Chapter 357: Madara Uchiha is a Konoha Rogue, He's Konoha's Problem!
Everyone on the scene was family.
Even the Tailed Beasts were their family property. When you looked at it this way, the only one who was an outsider was a crow.
The Sage of Six Paths looked at Kaguya with considerable magnanimity. "Even now, Mother, you still haven't given up on your ambitions from a thousand years ago?"
"Once people possess power, they will possess greed…"
Kaguya Otsutsuki slowly took half a step back and said softly, "This kind of thinking, no one is an exception. Hagoromo, even you… are a part of it."
"That is why we need to learn restraint."
The Sage of Six Paths tapped his khakkhara staff on the ground, turned his head to look at Indra and Asura, his expression gradually becoming benevolent. "I never thought I would one day be able to see you again…"
Asura greeted him with some joy, "Father!"
Indra, on the other hand, turned his head away with some disdain. "Hmph!"
"This is wonderful…"
The Sage of Six Paths stepped forward and patted Asura's shoulder, his voice gradually lowering. "But the dead cannot coexist with the living in the same world. I will send your souls back to the place where you belong…"
"Caw!"
Kitahara immediately cried out with displeasure. The Hokage figures it had worked so hard to collect were just gone like that? These were ones it had finally gotten from Orochimaru!
Although it had no objection to sending this fellow Tobirama to the underworld, at the very least, shouldn't it have been consulted? Was it being ignored?
"Sage of Six Paths!"
Itachi Uchiha took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "If you want to send our ancestor Indra and senior Asura back to the underworld, we have no objection…"
"But Lord First Hokage and Lord Second Hokage are members of our organization. You should at least ask for Kitahara's opinion…"
"What's more, whether it was Madara reviving the Ten-Tails or the progenitor of chakra descending, Your Excellency did not interfere. Yet now you appear after the war has ended. You probably don't have the right to interfere, do you?"
"Hey, hey, hey, that's the Sage of Six Paths!" Hashirama quickly pulled Itachi's arm and said in a low voice, "He is the ancestor of both our families!"
"Madara was once the leader of the Uchiha, but he later abandoned his own clan under the Second Hokage's schemes…" Itachi tilted his head, looking at Hashirama with an innocent expression. "Do you think I should obey Madara's orders?"
Hashirama was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at his younger brother. "…No… Tobirama, this matter, what is the situation?"
"Big brother, please get your priorities straight…"
Tobirama shook his head and said in a deep voice, "This little brat isn't trying to sow discord between us brothers. He is accusing the Sage of Six Paths of having no right to interfere in this matter!"
Hashirama still didn't get it. "But… he's our ancestor!"
The Second Hokage grabbed his shoulders in exasperation and said, word by word, "Kaguya Otsutsuki is also our ancestor! But she wanted to destroy the ninja world!"
"What's more, since the dead cannot interfere in the world of the living…"
"Then I have a question I'd like to raise…"
"Sage of Six Paths, are you deceased or living?"
Lord Tobirama was just that kind of man, daring to directly question authority, never cowering because of another's power.
The Sage of Six Paths shook his head gently. "This old man walks the edge between life and death, existing outside the Pure Land and the ninja world, monitoring the entire ninja world so it does not fall into chaos…"
"Heh heh heh… Is it really to monitor Mother, or is it to display your own supremacy and prevent the emergence of a figure you cannot control!"
Black Zetsu, still hiding in Kaguya's sleeve, said in a raspy voice, "You didn't show up for the thousand-year war between the reincarnates of Indra and Asura, but you show up at this time… Hagoromo Otsutsuki, you truly are an out-and-out bastard!"
"…"
The Sage of Six Paths was a little angry. He suddenly extended his palm, pulling Black Zetsu out of thin air and grabbing it by the neck. "The reincarnate wars between Indra and Asura throughout the generations—weren't they all instigated by you?"
Black Zetsu sneered and said, "If Indra was not tempted by power, how could I have persuaded them…"
"Silence!"
Itachi Uchiha rubbed his head and said in a cold voice, "Let's get things straight first. Black Zetsu, isn't he a rogue ninja from our Konoha?"
