In the stone chamber beneath the Shrine in Uzushio Village, in the Land of Whirlpools, Seven Sins suddenly felt uneasy. Looking at the bodies of the First Hokage and the Second Hokage before him, he felt an inexplicable surge of irritation. Suddenly, he spun around and barked, "Who's there? Come out! Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A beam shot from Seven Sins's hand toward one wall of the Shrine. Yet the densely concentrated chakra beam did not pierce the wall; instead, it vanished just before reaching it. Then the space in front of the wall rippled, and two figures appeared.
The underground chamber was dim, and Seven Sins could not make out who they were. He watched the two warily and asked, "Who are you? How did you get here?"
One of them replied, "Well, um, we came here for those two bodies behind you. I hope you'll hand them over to me."
"Not a chance. White Eye, activate!" Seven Sins opened the White Eye on his forehead and looked at the pair. He would have been better off not looking-the moment he did, his heart lurched.
"Impossible," Seven Sins said in disbelief. "How can you two be nothing but chakra projections? That's impossible." He could hardly believe it. These two had just withstood his Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. How could they merely be chakra projections? A chakra projection could wield only half its original's strength, yet these two had blocked his full-power Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with just half their strength. How terrifying must their full strength be? Seven Sins could not understand when two such powerful figures had appeared in the shinobi world, or how he had failed to notice them at all.
"Oh, a White Eye. And not an ordinary one, either. Have you already awakened the power