Chapter 144: An Uchiha Who Possesses the Will of Fire
Senju Tobirama watched his older brother passionately talking about "joining forces" and "gathering everyone's strength" with his blood boiling with enthusiasm. Tobirama really couldn't bear to interrupt him.
Indeed, Black Zetsu had previously told that story. The part about Kaguya at the beginning had already been proven false by Shiromo.
In other words, everything that came after that Shiromo hadn't pointed out as false, was true.
As for how the younger brother Asura gathered everyone's strength and ultimately defeated his originally far more powerful elder brother Indra, the two of them became endlessly entangled.
Black Zetsu's story nicely filled in the parts that had been insufficiently detailed in what Shiromo had previously told them.
At the same time, because Black Zetsu had personally witnessed that history and spoke with much more detail, Tobirama also noticed a problem.
Asura "gathered everyone's strength", Bullshit!
If you want to say Asura gathered everyone's strength, fine, but why did that "everyone" also include his father, the Sage of Six Paths?
The Sage clearly played favorites, handing all the power to Asura. As for the power of the other people, that was completely optional, okay?
Seen this way, if we're talking about truly gathering everyone's strength, Shiromo's approach has much more substance.
At least in this matter, every single person is irreplaceable. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to return to Konoha at all.
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While the three former Hokage took turns educating Tsunade on how to properly be a Hokage, Shiromo's group also arrived at Konoha.
Kushina said a few words to the group, then left on her own.
She leapt across the rooftops of Konoha Village, which she hadn't seen in a long time.
In the end, she stopped above the Hokage Rock.
Originally, Kushina wanted to go see Naruto, but because she left in a hurry, she had forgotten to ask where Naruto lived. With no choice, she came here to sit for a while.
After sitting on the Hokage Rock for a bit, Kushina attached chakra to her feet and jumped down.
"Minato, how do you think I should talk to Naruto?"
Kushina touched the face of the Fourth Hokage's stone statue, her expression full of worry.
"Huh?"
She withdrew her hand, preparing to walk around, get familiar with the current Konoha, and maybe look for Naruto. But then she noticed that her hand was smeared with something strange.
The Impure World Reincarnation body also has its flaws.
For ordinary ninja, Impure World Reincarnation is almost nothing but advantages.
Infinite chakra, immortality, no pain.
But for more powerful ninja, the absence of pain is actually a disadvantage.
Take Uchiha Madara, for example. After being revived through Rinne Rebirth, he bit himself in an extremely perverted manner. After feeling pain, he became unusually excited.
Because for people like them, bodily sensations beyond chakra are also an essential part of their combat power.
Once they lose those traits unique to the living, they actually become uncomfortable, and their strength decreases.
Just like now.
Only after carefully examining it did Kushina realize what was on her hand. Her face instantly darkened.
"Sorry, Minato."
Feeling somewhat disgusted, Kushina apologized, then wiped her hand a few times on a clean spot nearby, rubbing the stuff off.
After all, this wasn't the real Minato, just a stone statue.
After finishing all that, Kushina once again transformed into the Red-Hot Habanero and angrily began looking for someone.
"Third Hokage, get out here!!!"
At the entrance of Tsunade's house, Kushina, her hair flying wildly with rage, kicked at empty air.
"Huh? Where's the door? Why is there only a doorframe left?"
Of course, the door had been blasted away by the previous enraged Water Dragon Bullet.
"That's Kushina? Looks like Shiromo and the others have arrived."
Inside the house, Sarutobi Hiruzen heard the voice and said to Tsunade.
"Alright, Little Tsuna. It's time for you to fulfill your duties as Hokage and handle this properly."
Hashirama spoke earnestly.
"That's right. Don't disappoint us again. As for your hemophobia, among that group there's someone called Uchiha Hikari. Let her cast Tsukuyomi on you and torture you a few times in that regard within a genjutsu. That'll do."
Tobirama nodded in agreement.
Tsunade: "..."
Alright.
So there's this kind of treatment too, huh?
Is this really not going to make it worse?
Good grief. Is this because they found out she has Creation Rebirth and decided to go all out on her?
Are these really her grandfathers?
Bang!
Just as everyone stood up and prepared to go outside, while Tsunade was still internally complaining, the sliding door was kicked to pieces.
"Sigh, broken again."
Shizune let out a helpless sigh.
When there's someone in the house with monstrous strength who gets drunk all the time, doors breaking is perfectly normal.
She'd thought that after Tsunade was lectured by the former Hokage, the door would finally be safe.
Who knew that not long after that thought crossed her mind, the door would be sacrificed again.
"Third Hokage!"
Kushina appeared outside, puffed up with anger: "You tell me, why did you treat Minato like this? Why is there something on Minato's Hokage Rock…"
"Something? What?"
Tsunade was confused.
"Yeah, what's there?"
Hashirama and Tobirama also looked puzzled.
"Big…"
Kushina's face turned red as she choked on her words.
Though she wasn't sure how an Impure World body could blush.
"Big what?"
"Shit! And it was dried! Because I don't have a sense of smell, I even crushed it in my palm and carefully examined it for a long time!"
Kushina went all in. She'd already done it, everyone involved was dead, what was there to be afraid of in saying it out loud?
"What?! That's outrageous!"
Hashirama and Tobirama couldn't hold back at the same time.
"The Hokage Rock is a symbol of the village. How could something like that be on it?"
"Did you build a public toilet above the Hokage Rock or something?"
Hashirama looked at Hiruzen.
"Monkey, tell the truth. This must've been done by someone in the village who hated the Fourth Hokage, right?"
"She said the shit was dried, that means it's been there for quite some time."
"Let me guess."
"Was it done by the naturally evil Uchiha?"
"It must have been the Uchiha!"
"They covet the position of Hokage, so naturally they'd be jealous of the Fourth Hokage…"
"And besides, when my brother and I came back, we heard villagers talking about how they personally saw a Sharingan sucking feces out of a septic tank."
"At the time, we thought they were joking."
"But now that I think about it, it's terrifying."
"The naturally evil Uchiha must have developed some kind of forbidden technique specifically targeting filthy things like this!"
Senju Tobirama analyzed the situation seriously, with a completely straight face.
"What?! Could it be… Shit Release?"
Hashirama was instantly so shocked his expression went pale.
"Big Brother, what are you afraid of? Your Wood Release hard-counters that."
Tobirama shot him a glance.
"Oh! Right!"
Hashirama suddenly realized: "That said, the Uchiha clan actually developed this kind of release, could it be that someone among them inherited Madara's will? Planning to turn into spring mud to protect the flowers?"
"Speaking of which, our Will of Fire is that wherever Konoha's leaves dance, the fire burns endlessly."
"Burning leaves turn into nutrients, nourishing the green leaves as they grow."
"But what actually nourishes green leaves even more… is shit!"
"The Uchiha clan developing Shit Release is actually inheriting the Will of Fire!"
"Ah… that child Uchiha Itachi really killed good people by mistake!"
(End of this chapter)