"Boom!!!"
Indra, played by Madara Uchiha, and Ashura, played by Hashirama Senju, slammed down in the middle of the battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
The powerful chakra scattering in every direction made the ninjas of the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan instinctively leap back to either side. Every nerve in their bodies went taut, and they did not even dare breathe as they stayed on guard.
On this battlefield, Butsuma Senju and Tajima Uchiha made hand signals at the same time, ordering the clansmen behind them not to act without their instructions.
The two Clan Heads wore grim expressions, and like the clansmen behind them, they stared hard at the thick white smoke in the middle of the battlefield.
Even someone who was not a Sensor Type ninja could feel that oppressive chakra. Even an ordinary person with no chakra at all would have been able to sense it.
That pressure. That intimidation.
Who on earth was it...?!
The Senju?
Tajima Uchiha glanced toward his lifelong enemy.
Coincidentally, Butsuma Senju was looking back at him too.
"Are they Uchiha reinforcements?!"
Their eyes met.
One look was enough to tell them that what was happening now had not been expected by either side.
Not the Senju, and not the Uchiha?
Then who could it be?!
Could it be someone from the Uzumaki Clan?!
While Butsuma Senju and Tajima Uchiha were confused and shocked, there was one more person.
Or rather, something that could hardly be called a person, also widening those bright yellow eyes in astonishment.
Black Zetsu!
The dutiful son who had spent more than a thousand years hiding in the shadows and guiding the war between the Senju and Uchiha was currently attached to White Zetsu, disguised as an Uchiha ninja who had actually died long ago.
Black Zetsu's mind was about to explode.
Never mind that this sudden development had interrupted the war.
This chakra!!
This aura!!
Is it Indra and Ashura?!!
No! Indra and Ashura have clearly already reincarnated in this lifetime! Why would Indra and Ashura's chakra still exist?!
And compared to those two twelve- or thirteen-year-old brats, the Indra and Ashura chakra within the white smoke was even denser and more domineering.
Could the real Indra and Ashura have been revived?!
And what unsettled Black Zetsu most was this.
Inside the white mist, he sensed the power of the Rinnegan!!!
Aside from Hagoromo and Mother, who else possessed the power of the Rinnegan?!
Black Zetsu thought of one possibility, but he did not dare believe it. Deep down, he rejected that possibility entirely.
Between the ninjas of the two clans.
The smoke slowly dispersed...
The figures of Indra, played by Madara Uchiha, Ashura, played by Hashirama Senju, Ōtsutsuki Tobirama, played by Tobirama Senju, Six Paths Izuna, played by Izuna Uchiha, Six Paths Minato, played by Minato Namikaze, and Ōtsutsuki Kakashi, played by Kakashi Hatake, slowly appeared from within the fading white mist.
Behind them, the six children standing like attendants were also dressed entirely in white, with white hair and pale skin.
It was unmistakably the arrival of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
"Ōtsutsuki?!"
Black Zetsu was instantly scared dumb. His worst guess had come true.
They're Mother's clan! I never thought these people would arrive on this planet so early!
Why?!
The fruit clearly hasn't ripened yet!
Why have they come here?!
White hair, pale skin, a single horn growing from the forehead, Rinnegan beneath both eyes, and two compound eyes marked with eerie ringed patterns.
Over a high-collared black fitted inner garment, their loose robes with wide collars were also in the style of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Six Paths Minato, played by Minato Namikaze, said, "Descendants of my Ōtsutsuki Clan, why do I not see the God Tree here?"
The moment he spoke, the ninjas of both the Senju and Uchiha Clans were stunned.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan?
Among the hundred clans of the ninja world, they had never heard of such a surname.
But their eyes...
The legends of both the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan recorded the appearance of the Rinnegan.
Rikudō Sennin?!
How was that possible?!
"There are no clansmen of yours here," Butsuma Senju said. "This is the battlefield of the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan."
"Battlefield?" Ashura, played by Hashirama Senju, looked puzzled. "Why would my brother's descendants and mine become enemies? Right, brother?"
Many people seemed to hear the phantom whistle of a kettle boiling.
There was no other reason.
That single "brother" almost made the Uchiha playing Indra go numb on the spot.
Madara Uchiha, who nearly lost his composure, fell silent.
Silent.
And silent again.
Behind the two of them, Ōtsutsuki Tobirama, played by Tobirama Senju, and Six Paths Izuna, played by Izuna Uchiha, felt their hearts start pounding. Were they going to be exposed right at the start?
