Hashirama, Long Time No See

After Hashirama Senju passed away,

Madara Uchiha soon traveled to other dimensions.

From war to peace, he had witnessed many things.

Later, he secretly returned to his original dimension, only to find that everyone around him was gone.

Only one guy who loved sunbathing was still sunbathing in the courtyard.

He could sense that he did not have much time left.

So he did not return to the village to disturb Renye.

In his final days, he returned to the cave where he had once lived with Hashirama.

"Hashirama, that brat achieved the dream we failed to realize."

Madara Uchiha murmured to himself.

He and Hashirama had been born in the Warring States period, forced from childhood to take up weapons and fight on the battlefield.

Their younger brothers had not survived.

That was the tragedy of that era.

Having seen too much of such suffering, the two of them had vowed to end the wars and establish peace.

But how could dreams be so easily realized?

Even after they founded Konoha, Madara Uchiha understood that the peace was only temporary.

The wars of the Shinobi World could not end so easily.

Wherever there were people, there would be interests and conflict.

In the end, he and his closest friend had fought fiercely because their ideals differed.

The [Infinite Tsukuyomi] plan was the only solution he could think of at the time!

Who would have thought that the plan he had spent half his life plotting was merely Black Zetsu's deception to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki?

At that time, he had truly been consumed by despair.

But he had not given up easily and had planned to return to the village to find another way.

He simply had never found any clues.

Later, while spending time with Hashirama, Renye, and his