Naruto: Starting as the Third Hokage with Tears in His Eyes

Chapter 339 Baby-like Sleep

"He's gone mad...he's gone mad..."

Tsunade muttered to herself, looking at her second grandfather and that legendary man, feeling her understanding being shattered and reshaped time and time again.

"Uchiha Madara!!"

Tobirama Senju gave no one time to think. With a single downward press of his hand, the enormous water dragon roared deafeningly, transforming into a blue torrent of destruction that devoured the blue skull in mid-air.

Faced with this devastating attack, Madara Uchiha merely snorted coldly.

The Susanoo's massive skeletal arm suddenly rose, instantly conjuring a powerful blue katana made of chakra.

"Whoosh—!"

A single sweeping strike!

The movement was so fast that the naked eye could only catch a glimpse of a crescent-shaped blue arc of light.

Wherever the arc of light passed, space seemed to be cut apart.

The water dragon that rushed up, its head as large as a mountain, along with the water behind it, was easily cleaved in two by this blue blade of light!

boom!

The water dragon, now severed, exploded with a deafening roar, transforming into a shower of water droplets that filled the sky.

Splash splash splash splash...

The entire azure dragon that stretched across the sky began to disintegrate rapidly in a way that defied the laws of physics.

It did not explode or collapse, but rather, like a beautiful sand sculpture blown by the wind, it gradually transformed into pure water vapor, starting from the dragon's head, and vanished without a trace.

In just three breaths, the terrifying ninjutsu, capable of destroying everything, along with the steam filling the sky, was completely wiped out.

The sky has regained its clarity.

The warm sunlight shone down again, illuminating the entire Valley of the End, and also illuminating Tobirama Senju's face, which was filled with astonishment and disbelief.

However, Madara Uchiha clearly didn't intend to give him much time to think.

At the same moment the water dragon dissipated, Madara Uchiha's figure vanished from the top of the statue.

Tobirama Senju's heart skipped a beat, and his senses instantly reached their maximum, as he tried to pinpoint the other's location.

Too late.

An old yet incredibly steady voice softly sounded in his ear.

"Tobirama, so many years have passed, yet your temper remains as impetuous as ever."

The hairs on Tobirama Senju's body stood on end instantly. Without thinking, he rapidly retreated, attempting to teleport backward to create distance.

But a withered hand had already stepped in and gently placed itself on his shoulder.

With such a simple action, Tobirama Senju felt as if he were being crushed by an entire mountain range, his chakra flow instantly locked, and he couldn't even move a single finger.

He turned his head with difficulty and saw Uchiha Madara's wrinkled but expressionless face.

"spot……"

Tobirama Senju only had time to utter one word.

Madara Uchiha's hand on his shoulder slightly clenched its five fingers.

"Calm down for a bit."

boom! ! !

A dull, loud bang.

Under the almost stunned gazes of Tsunade, Orochimaru, Danzo, and others, the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, the legendary master of forbidden techniques, was like a discarded tattered sack, transformed into a white streak of light, and slammed into a distant mountain wall at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

Rumble...

The mountain wall trembled violently, countless rocks tumbled down, and a huge, human-shaped crater appeared clearly in the center of the rock wall.

Inside the pit, Tobirama Senju was stuck in an extremely disheveled position, with wisps of blue smoke rising from his body.

The entire Valley of the End fell into silence.

That's it... just one move?

A strong wind swept through the valley, swirling up a few fallen leaves.

Madara Uchiha seemed to have done something insignificant. He patted non-existent dust off his hands, and in a flash, he returned to the cratered ground ravaged by the battle.

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The devastating force came quickly and went quickly.

Just a dozen breaths later, the thick water vapor was slowly dispersed by the wind in the valley, and the violent energy subsided.

The world became clear again, and also... quiet again.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the scene was not the devastating, earth-shattering battle scene that had been imagined.

In the center of the valley, the lake that the Second Hokage had created out of thin air had disappeared without a trace. Although the ground was a little damp, it was still flat.

The statue of Madara Uchiha, which had been badly damaged by the water, still stood there, only now it looked much cleaner.

Everything mysteriously returned to normal.

In the center of that flat, rocky ground, two figures sat facing each other.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, two men who should have been mortal enemies, had a chessboard hastily carved from rock placed in front of them.

pat.

Madara Uchiha's aged yet powerful fingers picked up a black pebble and placed it crisply on the chessboard, his movements steady and devoid of any frivolity.

"Your turn, Hashirama."

"Hmm... let me think..."

Hashirama Senju sat cross-legged, his signature long, straight black hair flowing smoothly down his back. He rested his chin on one hand, staring at the Go board with a troubled expression, radiating a melancholic aura of "This is so difficult."

The warm sunlight shone through the dispersed clouds and fell on them. The scene looked more like that of two old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years, leisurely playing chess on a quiet afternoon.

Hiruzen Sarutobi stood atop the first statue, his hands behind his back, his expression calm, as if he had expected all of this.

"Why--"

Tsunade let out a long sigh, raised her hand to rub her throbbing temples, and looked helpless, as if to say, "I knew it would turn out like this."

Her gaze passed over the two old men playing chess and finally landed on a rock wall not far away.

There was a huge, human-shaped pit there.

In the center of the pit, a familiar figure was sprawled out in an extremely disheveled position, with wisps of smoke rising from his body and his silver-white hair covered in dust.

"..."

Tsunade sighed again, her face etched with exhaustion.

She leaped off the statue in a flash, landing steadily in front of the human-shaped pit.

"Honestly, he's so impulsive at his age."

Tsunade muttered a complaint under her breath as she flexed her wrists, her knuckles cracking loudly.

Then, Tsunade took a deep breath and plunged her hands into the cracks in the rocks at the edge of the human-shaped pit, using her waist and abdomen to exert force.

"Get up, me!"

With a delicate shout, a terrifying force erupted.

Boom!

The entire rock wall trembled violently, and countless cracks spread outwards from Tsunade's hands.

The next second, under Tsunade's monstrous strength, Tobirama Senju was pulled out of the rock wall like a giant radish planted in the ground.

Tsunade carefully controlled her strength and laid her great-grandfather flat on the ground.

Tobirama Senju's eyes were closed, and he appeared to be still unconscious.