Master?
Who was the Third Hokage's master?
Without a doubt, only two people in the Shinobi World could make the Third Hokage address them as master.
The first was the First, who had founded Konoha.
The second was the Second Hokage, who had upheld the First's will and protected Konoha amid the chaos of war.
So at this very moment, who was sitting in the Hokage Office before the Third Hokage?
Naturally, it was the First!
Within that mysterious and bizarre space of the Death God, the Second Hokage had died miserably at Uchiha Yue's hands. Although the Death God possessed the power to revive people, when Uchiha Yue dealt with the Second Hokage, he successfully seized control of the Death God's energy. Thus, if the Second Hokage wanted to revive again, the Death God would first have to reclaim the Death God's energy from Uchiha Yue.
It was quite a coincidence.
Why had Uchiha Yue been summoned when Orochimaru first used the Impure World Reincarnation?
The answer was that the person Orochimaru had intended to summon through the Impure World Reincarnation was the Second Hokage. Since Uchiha Yue possessed the Death God's energy that could revive the Second Hokage, when Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation on him, Uchiha Yue sensed that Death God's energy and arrived before Orochimaru.
There was no need to explain why the First had returned to Konoha, either.
The Death God's orders were not something just anyone could defy.
Even the First, the Ninja God of old, was no more than an ant before the Death God.
But if the Death God had known that ordering the First back into the real world was a mistake, he surely would not have sent the First to lead the other three Kage.
That was right.
Returning