The teacher's hands slowly rose to his head, removing the elastic band that was holding his hair back, revealing an image completely familiar to those I had seen in my past life.
"Finally, I can take this elastic band out of my hair when I'm with you... for I am the one who founded the Anbu organization and the village where you were born." With a voice full of determination and confidence, he fixed his hair and revealed himself with a powerful aura.
"Hashirama Senju... I suspected it was you." With a calm tone, I crossed my arms and watched him closely.
"Of course I suspected it, you were from Anbu... everyone needs to be suspicious and aware of everything." He walked back to his desk and opened another drawer to get something. "But still, I admit I let my personality show too much."
In fact, Hashirama had always been calm, determined, optimistic, and powerful... his aura brought a feeling similar to what we knew from his story about the Leaf Village at the very beginning before its creation.
But this was the teacher I was coincidentally looking for... Hashirama transmigrated as a university employee and always kept his identity a secret so as not to surprise others, as was my case.
[POV: Memories from inside Dopinder's car]
"What the fuck is this, there's a character from Naruto Shippuden behind you, Dopinder?! Holy shit... this is too incredible, this is crazy!"
My expression is completely perplexed. I don't understand why he called me (Anime)... what do you mean I'm an anime?
"Honestly, I felt nauseous when I saw him shouting... how embarrassing." A little embarrassed by this, I end up putting my hand on my face to hide my current expression.
I'm just going to focus on getting to the university soon, otherwise this masked guy will come and ask me too many questions and I'm not in the mood to answer them.
[POV: Memories ended]
"I don't remember you very well. What's your name again? I didn't even greet you properly, hehe," Hashirama asked my name as he placed a Ninja Kunai on the table.
"Itachi Uchiha, it's a pleasure to meet you, First Hokage."
Hashirama approached me and handed me the Kunai as a gift.
"Take this, I know you're skilled enough with this weapon... I asked a blacksmith to forge it for use in martial arts training." He explained this as he moved away from me to sit at his desk. "Besides, I knew a little about you from your brother, Sasuke."
"I see, so that's why you were a little suspicious of me too." He added to what he said about me while making an honorable mention of my brother.
However, I ended up thinking as I looked at the kunai in my hands.
"Wait, how were you able to ask someone to create a weapon like this so easily, knowing that this modern world requires important documents to create weapons?" My expression became confused by Hashirama's explanation, and then his face changed from calm to happy, displaying a mischievous smile.
[POV: Hashirama's memories at the blacksmith in Seki Gifu, Japan]
"Hello, could you make me a kunai for martial arts training? I am a teacher at a ninja academy."
"Ninja? How can I believe that, tell me." A fat man who looked like Fisk from The Godfather questioned Hashirama, looking at his face.
Hashirama took a pocket knife from his pocket and threw it perfectly at a wooden wall in front of him, effectively and beautifully demonstrating how a kunai is used.
The fat man's eyes filled with joy and surprise, and he quickly created the Kunai without thinking twice, right in front of the First Hokage, in just a few hours.
"Here you are, my noble warrior." He handed the Kunai to Hashirama and paid him the original price of the weapon.
[POV: Memories ended]
"Ah... that's how it was, my God." My hand again covers my face because of the shame I was feeling, and Hashirama laughs at the story I ended up telling him about my memories at the blacksmith's.
"That was the only way to prove it, there wasn't much else I could do haha." He laughed with joy after proving to the man that he knew how to handle a Kunai just by throwing it correctly at a wall.
"Well, we're ninjas... so it's no secret to us." I sat down on the chair behind me next to the classroom door.
The atmosphere was one of joy and discovery... but after a few minutes, it became calm and serious.
"I need your help, Itachi." Hashirama stood with his feet on his desk, dressed in a dark yellow suit with black leather shoes.
"What kind of help do you need?" Sitting on the same chair, I looked at Hashirama with curiosity about his sudden request for help.
Hashirama threw a banknote on the table, trying to get me to respond.
"There is a man who has confronted me in the past and still wants to kill me... but you know, I don't want to fight anymore." Hashirama took his feet off the table and crossed his arms, looking at the floor. "I just want peace. Transmigrating to this world was a way to leave everything behind since the last time I was revived as Edo Tensei."
Hashirama really just wanted to teach and live in peace. Judging by his physique, which is a little more defined than strong these days, he no longer wants to be the powerful man I knew from his stories.
"And what will be my reward for that? I would still need to investigate his whereabouts and fight him one-on-one... especially since I already worked with him in the same criminal organization I was in."
Hashirama ends up creating a wooden block with his own hands and places it on the table.
"Would you accept having your Chakra back in exchange for killing Kakuzu?" Hashirama made a very strong proposal when he placed the wooden block and the banknote side by side.