Naruto's Review : First Viewer is Senju Tobirama?

Lying on the ground, Reanimated Madara opened his Mangekyō Sharingan and carefully counted the arms of the thousand-armed Kannon statue.

He found that all one thousand arms were intact, without a single scratch.

This was the reason he made such a remark.

Complete defeat.

A truly complete defeat.

"How ridiculous... I couldn't even cut off a single arm of your Kannon statue. Has the gap between us grown this large?"

"Well, I wouldn't say that. After all, you're not in your prime condition."

With age, and the restrictions of Reanimation Jutsu, Madara's current power was only about 80% of his peak strength.

"If I were at my peak..."

"Hmm, you'd probably be able to cut off a few of the Kannon statue's arms, right?"

"...You're still as annoying as ever."

"Haha, what can I say? I was born this way, can't change it."

"Fair enough."

While the two were chatting, Kushina quickly dashed out from the Konoha team, rushing toward Reanimated Madara, and began wrapping sealing scrolls around him.

"There's no need for such a troublesome sealing. I can ascend on my own."

In the original story, many were able to break free from the restraints of Reanimation Jutsu and release their souls to ascend.

For someone like Madara, who could completely escape the control of Reanimation Jutsu, the process of releasing his soul was far too simple.

"Madara, don't act impulsively yet."

Seeing Madara about to form hand seals, Tobirama suddenly appeared and interrupted, saying, "After your soul returns to the Pure Land, Konoha may no longer be able to resurrect you."

"Resurrect?"

Reanimated Madara looked at Tobirama in confusion and asked, "You still plan to resurrect me?"

"Of course. Didn't you see that we revived you over there? Here, Konoha naturally won't let you die so easily."

"I see."

Reanimated Madara turned his head, looking at his younger self, who was talking to the two Izuna. A flicker of jealousy suddenly appeared in his previously calm eyes.

"You're right. If I die like this, wouldn't that just be giving him an advantage?"

Two younger brothers, huh? I want to enjoy double the joy too!

Reanimated Madara's heart screamed.

At this moment, he desperately wanted to continue living.

Not because he feared death, but because if he died, wouldn't his two younger brothers end up in someone else's hands?

What? You say that Madara over there is also me?

Doesn't matter, even if it's me, it still can't happen.

The smiles of my younger brothers must be protected by me!

With Madara's failure, the next events were simple.

Kushina wrapped Madara up like a rice dumpling.

Partly because she feared he might change his mind, and partly to protect his soul.

Having used the Reanimated body to move around the ninja world for so long, Madara's soul had suffered significant damage.

According to Kushina's estimate, if Madara continued in this state, his soul would completely collapse within two months.

Even if they used the Reanimation Jutsu, they wouldn't be able to summon him from the Pure Land.

To prevent the Reanimated Madara from suffering any damage to his soul.

They decided to nurture Reanimated Madara's soul for a while.

This meant using sealing scrolls to tightly wrap him up, and with the help of secret techniques, they could nurture his soul in this manner.

But this also meant Reanimated Madara would be suffering a bit.

During the nurturing process, he wouldn't lose consciousness.

Because of his Reanimated body, he already lacked senses like touch and smell, and now he had even lost his vision.

Luckily, this wouldn't last long. At most, in two or three months, his soul would fully recover.

Then, he could be perfectly revived.

"So that's what happened,"

On the way back to Konoha, Jiraiya, as the Hokage, walked beside the two Izuna who were carrying Reanimated Madara, and explained to him about the Moon Eye Plan, Black Zetsu, the light screen, and other matters.

"Yeah, big brother, if it weren't for the light screen, you really would've ended up becoming the Jinchuriki of the Ten Tails, activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and then Black Zetsu would've killed you from behind by pulling out your heart."

"Big brother, once you're revived, please don't go through with the Moon Eye Plan again. That thing is really unreliable."

In order to get Reanimated Madara to give up on the Moon Eye Plan, the two Izuna were persuading him earnestly.

This left Reanimated Madara, wrapped up like a rice dumpling, feeling both amused and helpless.

No matter if Jiraiya's story about the light screen is true or not, with Hashirama and the other version of him around, if he wants to continue with the Eye of the Moon plan, he won't be able to do it.

He can't beat those two right now.

If the light screen is real, then he definitely won't continue with the Eye of the Moon plan.

He's proud, not stupid.

It's clearly a trap. Why would he jump in?

"Don't worry, big brother. I have it under control."

"That's really great."

Hearing this, not only did the two Izuna breathe a sigh of relief, but even Jiraiya and the others looked a lot more relaxed.

As long as Reanimated Madara doesn't cause any trouble, once the First Hokage and the others leave, Konoha will have the strongest force capable of dominating the entire ninja world.

After returning to Konoha, when they learned that the Third Hokage had been killed by Orochimaru using the Reaper Death Seal, everyone's expressions were somewhat strange.

Especially after seeing the video review of the Third Hokage, Tobirama's expression was truly hard to describe, looking utterly ridiculous.

"What happened? Didn't we say the old man would use the Reaper Death Seal? Why was the one performing the jutsu Orochimaru?"

Hearing Jiraiya's question, Yahiko chuckled and replied, "It's because of that guy named Zetsu. He was originally possessing Orochimaru, and the Third Hokage had already prepared to summon the Death God. But Zetsu thought it would be better to hijack the Third Hokage instead of Orochimaru, so he moved to the Third Hokage. And then..."

"So Orochimaru happily summoned the Death God and ended up sealing both the Third Hokage and Zetsu."

When he said this, Nagato couldn't help but think back to what had happened at the time.

He never expected someone like Orochimaru, who seemed so sinister, would end up having such a comical moment.

What surprised him even more was that the Third Hokage wasn't much better either.

I guess it's no surprise. After all, they were teacher and student, weren't they?

The compatibility between the two seems pretty good.

"Alright, the most urgent thing right now is to revive Orochimaru and the old man. So, Kabuto, I'll leave this matter to you."

In the corner of the Hokage office, Kabuto didn't feel surprised when Jiraiya assigned the task of reviving Orochimaru and the Third Hokage to him.

Among everyone in Konoha, besides him, the only person who could use the Resurrection Jutsu was the mysteriously reappearing Second Hokage.

However, Orochimaru and the Third Hokage's souls had been absorbed into the belly of the Shinigami.

To bring them back using the Resurrection Jutsu, he would need to trick the Shinigami into opening its stomach and releasing their souls.

And this, only someone like him, who could shed their skin, could do.

"Leave the revival of Lord Orochimaru and Lord Third Hokage to me."

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