Chapter 3

3.

Once Tobirama opened his eyes again, he could not tell how much time has passed, but there was a change. The man who came to visit changed.

"Get up."

"... Haa…."

At the straightforward commanding tone, Tobirama groggily stood up. He knew who the person that imposingly let out his chakra to violently wake him up was.

Uchiha Madara. The older brother of previous visitor Izuna Uchiha and current young head of the Uchiha clan. The monstrous man, who is also the only ninja capable of fighting on equal ground with Tobirama's brother ninja god Senju Hashirama.

The eyes between his bangs were currently black, but Tobirama has more recollection of seeing them red.

"Kisama, what have you done."

"...."

"Don't try to play dumb with me."

Tobirama shut his mouth.

'Madara is definitely a battle maniac with reputation of shura and ghost on battlefield, but on the other hand he is also the clan head of prestigious and powerful Uchiha clan. He has received proper lessons from his father as a young clan head, and there is without a doubt that Madara can easily deduce the strangeness of this event and guess what might have happened.'

True to Tobirama's assumption, Madara knew right away that something was wrong, when he received the report that Senju Tobirama was captured by the patrol team. Especially when it mentioned that Senju Tobirama trespassed their territory unarmed and defenseless. Frankly, at first, Madara also doubted if Senju Tobirama was scheming. He is the "Senju Tobirama" after all. But when Izuna reported that 'he is no longer a Senju."… 'Defenselessly left out of Senju territory and no longer a Senju… doesn't this sound like he is exiled?'

"There is no way Senju Hashirama will exile you, unless he became insane."

Senju's sharpest sword. Senju's strongest powerhouse is definitely Senju Hashirama, but Senju Tobirama is the next strongest ninja and also a well renowned top tactician and top ninjutsu master of this warring ninja clan era. To exile such valuable member especially in this tumultuous era means that either the clan, the clan leader, or both are insane.

'…..however, the impossible happened. Then there must be a reason behind it." Madara mused.

Madara guessed that the core of this problem must be due to Tobirama himself.

The piercing gaze that seems to see right through him even without the sharingan made Tobirama exhale a deep sigh. Silence can only mean acquisition at this point.

"….. Yeah. I have sinned."

"What the hell did you do."

Tobirama racked through his brain to find the most proper word to formulate his sentence.

The Senju clan, as hinted by its moniker Senju of the forest, is a clan that put great importance in nature. Its interest in nature does not signify that the Senju pursue to protect nature. If so, there is no place for human to live. Senju respected and idealized the cycle of nature. Plant to insect, insect to bird; rabbit to fox, fox to tiger; the seed births a sprout and branches out to blossom flowers and leaves behind seeds for future. Senju respects and follows the principle of natural circulation. The older and traditional Senjus followed this to a point of worship.

'The Jutsu I developed… directly breaks and defies this principle. Sacrificing the living to resurrect the deceased resting in solace in paradise back to this dirty and impure war ridden world. To sum up this Jutsu in one word….'

"___heresy."

"what?"

For a moment Madara doubted if Tobirama ever believed in religion, but could not help but widen his eyes in both horror and shock upon hearing Tobirama's next word.

"I studied a jutsu that summons the dead back to the living world."

"What the....?!!!"

Madara could not hide his astonishment upon hearing such ridiculous word.

'What the fuck did this crazy xxxxx do?'

It is well known fact that Senju Tobirama is a genius in researching and developing ninjutsu. As the contemporary strongest water style jutsu user, most of Senju Tobirama's water jutsus are self-developed. Besides that the shadow clone jutsu that overpowers clone jutsu, and jutsu with less required hand signs and muinjutsu (sealess jutsu) made his opponents overwhelmed with both respect and horror.

And now he has touched the principle of life and death.

Tobirama looked at the ceiling without any focus and explained.

"It is not a resurrection. That's unreasonable. The vessel that carries the summoned soul is also fragile compared to when they were living, but it is easily repairable."

"So what, No, why did that become a problem?"

Madara, who was so shocked that he almost awakened his sharingan again, began to muse 'but if you think about it, isn't this problem not a big deal? For those who have lost their loved ones, is it not lucky to meet them again even if it is brief or momentary?'

Such pure response made Tobirama think that he would have smirked at him if it wasn't for his current situation.

"The Jutsu requires the biological data of the summoning target.

"Biological data...."

"Hair, flesh, blood, bone, to put it simply- part of the body."

Tobirama's word allowed Madara to realize what he had done. Where are the deceased resting, and what needs to be done to acquire these data.

"I raided the tomb of the deceased"

Tobirama's gaze fell down from the ceiling. His red eyes, unlike sharingan, looked rather hollow and desolate at the moment.

"My little brothers'."

In other words, Senju Hashirama's little brothers.