Chapter 395: The Origin of Chakra
"Then what? What happened next, Second Hokage-sama? Stop keeping us in suspense and hurry up!"
Shigaraki Tanuki urged impatiently.
He hadn't expected that in his lifetime he would get to hear such hidden secrets from ancient legends. Even if he died afterward, it would be worth it.
"Don't rush. I'll go slowly. You need to remember every detail clearly and not get anything wrong. These aren't things you need to keep secret. On the contrary, you should spread them whenever you get the chance."
Senju Tobirama spoke calmly.
In reality, he was complaining internally, keeping them in suspense? Who was keeping them in suspense? He was making this story up on the spot. It didn't even require planning.
Using that excuse, he bought himself a bit more time, organized his thoughts, and continued, "Ōtsutsuki Hamura went to complain to his mother, but before he could finish, his elder brother, the Sage of Six Paths, came looking for him."
"To avoid being violated by his overbearing older brother, Hamura even threw himself into the Sage of Six Paths's Lightning Release…"
At this point, Tobirama himself paused.
It was true that Ōtsutsuki Hamura had been pierced through the heart by Lightning Release, but why did this version of the story feel strangely familiar?
"What Hamura didn't expect was that the Sage of Six Paths had already planned everything. He had anticipated that Hamura would take his own life, so…"
"So the Sage of Six Paths didn't even spare Hamura's corpse?!"
Inuzuka Kiba looked horrified.
"..."
Tobirama seriously began to suspect that the new generation had been completely corrupted. What kind of thought process led to that conclusion?
"Of course not. The Sage of Six Paths revived his younger brother."
"Re… revived?"
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
Not even death could free him. Even after dying, he would be brought back.
That was terrifying.
"Yes. The Sage of Six Paths used a life talisman given by the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku to revive Hamura. At the same time, he took out another talisman, a hypnosis charm, and forced his brother to help him seal their mother."
"The Sage of Six Paths understood that only by sealing their powerful mother could he become the strongest being in the world, truly act without restraint, and establish a harem."
"A… harem?!"
"That's right."
Tobirama paused and took a deep breath. In reality, he was thinking about how to continue the story.
As for the concept of a harem, it wasn't unfamiliar in the ninja world.
In some alternate storylines fabricated by Black Zetsu, Kaguya had once been a concubine of a ruler.
In other words, the idea of multiple wives and concubines did exist in this world.
And those so-called rulers were nothing impressive compared to the current ninja world. They were not even good as daimyo of small nations.
Even though the daimyo of the Five Great Nations were usually only seen with their official wives, that didn't mean they didn't have concubines.
How did people know?
When those daimyo families were wiped out, their household registries and family records were checked thoroughly, making it obvious whether concubines and their children existed.
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"Afterward, Hamura was forced to cooperate with his brother to seal their mother."
"But he feared that, once it was over, the overwhelmingly powerful Sage of Six Paths would turn on him. So he found an excuse, saying he wanted to go to the moon to accompany their mother, and quickly fled."
"That's terrifying. Just how overbearing must the Sage of Six Paths have been for his own brother to be so afraid that hiding in the ninja world wasn't enough, he had to escape all the way to the moon?"
Yamanaka Ino couldn't help but comment.
"Yes. The Sage of Six Paths originally liked women, but the girl he loved became part of the God Tree, which caused a psychological distortion in him."
"If you've read the 'Limited Tsukuyomi Series', you'll notice that the Sage of Six Paths shows an affection for the tailed beasts."
"This isn't baseless, it has a reason."
"Because the girl he loved was absorbed by the God Tree. The God Tree became the Ten-Tails, and the Ten-Tails was split into nine tailed beasts. So when the Sage of Six Paths 'talked' with the tailed beasts, it was like he was speaking to the girl he loved…"
At this point, Tobirama closed his eyes and silently muttered, "Sorry, big brother", before continuing, "Just like in another story, my elder brother Senju Hashirama sealed the Nine-Tails into his wife Uzumaki Mito because Uchiha Madara had once controlled it. That way, he could feel as if Madara was still by his side…"
Shock.
Horror.
The younger generation felt their entire worldview being shaken.
Fortunately, they had previously read things like the "Buff Man Series" and the Limited Tsukuyomi novels, so they had built up some resistance.
Otherwise, they might have mentally collapsed from such overwhelming information.
Why were they still shocked even after reading those books?
Simple. Books might not be true.
But who was saying this now?
The Second Hokage.
Senju Tobirama.
The younger brother of the First Hokage.
The most serious and rational Hokage.
And how much did he respect his elder brother?
How could he possibly slander him?
So all of this… had to be true.
"Do you know something? The thing Uchiha Madara hated most in his life was having someone stand behind him."
"It's said that if someone stood behind him, he couldn't even urinate."
"But strangely, during the battle at the Valley of the End, when my brother stood behind him, he didn't notice, and was instead stabbed to death."
"Do you know what that implies?"
"It means the First Hokage used to stand behind Madara often, so he had already gotten used to it?"
Haruno Sakura answered cautiously.
"Correct!"
Tobirama pointed at Sakura.
'Maybe he didn't just get used to 'someone standing behind him', but also to 'being stabbed.' '
Lying on the ground with her eyes closed, pretending to be unconscious, Hyuga Hinata thought to herself.
"You may not know this, but originally, our world didn't have chakra. The source of chakra is Kaguya, but the one who spread it was the Sage of Six Paths."
"After sealing Kaguya, he wandered the world as a traveling ascetic. He claimed he was healing the scars of the world, but in reality, because so many people had died in the great war, he was forced to go against his own inclinations and 'spread his seed' everywhere."
"You think the Sage of Six Paths only had two descendants, Ashura and Indra?"
"Completely wrong."
"They were merely the descendants he invested his power into."
"Otherwise, why would there be not only the Senju clan from Ashura and the Uchiha clan from Indra, but also clans like the Kaguya clan with the Shikotsumyaku, the Hagoromo clan, and even descendants like Kinkaku and Ginkaku in Kumogakure?"
"All of this proves what the Sage of Six Paths did."
"And since you've seen how Naruto and Sasuke awakened the Rinnegan, you should understand the most efficient and cyclical way chakra is transmitted."
"That's right. Back then, the Sage of Six Paths spread chakra across the world by going from place to place and, together with the local men and women… distributing it far and wide across the land!"
(End of this chapter)