Fire Province.
Imperial Palace, Council Chamber.
The entire council chamber fell into deathly silence.
After a long while.
Chiba closed his eyes.
The crushing pressure that seemed capable of pulverizing souls finally receded like the tide.
When Chiba opened his eyes again.
Those astonishing Six-Tomoe Rinnegan had vanished without a trace.
In their place were his original deep, black eyes.
Yet no one dared to even breathe too loudly.
Only the cracks spreading across the conference table silently testified that what had just happened was no illusion.
"This is the Sage of Six Paths' final gift."
Chiba's voice was calm.
There was not the slightest hint of boasting in his tone.
Yet to everyone's ears, it was like thunder exploding across the heavens.
The truth of Ninja World history was laid bare before them all.
So...
The Kekkei Genkai they had fought over endlessly were all genetic inheritances left behind by the Otsutsuki Clan.
Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Uzumaki.
These four great clans, renowned throughout the Ninja World.
Tracing their lineage back several thousand years, they had all originally been one family.
Fugaku Uchiha stiffly turned his head and met Tsunade's equally rigid gaze.
The two stared at each other.
The atmosphere suddenly became strange and unbearably awkward.
They had fought and killed each other for centuries.
And in the end.
This had merely been a somewhat larger-scale family dispute?
Fugaku Uchiha's Adam's apple bobbed.
He suddenly felt that the Uchiha Clan's former pride was the biggest joke in the world.
Tsunade slapped a hand against her forehead.
Inside, she ranted madly.
If they'd known they were all distant relatives...
Why had her grandfather Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara fought so fiercely back then?
Couldn't they have just sat down and arranged the seating according to seniority?
Nagato Uzumaki sat in