After the final battle in the world of One Piece,
the Senju brothers, Hashirama and Tobirama, along with Tsunade, Orochimaru, and the others, returned to Konoha.
Having watched the story of Naruto, the Senju brothers were not actually as angry as one might imagine.
Tobirama did not have too many complaints about his disciple, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Because he understood very well that Hiruzen had never harbored any truly malicious intentions. He had simply been far too incompetent.
After all, Hiruzen had been forced into the position before he was ready. He possessed neither Hashirama's strength nor Tobirama's intelligence. Furthermore, the Sarutobi Clan had never possessed a foundation as powerful as the Hyūga, Senju, or Uchiha Clans.
The fact that he had managed to keep the enormous machine called Konoha running relatively smoothly until now was already quite an achievement.
Therefore, Tobirama could calmly accept the questionable decisions Hiruzen had made in the manga.
But that was as far as his tolerance went.
Allowing Hiruzen to remain in power was absolutely impossible.
First, Tobirama had no desire to become a retired emperor who secretly controlled everything from behind the scenes.
Second, although Hiruzen had no evil intentions, he was genuinely mediocre. He was unsuitable for this turbulent age and could no longer continue serving as Hokage.
Thus, on the very first day after returning to Konoha, Tobirama cut through the chaos decisively. He kicked Hiruzen out of the Hokage's position and took over the office himself.
Then he sent his elder brother to Kirigakure.
One objective was to capture Uchiha Obito, the culprit behind the Nine-Tails Incident.
The other was to capture Black Zetsu.
In Tobirama's opinion, Black Zetsu was the greatest troublemaker in the entire shinobi world.
If they captured him, at least half of the shinobi world's problems would disappear.
However, the fellow was incredibly skilled at hiding, so Tobirama doubted whether his elder brother would be able to catch him.
Capturing Obito, however, should not have been a problem.
Reality proved him correct.
After entering Kirigakure, Hashirama effortlessly located Uchiha Obito, who had been secretly controlling the village from behind the scenes like a retired emperor.
Although Obito had transplanted Hashirama's cells and could use Wood Release,
his imitation was worthless before the genuine article.
Hashirama easily crushed him.
At that moment, Obito panicked. Realizing that he could not defeat Hashirama, he decisively activated Kamui and attempted to escape.
But Hashirama had come prepared.
He had not travelled to Kirigakure alone.
He had brought the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and Kakashi, the man famous for always fighting evenly with his opponents.
Obito could use Kamui to escape, but Kakashi could also use Kamui to send Hashirama and Minato into the Kamui dimension.
Thus, Obito ultimately failed to escape and was captured by the two of them.
Black Zetsu, however, saw that the situation was turning against him and hurriedly fled.
After Obito was brought back, Tobirama publicly executed him in front of all the villagers.
Kakashi pleaded for mercy, but it was useless.
As the culprit behind the Nine-Tails Incident, Obito was responsible for the deaths of countless people during that disaster.
Tobirama would never allow him to remain alive.
After dealing with Uchiha Obito, Tobirama, who had returned from the dead, regained overwhelming prestige in Konoha. He also showed the new generation of shinobi the authority and methods of the Second Hokage.
At the same time, news of Hashirama's appearance in the shinobi world spread everywhere.
The leaders of the other great villages all learned that the God of Shinobi had returned to life after being dead for several decades.
While terrified, they sent spies to verify whether the information was true.
When the news was confirmed, the entire shinobi world fell silent.
A man who had been dead for decades had genuinely returned to life.
It was completely unscientific.
But the facts were undeniable, and no one could refute them.
Everyone began wondering what the God of Shinobi would do after his resurrection and how the balance of power in the shinobi world would change.
Until Konoha displayed any major changes, the other villages did not dare act recklessly.
Thus, the entire shinobi world fell into an eerily peaceful state.
It was under these circumstances that Rowan brought Erza to Konoha and found Senju Tobirama.
He went straight to the point.
"I need a White Zetsu corpse. Do you have one?"
"I do!"
Tobirama greatly valued White Zetsu because they had an incredibly wide range of practical applications.
Whether for regenerating severed limbs, resurrecting others, or serving as experimental subjects, they were extremely useful.
Back then, half of Obito's body had been crushed by a boulder, yet White Zetsu had managed to save him.
How could Tobirama possibly ignore something so useful?
After returning, he immediately began planning how to obtain the army of one hundred thousand White Zetsu.
When his elder brother captured Obito and brought him back, Tobirama had members of the Yamanaka Clan read Obito's memories and locate the place where the White Zetsu were hidden.
Then he eagerly led a group there.
Unfortunately, Black Zetsu had anticipated this and had already relocated the one hundred thousand White Zetsu.
