Naruto: I've already fought against all five Kage, and the system only just arrived.

"The winner is Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Yay~~~ Wuhu~~~ Mama mama~~~"

As referee Genma Shiranui announced the final result of the match, the blond boy named Naruto Uzumaki, despite his exhaustion, cheered and ran around the arena amidst the cheers and applause of thousands of spectators, constantly blowing enthusiastic kisses to them.

This is the site of the Chunin Exams held in Konoha.

Genin from various ninja villages, including Konoha, Sunagakure, Otogakure, Amegakure, and Kusagakure, gathered together for a Chunin selection exam.

After two rounds of assessments that eliminated a large number of contestants, we have now reached the final round.

This is a grand competition currently being watched by thousands of viewers, including many social celebrities, nobles, and even the Third Hokage and the Fourth Kazekage.

At the very beginning, no one expected that a guy named Naruto Uzumaki would defeat the favorite to win the championship, Neji Hyuga, who came from the Hyuga clan.

This caused a stir among the crowd.

The competition that followed was equally exciting.

Nara Shikamaru outwitted Temari, and finally raised his hand to admit defeat.

Uchiha Sasuke makes a cool entrance and engages in a fierce battle with Gaara, the Jinchuriki of the One-Tailed Beast.

Of course, none of this was as shocking as the feathers falling under the Nirvana Abode Technique, the Fourth Kazekage pressing a kunai against the neck of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, announcing the official start of the Konoha destruction plan.

Boom! Boom!

Explosions, carnage, screams, wails.

One second Konoha was peaceful, the next it was engulfed in war.

The roof of the Chunin Exams observation deck.

Within the Four Purple Flame Formation.

Orochimaru revealed his true colors, and after a close conversation with his beloved teacher, he finally became serious.

"Sarutobi-sensei, please don't disappoint me too much."

Orochimaru smiled sinisterly at the aged Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Having removed his Hokage robes, revealing his black battle suit, Hiruzen Sarutobi, with a grim face, threw a shuriken and formed hand seals:

"Shuriken: Shadow Clone Technique!"

In an instant, a large number of shuriken split off and shot towards Orochimaru in a massive barrage.

Orochimaru clapped his hands together and smirked, saying:

"Psychic Technique: Reincarnation from the Dirty Earth!"

Amid the tremors, one after another, upright coffins rose from the ground, blocking Orochimaru's attacks with all the shadow clones of his shuriken.

"Impure World Reincarnation? That's..."

Seeing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's pupils suddenly contracted.

As the Hokage, how could he not know about the Impure World Reincarnation technique recorded in the Scroll of Seals?

"Summoning the dead?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at the first two coffins that rose up, their lids inscribed with the characters "初" (first) and "羽" (feather).

Then two more coffins, each engraved with the characters "two" and "four," were slowly rising.

With a vague suspicion in his mind and a deep sense of foreboding, his expression changed, and he decisively formed hand seals to stop Orochimaru from continuing his summoning.

Sensing that the spiritual connection to the coffin marked with the number "4" was blocked, Orochimaru tried several times without success and then smiled indifferently.

"The fourth one doesn't seem to work. Let's just forget about it then."

In the end, all three coffins were brought out by spirit communication.

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at everything before him as if facing a formidable enemy.

soon.

With a creaking sound, the lids of the three coffins, each studded with shurikens, slowly fell off and toppled to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Click~click~

The sound of metal plates colliding came from within the dust.

Hiruzen Sarutobi clenched his fist.

Outside the Four Purple Flame Formation, a group of Anbu ninjas also looked directly in this direction.

Finally, the dust has settled.

At that moment, everyone present saw three men dressed in old-style Warring States armor, their surfaces covered in cracks, stiffly emerge from the coffin.

"Those are the First Hokage and the Second Hokage!"

The ANBU ninjas watching from the sidelines quickly recognized their First and Second Hokage of Konoha.

After all, the people of Konoha have seen these two portraits since they were children.

only.

"Who is that young man in the silver armor?"

