In Tobirama's command tent, Kazemori Masaki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Satomi, and Danzo stood before a table. The Banana Palm Fan, a treasured tool of the Sage of Six Paths, lay on it. Tobirama studied the fan for a while, then picked it up and infused it with chakra, seemingly sensing something.
"Monkey, are you certain you heard him correctly? Kinkaku said only descendants of the Sage of Six Paths could use this treasured tool?" Tobirama asked Hiruzen Sarutobi, setting the Banana Palm Fan back on the table.
"Yes. There's absolutely no mistake," Hiruzen Sarutobi replied.
Tobirama hummed thoughtfully. He already believed Hiruzen Sarutobi's account. As a sensory ninja, he was more sensitive to subtle changes in chakra. When he infused the Banana Palm Fan with chakra, he distinctly felt a remarkable affinity with it, as though it were part of his own body.
If Kinkaku and Ginkaku truly were descendants of the Sage of Six Paths, then the Senju Clan, whose members could also use the treasured tool, must be his descendants as well.
Although the Senju Clan was a powerful ninja clan with a long history, Tobirama had never imagined it had any connection to the Sage of Six Paths. Some of the clan's Scrolls contained fragmentary information about Ninshu, but since the possibility had never occurred to him, he had paid it little attention. Thinking back carefully now, Tobirama realized those fragments were highly unusual—not the sort of information mere followers of Ninshu could have possessed, as the Senju had previously assumed.
The Banana Palm Fan also reminded Tobirama of the Gunbai Madara Uchiha had used. That fan could absorb any ninjutsu and turn it into a Wind Release counterattack. In terms of power, the Banana Palm Fan and the Gunbai were very similar. Did that mean the Uchiha