One casual sentence.
The immortal Hidan was so embarrassed he nearly dug out a whole villa with his toes and moved into it.
Kakuzu, who had been dragged into it, almost rolled his eyes into the sky.
Izuna Uchiha, who had been quietly observing and gathering information, could only sigh that times really had changed.
Obito Ōtsutsuki, who never stopped until his words shocked everyone half to death, had already noticed him too. The moment he opened his mouth, he said, "Oh, the little ancestor is here too?"
Little ancestor?!
That one sentence made nearly twenty people present focus their eyes on Izuna Uchiha.
Who?!
Before they crossed over, this person hadn't been there at all.
The Akatsuki members were not familiar with Sasuke, and they had never seen the future Fourth Shinobi War Sasuke either. Their first impression was simply that this man looked a lot like Itachi.
Of course, Itachi and Sasuke were brothers, so they looked very alike in the first place.
Judging by the appearances of the three of them, it was hard not to suspect that this person was also an Uchiha.
A man whom Obito Uchiha called "little ancestor," and who looked somewhat like Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha…
Could he be that person from before Konoha was founded?
"The Second Hokage is right next door. Want me to go get him for you?" Obito Ōtsutsuki asked the "little ancestor."
Just then, a male voice identical to Yahiko's appeared beside them right after he finished speaking.
"No need. This old man is already here."
The Second Hokage appeared with the First Hokage using the Flying Thunder God Technique!
The young Uchiha looked at Tobirama Senju, who was dressed in plain black clothes. "Oh, it's Tobirama. So you're alive too."
"What about you? How did you come back to life, Izuna Uchiha?"
Sure enough!!
It was the legendary younger brother of Madara Uchiha! Izuna Uchiha!!
Madara Uchiha had only been revived yesterday. How was it already his brother's turn today?!
They weren't planning to find chances to revive every powerful figure from Ninja World history one by one, were they?!
Izuna Uchiha did not seem as full of hatred as everyone had imagined, not to the point of attacking Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju the moment they met.
If anything, Izuna Uchiha seemed to dislike Hashirama Senju quite a bit. From beginning to end, he did not even spare a glance for the God of Shinobi, who was trying to say something to him.
"Tell me what's going on, Tobirama."
Facing this former opponent, Tobirama Senju sighed. He had Yamato take the Akatsuki members back to their rooms to rest, and gave them a maximum movement range of two thousand meters.
Only after everyone unrelated to the matter had left did he speak. "First, it is currently Konoha Year 60. Sixty-two years have passed since your death."
Izuna Uchiha said, "Then why am I still alive?"
"You were probably revived by a mission scroll, but that is rather complicated. We can leave it for later."
"Fine. First tell me…"
As opponents who had fought from the age of six until twenty-four, Tobirama Senju knew what Izuna Uchiha wanted to ask without needing him to finish.
"Madara Uchiha has also been revived. Just yesterday." He paused. "If you want to ask where he is, he is most likely wandering around the Ninja World."
"Wandering around the Ninja World?" Izuna was puzzled.
From what he knew of his older brother, if Madara had really been revived, the first thing he should have done was find Hashirama Senju and fight him properly.
Tobirama Senju said, "It's complicated, but in short, you shouldn't have died so early back then."
"Tobirama, don't say things like that." Hashirama was afraid Tobirama would start a fight with Madara's younger brother, so he hurriedly stopped him and urged him to speak more tactfully.
The others present also broke into a cold sweat because of the Second Hokage's bluntness.
They all thought, Wasn't this little ancestor of the Uchiha Clan killed by you?!
Once again, contrary to everyone's expectations, Izuna Uchiha did not show any anger or resentment over being struck by the other man's Flying Thunder God Slash and eventually dying from his severe injuries.
Of course, having no resentment did not mean he was happy about it.
Izuna snorted. "What? Don't tell me you couldn't find an opponent in the rest of your life, so you actually missed me?"
"Hmph. As arrogant as ever," Tobirama Senju said with a laugh. "Have you forgotten the Uchiha Clan's nature? Once they lose love, they turn into madmen. Madara Uchiha obtained your eyes, but lost you. You can imagine for yourself how extreme Madara became afterward, can't you?"
At that, Izuna Uchiha's expression finally stiffened slightly.
"What happened after that?" he asked.
Tobirama Senju said, "After you died, the Senju and Uchiha formed an alliance and established Konohagakure, the ninja village where you are now."
"So they really did form an alliance!" Izuna Uchiha glared fiercely at Hashirama Senju. "Brother Madara was just too kind. That's why he got tricked by a smiling schemer like you!!"
A smiling… schemer?
Only now did Hashirama learn that in Madara's younger brother's eyes, this was what he looked like.
Everyone else: Although, actually, that's pretty accurate.
Tobirama said, "In any case, after the village was founded, the Sarutobi, Shimura, Ino-Shika-Chō, Hyūga, and many other major ninja clans all applied to join of their own accord. The village grew very quickly. This place is on the far outskirts of Konoha. If you want to see it later, I can take you into the village."
Seeing his former opponent, the Second Hokage seemed to have the intention of showing off how much Konoha had grown.
Unfortunately, he did not know that Izuna Uchiha had already seen what Konoha looked like inside Young Obito's Kamui's Dimension.
"No need." Izuna Uchiha curled his lip. He had praised the Ninja Academy and the ninja village system before, but how had he not realized at the time that those familiar words, phrasing, and handwriting came from this guy, Tobirama Senju?!
