Myoko, Togakushi, and Kurohi had already heard Naruto and Obito Uchiha describe the village called Konoha back when they tricked the four members of Team Minato and Team Kakashi into delivering supplies to the Uchiha's secret hideout in the Hidden Mountain.
After they later learned that Konoha was a village founded by their older brother, their curiosity about it only grew stronger.
Now, hearing from the future Izuna that Obito Uchiha could take them to that village called Konoha, they all looked eager to try.
"You can take us to the future you came from?!"
"Really?! Obito-nii-san!"
Being called "brother" by the younger brothers of the clan's founder?
What kind of feeling was this...
His seniority was probably even higher than his own parents' and Big Brother Fugaku's.
Obito revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan. "Going back to the future world is still something my Mangekyō Sharingan can't do, but inside Kamui's Dimension, I've recreated Konohagakure from my memories."
"You recreated an entire village?!!"
Tajima Uchiha stared in shock at the child in front of him, this boy named Obito Uchiha.
Minato Namikaze explained, "Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan is a very special space-time Dōjutsu. Inside his eyes is a still world."
"Can you bring people in?"
"Yes."
Obito Uchiha pulled the people beside him into Konoha, then asked who else wanted to go in.
Most of the Uchiha Clan were curious about Obito Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, and all of them said they wanted to take a look.
The Senju Clan, having heard from Tobirama Senju that this was a village established by the future Young Clan Head Hashirama, also wanted to see it. Still, they were somewhat worried that it might be an Uchiha plot.
"Let Kawarama and Itama go in."
The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, made the decision for his two younger brothers.
"This is our eldest brother's wish."
It was also his own wish.
It was precisely because, in the parallel world he came from, he and his elder brother Hashirama Senju had failed to protect Kawarama and Itama that the desire to end the Warring States Period had taken root in their hearts.
If Kawarama and Itama were going in, then young Hashirama and young Tobirama had to go in as well.
After that, members of both clans began choosing one after another to go see that "Konohagakure."
The Sengoku-era ninjas who had not yet gone in watched as Young Obito Uchiha's eyes formed a vortex that warped the surrounding space-time, sucking the people around him into that space one by one like a waterspout.
And the moment those drawn into Young Obito's Kamui's Dimension opened their eyes, they saw the enormous Hokage Rock.
Obito said, "Standing on top of the Hokage Rock lets you overlook the entire village. Carving the Hokage portraits here symbolizes that every generation of Hokage will forever protect the village of Konoha."
"Hokage? That's the village leader, right?"
Someone from the Uchiha Clan questioned him. "Since this village was founded in the future by Young Master Madara and Hashirama Senju together, why are there only portraits of Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju?"
"If it really is as you said, a village founded jointly by the Senju and the Uchiha, then at the very least, there should be portraits of Young Master Madara, along with Izuna, Myoko, Togakushi, Kurohi, and the other young leaders!"
Seeing the majestic Hokage Rock, the Senju clansmen suddenly felt their blood stir.
One of them immediately laughed and shot back at the Uchiha. "What? Feeling jealous? Think it's unfair? It wasn't until the Fifth Hokage that one of your Uchiha took the position. Are you jealous?"
The people from the mission scroll world said nothing.
They all knew that even the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Hokage...
The position of Hokage seemed completely cut off from the Uchiha. It had nothing to do with the surname Uchiha at all.
And yet, in a subtle, indescribable way, there was some strange connection. Almost every Hokage had an unclear, tangled bond with an Uchiha.
Standing beside Tobirama Senju, Izuna Uchiha suddenly spoke. "Tell them the truth. About Black Zetsu, and about my brother."
For him, those words were far too difficult to say himself.
Tobirama Senju glanced at Izuna Uchiha and accepted his request.
"After Madara Uchiha and my elder brother Hashirama Senju founded Konohagakure, the village quickly gained recognition from other ninja clans. As you can see, this village is not made up only of the Senju and Uchiha. After the two clans formed an alliance, other ninja clans gradually submitted petitions to join the village and develop together."
"The village's construction was in full swing, and the Daimyō also asked us to give the ninja village a name and choose a capable leader."
As the two clans from the Warring States Period listened, they began to picture the early days of the ninja village's founding.
"My older brother originally wanted to leave the position of village leader to Madara Uchiha."
Tobirama Senju looked at Izuna Uchiha.
They had not mentioned this before, so Izuna Uchiha was only hearing it now.
His first reaction was that if Hashirama Senju wanted to hand the position of village leader to his older brother, there had to be some scheme behind it. And the fact that the position of Hokage ultimately still went to the two brothers, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, seemed to prove it.
"But I gave my older brother a serious scolding."
Uh.
Young Hashirama looked at young Tobirama with an aggrieved expression.
"Tobirama may look like Mother, but most of the time, he's even scarier than Father."
"You're too loud. Shut up and listen properly!"
"Ehh!!" Bonk...
Seeing young Hashirama slump into gloom on the spot, Kawarama and Itama beside him could not help laughing. They even urged their eldest brother not to make their second brother angry.
Young Madara Uchiha stood nearby with his younger brothers and listened. He had not experienced the future, nor had he become the Uchiha Clan Head, carrying the rise and fall of the entire Clan's honor on his shoulders, so he did not have much of an opinion on who should become Hokage.
