The Strange Destiny

Senju Tobirama began recalling the entire course of the First Shinobi World War. He had led the Hokage Guard Unit to negotiate with the Raikage. Because the war had been going smoothly, Konoha had achieved an unprecedented victory and ruthlessly crushed Kumogakure's arrogance.

In the end, both sides decided to hold a meeting regarding troop withdrawal and peace talks. Yet after the meeting began, when negotiations had originally been proceeding quite well, the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers of Kumogakure burst through the doors. They led their subordinates in killing Kumogakure's Second Raikage on the spot, then pursued Senju Tobirama.

Didn't all of this look like a power struggle? That would have been perfectly normal, right? The issue was that when Kinkaku and Ginkaku appeared in the meeting room, no one had given any advance warning. Not even a sound had escaped. Even if they had harbored ambitions, the Second Raikage A's guards had all been elites among elites.

They should not have been unable to make even a sound against Kinkaku and Ginkaku. It was deeply perplexing. After witnessing this, the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, had immediately taken the six children and left. With his strength, as long as he set up all manner of traps and forbidden techniques along the way back, even if Kinkaku and Ginkaku were powerful, they would surely have had to pay a tremendous price to catch him.

Yet he had merely led the six children in killing a few elite shinobi before he began entrusting them to another's care, placing Konoha's future in the hands of the first one to stay behind—Monkey.

Then Senju Tobirama had resolutely drawn everyone's attention and gone out to fight Kinkaku and Ginkaku. That had been the stupidest decision. If he had taken the children and rushed back to