"Madara Uchiha took some of Hashirama's flesh back then. We suspect he used it for something, possibly to awaken the Rinnegan." Mito Uzumaki fixed the Nine-Tails with a piercing stare.
Sure enough, the Nine-Tails' fur bristled the moment it heard her. "What? Madara Uchiha got hold of Hashirama Senju's flesh? How could he? Are you sure you haven't got it wrong? With Hashirama Senju's healing ability, wouldn't even a chunk of missing flesh grow back almost immediately? How did you find out?"
No one understood Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha better than the Nine-Tails. One was the reincarnation of Asura Chakra, the other of Indra's Chakra. If Madara Uchiha had truly gained Hashirama Senju's power, the consequences would be unthinkable.
The thought that Madara Uchiha might have awakened the Rinnegan sent a chill through the Nine-Tails.
The Rinnegan—and awakened by Madara Uchiha, the person it hated most!
The Nine-Tails began to suspect that an ambitious man like Madara Uchiha would summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path once he awakened the Rinnegan, then capture the Tailed Beasts and revive the Ten-Tails.
The old man's Chakra must have sensed it too. That's why it reincarnated, isn't it? At that moment, the Nine-Tails felt it had uncovered the whole "truth."
And the more it pieced together, the more terrified it became.
If that's true, doesn't it mean I'm in danger?
It could stay alive inside Mito Uzumaki. But if the Ten-Tails absorbed it, it would truly be finished.
"Madara Uchiha must have bitten off the flesh toward the end of their battle. By then, Hashirama was pushing his Chakra beyond its limits, and his healing ability had weakened. He couldn't recover quickly, and a minor wound wasn't worth spending his strength to heal." Mito Uzumaki spoke with mixed feelings. "Nine-Tails, I