If she scared Orochimaru so badly that he did not dare show himself, that would be such a shame.
She remembered that in the previous video of the Battle of the Sannin, Orochimaru had actually used her Hemophobia against her, making her suffer terribly. He had even made her suffer at the hands of that guy Yakushi Kabuto.
If she did not pay him back for this, what kind of person would she be?
What? You said it had not happened yet? She did not care!
At this moment, Uchiha Sasuke was still reviewing the battle from earlier that day.
"So I really was too impulsive?"
Uchiha Sasuke replayed today's fight in his mind.
He had actually failed to notice Gaara's sand.
Although part of that was because Kaede Kitahara had been watching from the outside and could see the whole situation more clearly, that itself should never have happened.
If it had been Kaede Kitahara, he definitely would not have made that kind of mistake.
At some point, without Sasuke realizing it, the person he used as his model had quietly become Kaede Kitahara. It was not only because Kaede Kitahara was strong enough. It was also because, in Sasuke's heart, both of them were members of the Uchiha Clan. Both had Sharingan, both knew Thunder Breathing, and both knew Chidori.
It could almost be said that everything Uchiha Sasuke knew, Kaede Kitahara knew too. And everything Uchiha Sasuke did not know, Kaede Kitahara also knew.
So Sasuke had taken Kaede Kitahara as his point of reference. What he was considering now was how Kaede Kitahara would think under the same circumstances.
Looking at it now, the answer was already obvious.
There was no way Kaede Kitahara would be brought down by such a problem.
But then, Sasuke saw Kaede Kitahara roasting him in the diary.
[Today I saw childhood Gaara. As expected of an early-stage minor boss, he already has a certain pressure to him.
Mainly, his hairstyle is good too. It's way better than that weird, flat, permed hairstyle he had during his Middle-aged Guy period. His taste clearly declined. Also, let me roast Sasuke too. His taste in hairstyles also declined when he became a Middle-aged Guy in the future. Maybe it just lost the flashy Salon hairstyle vibe he had as a teenager.
But Gaara really is pitiful. As the child of the Fourth Kazekage, he's basically a direct comparison to Uzumaki Naruto. Both are children of a Kage, both are Jinchuriki, and both lacked love. But compared to Gaara, Naruto at least grew up as a child.
Gaara was different. He was raised entirely as a biological weapon. Even the only uncle who was kind to him was coldly arranged by his own father to assassinate him, all to test his capacity and see whether this biological weapon would lose control.
And of course, the result was obvious. He lost control.
No kidding. Who wouldn't mentally collapse after seeing their own uncle come to assassinate them? Not to mention, he was only a little kid. That's just inhuman.
Looking at it that way, Naruto was actually lucky to have only grown up as an orphan. After all, there was once a possibility that Root would take him away and train him into a biological weapon. If that had really happened, Naruto would have been even more miserable than Gaara.
Danzo really isn't human.
Still, Gaara grows very quickly. By the time he appears again after the Konoha Crush Plan, he has clearly had his psychological trauma treated by Naruto's Talk Release. When he fights Kaguya Kimimaro, the wielder of the Earth Curse Mark, he already carries himself with quite a bit of a General's presence.
Three years later, Naruto still hasn't even passed the Chunin Exams, while Gaara has already become Kazekage and is deeply loved by his people.
Although that's partly because Sunagakure had no one else available at the time, there's no doubt that his growth rate is extremely fast.
As a Jinchuriki, though, it's a pity that he can only be considered a standard performer. He never became a Perfect Jinchuriki like the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails did. Otherwise, his strength could probably have reached another level. At minimum, he'd have been Strong Kage Level.
But in the later Boruto era, just look at how badly he got dragged down. Then again, everyone in late Boruto has dark history. Even Uchiha Sasuke has dark history like the Uchiha Pile Driver. It's all dark history.]
Uchiha Sasuke saw the diary's later update. At first, he had not paid much attention. He was still thinking back on the fight from earlier that had never truly begun, and he was still thinking about washing away his shame in the arena during the later Chunin Exams.
Then he saw Kaede Kitahara roasting him.
First, Kaede Kitahara roasted his decline in taste as a middle-aged man. Then, he roasted his current Salon hairstyle.
Although Sasuke did not quite understand the exact meaning, he could piece it together from context. It definitely was not praise.
Still, he also really wanted to roast his future self a little. His taste really had declined.
"Uchiha Pile Driver?"
Uchiha Sasuke had no idea where such a move existed in Uchiha-style Taijutsu, but he could completely sense Kaede Kitahara's teasing tone. He feared that this really had happened.
His future self had somehow pulled off something called the Uchiha Pile Driver. How embarrassing.
"Danzo!"
When Namikaze Minato saw that Danzo had intended to drag Uzumaki Naruto into Root and train him into a biological weapon, his eyes instantly reddened, and killing intent burst out of him.
He saw Kaede Kitahara's description of Gaara. So this Gaara was also the child of a Kage, but he had been raised as a biological weapon since childhood. On top of that, the village had not trusted him. They had even sent the uncle he trusted to kill him.
