The armistice with Sunagakure will happen in a few days.

This time, the location where the armistice agreement was signed was redetermined. The mission traveling from Konoha was not attacked, and the scene of the armistice agreement passed calmly.

Although the war has passed, ninjas still have to be stationed here at the Fire Country's national border.

Moreover, evacuation and return to the village does not take a day or two. Unused supplies need to be counted, and there are many wounded who also need to be cared for.

There are also corpses of the victims that need to be identified and transported back to the village.

Sakumo's team has nothing to do now. The war is over and there is no need to go to the rear of the Sunagakure camp to carry out sabotage work.

Ignoring the other three for the moment, Shiraishi is on requisition because he is a medical ninja and has to stay in the medical unit every day.

It will be much smoother when these wounded people get better and return to Konoha.

On this day, Shiraishi was working in the medical force as usual, working with other medical ninjas to treat injured ninjas.

In fact, the medical ninjas who performed the operations were all experienced and skilled adult ninjas.

Shiraishi didn't complain about this, so his workload would be much easier.

These days lasted until early December, when the Konoha ninjas on the front line began to break up camp and return to the village, and Shiraishi ended his work as a medical unit.

Returning to the village from the front line, because we were not walking very fast, it took us three or four days to return to the village.

During this period, we need to take care of the wounded and protect the important supplies that have not been used up. We must not move too fast, otherwise we should return to the village within a day.

When he returned to the village, Shiraishi also enjoyed the treatment of a 'hero' for the first time.

The top management of Konoha, headed by the Third Hokage, led a large number of Konoha ninjas, surrounded by villagers of Konoha Village, to welcome the ninjas returning from the front line.

After a day of rest, a large burial ceremony was held in Konoha the next day.

Only more than 500 people were able to bring back the corpses, and of those, less than one-tenth were able to preserve the integrity of the corpses.

Moreover, there are many ninja corpses whose bodies cannot be found, or whose corpses are so mutilated that it is difficult to identify whether they are one of our own or those of Sunagakure. There are even more ninjas in this group.

The weather in December is already very cold.

In addition, on the day of the funeral ceremony, the weather was not very sunny and there was little sunshine.

The four members of Sakumo's team wore pure black mourning clothes and stood in front of the newly added tombstones to express their silence.

This war with Sunagakure lasted for more than two years. It was even worse than the War in the Kingdom of Rain. In terms of sacrifice rate, it was even higher than the War in the Kingdom of Rain.

The overall level of the ninjas who formed Sunagakure is far beyond that of the ninjas of Amegakure Village.

"I didn't see Tsunade's hand and ninja."

Ayane looked around and whispered.

Shiraishi also circled around. Orochimaru and Jiraiya among the three ninjas came, and even Jiraiya's disciple Minato was there, but only Tsunade was not seen.

"After all, this war directly caused her to lose two of her closest people, so it's natural that she doesn't want to attend such a funeral. However, after everyone leaves, she will sneak over alone."

Not wanting others to see the fragile side of the Sannin, he later chose to come alone to mourn. In Shiraishi's view, Tsunade's heart had become weak.

However, people have different inner strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to withstand bad news varies from person to person.

Shiraishi can completely understand this.

"You guys go back first, I'll go find the Hokage to discuss something."

After the funeral, Sakumo left these words and walked towards where the Third Hokage and other senior officials were.

Shiraishi and the other two people did not object, looked at each other, and left the mausoleum park.

"It seems that this year's New Year's Festival will be very deserted."

Ayane said something as she walked on the road, as if she was feeling regretful.

After hearing this, Baishi and Liuli nodded slightly.

It is now December, and many families have been torn apart by the war. Although the festival will be held as usual, it will definitely not be as lively as in previous years.

Not only civilians, but also many ninjas from all major ninja clans died.

"What to do next? The war is over, it always feels so sudden."

"That's because our team has never participated in a frontal war, so that's why we think so."

Shiraishi responded to Ayane's emotion.

"You two, don't take it lightly just because the war is over. If you die, it will be very difficult to find ninjas who can match my rhythm."