Izuna worried that his brother had forgotten his lines.
Tobirama thought, Was Madara Uchiha trying to force an NG at a time like this so Big Brother would call him brother a few more times? Evil Uchiha! Evil Madara Uchiha! How despicable. How utterly despicable!
After a storm of thoughts, however, Madara Uchiha finally got his startled heart under control. He coughed once to cover his panic, then let his pale purple Rinnegan regress into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan as he stared at the Uchiha clansmen.
"Answer..."
"Answer my younger brother's question, my descendants."
He repeated the opening line twice.
Tobirama and Izuna were startled, thinking Madara, or rather, his brother, had forgotten his lines again.
In reality, Madara Uchiha was only having trouble getting the words out because calling Hashirama his "younger brother" had thrown him badly.
But the unintentionally heavy pressure, along with the unintentional repetition of "answer," made the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan feel an even deeper oppression.
"It's the Mangekyō Sharingan!!"
The Uchiha clansmen cried out in shock when they saw Indra, played by Madara Uchiha, lower the Rinnegan into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
"Could this person..."
"Could he really be the ancestor of the Uchiha Clan?!"
"Wait! If this person is the ancestor of the Uchiha Clan, then his so-called younger brother..."
Ashura, played by Hashirama Senju, clapped his hands together.
Wood Release Secret Art: Nativity of a World of Trees!!
"Wood Release!!"
"It's the legendary power of the Senju Clan!"
"Why does that person have the power of Wood Release?! And he's the younger brother of the Uchiha ancestor?!"
Once they understood what was going on...
The Uchiha Clan.
The Senju Clan.
The battlefield that had been so hot-blooded and brutal moments before now felt like a farce.
There was no better proof than the Sharingan and Wood Release. They had no choice but to believe it.
The Uchiha and Senju were brother clans?
Their relationship was like that between the Senju and Uzumaki? Or perhaps even closer?!
If this were told to the ninja world, would anyone believe it?
But the truth was happening right before their eyes.
Minato Namikaze looked around. "I have a question. Why did my clan arrive here a thousand years ago, yet the God Tree still has not been planted? What has that woman, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, been doing?"
Black Zetsu: "!!!!"
He actually mentioned Mother!
It seemed these people really were genuine members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Damn it!
"What is this God Tree you speak of?"
Among the Senju ninjas, a clear, childish voice asked the question.
Tobirama Senju, whose scripted line was supposed to explain the God Tree to everyone here: ""
Well done. As expected of himself. That saved him a lot of trouble.
Ōtsutsuki Tobirama, played by Tobirama Senju, said, "Thousands of years ago, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki came to this planet bearing my clan's mission, to plant the God Tree. She was to sacrifice every life on this planet and make the God Tree bear the chakra fruit. This is the natural mission of my Ōtsutsuki Clan."
"Sacrifice... every life on this planet...?"
Young Izuna stood on the Uchiha side, murmuring Ōtsutsuki Tobirama's words in disbelief.
Six Paths Izuna, played by Izuna Uchiha, said, "Aside from betrayal, I truly cannot think of any other reason why this planet would still be so full of life a thousand years later."
The attention that had originally been seized by Indra, played by Madara, and Ashura, played by Hashirama, shifted to Izuna.
Many Uchiha, along with young Tobirama, noticed it.
That young Uchiha man, and one of the attendant children behind them, looked extremely similar to Izuna Uchiha.
This further confirmed that these people were the ancestors of the Uchiha Clan, and that their strength was so great it was impossible to fathom.
The Senju and Uchiha ninjas felt as if stormy waves were surging through their hearts, but at this moment, they did not dare act rashly.
Then they looked again at the corpses of their clansmen all around them.
The ninjas on both sides, who had still been fighting each other to the death only a dozen minutes earlier, were suddenly overcome with grief.
Why had the clans of two blood brothers started killing each other? And what had the God Tree and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki been doing for the past thousand years?
Just as doubt rose in their hearts, Indra, played by Madara Uchiha, suddenly erupted.
"Black Zetsu! Come out!"
"!!!!"
Black Zetsu was so frightened his insides nearly shook apart.
Why would Indra, who had once been deceived by him, call him out by name? Did he know? Did he know Black Zetsu had deceived him?
"Hmph! You stinking rat hiding in the dark. Are you waiting for us to come catch you?"
Black Zetsu: Damn it! Should I go out or not?
He was still struggling with the decision.
But before he could truly make up his mind and step out...