Sky Curtain: Short Video Commentary on Konoha Villagers

The scene cuts in.

The Warring States period.

Young Hashirama and Madara stood on the riverbank, skipping stones.

The pebbles between the pillars bounced on the water's surface more than a dozen times before sinking.

The spotted pebble sank after being flicked twice.

Ban's face was rather grim; he had actually lost.

Screen switch.

After reaching adulthood, Madara awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan and used Susanoo to control the Nine-Tails.

Opposite him, Hashirama Senju clasped his hands together, and a giant wooden figure rose from the ground.

As expected, Madara still cannot defeat Hashirama.

Under the sky, everyone fell silent.

[Fourth Raikage A: This...this isn't just the difference between a genius and a loser. This is a difference in species!]

[Mei Terumi: Madara Uchiha tried so hard, but Hashirama always beat him... That's just too tragic.]

[Kurotsuchi: So why is Hashirama Senju so strong? What happened to the Ashura reincarnation being a loser?!]

The period when Konoha was founded.

Madara Uchiha looked at the image of himself being beaten down on the sky, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.

"...Hashirama."

"Um?"

"Have you been secretly practicing again behind my back?"

Hashirama scratched his head, looking completely bewildered.

"No... I was just playing casually."

spot:"……"

The Sharingan began to spin uncontrollably.

"Just playing around?"

Seeing that things were not going well, Hashirama quickly waved his hand.

"No, no! I mean! I mean because you got stronger, Madara, so I have to get stronger too so I can fight you!"

"This is the work of fate! Yes! That's exactly it!"

Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha sighed.

Damn fate!

This shows just how outrageous Hashirama Senju really was.

Those reincarnated as Asuras should grow stronger by mobilizing the masses and gaining the approval of their companions.

But Hashirama doesn't need that. He can crush everything by himself.

The scene cuts in.

Hashirama Senju formed hand seals, and countless wood clones appeared on the battlefield.

Each wood clone maintained its hand seal posture, and in the next instant, a wood dragon, a wood person, and Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees were born!

The entire battlefield was transformed into a dense forest within seconds.

The enemies were all absorbed by the trees.

Under the sky, the Kage of each ninja village fell silent.

In Kumogakure, the Fourth Raikage, A, watched the scene, the veins on his forehead throbbing.

"...One person fighting an entire army. Is this how Hashirama Senju fought?"

"This isn't war anymore, this is a one-sided crushing defeat!"

As Ōnoki gazed at the forest in the sky, he recalled the scene of seeing Hashirama Senju fight on the battlefield when he was a boy, following his master.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a toothache.

That's not a ninja battle at all!

Secondly, while most Ashura reincarnations are relatively innocent and loving, Hashirama's personality, though similar to Naruto's, can be ruthless in ways Naruto can't match at times.

[For example, after Sasuke defected from Konoha, Naruto always wanted to bring Sasuke back, even though Sasuke had stated that he wanted to destroy Konoha, Naruto still wouldn't have the heart to kill Sasuke.]

While Hashirama and Madara faced similar situations, their approaches to these situations were drastically different.

In the scene, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha stare at each other, panting heavily.

Madara Uchiha said with a hint of smugness.

"This time, it's your turn to lose to me."

After saying that, the two charged at each other with their weapons raised. After several rounds of fighting, Hashirama fell to the ground.

However, just as Madara bent down to speak, a blade suddenly pierced through his chest.

Behind him, Hashirama, with a solemn expression, slowly spoke.

"I want to protect our..."

He paused for a moment, his tone resolute.

"No, protect my village."

"Whether it's my friends, my brothers, or even my children,"

"Anyone who dares to oppose the village will be dealt with swiftly and decisively!"

Under the sky, everyone fell silent for a moment.

Mei Terumi: Is this the resolve of the First Hokage...? She'd even betray her closest friend for the sake of the village.

Madara Uchiha: ...

Mei Terumi: A person who would stab even her best friend in the back for the sake of the village, yet the villagers she protects are always thinking about how to bully others... This contrast is indeed a bit hard to watch.

[Kurotsuchi: If I were the First Hokage, seeing those villagers bullying and ostracizing everyone all the time, I'd probably be so angry I'd crawl out of my grave.]

[Deidara: Hahahaha! When Hashirama Senju stabbed Madara at the Valley of the End, he probably didn't expect that he was protecting a bunch of bullies!]

Konoha Village, on the street.

As the villagers watched the comments on the screen, their expressions shifted from confusion to embarrassment, and then from embarrassment to guilt.

"Um...we do seem to have...gone a bit too far?"

"What?! That's going too far! This is our tradition! It's the will of the hegemon!"

"But Tianmu said that the First Generation Lord even stabbed his best friend to protect us... and yet we bully others all day long..."

"That's different! We bully them to make them stronger!"

"...Brother, were you really showing your true feelings?"

Hokage Building.

Jiraiya leaned against the window, watching the villagers' awkward expressions on the street, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Old man, what do you think the First Hokage would think if he saw Konoha like this?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi exhaled a puff of smoke and remained silent for a long time.

"I'll probably just laugh it off..."

After all, in his mind, the First Hokage was a magnanimous person.

The final piece of evidence proving Hashirama's atavism is his unique Hashirama cells.

His cells are practically a panacea in Naruto.

[How can I learn the unique Wood Release technique? Transplanting Hashirama cells is the only way.]

What if your body has poor recovery and vitality? Transplanting interstalk cells can perfectly solve this problem.

[If an arm or leg is severed and requires a prosthetic, low-rejection interstitial cells can easily solve the problem.]

[If the Mangekyou Sharingan has too many side effects or too long a cooldown period for its abilities, transplanting Hashirama cells can allow for more frequent use of the ability while reducing the side effects.]

[If you want to mass-produce a large army of White Zetsu, you can easily do so by combining Hashirama's cells with the Gedo Mazo.]

[What if the reanimated person is difficult to control after being resurrected using the Impure World Reincarnation technique? Adding some Hashirama cells will easily suppress them.]

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[It's important to know that the cells of all previous Asura reincarnations lack this function.]

Even though Naruto possesses both Ashura's identity and the Uzumaki clan's bloodline, his cells are still no different from those of an ordinary person.

Even the Sage of Six Paths, the founder of the Ninja Sect, couldn't leave behind such cells to benefit future generations.

[It is clear that Hashirama's cells directly serve as irrefutable evidence of his atavism.]

Throughout the entire history of the ninja world, no other person's cells have had such a profound impact.

[What even the Sage of Six Paths couldn't do, Hashirama Senju accomplished.]

So, is Hashirama Senju actually a reversion to the Divine Tree?

The answer is already obvious.

Hokage Building.

Tsunade stared at the words on the sky, her expression very complicated.

"Grandpa's cells are even more outrageous than the Sage of Six Paths... What is this? Is my grandpa stronger than the Sage of Six Paths?"

The period when Konoha was founded.

As Hashirama Senju looked up at the sky, he admitted that he was starting to doubt whether he was even human anymore.

"...Am I really a descendant of trees?"