It was easy to imagine just how wary the village was of him. It had to be said that Konoha was definitely much better than Sunagakure in this regard.
Minato himself had a Jinchuriki girlfriend, so he knew very well that the village did monitor Jinchuriki. Even he could be considered one part of the system monitoring the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but they had never done anything so utterly heartless.
It was simply too cruel. At this moment, he felt deeply afraid. Thank goodness Konoha had not raised Naruto the same way Gaara had been raised.
Otherwise, he really would have gone mad and started killing people.
"Gaara, huh."
Seventh Hokage Naruto thought of his friend Gaara. It really had been several years since they last saw each other, hadn't it?
People like them, who were Kage, were obviously very busy on ordinary days. If there was nothing important, they could not possibly meet often.
He still remembered that back when he had not yet become a Kage, he had actually seen Gaara more often.
When he saw Kaede Kitahara roasting Gaara and Uchiha Sasuke's hairstyles, he could not help laughing too. Once a person reached middle age, maybe everything really did become different.
Come to think of it, even his own hairstyle had changed. It had become a neat, clean buzz cut, not as long as when he had been young.
And he had to admit, once a person reached middle age, their hair volume could no longer compare to back then.
Ah, the sorrow of a middle-aged man. It really flowed like a river.
But when it came to Jinchuriki, Gaara really had not become a Perfect Jinchuriki like him and Uncle Bee. Otherwise, his strength might have been even greater.
In that case, Deidara and Sasori might not have been able to capture him.
[Speaking of which, Kimimaro was the last member of the Kaguya Clan. Since he died just like that, does that mean Hamura's Lineage of Sage Body users was cut off from then on?
After entering the hidden village era, the descendants of the brothers Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura slowly had their bloodlines cut off too, right? Now, only the Hyuga Clan is still alive and well. As for the other clans, the Senju Clan, the Uchiha Clan, the Uzumaki Clan, and the Kaguya Clan, there are only a few scattered survivors left. What a pity!]
"What? The Kaguya Clan has Sage Body too?"
Jiraiya stared at the contents of the diary in shock. With his broad knowledge, the moment the Kaguya Clan was mentioned, he almost immediately thought of the Kaguya Clan from faraway Kirigakure.
As early as the Warring States period, they had been a famous and powerful ninja clan. Later, after Kirigakure was founded, they joined it and could be considered one of Kirigakure's original founding forces.
After that, no one knew what madness had taken hold of Kirigakure, but the village suddenly began slaughtering its Kekkei Genkai clans on a large scale. It was said that the Kaguya Clan rebelled under those circumstances and directly staged an uprising, only to be wiped out by Kirigakure in the end.
Jiraiya had originally thought the Kaguya Clan had been completely destroyed. He had never expected there to still be a survivor. Was his name Kaguya Kimimaro?
"The Kaguya Clan?"
Tsunade searched her mind and found a few records related to the Kaguya Clan. She remembered that they had clashed with the Kaguya Clan quite often back then. During the wars between Konoha and Kirigakure, both the Senju Clan and the Kaguya Clan had been powerful clans active on the battlefield.
It was just that later, the Senju Clan declined, while the Kaguya Clan was slaughtered to extinction by Kirigakure. Looking at it this way, the two clans could even count as distant relatives?
Their ancestors had been brothers. When calculated that way, they were actually rather close. They were not much farther from the Senju than the Uchiha Clan was.
"How sad."
After thinking about it, Tsunade could not help sighing. If that was the case, then were all of these battles just descendants of those Sages fighting one another?
For the past thousand years in the Shinobi World, had everything simply been a massive brawl between relatives?
What Shinobi World wars? It was only the descendants of the Otsutsuki Clan fighting back and forth among themselves!
Thinking about it this way, she remembered that the Senju Clan's historical records had indeed mentioned that the Kaguya Clan originally lived in the Land of Fire. Later, after fighting and failing to defeat the Senju Clan, they moved to the Land of Water.
They belonged to the side that had lost in the competition between the two clans.
"Now it lines up. Otsutsuki Hamura and Otsutsuki Hagoromo were indeed brothers. Their descendants each inherited a portion of their abilities, evolving into the two directions of Sage's Eyes and Sage's Body.
"Sage's Eyes became the Sharingan and Byakugan, while Sage's Body became the current Senju Clan, Uzumaki Clan, and Kaguya Clan."
Uchiha Itachi recalled the Kaguya Clan's Kekkei Genkai.
According to some records he had seen as a child, although they had only been rough notes, he still knew a little. It seemed to be a Kekkei Genkai related to bones. Other than that, he did not know much.
"If Sage's Eyes plus Sage's Body make up the complete Sage's power, then can it be understood that Otsutsuki Hamura possessed a bone-related Kekkei Genkai, and from there, inferred that the Otsutsuki may very well possess abilities in that area too?"
Thinking of this, Uchiha Itachi wrote in the ability column for the Otsutsuki Clan: suspected possession of bone-related Kekkei Genkai.
And what was that bone-related Kekkei Genkai called?
Oh. It was called Shikotsumyaku / Dead Bone Pulse.
He remembered now. Uchiha Itachi remembered everything.