Liuli poured cold water on the side.

Shiraishi laughed and said, "It's okay, safety first has always been my code of conduct."

The end of the war does not mean that ninjas have lost their usefulness.

In peacetime, ninjas also have to perform tasks, but compared with wartime, the difficulty of the tasks will be much lower.

Shiraishi thought that he had never tried to accept a normal mission. The missions he had been doing were fighting enemy ninjas.

The lowest level is also a B-level mission, and usually it is an A-level mission. Occasionally, I will follow Sakumo on S-level missions, and work behind the scenes to do military work.

Thinking that Ruri and Ayane in the team were already chunin, and he was the only one in Sakumo's team who was the lowest genin, Shiraishi was thinking about when would be a good time to become a chuunin.

After all, the genin felt a bit out of place in Sakumo's team, which was all elites.

After chatting for a while, the three of them also left and went home.

"Speaking of which, uncle and aunt, will they come back to celebrate the New Year this year?"

"I'll send something back."

"Really? Don't you feel lonely?"

Shiraishi asked.

"It doesn't matter."

"It seems like the two of us will be keeping vigil together again this year."

Shiraishi put his hands behind his head and said casually.

"Yeah, it's another year without any expectations."

Liuli said this, and then glanced at the gray sky, lost in thought.

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December passed quickly, and since Konoha and Sunagakure signed the armistice agreement, no major events have happened in the ninja world.

During this period, Sakumo's team only carried out two missions, both of which were relatively simple C-level missions, wiping out a bandit stronghold in the Land of Fire, and escorting a caravan to the neighboring country of Waves.

Compared to the peaceful ninja world, some minor and minor things happened in Konoha Village.

That is, Tsunade resigned from her position at Konoha Hospital and devoted herself to the cultivation of medical ninjas at the Ninja School.

This baffles many people.

Among those who were confused was Shiraishi.

Because of Tsunade's extremely excellent medical ninjutsu, no one can surpass her in the current ninja world.

The strongest among the ninjas are naturally the 'Five Shadows'.

But in the world of medical ninjas, the strongest person today is undoubtedly Tsunade.

In the eyes of medical ninjas, Tsunade is the pinnacle they want to surpass.

With Tsunade's ability, she could work at Konoha Hospital and at the ninja school to train medical ninjas for Konoha. The two functions would not conflict with each other.

After all, she worked at Konoha Hospital and only occasionally required her to undergo some difficult surgeries. Most of the injuries could be handled by the other medical ninjas.

In this regard, there was no explanation from the senior management, but they only expressed respect for Tsunade's own wishes.

Although they gave up their position at Konoha Hospital, Konoha's medical ninjas can still ask Tsunade for some difficult medical knowledge.

Tsunade didn't say anything about this.

It can be said that she is the greatest authority in the field of medical ninja.

She herself is also very keen on cultivating more outstanding medical ninjas for the village.

Compared to the other two among the Sannin, Tsunade's prestige is undoubtedly stronger and she has an extremely large mass base.

The various drugs she developed for Konoha, during the war, cracked all the poisons of Sunagakure elder Chiyo, and single-handedly greatly reduced the poison attack capabilities of Sunagakure's puppet troops.

Not to mention, during the war, she saved countless Konoha ninjas through surgery, which made many Konoha ninjas grateful to her. Invisibly, she accumulated a large number of contacts and a mass base.

If we say who among the three ninjas is most likely to become the future Hokage, Shiraishi believes that Tsunade is more likely than the other two.

She inherited the excellent bloodline of her grandfather, the first Hokage, and has a solid mass base. She has rescued countless patients through surgeries, and she is very capable as a Jonin... If she herself has the intention to serve as Hokage, there are probably not many people in Konoha.

I will oppose it.

But this is just Shiraishi's family opinion, because the political environment in Konoha is very...well, how should I put it, very special.

Shiraishi really couldn't find the right words to describe it, so he could only use "special" to describe Konoha's political environment.

The power of Anbu, the direct unit that Hokage relies on most, is divided into Anbu and Root.
To be continued...