Hashirama Senju: Tobirama, now even I suspect you didn't get your Hokage position honestly!

Chapter 485: Admit it, big brother, you're just not as fast as me!

Early the next morning.

Daylight had barely begun to break, and not even the first birdsong had sounded when Tobirama Senju, who had nowhere near enough sleep, sat on the edge of his bed with a miserable expression.

He rubbed his brow in anguish.

The task ahead of him was an absurdly long journey, running for days and nights while eating and sleeping outdoors-a trek that would make even a horse cough up blood just hearing about it. And the ultimate purpose of all this suffering was merely to reach the Akatsuki Ninja Village and attend the funeral of Uchiha Madara, that naturally evil old Uchiha bastard.

Back when he had been a young man in his twenties or thirties during the Warring States Period, even a glance at the map for a journey of this magnitude would have given Tobirama Senju a headache. Still, he had at least been young then, full of vitality, with a sturdy body that could take punishment. He could have forced himself through several days and nights of running.

But now?

He was old!

Over the past few years, Tobirama Senju had spent his days facing endless paperwork and settling endless disputes over the various clans' interests, all while spending day and night holed up in his underground laboratory, tinkering with the development of forbidden techniques that demanded enormous amounts of energy. All of it had long since drained his body.

Yet even so, Tobirama Senju still had to grit his teeth and personally accompany his headstrong, reckless older brother on this trip.

So Tobirama Senju was in an exceptionally foul mood.

Especially when he walked out of his room with a dark expression and immediately spotted his older brother in