Chapter 86:

Title: No title comes to Mind.

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After Madara left the village, years passed and Konoha-gakure prospered. Many renowned clans tended the willingness to join the alliance and be part of the Village.

Clans like the Hyuga clan were most welcome. They were renowned in their absoluteness in close combat fights and were feared far and wide, but not feared to the point of the Senju and Uchiha clan.

The Ino-Shika-Cho alliance also joined in. These three clans were already an alliance before the Village system was made so they were tightly connected even after they joined.

Individually, any one of the three clan could potentially go toe to toe with the Senju and Uchiha clan, but together, the could, with certainty go toe to toe with these two clans and still come out victorious.

This was one of the reasons Hashirama was beyond joyful when they came over to join.

According to them, it's always better to have more people watching their backs.

Tobirama however was as usual, paranoid of them, especially the Yamanaka and Nara clan.

These two clans had Secret Techniques that could do a lot of damage if used properly.

Guaranteed, the Nara clan was the brain of the group, and even Tobirama in All his intelligence, didn't dare slight that.

The Yamanaka clan, like the Uchiha were dangerous as they could enter your head, and different from the Uchiha clan where you could avoid it, in the Yamanaka clan case, with the help of the Nara clan shadow technique, they had 100 percent certainty of entering your head.

From his research, he discovered that only willpower could counter them, but the Yamanaka clan had a technique used especially to train their willpower.

The Akimichi clan were just the muscles of the group, nothing spectacular about that, only that the bigger they grow, the stronger they become.

'Like hell nothing was spectacular about them!' Was Tobirama's internal scream as they introduced themselves that way.

All this was well and good but Tobirama found that the Nara clan had the same ability as that Captain of the now named Hanagakure.

They could slip into their shadows and move as fast, If not faster than even his flying Raijin.

Thankfully, it was quite draining on their Chakra so only a select few could use it.

If not, they'd be a menace at night.

"I wonder how these clans managed to remain low key despite the battles that were constantly being waged." Tobirama wondered as he and Hashirama were reviewing the clans that were joining them.

"All the more reason to take them in, is it not? They're people who cherish peace. That's all that matters." Hashirama said with a gleeful laugh.

Moving on, other clans also came forward, the Inuzuka clan and their natural disposition of only submitting to the strong happily decided to submit when the current Alpha had a standoff with Hashirama.

Other prominent clans included the Kurama clan with their Realistic Illusion, the Fuma clan, distant relatives of the Uchiha clan, despite their relationship with the Uchiha clan, they lack the Sharingan but their main weapon of choice was a giant shruiken.

Other clans with nothing exceptional about them except their Familial ties included, the Sarutobi, Shimura, Hoki, Kohaku and lots more.

They were just a group of people so they were inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

The Hatake Clan were also among.

The little baby Shun had dropped there was already grown. He was the same age as the little Hiruzen, Danzo and the whole lot of them.

He had the normal white hair of the Hatake and Tengoku clan, but didn't have the red eyes of the Tengoku clan, Instead, his was brown.

Other than that, nothing happened as the years passed except for Hashirama using his Mokuton to build several infrastructure for the village to resemble what he had seen in Hanagakure.

Mito also did her bits with directing Hashirama on how to build a proper hospital. Not like they needed it now, but with the influx of people, a hospital would be necessary.

One of the First buildings Hashirama built was an academy.

Directly taking inspiration from Hanagakure, he built it to have various floors, large compound for playgrounds, training and other activities.

Meanwhile, Tobirama was creating a system the entire village would be working with.

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In a location in the Land Of Swamps, nine gigantic figures could be seen. These figures had distinct shapes, forms and colours.

From their bodies, massive waves of chakra could be felt from miles away, and that was the case with them actually controling it.

"You know we aren't supposed to be together, right?" A gruff voice asked with a certain level of decorum normally noticed in samurais.

"Yeah. Yeah... Ji-chan built places for us and said we should remain there right?" A cheerful voice asked as massive winds generated due to it moving it's wings.

"How should I know? Aniki said we should gather together for our own good and said nothing else. I was the one here, why did you guys come here is you didn't want to be together?" An irritated voice asked, filled it...well, irritation.

"You got a problem with that, you furball?" A loud childish voice asked in annoyance.

"Humph, as loud as ever, eh.. you one tail raccoon?" The irritated voice sounded again, this time with a mocking tone.

"You got a problem with my tail? Eh furball? That's it, come with me, let's fight it out, were settling this issue today." The loud voice said again as it raised his tail and slammed it on the ground, generating massive torrents of wind.

"We didn't come here to fight. Aniki did mention that the humans had begun banding together, we should do so too, don't you all think?" A mature voice said as the winds calmed.

"Of course, not that I mind though, he could never beat me with the amount of Tails he's got... Aiya... I meant tail." The furball said teasingly.

"Agh!... I can't stand this idiot, I'm leaving this instant."

"Where to?" A female voice asked. The owner of the voice seemingly raised its head causing the atmosphere to heat up a little.

"To where I've always been... The Desert." The racoon answered as he turned.

"Why don't we all calm down now, aniki must have his reaosns for telling us to come together despite knowing our differences." Another female voice said.

"It's like what he said to us before... Humans have more strength in numbers. As they're banding together, we also have to do the same,"

"Humph, I don't see why that's even important. No matter how much they band together, I could just squash them with my tails. I have nine of them, unlike a certain someone." The furball arrogantly said as he waved his tails and not forgetting to mock the raccoon.

The racoon however was being held by multiple octopus legs and was unable to move or speak, if not, he would've blown a gasket right around now.

