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Years ago, driven by personal motives, Tobirama hadn't disposed of Madara's corpse. Taking advantage of Hashirama's unconscious state, he had secretly relocated it to a hidden chamber deep in the mountains.
Yet after his battle with Kamihane, when he dragged his exhausted body to that secret chamber, he discovered Madara's "corpse" was merely a shadow clone!The room plunged into silence.
Thus, Tobirama painted Uchiha Madara as a world-hating destroyer of peace, spreading this narrative across the nations. The Five Great Countries tensed, perpetually fearing the day Madara's scythe would strike.
But six years passed with no sign of the so-called Madara. Doubt now gnawed at Tobirama's claims.
Clap. Clap.
Hashirama drew all eyes by patting his hands. "Banquets demand merriment, not grim talk." His smile seemed casual, but his question cut sharp. "Where's Sasuke? And Hikaku? The leaders of two great clans are late to their own feast."
As if summoned, a thunderous boom erupted outside the Hokage Tower. Blinding light flared, heatwaves rattling every window.
Hashirama shot to his feet, gaze piercing the direction of the explosion—the Sarutobi compound.
10 Minutes Earlier
Sarutobi Sasuke stretched outside his clan grounds, dismissing his patrol team. Rubbing sore shoulders, he headed toward the Tower.
"You look weary, Clan Head Sasuke."
He turned to find Uchiha Hikaku ambling closer, a friendly smirk in place.
"Age spares no one. This era belongs to youths like you," Sasuke chuckled.
Hikaku fell into step beside him. "Haven't seen Hiruzen lately."
"He's finalizing a summoning contract with Enma's clan."
"Mirrors told me your students under Lord Tobirama… don't get along."
"Oh?" Sasuke's smile tightened. "Here to settle scores, Clan Head Hikaku?"
"Merely curious." Hikaku waved dismissively. "But your reaction confirms it."
"Since when do you care about Uchiha Kagami?" Sasuke kept his tone light, wary of the Uchiha's famed cunning.
Shink!
A pale-blue chakra blade pierced Sasuke's chest. He stared, stunned, at Hikaku.
"I've always cared…" Hikaku purred.
Poof! The real Sasuke—having substituted with a log—leapt onto a nearby wall, hands already sealing.
"Clever," Hikaku drawled, flicking blood off his blade. "My clansmen never noticed their leader's been… replaced."
"Summoning Jutsu!" Sasuke roared. "Come forth, Enma!"
Smoke billowed as the towering Monkey King materialized, fists slamming the earth with ground-shaking force.
"No intention to reminisce at all? How utterly lacking in sentimentality." Kamihane (disguised as Hikaku) shook his head with feigned regret. His figure blurred as he effortlessly dodged Enma's attack.
"I have nothing to say to you!" Sasuke raised his hand. Enma twisted mid-air, transforming into the Vajra Staff that slammed into his palm. He snarled: "Uchiha Kamihane!"
"Exposed already? Heh. Very well." Uchiha Hikaku—no, Uchiha Kamihane—opened his blazing crimson eyes. "Then... twenty seconds. That's all I need."
Sasuke gathered strength and swung upward. The colossal Vajra Staff pierced the heavens like celestial iron, crashing down with skull-splitting force!
Yet Kamihane stood motionless. Seal formations flashed through his hands. "Fire Release: Dragon Flame Singing Technique!"
Flames detonated. Four vivid dragon heads illuminated the night, their scorching breath surging toward the Sarutobi clan compound!
"You—!" Sasuke's eyes widened. If his staff completed its descent, Kamihane would perish—but the compound would be obliterated in the inferno, corpses littering the ground.
This despicable tactic pushed shamelessness to its limits!
At the critical moment, Sasuke retracted his staff. Channeling chakra, he spun the Vajra Staff to scatter the flaming dragons.
"Ssssskkt!"
Three azure sword energies tore through the air. Sensing them in advance, Sasuke raised his staff to block. Sparks erupted from the Vajra Staff like blazing fireflies.
Yet behind him, a phantom solidified. The blade "Frost on Autumn Leaves" gleamed jade-green, its edge finer than spider silk as it slashed toward his throat!
"Enma's Hand!"
A hairy arm shot from the Vajra Staff, seizing the luminous blade. "Agh! Hot! Hot! Hot!" Enma's pained shout echoed as the hand retracted.
Kamihane leaped backward. The ground trembled as he formed seals mid-air. "Fire Release: Majestic Demolisher!"
Inhaling deeply, he expelled a sea of flames that coalesced into a meteor. The air temperature skyrocketed past thousands of degrees—Sasuke's clothes began smoldering before the attack even landed!
Fortunately, Enma's intervention had bought him time. Planting the staff, Sasuke whirled it into a frenzy. Violent winds gathered, sucking the flames into the Vajra Staff's vortex before they could spread.
"Hisssss—"
Teeth clenched, Sasuke ignored his blistering skin. As the staff spun faster, gale-force winds engulfed the battlefield. Even airborne Kamihane became trapped in the suction, hurtling toward the staff.
"Vajra Prison!"
Sasuke hurled the staff. White smoke exploded as dozens of duplicates materialized, interlocking into a cage that trapped Kamihane.
"Die!" Sasuke formed a fire seal, but the imprisoned figure transformed into a severed log.
"What?!"
A crushing force swept his legs. Kamihane had materialized behind him, delivering a devastating sweep kick that launched Sasuke horizontally.
"Rasengan!"
The humming sphere materialized in Kamihane's palm. With a vicious grin, he slammed the spiraling chakra orb into Sasuke's back!
Catapulted by the force, Sasuke shot forward like a spear.
"Not... done yet! I'll fight with my life!"
Demonstrating a veteran shinobi's instincts, he channeled Yang Release chakra to protect his vitals an instant before impact. Though internal organs sustained damage, it wasn't fatal!
Gathering chakra mid-air, he forced it toward specific meridians.
"Eight Gates—"
A dark silhouette flickered. Air cracked as Kamihane appeared before him, index finger piercing his sternum.
"Futile." Kamihane's smile remained razor-sharp. "I anticipated this move long ago."
Sasuke's eyes widened in terror, the chakra that had just surged within him instantly dissipating.
"Six years ago, you managed to sever my arm." Kamihane's voice carried glacial detachment as moonlight refracted through Frost on Autumn Leaves' blade. "Today? You don't even qualify to witness my true form."
Jade-green luminescence erupted from his fingertip. The sword's radiant stream pierced through Sasuke's body like divine retribution, simultaneously detonating the building behind him in an explosion of shattered masonry.
"Ah." Kamihane glanced down at his borrowed body's leg, where the ankle joint had dislocated. "Using instantaneous movement techniques in another's flesh... truly inconvenient."
His hands formed a single seal. Across from the Sarutobi compound, hundreds of explosive tags buried beneath Konoha's Ninja Academy ignited simultaneously.
KABOOM!
The detonation shattered windows three blocks away. Classrooms disintegrated into rubble as the three-story structure pancaked downward, concrete dust blooming like funeral flowers.
Though evacuated hours earlier, watching Tobirama's painstakingly crafted structures collapse brought vicious satisfaction. Each crumbling wall felt like erasing the Second Hokage's fingerprints from history.
Exactly thirty-seven seconds later, Kamihane turned leisurely. His enhanced vision captured:
Hashirama's straw sandals crushing gravel.
Tobirama's chakra boiling like acid.
Four Kage materializing through smoke.
Rows upon rows of ANBU with snarling animal masks.
The formation precisely mirrored that moonlit night eleven years prior. Only now... no crimson-armored figure would descend like avenging god from the skies.
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