Standing outside the door to greet him was a woman with exquisite features. Her blue ninja skirt wrapped around her curvy figure, and her long hair flowed like a waterfall to her waist.
She put her hands behind her back, with a gentle smile on her face.
"Do you know me?" Madara looked at the woman in front of him who called him 'Uncle Madara'.
The woman smiled and said, "Well, Chen has already said hello. I will bring you here tonight."
"Oh." Madara looked at her intently, a little dazed. The woman's face gave him an indescribable feeling.
Is it simply because she knows me and isn't afraid of me at all?
At this moment, a little head with a princess-cut hairstyle popped out from behind the woman's slender legs. It looked at him curiously, revealing its pointed little fangs. "Is this uncle a relative of Mom's? How come he looks so much like Mom?"
"Ah." The little girl's words woke Madara up, and he finally understood what that indescribable feeling was.
The woman looked very similar to him, especially the expression and temperament between her eyebrows and eyes, which was even more like him than Chen, so similar that it was like looking at oneself in the mirror.
Chen smiled and introduced them to Madara: "This is my wife Hikari, and my daughter Satsuki."
Madara turned his gaze away from Hikari's face and greeted him stiffly, "Hello...you guys."
Hikari stroked Satsuki's hair and said, "Satsuki, call him Grandpa~"
Satsuki was surprised: "Huh? Uncle Madara is a grandfather? But he looks so young! Not old at all!"
His stern face relaxed at Satsuki's sweet words. He bent down, looked closely at the round little face, and asked, "How old are you?"
"Grandpa Madara! Satsuki is four years old!"
"Four years old...yes, just the right age to go to the battlefield!"
"Why is there a weird uncle's face on Grandpa Madara's chest?"
"…" Madara looked down at his exposed chest and Hashirama's face.
Back then, when he was dancing around in front of the Five Kage and the Allied Shinobi Forces with this face, he didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed. But when faced with questions from this innocent little girl, he actually felt like he was going to be socially dead.
This Impure World Reincarnation is so beyond the standard, can you die with clothes on?
But he couldn't embarrass himself in front of the younger Uchiha.
"That's right, your grandfather Madara was born with a second face. Are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid! I think Kakuyi (so cool)! Can I touch it?" There was a gleam in Satsuki's little eyes!
Madara couldn't help but laugh heartily: "Hahaha, good! I'm fine with my temper! Uchiha Satsuki, huh? I, Madara, approve of your aesthetic! Touch it, you're allowed to touch it as much as you want!"
After saying that, he squatted down so that Satsuki could reach Hashirama's face with just his hands.
Chen looked at this unexpected scene and thought in surprise: Hey, I never thought of this... Madara-sama has this side to him!
Hikari said at the right moment: "Satsuki, please let your grandfather come into the house quickly, the food is getting cold."
After entering the house, Hikari took out a set of Chen's black divine robes from the entrance closet, presented them to Madara with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Madara, I wasn't very well prepared. Wear Chen's clothes first. You two are about the same size, so they should fit you well. I'll buy you a new one tomorrow."
Madara took the robe, wrapped it around his body, looked down at his Impure World Reincarnation boots, and said, "If it's convenient, find me a pair of shoe covers."
As he walked through the living room, Madara glanced at the furnishings. They were simple and cozy. On the TV cabinet stood a photo frame, which contained a photo of a family of four.
Pushing open the door of the Japanese-style room, I saw a table of sumptuous food and wine on the tatami mat.
Hikari took Satsuki's hand and said to Chen, "Satsuki and I have already eaten. Let's go for a walk first. You two can talk about things~."
Chen smiled and nodded, "Well, go ahead~."
The expressions between their eyebrows and eyes showed the tacit understanding between the couple.
After bowing to Madara, Hikaru took Satsuki's hand and walked out of the room, closing the sliding door.
The scene became quiet.
Soon, Madara broke through the sinking.
"Hikari, is he also a survivor of the Uchiha clan?"
"Did you figure it out?" Chen smiled without surprise, picked up the wine jug, poured it into the cup in front of Madara, and then poured it for himself.
"Hikari has another name that you will definitely be familiar with."
