Tobirama, You Plagiarizing Dog! You're Just Jealous of Makoto's Talent! You're Despicable!

"Big brother, you don't understand! You don't know him at all!"

"Uchiha Makoto is different!"

"He's a dangerous extremist through and through—an Uchiha even more dangerous than Uchiha Madara!"

Tobirama Senju rattled the words off as quickly as if he had hit a one-click triple combo.

There was probably no one in this world who understood Uchiha Makoto better than he did, no one who knew more clearly the dark side of that Naturally Evil Uchiha brat.

Those glowing rumors from the outside world were nothing more than a disguise he had carefully woven for others to see.

Beneath that false shell, Uchiha Makoto's true nature was pitch-black.

One day, when Uchiha Makoto finally tore off his disguise, the raging flames of war he ignited would not only spread through Konoha in an instant, but utterly overturn the peaceful order the entire Ninja World had maintained for years!"

What would happen to the Ninja World then? What would happen to Konoha?

Only heaven knew!

Tobirama Senju knew he probably could not stop the inevitable storm, but by the time that day came, he had to accumulate enough strength and resources for Konoha to contend with Uchiha Makoto.

However, Tobirama Senju's emotional tirade did not persuade Hashirama Senju in the slightest.

After all, in Hashirama Senju's heart, Uchiha Makoto was an exceptionally perfect Uchiha junior. In Konoha, he would be the perfect successor who had truly inherited the Will of Fire.

Setting everything else aside, the prosperity of Akatsuki Ninja Village, which far surpassed Konoha's, had once deeply shocked him.

Even now, he clearly remembered how he had felt during his first visit to Akatsuki Ninja Village. Back then, as he stood on its broad, clean streets laid out in neat lines, watching every villager and ninja pass by, he saw