Uchiha: Starting as Tobirama's Jinchuriki

"Get out! Everyone get out! No one is allowed to approach this room without my order. Activate the highest level of martial law and disperse all personnel in the vicinity!"

With his back to Naruto, Hiruzen Sarutobi gave a very serious order to the bewildered Anbu: "Remember, under no circumstances are you allowed to approach unless I give you specific instructions!"

The secret agents were completely bewildered…

What's going on? Is the Hokage going to take on the Nine-Tailed Fox all by himself?

You don't seem to have that ability!

Has the Third Hokage forgotten the night of the Nine-Tailed Fox from many years ago?

However, due to Hiruzen Sarutobi's prestige and Naruto's seemingly normal condition, the Anbu obediently obeyed the order and quickly evacuated the house. Before leaving, they even used Earth Release to repair the hole in the house...

The Nine-Tails and Naruto stared at each other in disbelief.

What are you doing?

It really was just a few words, a change in tone, a few glances, and a few gestures that made Hiruzen Sarutobi go from exposing the Anbu to reprimanding them and forcing them to retreat...

How exactly did Qingshui manage to do that?

Even Kaguya inside Aozuki's body couldn't understand...

If it were genjutsu or the simulation of Tobirama Senju's chakra, Kaguya wouldn't think anything of it.

This was easy for Qingshui.

The problem is that Qing Shui didn't use even a single bit of chakra throughout the entire process; he simply mimicked the expressions and tone of voice that could theoretically be simulated by characters like Kurama, Naruto, or Kaguya…

It's purely a matter of technique, not a difference in strength.

It could also be described as a difference in intelligence.

What they didn't know was that... as Tobirama's former jinchūriki, especially after the final showdown, Aoshui's understanding of Tobirama Senju could be considered unparalleled.

If you want to imitate Tobirama Senju…

Let alone Hiruzen Sarutobi not being able to see through it, even if Tobirama Senju himself from this timeline were to descend, his mind would go blank...

This is the unparalleled bond between the former number one fan and Qingshui!

After the Anbu members left the house, Hiruzen Sarutobi slowly turned around, staring at Naruto with an extremely complicated expression, and tentatively asked, "I-Is it you?"

Naruto's lips curled into a slight smile, characteristic of the Second Hokage, and he said softly, "What do you think, monkey..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi took a deep breath, his hands rapidly forming hand seals. Using his sensory ninjutsu, and after carefully confirming once more that no one was too close, he asked incredulously:

"How could it be you! You... how could you be inside Naruto's body, no, how could you become Naruto? What... what happened to you!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi is rambling incoherently.

He simply couldn't imagine how the names Naruto and Tobirama Senju, two people separated by four generations, could be combined...

The truth behind this must be extremely terrifying... and it must certainly not be in accordance with the Will of Fire!

"I didn't initially intend to possess Naruto's body..."

Naruto chuckled and said, "I'm doing this to be wary of the Uchiha clan... Monkey, you know, the Uchiha clan is a clan that gains immense power between gaining and losing love."

"The Mangekyou Sharingan that develops from it will possess a wide variety of dojutsu... While some may give rise to insignificant dojutsu like Uchiha Izuna's Amaterasu, others may give rise to extremely troublesome dojutsu, such as genjutsu or space-time techniques..."

"If that kind of Uchiha were to possess some talent and obtain a method similar to the Eternal Eye, allowing them to use eye techniques infinitely, would your Hokage team, consisting of you and Shimura Danzo, be able to handle them?"

Naruto's gaze sharpened as he stared at Hiruzen Sarutobi.

At that moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi was instantly drenched in sweat.

Let alone a pseudo-eternal eye of the spacetime type.

Even Shisui, Itachi, and Fugaku, who weren't among the top ninjas in the history of the Uchiha clan, put a lot of pressure on Hiruzen Sarutobi, forcing him to rely on underhanded tactics like the Will of Fire to surgically dismantle himself, unable to truly control the clan's power...

If Itachi and Shisui weren't so dim-witted, they wouldn't have ended up sitting on the side of the Hokage lineage.

If they side with the hawks and launch a brazen attack, it's hard to say whether the Uchiha rebellion will succeed...

"Therefore, I created a forbidden technique, to watch over Konoha in the form of an unobservable wandering spirit..."

Naruto tapped the table lightly and said slowly in the manner of the Second Hokage, "Now that the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the village has developed to this point, I think I need to show myself."

"These Uchiha are not, in my opinion, worth possessing... They are too weak to bear my power, so they cannot be used as a useful weapon to protect Konoha."

"But this Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is quite suitable."

"Do you understand what I'm saying, monkey...?"

As Hiruzen Sarutobi listened to Naruto's explanation, his mouth opened unconsciously, his mind a jumbled mess.

Possessing Naruto's body as a weapon?

My dear teacher, I thought the way I treated Naruto was already a terrible thing...

I never expected that you would still pass away before me!

