Exhuming the Gold and Silver Brothers, the Akatsuki Organization, and the Darkness of Shinobi

At the same moment.

Kumogakure.

Uchiha Obito stood before an underground tomb, staring at the few lonely characters engraved above it.

Beneath his mask, his Sharingan narrowed.

"Finally... I found it."

The tomb of the Gold and Silver Brothers.

Uchiha Obito had spent more than ten days searching for them. At last, he had found where they lay.

"Next..."

Uchiha Obito took out an iron shovel and began digging.

Among the Nine Great Tailed Beasts, Uchiha Obito firmly believed that the Nine-Tails was the strongest.

With the Nine-Tails so difficult to obtain at present,

since he could not acquire the real Nine-Tails, he would search for a similar substitute!

That was...

the Gold and Silver Brothers, who had once eaten the Nine-Tails' flesh.

The Gold and Silver Brothers.

They were two veteran Elite Jonin of Kumogakure in the Land of Lightning.

They were also the surviving members of the Hagoromo Clan.

Because they possessed the direct bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths,

they could freely manipulate the Five Great Ninja Tools of the Sage of Six Paths.

These two brothers

had attempted to capture the Nine-Tails back in the Warring States Period, when it was still wild.

In the end, they were swallowed by the Nine-Tails.

Yet under those circumstances, the brothers not only survived, they also lived by tearing into and devouring the Nine-Tails' flesh inside its stomach.

They obtained the Nine-Tails' Chakra and could undergo Partial Tailed Beast Transformation in battle.

They were known as the Two Lights of Kumogakure.

During the First Shinobi World War, dissatisfied with the Second Hokage's plan to form an alliance with Konoha, they assassinated the Second Hokage during the alliance ceremony.

They then pursued the squad led by Tobirama Senju.

To protect his subordinates,

Tobirama Senju died at the hands of