I, Hashirama, kidnap children

The next day, the shinobi world was shaken to its core...

Kirigakure had been massacred. From the First Mizukage, Byakuren, down to children barely old enough to babble, the entire village had been reduced to ruins, with only a few lucky survivors left.

Hozuki Gengetsu, the head of the Hozuki Clan, had also been saved from the disaster by Byakuren. On the day after the village's destruction, he became the Second Mizukage, and was now leading the remaining villagers in building houses...

And the ones responsible for it all were the God of the Shinobi World, Hashirama Senju; the Asura of the Ninja World, Madara Uchiha; the Speed of the Shinobi World, Tobirama Senju; and a young Uchiha who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, just like Madara.

The entire shinobi world erupted in an uproar, and every village sent spies to gather intelligence. The information they brought back... turned out to be this...

Sunagakure...

"According to the intelligence... Byakuren kidnapped that brat from the Five Kage Summit... That brat is Tobirama Senju's son... Konoha flew into a rage afterward, and Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, and a young Uchiha—the four of them destroyed Kirigakure in a single day. Byakuren died too." The young Chiyo looked at the report in her hands, her lips twitching...

That brat... No wonder... Chiyo couldn't help recalling the white-haired brat who had infuriated the Five Kage on the day of the summit...

That brat really had a rotten personality... No wonder... One kid got kidnapped, and good grief, all of Konoha mobilized...

"...What's the situation in Kirigakure now?" Reto, also remembering the white-haired brat who had called him an old grandpa, asked with a headache.

"Many clans were wiped out, though a few of the major clans still have survivors. The two famous clans, the Kaguya