Everyone from the Ninja Sect on the battlefield saw Tobirama and Hashirama, and the weight hanging over their hearts finally lifted.
Hashirama was here, so Konoha would be at peace. Hashirama was here, so justice would prevail!
All this time, only Hashirama could give them that powerful sense of reassurance. Kushina was a woman, after all, and a pregnant one at that.
She could not fill Hashirama's role, even with the Rinnegan.
Inside Kushina's energy avatar, Naruto saw the enormous Wood Dragon soaring into the sky.
Kushina, who had been bristling like an angry cat a moment ago, immediately relaxed.
"It's Grandpa Hashirama! Now that Evil Uchiha won't get away!"
Naruto got a clear look at Hashirama, then turned to look at Konoha's Kage Rock.
To his confusion, only two faces remained on Kage Rock.
The face of his mother, Kushina, had squeezed Tobirama's face off the monument.
But Hashirama's face was still there.
The First Hokage's likeness matched Hashirama's.
Naruto understood at once.
"Mom, is that the First Hokage? Who brought him back to life?"
Kushina nodded and patted Naruto's shoulder.
"That's right, he's the First Hokage! But you should call him Great-grandfather."
"Because when I was little, the First Hokage's wife, Lady Mito Uzumaki, adopted me. I called Lady Mito Grandma."
"So the First Hokage is my grandfather and your great-grandfather! I called the Second Hokage Grandpa too, so he's also your great-grandfather, Naruto."
By that reckoning, Tsunade was his aunt.
Even Naruto, who was often bullied by Konoha's villagers, thought about how the First and Second Hokage were his great-grandfathers, the Fourth Hokage was his grandfather, and the Fifth Hokage was his aunt.
His chest puffed out without him even realizing it.
Even his sweat might be redder than Sasuke's blood. Was there any question who the