Tobirama Senju nodded. "It seems you've already seen it. Then let's talk about the main issue."
After a moment of thought, he said, "As for whether Madara Uchiha was gentle or kind, this old man never saw that at all. But when it comes to him being easy to manipulate, I saw that very clearly."
Izuna Uchiha's brows furrowed sharply.
"What do you mean?!"
"The Stone Monument your Uchiha Clan was so proud of was once tampered with. Unfortunately, as time passed, not one of you ever doubted whether that Stone Monument was genuine."
"!!!"
The Stone Monument beneath the Naka River?!
That was a secret among secrets of the Uchiha Clan! Tobirama actually knew about it?! It had been tampered with?! How was that possible!! The inscription could only be read with the Sharingan!
It was impossible for someone to tamper with that inscription under the eyes of the Uchiha's Sharingan without anyone suspecting a thing!
"What do you know?!"
"Frequent use of the Mangekyō Sharingan causes irreversible damage to the eyes." Tobirama Senju looked at Izuna Uchiha. "The real solution is not the eyes of a blood relative."
"!!" Izuna Uchiha's eyes widened in shock.
Adult Obito nodded. "All of that was a trap Black Zetsu created to use the Uchiha, making more Uchiha lose their closest loved ones, awaken the Sharingan through pain, and believe the lies he forged on the Stone Monument."
At the mention of this, he looked toward Obito Ōtsutsuki from another parallel world.
"There's still a Black Zetsu sealed inside my Mangekyō Sharingan, so I can't even use Kamui's Dimension."
Obito Ōtsutsuki said, "Why are you collecting so many Black Zetsu? If you gather seven of them, can you summon a divine dragon?"
"Summon a divine dragon?"
"Nothing. Just some beads I found the last time I went to another dimension."
Obito Ōtsutsuki had Adult Obito suck him into Kamui's Dimension. After grabbing Black Zetsu from inside, he immediately returned to his own quiz world parallel world to find Kaguya and deliver her son to her.
When Obito Ōtsutsuki used his dimensional travel ability, he needed to activate the power of the Rinnegan.
That reminded Izuna Uchiha of the man named Nagato. The Rinnegan in his eye sockets belonged to him. As the original owner of those eyes, an Uchiha had a very special sense for such things.
Adult Obito said, "Those eyes were originally transplanted into Nagato's eye sockets by Madara when Nagato was young. But because you had already given your eyes to Madara, Madara could probably only use them based on the concept after he awakened the Rinnegan."
"What exactly is going on?" Izuna Uchiha frowned deeply.
Tobirama Senju said, "Let's start with the true treatment for the Mangekyō Sharingan."
He pointed at Adult Obito and said, "This Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan when he was thirteen or fourteen. During that time, his fighting style relied heavily on the Mangekyō Sharingan's Intangibility and Kamui's Dimension."
Izuna Uchiha looked at Adult Obito. Judging by his appearance, this person should be older than him, at least close to thirty.
"Your eyesight…"
Seeing that the man could pick up a red bean cake from the plate and put it into his mouth accurately without activating his Sharingan, Izuna Uchiha knew this Uchiha junior's vision had not been impaired.
"Are your eyes from a blood relative? No, what you showed earlier was the Mangekyō Sharingan, not the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan."
"Of course not. I'm an only child. My parents died when I was very young. I only know what they looked like from photos."
"Then why haven't you gone blind?!"
Adult Obito took off the black glove he had been wearing the whole time, revealing the unusual white skin on his wrist.
"This is White Zetsu material, used to balance Hashirama's cells while also replacing the body tissue I lost when I was severely injured back then. It's a bit ugly, but the benefit is that no matter how much I use the Mangekyō Sharingan, it doesn't burden me."
At that moment, Adult Kakashi wanted to say that the one burdened was him, not an Uchiha. He had a Sharingan, and he had neither White Zetsu material nor Hashirama's cells. His chakra was already nowhere near the natural ceiling of people like Naruto and Sasuke, who were born with absurd reserves, and on top of that, he had a Sharingan constantly draining his chakra. It was deadly.
"Hashirama's cells?" Izuna Uchiha looked at Hashirama Senju, then waited for Tobirama Senju to explain.
Tobirama said, "My elder brother's Wood Release genes. Although no experiment can prove it, based on some other information, this old man suspects that if the bloodlines of Uchiha and Senju, or Uzumaki, are combined, and Yin-natured chakra and Yang-natured chakra coexist within one person's body, then the side effect of the Mangekyō Sharingan causing blindness may be neutralized."
"That is why Black Zetsu has spent the past thousand years constantly driving the war between the Senju and Uchiha, preventing the bloodlines of the two clans from merging."
Asura had nothing to do and had come over to ask if there was anything he could help with. By coincidence, he saw a young man who seemed to be one of his elder brother's descendants at the neighboring Missing-nin Inn.
When Izuna saw Asura, he felt as if he were looking at Hashirama Senju, yet not quite.
Immediately afterward, a brown-haired version of Madara Uchiha walked out from behind Asura, leaving Izuna even more amazed!
"These two are the ancestors of the Senju Clan and your Uchiha Clan, Indra and Asura," Tobirama Senju said.
Hashirama immediately added cheerfully, "They're also Madara's previous life and my previous life! Madara and I are actually brothers!!"
Tobirama held his forehead. This kind of critical hit had finally fallen to Izuna Uchiha.
His mood felt just a tiny bit complicated.
Izuna Uchiha: !@￥%…
You damn Senju blockhead really are rotten to the core!