Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama

Countless E and D-rank ninjutsu erupted from the palms of Otsutsuki Yuhao.

Flames, water spheres, wind blades, earth style, and lightning bolts—the five elemental ninjutsu launched an assault against Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

Any average chunin could easily handle a single one of these low-level techniques.

However, for Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, the sheer volume was overwhelming.

Even if the two were special jonin, they struggled to cope with such a barrage of low-level ninjutsu.

Half an hour later, both were covered in exhaustion, their clothes tattered and their steps unsteady, looking utterly disheveled.

"Are you out of chakra? Then let's begin basic strength training!"

As he spoke, Otsutsuki Yuhao flicked two fingers of his left hand, and the gravity within a hundred-meter radius centered on Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara increased tenfold.

[Earth Style: Tenfold Gravity]

"Damn it, my body feels so heavy!" Uchiha Madara gritted his teeth and said.

"Me too!" Senju Hashirama was in slightly better condition than Uchiha Madara, at least managing to remain standing.

"From now on, you two will come here to train for three hours every morning!" Otsutsuki Yuhao smiled at them.

But to the two of them, such a smile was terrifying.

One year later.

"[Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Technique, B-rank]"

Uchiha Madara performed hand seals in an instant, launching a five-to-six-meter-wide flame shaped like a dragon's head toward Otsutsuki Yuhao's shadow clone.

[Wood Style: Wood Binding Eternal Burial]

After Senju Hashirama finished his hand seals, multiple trees erupted from the ground, using vine-like saplings to entangle Otsutsuki Yuhao's shadow clone.

The Fire Style and Wood Style struck Otsutsuki Yuhao simultaneously; the resulting destructive power was comparable to an S-rank ninjutsu, engulfing everything within a hundred-meter radius.

BOOM!

Yamato used Wood Style for landscaping, while Hashirama used Wood Style to conquer the world.

However, Senju Hashirama's Wood Style had not yet reached its peak; currently, it was still inferior to Yamato's.

Although Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama were only eight years old and possessed the strength of jonin, their combined efforts could defeat an average elite jonin.

Under their perfect coordination, even Otsutsuki Yuhao's shadow clone was caught off guard.

"Haha, great!"

"We hit him!" Senju Hashirama shouted in excitement.

"Good coordination; you could defeat an average elite jonin. But against me, you're still far off!"

[Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Technique]

Otsutsuki Yuhao spat out a fire dragon twice the size of Uchiha Madara's, a twenty-meter-long, five-clawed divine dragon.

"What, that's too big!"

"Is this really a B-rank ninjutsu?" No one would believe it if you called it an A-rank!

Uchiha Madara watched the giant fire dragon in panic and hurriedly used the Body Replacement Technique to dodge, but Otsutsuki Yuhao used the Body Flicker Technique to appear behind him and kicked him down.

"Your turn, Hashirama!"

[Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence]

Clapping his hands together, he channeled chakra into the ground. Instantly, numerous trees surged upward, as if uprooted from the earth, creating a forest within a hundred meters in a heartbeat. It instantly enveloped both Madara and Hashirama, leaving only their heads exposed.

"This move again!" Uchiha Madara said with a bitter smile.

"It's the same Wood Style, so why is his power so much greater?" Senju Hashirama asked, unconvinced.

"Not bad. This time you lasted ten minutes longer than you did a week ago," Otsutsuki Yuhao said with a smile.

The trees that had bound the two slowly dissipated, sinking back into the ground.

"One day, I'll shatter this clone of yours," Uchiha Madara said, clearly displeased.

"Oh, is that all the ambition you have? You only want to scatter my shadow clone!" Otsutsuki Yuhao said deliberately.

"Hmph, your clone is just the first target. Once I defeat your clone, the next is naturally your real body," Uchiha Madara said with a pretentious air.

"Hahaha, I don't really mind. As long as I can become stronger, defeating Uncle Yuhao doesn't really matter, does it?" Senju Hashirama laughed heartily.

Just then, Senju Hashirama's expression shifted, as he sensed two groups of powerful chakra rapidly approaching their location.

"What is it?" Uchiha Madara's sensory perception was not as sharp as Senju Hashirama's, so he had not discovered it as quickly.

However, it wasn't long before Uchiha Madara's expression also changed.

The two exchanged a glance, and both could see the worry in each other's eyes.

Although neither had explicitly stated their identity, they both knew who the other truly was. One was from the Uchiha clan, and the other was from the Senju clan. They were ancestral enemies.

"Ignore them, let's continue training!" Otsutsuki Yuhao said with a calm expression, showing no surprise at the arrival of Senju Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima, as if the matter were of no consequence.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama had been disappearing every morning, and the leaders of both clans had indeed noticed. At first, they hadn't cared, assuming their children were simply out training, especially since both boys returned home exhausted every time.

But because the two boys carried traces of each other's clan chakra, Senju Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima began to secretly sense that something was wrong. Almost simultaneously, both men arrived at the same conclusion: that the other side was using their son as bait to plan a kidnapping or some further scheme.

However, unlike the original story where the two boys' sincere friendship caused both sides' plans to fail, the presence of Otsutsuki Yuhao changed everything.

Soon, two groups of ninjas arrived, one led by Uchiha Tajima and the other by Senju Butsuma. The two strongest bloodline limit clans in the Ninja World appeared simultaneously.

"Madara, what are you doing?"

"Hashirama, get back here at once!"

Upon arriving and seeing their sons training together with the enemy, both men were immediately enraged. Shouting, they launched attacks at each other almost simultaneously; Uchiha Tajima charged toward Senju Hashirama, while Senju Butsuma lunged at Uchiha Madara.

But before either could get close, an invisible force instantly repelled them.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The figures of Uchiha Tajima and Senju Butsuma were both slammed heavily into the ground.

"You two little brats, go back to where you came from. Don't disturb me while I'm training my disciples." Otsutsuki Yuhao lay lazily in the tree, his voice drifting down from above.

"Who are you?" Senju Butsuma looked at Otsutsuki Yuhao with a wary expression, while Uchiha Tajima's eyes shifted into the Mangekyo Sharingan, staring intensely at him.

Both men were at the level of clan leaders, yet they were shocked to have been so easily repelled by a young man.