A few days passed, and Orochimaru's mental state visibly improved a great deal. While this brought a sigh of relief to Artoria, it inevitably gave her a headache over other matters.
Naturally, the news of Orochimaru's parents being resurrected could not be kept from those old codgers. Neither Hashirama nor Madara showed much interest—especially after Artoria claimed she had no idea how it happened, whereupon they comfortably went back to the Ninja Academy to act as its gate-keeping grandpas.
Tobirama, on the other hand, occasionally cast probing and questioning glances at Artoria's direction. But Artoria refused to say another word even if it killed her, and since he had no better way to pry open her lips, he simply dropped the matter. After all, she was his older brother's disciple; he couldn't very well have the Yamanaka clan read her memories.
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