"Aomi, he's truly the kind of Uchiha I imagined, with immense love in his heart!
"See, didn't I tell you? Tobirama! The Uchiha Clan is genuinely a clan of love, but you never listened..."
Senju Hashirama was crying his heart out.
It was partly because Aomi's background was really too tough.
In Senju Tobirama's story, the reason Aomi had to pretend to be the reincarnation of Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna's Chakra was mainly due to the initial decline of the dovish faction of the Uchiha...
Under the control of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo, the repression of the Uchiha Clan in Konoha Village was severe, assisted by the special institution appointed by Senju Tobirama, the Konoha Guard Department, tying this blood-need Ninja Clan within the village.
In such a situation, the relationship between the Uchiha and the village grew increasingly tense...
Thus, within the Uchiha Clan, the dovish faction seeking to improve relations without bloodshed had less and less say, replaced by the hawkish faction led by figures like Setsuna.
But Aomi, as a young man who cared about Konoha and his family...
In this predicament, he could only rely on the wisdom of his predecessors, successively summoning the spirits of Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama with Kinjutsu, facing the highly prejudiced gaze of a certain Second Hokage...
Step by step, through personal actions, he changed Senju Tobirama's discrimination, united various factions within Konoha, and led the village towards a better future.
At this moment.
Whether it was Senju Hashirama hearing Aomi's story for the first time, or Uzumaki Mito who had taught Aomi, or Tsunade, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shisui, Asuma, those around him...
They all understood that the so-called Kinjutsu Creation Theory and the reincarnation theory of Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna's Chakra were all induced by Aomi to guide Konoha's upper echelons to think that way.
Yet no one blamed him in the slightest.
Just because Aomi did it with a wholehearted consideration for the village's benefit...
If he didn't play the role of the reincarnation of Uchiha Izuna's Chakra...
Given the power of the hawkish Uchiha at the time, it would have been difficult for Aomi to quickly win people's hearts, pacifying those red-eyed Uchiha to prevent a major turmoil.
If he didn't play the role of the reincarnation of Senju Tobirama's Chakra...
Aomi couldn't further gain the recognition of Konoha's upper echelons, lowering their guard, quickly entering the circle of the Hokage line as an Uchiha, obtaining enough discourse power and status to adjust the already problematic Konoha situation.
Did Aomi want to actively do this?
Wasn't it forced by Konoha!
Aomi exerted himself to play this role, all for the sake of Konoha, wasn't it?
Even at the cost of wasting his own eye power...
Under Senju Tobirama's analysis, Aomi's Mangekyo Dojutsu was already very clear, possessing powerful abilities of Replication Jutsu and even Kekkeigenkai...
This was also why he could play Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama so similarly, even down to the details...
"Tobirama! If you hadn't been so harsh on Aomi from the start, he wouldn't have had to waste his eye power..."
Senju Hashirama stood up for Aomi, harshly criticizing Senju Tobirama:
"The ordinary Five Elements Jutsu, a three-Tomoe Uchiha could learn at a glance. Aomi, in order to dispel your prejudice, even had to use Dojutsu to replicate the details in your Water Release! Making you think Aomi was your Chakra reincarnation..."
"The Uchiha's eye power is extremely precious! Even Madara had the risk of blindness before obtaining Izuna's Mangekyo."
"To eliminate your prejudice as the Second Hokage, Aomi didn't use his eye power to replicate those powerful Jutsu, but to imprint your Water Release..."
"After my death, you really would have driven the Uchiha Clan to extinction, if it weren't for Aomi appearing, Konoha would have been in chaos long ago!"
Senju Tobirama understood what Senju Hashirama meant, but he still felt a bit aggrieved.
Although he felt ashamed remembering when he first met Aomi, calling him a naturally evil little Uchiha brat...
How is this naturally evil?
This is a natural saint!
But his Water Release wasn't bad at all... At that time, Aomi just debuted, right?
Was spending eye power to replicate his Water Release such a wasteful thing?
In Senju Hashirama's words, his Water Release seemed like a common commodity on the street, not worth replicating with Dojutsu at all...
But Senju Tobirama didn't dare to talk back to his older brother, because what Senju Hashirama said indeed made sense...
Clearly, Aomi could usually replicate Water Release without any cost, but due to his wariness and discrimination against the Uchiha, he used precious eye power to replicate the details...
This indeed was him causing Aomi harm!
"I was wrong, big brother..."
Senju Tobirama lowered his head: "Thinking back now, Aomi had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan even before meeting me and hadn't graduated from Ninja School yet. What kind of emotional stimulus was so strong for him..."
"It can only be the rift between the Uchiha Clan and the village that kept him awake at night, leading him to think of this method to play me and Uchiha Izuna, thereby awakening this powerful Dojutsu capable of replicating bloodline abilities and Ninjutsu in response to his emotional insight!"
Senju Tobirama deeply fell into self-reproach.
He originally thought he understood Aomi well...
But after parting, Senju Tobirama reflected on this mystical experience between himself and Aomi, and slowly came to appreciate the more precious emotions within.