"Ah?"
Even the Ninja World Asura, upon knowing that in another world an Uchiha with Rinnegan appears and yet gets their clan annihilated, couldn't help but show a confused expression.
Even for someone of Senju Tobirama's caliber, merely aiming to divide and recruit within the Uchiha's ranks, wanting to domesticate this erstwhile enemy, surely wouldn't lead to clan annihilation, would it?
"What do you mean by all dead?"
Uchiha Izuna stared at Sasuke, whose face resembled his own. This person, even on his deathbed, instructed Uchiha Madara to take care of the clan's people, and demanded in a deep voice:
"Explain yourself clearly!"
Sasuke sighed helplessly and shook his head: "Alright, I'll start from when Aomi first appeared and tell you all the history of our world..."
"Otherwise, if you all ask one by one, it will be quite troublesome for me..."
Sasuke glanced around at the ninjas present, twitching his mouth.
This group of ninjas, in his world, really didn't end up well in the end... so he might as well say it all at once and let them ponder it.
"Though it's another world... what Sasuke told you earlier, you also heard, it's exactly the same as before Aomi affected the Ninja World..."
Senju Tobirama spoke: "Let us see, in a world without Aomi, what the Ninja World would become!"
"Go ahead, Sasuke..."
Sasuke nodded, organizing his thoughts.
"Consider the timeline from Hatake Sakumo's suicide, that was exactly when Aomi started to emerge..."
"In our world, just like yours, the Ninja War broke out, with the Four Great Hidden Villages teaming up to attack Konoha, resulting in the village needing even ninja school students to graduate early and head to the battlefield, with extremely heavy casualties..."
"Afterwards, internal strife broke out within the four great hidden villages except Konoha."
"The Hidden Rock sacrificed thousands of ninjas to secure the Third Raikage's death... while the Hidden Sand fell into the financial constraints imposed by the Daming Prefecture, and to compete for the position of the Third Kazekage, Rasa made a deal with the Hidden Mist to kill Pakura, who was an important military asset at the time..."
"So the Hidden Sand also withdrew from the war stage."
Rasa lowered his gaze, avoiding the sharp looks of the Third Kazekage, Pakura, Ebizo, Chiyo, and others, seemingly disdainful with a cold snort.
But his unnatural expression and actions betrayed his inner thoughts.
Though similar events happened in Aomi's world, Rasa wasn't accused due to Isshiki's presence, as all the Five Kage were under Rinnegan's control...
Only Rasa knew clearly.
Killing Pakura was an elaborately planned matter... If Aomi's power hadn't shattered the war situation, rendering the Kazekage position irrelevant...
Then Rasa would have done it.
"I know everyone wants to know what happened to the Hidden Sand's development afterwards..."
Sasuke glanced at the expressions of the Third Kazekage and others, feeling a subtle sensation.
This kind of comparative spoiler seemed interesting after all? Especially regarding Rasa, Gaara's father, as a familiar of Gaara, he felt Rasa deserved interrogation.
"Rasa didn't manage the Hidden Sand exceptionally well. During my Chunin exams, he allied with Orochimaru, who had become a traitorous ninja, to destroy Konoha, but was killed by Orochimaru midway, so the Hidden Sand ended up as a tool..."
"As for the Third Kazekage, you were actually the trigger for the third Ninja War in our world... After Sasori defected, you were poisoned to death by him and turned into a human puppet, leading the Hidden Sand to take advantage of the chaos and stir a war among the Five Hidden Villages."
Sasuke continued: "As for Sasori, he later joined a certain organization and was eventually killed by Chiyo herself."
"Rasa, as a father, you really were inadequate... You tested Gaara's temperament by having his uncle assassinate him, almost driving your own son to insanity..."
"However, Gaara is an exceptional man. He ultimately became the Fifth Kazekage, gaining recognition from the Hidden Sand and the Ninja World..."
"Yet his life was also tumultuous. Deidara from the Hidden Rock, who joined Sasori's organization named Akatsuki, killed Gaara and extracted the One-tailed beast from him..."
"Chiyo Grandma used the Hidden Sand's Kinjutsu, sacrificed herself to revive him. As for Deidara, he died by my hand; his Explosion Release almost killed me, he was a formidable opponent..."
Uchiha Sasuke's words led those from the Hidden Sand and Hidden Rock into deep silence.
The Hidden Sand truly was tragic...
The successive assassination of the Third and Fourth Kazekage, the backbone Pakura died in internal strife, even the Fifth Kazekage killed during the invasion...
At this moment.
The Third Kazekage, Rasa, Pakura, Chiyo, and other Hidden Sand ninjas felt that compared to a world without Aomi, this one seemed much better...
At least they were alive now, most of the Hidden Sand ninjas were alive, and there hadn't been internecine conflict leading to assassination, family turning upon each other in bloodshed.
Though with Aomi's presence, the Hidden Sand could never ascend among the Five Great Hidden Villages, they certainly lived peacefully under his governance...
But isn't that still good?
Meanwhile, Onoki was also deep in thought.
Deidara, he certainly knew who he was... When he was a kid, Onoki took him as a disciple and considered him pivotal for training, even having his granddaughter Kurotsuchi grow up with him...