The enormous Ten-Tails towered over the battlefield, its vast chakra presence spreading out in an instant. On another battlefield, Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju both saw its gigantic figure standing between heaven and earth.
Sensing the Ten-Tails' appearance, Madara Uchiha was startled. The Ten-Tails in this state!? Obito has revived it to this stage already. This could be trouble.
I can't drag this out any longer. Obito could become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki at any moment... I must cast Infinite Tsukuyomi myself!
As those thoughts raced through Madara Uchiha's mind, his Susanoo surged into action and kicked the Wooden Man away.
"Hashirama, do you remember what I told you that night before I left Konoha?" Madara Uchiha's voice came from within the deep-blue Susanoo.
His words brought Hashirama Senju's memories of that night flooding back.
Back then, Madara Uchiha had come to him and said several cryptic things. The line Hashirama Senju remembered most clearly was: a god divided yin and yang into two poles, and when those poles reunited in pursuit of stability, all-creation could be attained.
Madara had also said that when the two poles of yin and yang reunited, true happiness could be attained.
At the time, Hashirama Senju had been entirely focused on winning his friend back and had never considered those words in depth. Thinking back on them now, he realized they held another meaning. Perhaps they described a way to unlock a higher level of power.
Hashirama Senju looked at Madara Uchiha with a grave expression. "Madara, what exactly were you trying to tell me back then? What are you planning to do?"
Madara Uchiha gave him an unrestrained grin. "Hashirama, let me show you my new power. This is the power born from combining yours and mine—a power on another plane entirely!"
"This is...