Asura piloted the same Nine-Tails Gundam as Naruto Uzumaki, battling Indra's Susanoo Gundam—a scene anyone would find unforgettable at first glance.
Naturally, this raised two questions:
1. Since Indra had used Susanoo, that meant he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, right? What were his Mangekyō techniques?
2. Asura had piloted a Nine-Tails Gundam. Could it be that he was the first-generation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?
Wu Yu thought that was probably the wrong idea. Kurama might have watched Asura grow up and perhaps adored the kid. He might not have needed to be a Jinchuriki to borrow the esteemed power of the Nine-Tails, "beneath the Six Paths, above the eight."
Who said only Jinchuriki could come to understand Tailed Beasts?
Wu Yu believed that, given Hashirama Senju's abilities and personality, he might truly have had a chance to become friends with the wild Nine-Tails, just as Asura once had.
After all, what ill intentions could a tsundere giant fox possibly have? Wu Yu, who occasionally used the Death God Mask to refine the Yin Nine-Tails, thought so.
What a pity!
Because Madara Uchiha had dragged the Nine-Tails into battle, this generation's Asura had gotten off to a somewhat misunderstood start with it. Hashirama Senju had thus become wary of the Nine-Tails' destructive power and, without a word, taken his wife and locked the poor thing in a little dark cell.
How the hell was that supposed to lead to understanding? The Nine-Tails would be doing well if it didn't rage at Asura for being an unfilial bastard from inside its iron cage.
Due to an accident, Hashirama Senju had nearly become the God Tree's Jinchuriki. He no longer needed to follow Asura's path of mutual understanding.
What did it mean, that one had to rely on the Nine-Tails' power to contend with