"What do you mean my brother lost again?!"
Kagami turned and stared in shock at a handsome man with empty eye sockets. "Izuna-sama?"
Uchiha Izuna had also been resurrected. He was the first person Hashirama brought back, because Tobirama had previously summoned him through Impure World.
His soul was already in the living world, and his reanimation body provided the physical vessel, so Hashirama resurrected him too.
Hashirama believed Izuna's death had played a crucial part in Madara's downfall. If Izuna had still been alive, Madara would never have lost all hope in the world.
But it was all too late.
Hashirama had wanted to resurrect Madara as well, but Madara's soul was sealed inside the Shinigami's belly.
There were two people he could not resurrect: Madara and the Third Hokage. Both their souls had been sealed inside the Shinigami's belly.
At the Sarutobi gathering place.
Asuma watched as his fallen clansmen returned to life one after another. Even his grandfather, Sarutobi Sasuke, had been resurrected.
Yet his own father, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had not come back, and he could not accept it.
"Why did my father have to bear all of this?"
Sarutobi Sasuke patted Asuma's shoulder. "Asuma, because your father was the Hokage. A Hokage must be prepared to sacrifice himself."
"He left this world smiling. He lived by his nindo to the very end."
Asuma did not understand. His nails dug into his hands as he said in anguish, "What is nindo? Can you eat it? All I know is that I lost my father!"
"Asuma, one day you'll understand. There will always be something more precious than life!"
"I don't believe that. I hate the Hokage!"
Turtle Island.
Kakashi and Obito ran faster than rabbits, desperate to see the resurrected Rin.
When they reached the Waterfall of