The ANBU ninjas looked at each other, completely unfamiliar with the man who stood alongside the First and Second Hokage.

The ANBU ninjas were unaware, but Hiruzen Sarutobi, as the Hokage, knew very well.

"A man who once fought against the First Five Kage, killing one of the Mizukage and crippling the other of the Raikage. It took the First Hokage a great deal of effort to finally kill him. He was known as someone who was comparable to a god!"

"Feathered Robe and Mysterious Moon!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Hagoromo Gengetsu, who had been resurrected through the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and said each word with a heavy heart.

"Oh?"

"I didn't expect people to still recognize me."

As Hagoromo Gengetsu looked up, basking in the long-awaited sunlight, she smiled brightly at Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Good, worthy of praise."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 15 Reunion of Old Friends

What happens after a person dies?

As someone who's been through it all, Yu Yi Xuan Yue honestly doesn't know how to describe it.

Perhaps, it's like the world as seen through the eyes of a blind person.

It is not darkness, but nothingness.

To describe it specifically, when you open one eye and close the other, the scene you see with the closed eye is a similar kind of nothingness.

Time, having no reference point after death, flows by rapidly.

Yu Yixuanyue had just closed her eyes a second ago, but it felt like she opened them again the next second.

Only when the familiar scene of Konoha Village and the aged face of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, came into view did Hagoromo Gengetsu realize that he had truly arrived more than fifty years in the future.

Time flies!

As expected, he was resurrected by Orochimaru using the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

Yu Yi Xuan Yue looked at her cracked hands with some emotion, feeling the physical body that didn't actually belong to her.

'The offering I possessed was of such poor quality.'

After looking him over, he shook his head inwardly.

The reason why Madara Uchiha, who was resurrected through Edo Tensei during the Fourth Shinobi World War, was so arrogant and powerful was because Orochimaru specially prepared an extremely high-quality sacrificial offering for him, allowing him to unleash his strength from his previous life.

The quality of the offering on his body was far inferior to that of an ordinary White Zetsu, which showed just how weak it was.

Needless to say, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, who were standing beside him, were the same kind of people.

No wonder the Third Hokage, whose strength had long since declined, was able to fight two opponents at once and leave behind a rather dazzling record before his death.

At this moment, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, who were standing next to Yui Gengetsu, also realized what was happening.

Hashirama Senju looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi in front of him, his eyes filled with memories, and said, "Long time no see, monkey."

“You’re getting on in years, Sarutobi,” Tobirama Senju said calmly.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was still very young at the time, having personally appointed the Third Hokage of Konoha before his death.

Looking back now, the other person is quite old.

'Has it been thirty or forty years already?'

As he mentally assessed the situation, Tobirama Senju glanced at Hagoromo Gengetsu, whose expression seemed a bit off, and his brows furrowed unconsciously.

'Why is this guy out here too?'

Facing the two generations of leaders of Konoha Village, his respected predecessors, Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a mixture of nostalgia and guilt:

"I never expected to meet you both again in this situation. I am very sorry to have disturbed your peaceful rest."

"Impure World Reincarnation?"

Tobirama Senju already knew the truth. He turned to look at Orochimaru behind him and said coldly:

"This young man summoned us using forbidden magic? Impressive, he's actually perfected the technique I left behind. It's a pity he's gone astray."

"Tobirama, I told you long ago not to develop those extremely dangerous forbidden techniques. It seems you still didn't listen."

After sighing and finishing speaking, Hashirama Senju was about to turn around when he noticed Hagoromo Gengetsu, who was quietly watching everything. His eyes lit up as he greeted her:

"Long time no see, Xuan Yue."

"Hashirama."

Yu Yi Xuan Yue turned her gaze to Senju Hashirama.

Compared to myself, this guy lived for several more years afterward.

Yu Yi Xuan Yue smiled and greeted him, "It's been a long time for you, Hashirama, but for me, it's just been a blink of an eye. By the way, I once said that Uchiha Madara was more radical than me. So, what's been going on since I died? Has anything interesting happened?"