"Ōtsutsuki?"
After Naruto briefly explained where Adult Sasuke had come from, everyone exchanged looks.
Sasuke in particular seemed to have plenty of questions for his adult self, but he also knew that the more pressing concern was the Urashiki Otsutsuki the man had mentioned.
The name was not unfamiliar to them. After they had returned to this world through Impure World Reincarnation, the Fourth Hokage had found time to fill them and the Third Hokage in on what had happened since.
It was then that Minato had told them the truth.
The mastermind behind the ill-fated relationship between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, the clan from beyond the heavens that would arrive sooner or later, the mother of the nearly godlike Sage of Six Paths of shinobi history, the progenitor of all Ninja and chakra, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki lurking in the Shinobi World...
When they first heard all this, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju had both worn expressions that said, You've got to be fucking kidding me.
Still, both were seasoned veterans who had seen their share of extraordinary things, and they quickly realized that these enemies were far beyond anything the current Shinobi World could handle.
For Tobirama in particular, whose nature drove him to prepare well in advance, this information about threats beyond all known limits had left him deeply anxious.
If the future merely held Ninja endlessly killing one another, perhaps even bringing about their own ultimate destruction...
As men who had already died, they would have little to say about it. They would not concern themselves with it, because those were choices people made for themselves. At most, they would fulfill whatever duties they could as predecessors.
But this situation was different.
That was why he had spent this time constantly researching all kinds of