[Fourth Raikage - A]: And I was mercilessly fed to some weird-looking tree.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: A tree?
[Fourth Raikage - A]: It looked like a tree, but withered and lifeless, like dried wax.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: And then I was fed to it.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: Poor Killer Bee suffered the same fate, the Eight Tails was also extracted.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: But I heard Uchiha Madara refer to that tree as the Ten Tails.
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: Nani?!
[One Tail - Shukaku]: The Ten Tails!
[Minato Namikaze]: Looks like the Tailed Beasts are quite shaken.
[One Tail - Shukaku]: Of course we are! Because the last time... I was captured—wait? Then right now this place is...
Shukaku was about to keep babbling, but suddenly remembered that Kitahara Kaede had told it to shut up.
Because the whole Akatsuki tail beast hunt thing was originally a manipulation from Kitahara Kaede toward Black Zetsu.
But now…
Uchiha Madara has shown up???
And the Ten Tails has been revived too!
That's also incredibly dangerous.
Because—
If Tailed Beasts were Kaguya's food, then the Ten Tails… was their origin. The Tailed Beasts were all split from the Ten Tails, then Hagoromo absorbed them and became their jinchūriki.
But now the Ten Tails has reappeared.
[One Tail - Shukaku]: Don't tell me… Madara also has the Rinnegan?
[Tobirama Senju]: Uchiha Madara… has the Rinnegan?
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: So that's how it is… As expected of my big brother.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: If we tie this to what Jiraiya said earlier, then that so-called "Pain" from Akatsuki who possesses the Rinnegan should also have gotten it from my big brother.
[Tobirama Senju]: ...
Very rarely, Tobirama didn't argue with Izuna.
Or rather…
Even he had to admit it might be true.
Because ever since the Sage of Six Paths, there had been no documented records of the Rinnegan—until Kitahara Kaede's appeared.
But that was only because of his little white rabbit companion.
Yet…
Even before that, Jiraiya had encountered someone with the Rinnegan—Nagato.
So…
What exactly had Nagato done to deserve that?
From Kaede's case, it seems the Rinnegan evolved from the Sharingan.
But Mangekyō Sharingan users were already rare, and upgrading to Rinnegan had never been seen.
But Uchiha Madara was different.
He was a total anomaly.
If not for Hashirama being able to suppress him, no one could've predicted what Madara would become.
Plus…
From Minato's recount of the Nine Tails incident, Madara clearly had a hand in it.
So, Tobirama also believed that Madara, before dying, had evolved the Rinnegan.
Then transplanted it into the child Jiraiya believed to be the "Child of Prophecy"—Nagato.
Likely part of a greater plot.
Only now… Madara has returned again.
Through Edo Tensei…
[Tobirama Senju]: Wait a second. Raikage, you're sure that Madara was revived using Edo Tensei?
[Fourth Raikage - A]: I may be the Fourth Raikage, but I'm not some clueless fool.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: That was definitely the state of Edo Tensei.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: But Madara's eyes were strange—not Sharingan, but purple with rings…
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: That's the Rinnegan.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: So it really was? He summoned that tree directly.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: I don't even know how Kumogakure is doing now…
[Fourth Raikage - A]: @Tobirama Senju, Edo Tensei is your jutsu, right?
[Fourth Raikage - A]: And Madara is from your village, right? You guys owe me!
[Fourth Raikage - A]: Stop bullying people already!
[Tobirama Senju]: …
[Tobirama Senju]: …
Of course, Tobirama developed Edo Tensei. But reviving Madara with it? Absolutely not something he would do.
Just then—
[Might Guy has come online]
["Morning like a peacock, noon like a tiger, evening explodes with Night Guy!"]
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Fourth Raikage?
[Fourth Raikage - A]: …? You are?
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Might Guy! The Blue Beast of Konoha!
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: You're the current Raikage?
[Fourth Raikage - A]: …
[Fourth Raikage - A]: What are you trying to say?
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Nothing really. Just wanted to fight you!
[Kakashi Hatake]: Guy?!
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: I couldn't say anything before due to the alliance, but the system just said—he's a deceased Kage who joined the chat, right?
[Kakashi Hatake]: Yeah, that's right.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Then he's dead.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: So beating him up now won't impact Konoha. Right?
[Kakashi Hatake]: Guy, what are you thinking? He's still a Kage-level shinobi.
Kakashi was shocked.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Of course I know he's strong—but I can't let my student suffer injustice.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Back when the alliance treaty was signed, they came to the Hyuga Clan to abduct someone. In the end, they denied it, and my student Neji's father became the scapegoat.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: Neji lost his father at such a young age.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: That kind of thing—I can't accept!
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: So if there's ever a chance to beat someone from Kumogakure—I'll take it!
Might Guy's soul was absolutely fired up.
And he explained the reason—it was for Neji.
[Minato Namikaze]: Pulling that card, huh?
[Minato Namikaze]: Guy, if that's the case, count me in.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: ???
[Tobirama Senju]: ???
[Tobirama Senju]: Aren't we talking about Madara? Now you all wanna fight?!
[Minato Namikaze]: My wife, Tsunade, was almost abducted by Kumo after becoming the jinchūriki.
[Minato Namikaze]: Though we saved her in time.
[Minato Namikaze]: But I still hold a grudge.
[Tobirama Senju]: …
[Tobirama Senju]: I see now.
[Tobirama Senju]: First of all, Madara was already a missing-nin when Konoha was founded.
[Tobirama Senju]: So he has nothing to do with Konoha now.
[Tobirama Senju]: But Raikage, you dare to play the victim first?
[Tobirama Senju]: Count me in too!
[Fourth Raikage - A]: Nani?!
The Raikage's massive, lightning-clad frame froze in disbelief.
But Minato and the others didn't hold back just because he froze.
After some time—
[Tobirama Senju]: I feel much better now.
[The Man Who Kicked Madara Flying with the Eight Gates Released]: That should help ease Neji's pain a little too.
[Minato Namikaze]: Whew… Thank you for the help, Second Lord.
[Tobirama Senju]: As a Hokage, how can I watch my villagers be wronged? Right, big brother?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Uh…
[Fourth Raikage - A]: You people… Our Kumogakure… If my father were here—
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: And what if he were?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Randomly kidnapping our villagers—you think no one would stop you?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Just robbing others… Kumogakure…
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: I used to hope the ninja world's balance could change, but now? Some villages disappearing might actually be better for everyone.
That "some villages" clearly referred to Kumogakure.
[Fourth Raikage - A]: This…
Only now did Raikage realize—he hadn't been talking to ordinary Kage, but Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi. The one whose very existence kept every village in check.
Someone who could suppress Madara himself!
The hot-headed Raikage nearly left the chat—but he thought… what if his father shows up later…
So he stayed.
And quietly waited for the system explanation.
———
Meanwhile, Kitahara Kaede opened the window, gazing up at the moon, now drawing closer to the Shinobi World.
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