Aozumi smiled as he looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi…

He believed that Hiruzen from the alternate dimension would firmly believe his explanation…

As for why, it's because this is the time and space where Aozumi exists, the time when Hiruzen Sarutobi misunderstood Tobirama Senju's thoughts!

They're both Hiruzen, so how could their thoughts be different?

Chapter 288 The conversation between Tobirama Uchiha and the Third Hokage

The deepest darkness in Konoha Village has been born!

Hiruzen Sarutobi stood there, stunned.

The words spoken by Tobirama Senju in the eyes of Aokiji… or Naruto, or even Hiruzen Sarutobi…

Like a series of sharp lightning bolts, they shook the little rationality left in his heart, allowing Hiruzen Sarutobi to barely maintain his thinking amidst the thunderous shock of logic.

What did he hear?

The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, his mentor, did not rest peacefully in the Pure Land after his death. Instead, he became a wandering spirit and roamed Konoha for nearly forty years!

This was solely to prevent the birth of an uncontrollable genius within the Uchiha clan, which could then cause damage to Konoha…

This sounds crazy.

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi from the other dimension, who believed he had experienced enough storms in his life and theoretically possessed the composure to remain unfazed even if the Hokage Rock collapsed before him, realized something today—

"Your master is still your master!"

This is just too outrageous!

However, after calming down and thinking it over carefully, Hiruzen Sarutobi realized that this was exactly the kind of style Tobirama Senju should have in his mind…

How could his teacher, who could study space and time with the power of a mortal and even control the souls of the dead, die so easily?

After the First Shinobi World War, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who became Hokage, often thought about this in the early years when he was under immense pressure.

His teacher might not be dead, or he might be quietly recovering from his injuries and watching him govern Konoha...

He will be back!

This idea sustained Hiruzen Sarutobi and became one of the driving forces that motivated him to grit his teeth and maintain Konoha during his youth.

As time passed, Hiruzen Sarutobi realized that this was just a fantasy, a psychological crutch; his teacher was probably really dead…

But today.

Memories of his youth, when he would often gaze at the Hokage Rock and ponder when Tobirama Senju would return, flooded back in an instant like a tidal wave!

came back.

His teacher, Tobirama Senju, has really returned!

However, forty years have passed.

Forty years have transformed Hiruzen Sarutobi from a strapping young man with thick hair and a straight posture into a gray-haired, hunched-over old man with a pipe in his hand...

However, Tobirama Senju was transformed into a fair-skinned, first-year student at the Ninja Academy...

"It feels like a lifetime ago" is no longer enough to describe the utterly absurd and disjointed feeling of Hiruzen Sarutobi.

And at this moment.

Naruto and Kurama were stunned by Aoshui's actions.

Without relying on any external force, such as illusion magic, but purely through the combination of words and information, Hiruzen Sarutobi was completely drawn into the deception woven by Aoshui!

In Naruto and Kurama's eyes, Aokiji's intelligence reserves were on par with theirs...

How could Qing Shui, who is like a celestial being, possibly know much about what is happening in the small village of Konoha?

It's impossible for Aokiji to be familiar with Tobirama Senju, the previous Hokage!

Like Naruto and Kurama, his information about Tobirama Senju likely came only from the "Konoha Chronicles" and bits and pieces of information that Naruto had gathered...

But that's it.

Aokiji acted as if he had lived with Tobirama Senju for a long time, perfectly mimicking the Second Hokage's demeanor and tone. Even Hiruzen Sarutobi, his direct disciple, couldn't see through his act and was easily fooled in a single exchange...

"Naruto! Mr. Aokiji only called him 'monkey,' and Hiruzen Sarutobi was dumbfounded!" Kurama slowly exhaled a long breath, his fox face full of awe and respect:

"Those Konoha ninja rushed over to make a move, but with just a glance from Mr. Aokiji, Hiruzen Sarutobi panicked... How did he manage to do that?"

"Without relying on chakra, just a few words of information can reveal the weaknesses in people's hearts... If I had half... no! three times the power of Mr. Qingshui, then those Jinchuriki who sealed me in the past would have been bewitched and broken their seals long ago!" Kurama exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

Qingshui's actions were truly bewitching...

In comparison, the Nine-Tails can only be described as using the violent nature of tailed beast chakra to forcibly interfere with the Jinchuriki's mind...

How clumsy!

"I see it, the big fox!"

Naruto muttered to himself, "Brother Qingshui, he really is omnipotent..."

"I even think that even without chakra, he's still a top-tier expert... Tell me, why are we so lucky to have met Brother Qingshui, who teaches us so gently and wholeheartedly?"

Nine-Tails fell silent for a moment.

What Naruto said was also what he was thinking…

Compared to the dark times when Naruto was sealed away as a tailed beast and his Jinchuriki, and the tragic experiences of his childhood, Naruto's luck in meeting Aozuki is almost insignificant...