly watched the trio run from their debt collectors, he also noticed the slight hesitation on Tsunade's face when his group flashed away.
She either realised she was running towards cloud ninja's by mistake, or she recognised the two tail jinchuriki Yugito Nii.
Whatever it was, she quickly pretended she didn't know them and started running faster.
But the urgency in her steps was much higher.
"Get out of the way Shizune!"
Tsunade exclaimed urgently, which made Shizune gulp in nervousness.
There was a rule they normally tried to follow, no ninjutsu use against people chasing them, these guys were just ordinary people after all.
Usually she was the one who used her kekkei genkai, 'Hog release', to distract these guys while they make their escape.
But now that Tsunade sama told her to get out of the way, that could only mean she was about to use a ninjutsu attack.
"Yes!"
Shizune and her pet pig immediately ran faster than Tsunade, while Tsunade herself skidded to a stop and took her stance.
"I said I'll pay you back tomorrow!"
"Now stay away!"
"HA!"
*Rumble*
Tsunade's punch connected with the ground and the street instantly shattered like it was made of glass.
"What?!"
Yugito, Sato and C were shocked, the trio ran away faster than most people could see and the next second.
*Boom*
The entire street collapsed, the ground broke apart as if a large scale earth ninjustu was triggered, smoke and dust were floating everywhere.
Buildings had collapsed onto themselves, the debt collectors were thrown back from the shockwave.
Tsunade's attack changed the whole environment in one go.
'In just one punch this turned from a normal street to a disaster zone.'
Sato watched his surroundings with wide eyes, he took in all the destruction around him.
His group was the closest to Tsunade when she attacked.
He had seen her throw that punch from up close, he had seen her stance, her effort and the moment the punch connected to the ground.
He had noticed the destruction and just how the force had scattered to cause such a shift in the earth surface.
'I get it, so this is how it's supposed to be done..!'
Sato's eyes widened in amazement, he had learnt chakra enhanced strength on his own, no teacher taught him how to use this ability correctly.
But Tsunade's attack let him see how it was supposed to be done, he saw everything from up close and he was pretty sure-
"I can do this myself."
Sato concluded with seriousness.
Yugito and C heard Sato's words but they didn't have time to care about that now.
They were much more concerned about the situation before them.
"Who was that? Was this targeted towards us?"
C frowned and took out his tanto, he looked around everywhere for the 'little girl' but she strangely vanished.
"Don't bother to look, with an attack of this intensity that has to be Tsunade."
"One of the three legendary ninjas."
Yugito explained with caution in her words, was Tsunade being here a coincidence or was it targeted towards them?
But if it was targeted towards them, why did Tsunade run away this fast.
It felt as if Tsunade wanted to get away from them while warning them at the same time.
'She is simultaneously showing both care as well as disinterest towards Konoha.'
'What a weird woman.'
*Swish*
Just when Yugito was thinking if this was Konoha's plan or Tsunade's personal actions, a ninja with white hair and an anbu mask flashed before them.
"Excuse me."
"I am from Konoha, please come with me."
The white haired man knelt down on one knee and spoke without showing emotions.
'That broom like hair, there's no mistaking it, this is Kakashi.'
'I am meeting a lot of plot characters today.'
Sato smiled internally but cleverly stood behind Yugito.
He didn't forget that he was a cloud ninja now, his village had just finished a war with Konoha.
Kakashi wouldn't hesitate a single second to kill him if he had such a mission.
The plot character's he knew and loved would happily murder him as soon as they received an order.
It was hard to get attached to them under these conditions.
"Is this a joke? Your Sanin just destroyed the street we were standing on."
"This was clearly an attack aimed to kill us!"
Yugito growled threateningly but Kakashi looked lazy as usual.
He had zero fear even if his opponent was a jinchuriki.
Was it confidence or he was just a walking dead, who didn't fear death anymore? Sato wasn't sure.
"Hokage sama will give Kumo an explanation."
"Please understand that this wasn't our intention, it was an accident."
Kakashi spoke seriously but the laziness under his tone was still there.
Both C and Yugito clearly noticed this too, this absolute calmness made them concerned and wary of this anbu.
They looked at each other for a second and nodded silently.
Both of them decided it wasn't worth it to fight against an unknown anbu and miss Hyuga Hiashi's Byakugan.
"Konoha better give us an explanation."
"My brother almost died because of that."
Yugito glared at Kakashi, the anger made her eyes flash green and yellow.
This was the eye colour of Matatabi, the two tails, Yugito's flashing eyes meant Matatabi was either cooperating with Yugito or she herself was angry.
Whatever it was, Kakashi got the message, his body instinctively became tight, but he maintained politeness.
"I will inform Hokage sama, please come with me."
Kakashi said seriously, his eyes casually swept past Sato, the supposed brother of the two tail jinchuriki.
'I'll have to put this in the report.'
Kakashi thought, though he didn't stare at Sato any longer beyond a normal glance.
Turning around he flashed away, Yugito and C decided to follow along, Yugito carried Sato while C ran behind her.
It didn't take long for the group to stop once more.
This time when Sato's vision was restored he saw the gates of Konoha.
Behind which was a tall mountain peak with four gigantic faces carved into them.
'Konoha.'
'The center of the world.'
'I am finally here.'
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