"What's the name?"
"Nanashi."
"Nanashi..." Madara muttered these two words, and a flash of lightning flashed through his mind. As the patriarch of the Uchiha clan in the late Warring States period, he naturally thought of the legend of the clan!
"Chen, are you referring to the girl who awakened the rare eye power [Eight Thousand Spears] in the middle of the Warring States Period and was used as a weapon by the Uchiha clan, and was eventually sealed away by the Senju and Sarutobi clans?"
"Indeed, Hikari is Nanashi's real name. He was active in the Warring States Period, which was earlier than yours. He was sealed at the age of twelve. After two hundred and thirteen years, he was finally unsealed by me sixteen years ago."
Madara took a sip of his wine.
As expected, there is no sense of taste.
However, the necessary emotions are still there.
"Then she should be filled with hatred towards this world, but I can't see that at all..."
Chen also picked up the wine glass. As the warm wine went down his throat, the past memories came to him vividly.
From the vengeful girl who was determined to destroy the ninja world and turn the descendants of Uchiha, Sarutobi, and Senju into ashes, to his gentle and lovely wife who likes to be tsundere in private, and the mother of two children...
Chen spent sixteen years giving Hikari redemption that was no less than that of Boruto in the original time and space, as well as the companionship that Boruto could not give.
Although the scar on my chest still hurts, the memories are sweet.
Chen recalled, "That was indeed the case at the beginning, but I spent a long time returning to her what she lacked from her former tribe, and what the world owed her... So, she is now my wife."
The two chose to get married on Hikari's coming-of-age ceremony when he was sixteen years old. Hikari was a person from the early Warring States period, and he also followed the coming-of-age ceremony of that era.
At that time, the Fourth Shinobi World War had already ended for three years.
"I see."
Madara didn't ask any more questions about Hikari. He picked up his chopsticks and started eating the food that he couldn't taste.
Chen refilled his cup.
In fact, Madara was also a little surprised...that he could sit here and eat so naturally.
It was only more than half an hour since he was resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation, and he was not even sure what his purpose was in being resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation.
Objectively speaking, the surprises brought to him by the light and the moon did indeed invisibly bring him closer to Chen.
Madara tried to guess what Chen was thinking:
After all, he dared to bring me here when his wife and children were still at home. At least his motives should be honest. Besides, he was sure that I would not do anything to harm his family.
But I just don't understand. I am Uchiha Madara. Doesn't he know that I almost destroyed this ninja world with my own hands?
After three rounds of drinking.
Madara put down his wine glass and picked up Fan again: "Let's get down to business."
Chen glanced at Madara, took a sip of wine, and started talking while eating.
"Good. Now, although the war is over, Kaguya Otsutsuki's people are still lurking in this land, waiting for an opportunity to stir up trouble."
"Naruto and Sasuke, as well as the Five Kage's inaction over the years due to their loss of a sense of crisis, are causing the overall strength of the ninja world to decline. It is not enough to cope with the upcoming crisis. The ninja world is not far from a true chaos."
"So, someone must step up and change this situation."
Ban listened to Chen finish speaking. "So, this person is you?"
Chen said, "That's right, but my strength alone is not enough. I need like-minded comrades to complete the 'plan' with me."
He added: "This like-minded comrade includes you right here in front of me."
Madara frowned. Chen's words were brief, but the amount of information they contained was astonishingly huge.
Madara extracted key words from his words, quickly figured out a clue, and then began to ask questions.
"Who among Kaguya's people is stirring up trouble and lying dormant there? Why are Naruto, Sasuke, and the Five Kage not taking any action? Why is the ninja world about to be in chaos?"
Chen put down his chopsticks and wiped his hands with a napkin. "Sizzle!" His Sharingan flashed in his eyes. "It's too troublesome to explain with words. Let's just communicate with our eyes."
After a moment of thought, Madara's Rinnegan in his pupils reverted to the Sharingan, meeting Chen's gaze.
——Illusion·Sharingan!
"What you will see in the illusion will be the future of the ninja world without my participation!"
That's right, Chen is here to let Madara watch "Boruto"!