Kitahara's head sneakily retracted. "…"
Black Zetsu quickly shook its head. "…Besides Madara and Obito, I have never been involved with anyone else. Even in a thousand years, I have always stood on the Uchiha's side…"
"And I have always suspected that there is another enemy in the ninja world who is possibly on par with Mother. That person created the Flying Thunder God user, Zetsu…"
"As for me, I was originally Kaguya's will. Everything I have done was for the sake of Mother's revival…"
"Now that Mother has been revived and has even lost her power, she is just a victim who was harmed by her own son…"
"Itachi Uchiha, I know what you want… As long as you promise to protect your ancestor, I will tell you everything I know. The secrets of the ninja world—I know more than you do!"
"Even the legendary Great Sage Crow is not as clear as me, an eyewitness, about the various secrets of Konoha's sixty years, the secrets hidden in the darkness by the past Hokage. I think that as the Fifth Hokage of Konoha, you must be in great need of them, right?"
Itachi Uchiha: "…"
As expected of the thousand-year-old Black Zetsu. His words are so slick, even more so than Tobirama's…
The underhanded methods of the past Hokage were, admittedly, very attractive. At least they could help him avoid many detours in his future administration.
As for Black Zetsu's request…
Itachi glanced at Kaguya, who was standing at the back of the crowd, looking quiet, graceful, and refined. One couldn't see anything frightening about her at all. On the contrary, she looked innocent and easy to bully…
"You can't do this, Itachi Uchiha!"
The Sage of Six Paths spoke up. "Mother is the most suitable jinchuriki for the Ten-Tails in the entire ninja world. The Ten-Tails, with its vast chakra, will bring disaster to the ninja world…"
"Nonsense…"
Black Zetsu loudly reprimanded his "brother." "No matter how vast the Ten-Tails' power is, can it be more frightening than the Great Sage Kitahara?"
"What's more, what Mother has always wanted is someone who can protect her. You and Hamura not only failed to be considerate of Mother's feelings, but you sealed her away instead…"
"Silence!"
Hagoromo said in a cold voice, "A thousand years ago, Mother used humans as nutrients for the God Tree to grow and turn into White Zetsu. Hamura and I did it for the sake of the entire ninja world…"
"Heh heh heh… that's a really great reason!"
It's likely Kaguya had given all her intelligence to Black Zetsu. It easily found a reason to refute. "A thousand years ago, Mother quelled the wars of the ninja world, and the entire world became a paradise. Offering to the God Tree was only to obtain a weapon of war, in order to better maintain peace!"
"Have you calculated it, Hagoromo!"
"Since you spread chakra, just how many tens of thousands of people have died in the chaos of war, while those who died in offering to the God Tree were but a few!"
"…"
The Sage of Six Paths and Black Zetsu argued back and forth without end. The two were accusing each other. Hagoromo accused Kaguya of sacrificing the innocent, and Black Zetsu accused Hagoromo of being the true root of all the chaos.
Itachi scratched his head and, out of habit, glanced at Tobirama.
How could one get to the bottom of a thousand-year-old feud!
"Stop arguing. This matter started because of Madara. He is the first rogue ninja of Konoha, and also the former head of our Uchiha clan…"
Itachi turned his head to look at Madara on the ground. "The era has passed. These matters should now be the responsibility of our Konoha. I will go back and discuss it with the Hokage's Assistant and Advisors. The result will probably take some time…"
"Out of respect for the Sage of Six Paths' distribution of chakra a thousand years ago…"
Itachi pointed at Indra and Asura. "Their fate will be decided by you. I will take the Gedo Statue, Madara, and Kaguya back to Konoha…"
"As for Lord Tobirama and Lord Hashirama, I'll have to trouble you two to temporarily keep all the Tailed Beasts under guard in the Land of Waves, including the already-escaped Nine-Tails and Three-Tails…"
"The One-Tail, Shukaku, died after being caught in the battle between Kitahara and the Ten-Tails. I will send a letter to Orochimaru in a few days and have him capture the One-Tail…"
The Sage of Six Paths: "…"
The other Tailed Beasts: "…"
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