"Is this... an Uchiha Gunbai?" Sarutobi Hiruzen truly deserved his title of Ninjutsu Doctor. Though the patterns differed, he reached out, touched it, and sent in a strand of Chakra to probe it, immediately reaching a conclusion.
His expression changed in shock. "Where did you get something like this?"
"Haha, Teacher Sarutobi, you definitely don't know who we ran into on this trip!" Seeing this, Jiraiya immediately began gesticulating as he spoke.
"Uchiha Madara?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked outright.
"Uh..." Jiraiya, who had been wildly gesturing just moments before, suddenly choked up and froze in place.
"It seems Teacher Sarutobi knows something we don't. Was there really a secret behind the Battle of the Valley of the End? Otherwise, Teacher Sarutobi wouldn't have immediately guessed that it involved this dead man," Orochimaru said with a smile.
"Well, indeed. After I became Hokage, I examined the secret records Teacher Tobirama left behind. After the Battle of the Valley of the End, Uchiha Madara's corpse was stolen," Sarutobi Hiruzen said directly with a nod.
"His corpse was stolen? But why suspect that Uchiha Madara had come back to life?" Sarutobi Toru asked with a frown.
Sarutobi Hiruzen set down his pipe, a look of reminiscence appearing on his face.
"According to Teacher Tobirama's records, he placed Uchiha Madara's corpse in an underground chamber. When he later returned to study it, he discovered that Uchiha Madara's corpse had vanished."
"Teacher Tobirama had two theories at the time. First, that someone else had stolen Uchiha Madara's corpse. Second, that Uchiha Madara had not actually died, but had used some technique to fake his death before reviving himself."
"From then on, Teacher Tobirama intensified his surveillance of the Uchiha Clan, because he believed that the greatest breakthrough in uncovering the mystery of whether Uchiha Madara was