"What are you doing?!" Hashirama, seeing Madara stop him, was stunned. His face was full of urgency as he said, "We must seal the Nine-Tails back into the Jinchuriki as soon as possible. Otherwise, the chi... child..." He glanced at the infant being held by an Anbu, "...will lose their mother!"
"The dead should not interfere with the world of the living." Uchiha Madara looked calmly at Hashirama and said lightly, "That is what you told me, Hashirama."
"But..." Hearing Madara's words, Hashirama fell silent for a moment. He looked at the weeping villagers around him and the collapsed, burning houses, his face determined as he said, "I am the Hokage of Konoha!"
"You are already dead! The Konoha of now has its own Kage!" The hand gripping Hashirama's shoulder unconsciously tightened. Uchiha Madara still said expressionlessly, "The dead should not interfere with the world of the living!"
"But they..." Hashirama looked angrily at Madara, pointed at the villagers, and roared, "If this continues, they will die too!"
"But what about him?" Madara pointed at the masked man with spiral patterns and one eye, standing calmly on the Nine-Tails' head, and said, "Konoha caused the death of the Uchiha clan. Is what he is doing not for revenge?"
And also...
Clan members, family, father...
The grief he carries is no less than Konoha's!
"Right now, hatred has clouded his vision, Madara!" Hashirama looked seriously at Madara and said, "Just like you back then. When he regains his senses, he will regret it."
Looking at the scene of ruins before him, blood and corpses filling the entire ninja village, and the fear and sorrow in the villagers' eyes...
"Right now, stopping him is what's best for him!"
"..."
Hearing Hashirama's words, Madara fell silent for a moment, looking at the eager, expectant eyes around him...
"The dead should not interfere with the world of the living!"
He still shook his head firmly, his face calm as he said, "To awaken these eyes..."
The three tomoe directly transformed into the Mangekyo, and he looked calmly at Hashirama...
"How terrifying, how heavy the grief one must bear, I understand better than you! Hashirama!!!"
"I thought you had changed, Madara!" Hashirama, looking at Uchiha Madara's crimson Mangekyo, took a deep breath and roared, "But I never thought you still haven't changed!"
Still disregarding life, disregarding grief, just like before...
"No, I have changed, Hashirama!" Madara looked expressionlessly at Hashirama and said lightly, "It's just that you haven't changed, Konoha hasn't changed, all of you..."
A faint cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth...
"Are all too self-righteous!!!"
"You can't stop me!" Hashirama, looking at Madara's eyes that still held the same disregard for life as before, formed hand seals and shouted loudly, "Wood Dragon Technique!"
"Haha!!" Seeing Hashirama actually use a ninjutsu on him, Madara was stunned for a moment, then closed his eyes and laughed wildly, "Then let's give it a try, Hashirama..."
"You're still as naive as ever!"
He also formed hand seals...
"Let us continue that unfinished battle from back then!"
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
And then...
Under the bewildered gazes of the surrounding villagers, they started fighting...
First Hokage-sama, weren't you here to put out the fire?
Why are you adding fuel to the fire now?
Screams of misery and wails of sorrow rose again...
Everyone immediately snapped back to reality and began fleeing for their lives once more...
...
"What is going on?" Uzumaki Jun felt he was completely bewildered. One minute they were firefighters, how did they become arsonists the next?
Although Hashirama was again controlling his power and strenuously protecting the surrounding villagers, still...
The power of those two cheaters was still too strong!!!
If the destruction speed of one Nine-Tails was one, now adding two people who could treat the Nine-Tails like a dog...
It instantly became ten, the destructive power increased tenfold!!!
Didn't you see Uchiha Fugaku and Sarutobi Hiruzen looking on dumbfounded?
This is just too dramatic!
I thought you were here to help me (him), but it turns out you're here to help him (me)?
"It's over." Uzumaki Jun sighed, shook his head, and said, "It seems Konoha's post-war reconstruction will require a huge sum of money."
Probably the frontline ninjas will have to be called back, otherwise, there simply won't be money or supplies.
Meanwhile, Black Zetsu currently had no mind to watch the show. One Uzumaki Jun was enough to use him as fertilizer for planting trees, and now two more cheaters had arrived, one of them being Uchiha Madara, who had tried to kill him back in the day but didn't succeed...
He could guess inwardly that if Uchiha Madara discovered he was here, needless to say...
He would definitely be finished this time!!!
Sweat beaded on his forehead as he looked at Uzumaki Jun, who was still sitting calmly on the rock watching the show...
Big brother, stop playing with me, alright?
If you have any tasks, just assign them quickly!
"Lord Jun, if there's anything, could you please assign it to me quickly?" Black Zetsu fawned, moving closer to Uzumaki Jun, and said, "I have soup simmering at home, it will dry up if I don't get back soon!"
So...
Let me go back first, then you can watch slowly!!!
Uzumaki Jun turned his head and looked quietly at Black Zetsu, sighed, stretched lazily, suddenly froze, turned his head to look towards the Konoha main gate, and frowned. Why are they here?
Then, he turned back to look at Black Zetsu, nodded, and said, "Since you're so eager to go home, fine then!"
He had originally intended to have a bit of a father-son bonding moment, but it seems he was still a bit too hasty.
Indeed, warm father-son moments always pass so quickly...
"Lord Jun, please give your orders." Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, upon hearing this, quickly straightened up, looking serious, and said, "We guarantee to complete the mission!"
"Investigate all the Jinchuriki and gather clear information." Uzumaki Jun pondered for a moment and said, "Including their strength, background, living habits, mental state, close friends and family, and the emotional relationship with their Tailed Beasts. Investigate everything clearly for me."
"..."
What are you planning to do?
Black Zetsu and White Zetsu's faces stiffened, and they cautiously asked, "Lord Jun, you want to..."
You must know that the nine Tailed Beasts are related to whether he can see his mother again. And now this Uzushiogakure Daimyo is actually interested in the Tailed Beasts?
Especially since this kid knows some hidden secrets...
How could he not be worried?
"Don't be afraid!" Uzumaki Jun looked at Black Zetsu with a fatherly smile and said, "I just..."
"Want to let you experience the joy of a family reunion!"
Really, I'm not lying to you!
"..."
Hearing this makes one's heart panic!
Black Zetsu gave a hollow laugh, quickly turned around, and said, "We guarantee to complete the mission!"
He better slip away quickly and not listen to his nonsense here. This damned kid, from childhood to adulthood, hasn't spoken a single truthful word!!!
And then...
Pulling White Zetsu, he sank down, immediately using Earth Release to escape...
He never wants to see this red-haired demon again!!!
...
First Hokage-sama, are you really here to save Konoha or not?!
All of Konoha watched as the two cheaters fought from the rooftops to the ground, from the village entrance to the village tail. Wherever they passed...
It became a wasteland, not a blade of grass left standing!
Especially with one planting trees and one setting fires...
It just made the flames burn brighter and stronger!!!
Sarutobi Hiruzen took out his smoking pipe again, took a deep puff, and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes...
Damn it!!!
Couldn't you have gone to the Valley of the End to settle your fight?
This... this... now...
Looking at Konoha, almost completely flattened...
The reconstruction cost is so expensive!
He sighed helplessly, put away his smoking pipe, his eyes sharpened, and he looked with anger at the one-eyed Mangekyo user, asking in a low voice, "Just who are you?"
It's all his fault!
If it weren't for him, how could Konoha have ended up like this?!
It seems he must also settle this quickly!