However, hurriedly moving one hundred thousand White Zetsu was not easy, and they left behind far too many traces.
Tobirama followed those clues and soon discovered a large number of White Zetsu.
Although he failed to capture all one hundred thousand, he still brought back several thousand.
Using those White Zetsu, Tobirama created many useful things.
Now that Rowan wanted one, Tobirama agreed without hesitation and gave him a White Zetsu.
After obtaining it, Rowan extracted Ur's soul from within his own body.
When Rowan had shattered the ice imprisoning Deliora with one punch, he had also retrieved Ur's soul.
However, Ur's soul had been extremely weak at the time.
Rowan had no choice but to place it inside his own body and nourish it.
As a God of Death and the wielder of both the Soul-Soul Fruit and the Spirit-Spirit Fruit, Rowan understood perfectly how to nourish a soul.
By using magical energy to activate the powers of both fruits, he effortlessly restored Ur's soul.
At this moment, when Rowan extracted Ur's soul from his body, it had almost completely recovered and looked nearly solid.
"Go inside."
Rowan snapped his fingers and sent Ur's soul into the White Zetsu's body.
The White Zetsu's appearance began changing into Ur's.
Before long, a genuine Ur stood before Rowan.
Then Rowan activated the power of the Revive-Revive Fruit—
reversing yin and yang, overturning life and death.
In an instant, Ur opened her eyes and completely returned to life.
"Who are you?"
After climbing up from the ground, Ur looked at Rowan, Erza, Tobirama, and the others in confusion.
She did not recognize any of them.
"You could say that we're your benefactors."
As Rowan spoke, he used the Memory-Memory Fruit to copy a portion of the memories in his mind, compressed them into a sphere, and inserted it into Ur's head.
This could be considered a new application of the Memory-Memory Fruit.
After Ur's mind absorbed the memory sphere, a collection of new memories immediately appeared within her consciousness.
She clearly understood Rowan and Erza's identities, their relationships with Gray and Ultear, and the fact that she had been resurrected.
"My daughter is still alive… Ultear… She's still alive… Thank goodness. Thank goodness…"
At that moment, tears of joy filled Ur's eyes, and she could not help breaking into loud sobs.
What excited her was not the fact that she had been resurrected.
It was the fact that her daughter had not died.
For Ur, learning that Ultear was still alive was the greatest and most wonderful news imaginable.
Seeing this, Tobirama clicked his tongue.
Although he did not know exactly who Ur was, judging from her words, she was clearly another person who had suffered greatly.
After crying loudly for quite some time, Ur finally managed to control her joy and hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"I'm sorry. I've embarrassed myself in front of you."
She bowed deeply to Rowan and Erza.
"Thank you very much for telling me about my daughter. And thank you for taking care of Gray."
Erza reached out and helped Ur straighten up.
"Gray is our companion in Fairy Tail. Of course we would take care of him."
Rowan asked, "Do you want to return and see your daughter now?"
Ur froze, then asked cautiously,
"May I?"
"Of course."
Rowan calmly said, "The reason we resurrected you was so that you and your daughter could reunite."
However, after hearing this, Ur fell silent.
There was a saying about becoming timid when one finally approached home.
If she had not believed Brain's lies, she would never have abandoned Ultear.
Although she had not done so intentionally, the result was still that Ultear had felt abandoned by her.
Would Ultear acknowledge her as her mother?
Ur did not know.
She was afraid to know.
She was even more afraid to meet Ultear.
Rowan and Erza exchanged glances and saw that the woman had become frightened.
However, her feelings were understandable.
Any normal person facing such a situation would hesitate and feel afraid.
But fear would not change anything.
Therefore, Rowan gave Ur no time to overthink it. He opened an air door leading back to the world of Fairy Tail.
Ultear stood directly on the other side.
Then Rowan kicked Ur through the doorway and said to the stunned Ultear,
"I resurrected your mother. You two handle the rest yourselves."
With that, he closed the door.
Erza stared at him.
"Uh… Wasn't that a little inappropriate? Neither of them seemed prepared."
"Prepared? What do they need to prepare for? Does a mother need preparation before meeting her daughter?"
Rowan asked in surprise.
Erza fell silent.
"…Forget it. As long as you're happy. Can we return now?"
"Of course."
Rowan smiled and opened another door leading to the world of Fairy Tail. This time, the other side opened into the guild's women's dormitory.
After saying goodbye to Rowan, Erza entered the dormitory.
Rowan closed the door and returned to the house he had purchased.
Before leaving the world of Naruto, he gave Tobirama several copied memory spheres containing magic.
"These contain magic I obtained in the world of Fairy Tail. Study them. They'll be useful to you."
Naturally, Tobirama did not refuse.
After all, these could become trump cards for confronting the Ōtsutsuki.
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