The others pretended like they didn't see the racoon's plight and looked at the arrogant furball with tired expressions.

This has been his attitude for centuries they've been together. Despite this, they also knew he was actually the softest of them all. After all, he was tasked with protecting them all by their father.

"That doesn't still answer the question. If we all stay here together, wouldn't it be easier for the humans to notice us?" The gruff voice asked.

"No... I don't think so. I've been here for over a hundred years now and I must say, this place would meet all our requirements." The furball said, but then looking at the raccoon, he said. "Unfortunately, there aren't any sandy areas around here..."

To the raccoon, this sounded like he was being kicked out, but to the others they felt like he was asking for the racoon's opinion.

Unfortunately for them all, the raccoon didn't get this and lashed out as usual causing the furball to be irritated once more and begin insulting him once more.

Knowing they couldn't fight here, they just threw insults at eachother.

"Those two aside, we really can stay here. The sea nearby for Isobu, and Gyuki, the mountain for Matatabi and Kurama, the volcanic area for me and the forest for Chomei, Kokuo and Saiken. Only Shukaku remains homeless, how should we go about this?" The gruff voice asked.

"Now. Now Son Goku, you're really thinking too much about this. Why don't we all just take our human forms, go over to Aniki's place and then, case settled." Chomei asked.

"Well, except from you, we all feel weakened and irritated in that form." Son Goku said giving the beetle an impassioned stare.

"W-well, I just enjoy the thrill of being something else, don't you all find it interesting?" The beetle asked and looked at the others who have her the same stare as Som Goku.

"Y-You..." Chomei reacted quite exaggeratedly.

"What's with the reaction." Matatabi asked as she was reacting different from usual.

"Hehehe, this is one of the things little Nami taught me just recently. It's called acting." Chomei said as she puffed out her chest which was weird as only her carapace moved.

"Oh? Nami has alive again?" Matatabi asked with a cheerful voice.

"And she didn't come see us and only you?" Saiken asked with hurt filled tone.

"No... I doubt that, Chomei probably went to find her as soon as she detected her Chakra." Gyuki said to which Chomei reacted quite funnily.

"T-that's not true."

'She definitely did.' Was everyone's thoughts.

"That's it!" The racoon, Shukaku shouted. "I'm leaving, nobody should look for me, I just can't stand this furball."

Saying that, before anyone could react, he leaped and left as fast as possible.

"That was uncalled for, Kurama." Matatabi said.

"What? If he can't accept that I'm the eldest and strongest then it's noty fault, is it?" Kurama said with a fox like smile and lay on his hands casually.

"If anything happens to him, you know it's on you right?" Son Goku asked.

"Humph, as I said before, what could possibly happen to us tailed beast? We can't die and we possess chakra higher than this normal humans could ever possess. I think you're all thinking too much." Kurama said with a frown.

"Aniki is a human, you know." Gyuki said.

"Emphasis on the normal I used there." Kurama replied immediately.

"Since there's a one, there could always be a two." Son Goku said. "One always gives birth to two and two to three."

"You're still reading those things Aniki left for us aren't you?" Chomei asked teasingly.

"I-I'm not." Son Goku said with his gruff voice to hide his embarrassment.

"You definitely are." Chomei pressed.

"No. I'm not!" Son Goku defended.

While they were doing that, Gyuki turned to Kurama and said. "Aniki always said that confidence is good, but blind confidence is just arrogance and that's bad."

The others also out in their own words to admonish Kurama who huffed angrily.

"Fine. Fine, I'll go apologize and bring him back, we can even take on human form and roam this place." Kurama said and stood on his hind legs with his tails swaying around.

His posture at that moment was quite awe-inspiring which the other tailed beast accepted internally but tacitly kept silent as not to stroke his ego.

With a leap, he too was out of the area in search for Shukaku.

Unfortunately for them, despite Shun's warning, Fate did have something in store for them, and this was the last time they ever saw eachother physical again.

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A Few Days Ago.

Madara had finished his preparation and was on a journey to find the ultimate weapons.

Beings of pure energy far greater than any human could ever hope to have.

These beings were just there, doing nothing when their energy could be put into good use and be used to help actualise his dreams of true and absolute peace.

Yes. He had spent the last few years trying to understand how the world works, how chakra came into existence and how to actually end all conflicts.

He had come to understand one thing, the end of war wasn't the equivalent to peace, it was truly just a phase for people to recuperate, get stronger and then, plunge themselves into the horror known as war.

He had come to understand that in order to end all pains and suffering, there was a need for the Yin and Yang that was separated at the beginning of the world to come together.

He was the Yin, or he believed he was, and Hashirama was the Yang. If he could get the thing that makes Hashirama the Yang, he could achieve a state similar to the first Shinobi.

And with that, he could help all humans achieve true and Eternal peace.

That was dream he supposed to achieve. He had always hated wars. That was a fact. He hated the fact that people had to endure the horrors, the pains, the suffering that was associated to the thing known as living.

But in his darkest moments, he had found it. The turning point.

Imagine a world where everyone gets to achieve their own version of peace. In that world, there would be no pain, no suffering and no fear of losing your loved ones.

In that world, everyone would truly be happy.

That was well and good, but this reach that point, he had to go through a lot of process. But First of all, he had to find one such being able to house huge amount of Chakra.

"With that Chakra, I could fight Hashirama and possibly win, but I'm the off chance that I lose, Hashirama will sure kill me." Madara said to no one on particular.

"But I don't need to survive. No, I even need him to kill me, only In that way would I be able to successfully begin my plans."

Madara said as he left the place that has served as his home for the last few years.