What he found stranger was how twisted the brotherly love in the Senju Clan was. What kind of older brother always needed his younger brother to remind him about this and that? Where was his awareness as the older brother?
Tobirama Senju said, "The scale of Konohagakure is no longer only the dream of my older brother and Madara. In this era of war, it is a shelter where ordinary people and countless children from ninja clans no longer have to suffer through war, and no longer have to be sent to the battlefield and killed before they even turn ten."
"Even if other clans chose to join Konoha at that time, they were still only watching and waiting. The First Hokage would determine Konohagakure's future form and direction."
"My older brother is easygoing and values harmony above all else. Madara Uchiha has a forceful, difficult personality, and he places greater importance on overwhelming strength. If the two could balance each other, that would naturally be best. But if neither of them could yield even slightly and both completely held to their own views, the ninja village would only split into two factions."
Everyone understood that.
Madara Uchiha also accepted Tobirama Senju's analysis.
"With me assisting my older brother and proposing compromises, that was the most ideal situation at the time."
Though he did not say it outright, the implication was clear. No one was there to advise Madara Uchiha, so Madara Uchiha could never have become the First Hokage.
How could Izuna Uchiha not understand what he meant?
He lowered his head, pressed his lips together, and said nothing.
Madara Uchiha saw it from the corner of his eye and glared fiercely at Tobirama Senju without speaking.
Tobirama Senju did not explain whether he had ever thought about becoming the Second Hokage himself, nor did he explain whether he would still have done everything in his power to stop it if his older brother had truly made up his mind to make Madara the Second Hokage...
"In any case, Madara was unable to accept it afterward, and he foolishly believed the Stone Monument inside the Uchiha Clan shrine."
"!!!"
The Uchiha ninjas of the Warring States Period were shocked.
That was a secret of the Uchiha Clan! With a group of Senju standing right beside them, they did not think this matter should be shared here.
Izuna Uchiha said, "That Stone Monument is fake."
"What?!!" This time, even Tajima Uchiha questioned him aloud.
Young Madara Uchiha and the others still did not know what that Stone Monument was, but judging from their father's reaction, they could tell it was something extremely important to the Clan.
Young Obito Uchiha said, "That thing called Black Zetsu, the one our ancestor just sealed, was the one that tampered with the Stone Monument Rikudō Sennin left for his eldest son, the ancestor of the Uchiha, Indra."
Tajima said, "The true cure for the Mangekyō Sharingan that you mentioned earlier..."
"Is the chakra of the Senju Clan. The Senju and the Uchiha were once both the sons of Rikudō Sennin."
If the Uchiha were the descendants of the eldest son, that meant the Senju were the descendants of the second son, right?
So in the end, they were the younger brother?
The Senju ninjas, each one looking like they belonged on a construction crew in both face and build, refused to accept this.
Tobirama Senju said, "Obsessed with the Moon's Eye Plan on the Stone Monument, Madara Uchiha left Konoha. Years later, he led the Tailed Beast Nine-Tails in an attempt to destroy Konoha, the village he and my older brother had personally founded."
Young Madara Uchiha was stunned. "You're saying I was deceived and even destroyed the Konoha I built with my own hands?!!"
They stood atop the Hokage Rock and looked out over the beautiful village.
There was plenty of food and resources, a place where children could go to school, and only adults would handle the highly difficult missions.
How could such a wonderful place be something his future self could bear to destroy?!
If it were him...
If it were him, he would definitely place his younger brothers in this wonderful village, then protect both the village and his brothers properly!
"Then what happened?!" He remembered the dark blue Susanoo he had just seen, and with the Nine-Tails added on top of that, could the village really still be protected?!
He pressed, "Did I really destroy this village?"
"No. My elder brother led you somewhere far from Konoha. The two of you fought for a day and a night before the outcome was decided. You used the Sharingan technique Izanagi to fake your death, then survived alone in a dark tunnel for decades, barely clinging to life for the sake of the Moon's Eye Plan."
It was almost impossible to imagine that his future life would be so full of hardship.
"What exactly is the Moon's Eye Plan?" Tajima Uchiha asked.
Naruto Uzumaki said, "It's to summon Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, who was sealed inside the moon by Six Paths Grandpa, back out, and sacrifice the lives of everyone in the world to the God Tree. It was a shocking scam arranged by Black Zetsu while it secretly manipulated the Ninja World from the shadows."
The Uchiha and Senju of the Warring States Period seemed to understand, yet at the same time, their minds were still a confused mess.
"We came here to tell you the truth, so you can avoid the tragedy that happened to us."
"Let us avoid the tragedy that happened to you?"
"If we change the past, what will happen to your side?"
Minato Namikaze said, "From the moment we arrived in this world, the main world already created an entirely new parallel world. Your choices cannot affect our parallel world. What has already happened has happened, and it can never be changed."
For a moment, whether it was the ninjas of the Warring States Period or those who had crossed over from the mission scroll world, everyone fell silent.
So this was why Madara Uchiha hated Black Zetsu so much.
It ruined his life, destroyed his dream, and ruined his pride.
It brought misery upon the entire Uchiha Clan.
After learning the truth, the Uchiha wanted nothing more than to drag Black Zetsu out of the Chibaku Tensei and cut it to pieces.
The pain they endured to awaken the Sharingan was, in Black Zetsu's eyes, only one small part of its plan to free its mother.