The experiences Hashirama Senju had given the Nine-Tails were every bit as memorable as those Madara Uchiha had inflicted on him. Whether Hashirama's giant wooden Buddha had handled him like a helpless chick, or Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands had thrashed him while Madara controlled him and clad him in Susanoo, the Nine-Tails remembered it all vividly.
Although Madara Uchiha had been controlling him at the time, the Nine-Tails had missed none of the memories or sensations of that beating.
At that thought, the Nine-Tails fell silent. He had never imagined that the two people in this world who had beaten him the worst were both descendants of the Sage of Six Paths.
Seeing that Kurama had been provoked almost to the point of depression, Shin Uchiha felt his mischievous streak flare up again. He feigned two coughs to draw Kurama's attention, then said, "Actually, both the Senju Clan and the Uzumaki Clan are descendants of Asura."
The Nine-Tails did not immediately grasp what Shin Uchiha meant and asked, "The Uzumaki Clan?"
Shin Uchiha nodded, fighting to keep the corners of his mouth from lifting. "For example, Mito Uzumaki, Kushina Uzumaki, and now Naruto Uzumaki."
Silence was a state of being. As one saying put it so well: if you did not erupt in silence, you would perish in it.
The Nine-Tails' fur gradually stood on end, and vast amounts of Nine-Tails chakra slowly began to boil. Even the air seemed to warp. Shin Uchiha, who had been lying on the Nine-Tails, was pushed out through a gap in the iron gate by the chakra on the verge of running wild.
Realizing he might have taken the joke too far, Shin Uchiha immediately channeled chakra into the seal on the gate to resist the corrosive Nine-Tails chakra. It