Chapter 6: Jōnin Meeting 2
"Shikaku, if I'm not mistaken, that guy is the one who guards the gate, right?" Yamanaka Inoichi, with his golden hair, walked up to Nara Shikaku and muttered in a low voice.
In Inoichi's mind, Shikaku was a smart guy—lazy, too, never doing anything unnecessary.
And yet, here he was, getting along so well with a mere gate guard. There had to be something more to it.
"That guy looks way too similar to the Second Hokage! Earlier, Tsunade-sama brought him and Shizune to the Hokage Building. Don't you think there's something fishy going on?"
Inoichi blinked. "Back when the Third Hokage used the Second Hokage's decree to have the Senju Clan change their surname and integrate into Konoha, someone from the Kamizuki family might have coincidentally married into the Senju line. A resemblance isn't all that strange, is it?"
Thinking about the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama—the cold-blooded god of war, a shinobi of extraordinary strength, and a creator of countless forbidden techniques—Inoichi found the comparison absurd. Kamizuki Hikari? He was just a mere Konoha gatekeeper. There were plenty of shinobi in Konoha with his level of ability. It really wasn't worth overthinking.
"It just looks a bit odd, that's all."
Shikaku neither confirmed nor denied it. "Let's go. Time for the meeting."
With that, the two quickened their pace toward the Hokage building.
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Konoha's Main Gate.