At the bottom of a pit ten thousand meters deep.
Ōtsutsuki Hamura lay dying on the ground, his clothes torn and his body covered in blood.
Only the silver blood occasionally spilling from the corner of his mouth and the faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he had not yet died completely.
No one could have imagined that the wretched figure deep underground, slipping steadily toward death, was the legendary Hamura who had saved the Ninja World alongside the Sage of Six Paths.
"Hamura, please, don't die."
"Creation of All Things Technique!"
The moment the semitransparent Sage of Six Paths appeared, he spotted the dying Hamura on the ground. He immediately formed hand seals and began treating him with the Creation of All Things Technique, the combination of Yin-Yang Release he had used a thousand years ago to split the Ten-Tails and create nine conscious beings.
Intertwined gold and silver energy poured continuously into Hamura's body, repairing his injuries.
"Uchiha Gentō..."
The Sage of Six Paths grumbled inwardly. Gentō seemed to be something of a jinx for him.
The first time they met, the branch of his younger brother Hamura's family left on the moon had been all but wiped out.
The second time, Naruto and Sasuke's chakra resonance had awakened, and Naruto had sent him flying into the sky with the Thousand Years of Death ninjutsu.
This was their third meeting, and he had barely arrived before learning that his younger brother was dying...
The Sage of Six Paths stared at the silver blood on the ground. For Hamura, who had long since died and now existed only as a spirit, that silver liquid was not blood. It was his fundamental essence, something far more important than blood.
Hamura would need at least a hundred years