"Monkey, what are you hiding so far back for?"
Hashirama noticed that the little monkey kept trying to hide farther back.
Then everyone's eyes fell on him.
Seeing that old bastard again, Meihui was about to go over and curse him out, but Minato held him back.
"Leave this to me, Meihui."
"Lord Third, I think we need to talk."
Seemingly resigned to his fate, Hiruzen said little. Minato took him away with Flying Thunder God and returned shortly afterward. No one knew what Minato had said to him, and after they returned, both tacitly avoided mentioning what had just happened.
Meihui also told everyone that the Fourth Shinobi World War had begun, and that Madara Uchiha had been brought back through Impure World Reincarnation. He had even forcibly broken free of the technique's control.
That surprised Hashirama. He had never imagined that Madara had secretly lived so much longer than him.
Damn you. Still, I learned some incredible things over there. Your title as Konoha's dance king is changing hands this time. Of course, Hashirama had no idea that the title had already changed hands, and the new dance king was standing right in front of him.
"Let's go to the main battlefield." With that, they set off.
Not long afterward, Black Zetsu arrived at the Uzumaki Clan's ancestral shrine.
"That can't be right. I clearly sensed it around here just now."
Then Black Zetsu noticed a layer of skin on the ground. He recognized it-it was clearly skin Orochimaru had shed.
Black Zetsu picked up Orochimaru's shed skin and examined it carefully. He even brought it close to sniff it, but quickly gave up. He had no nose.
"Why is Orochimaru's skin here? And I definitely sensed that familiar feeling just now. Could it be... Orochimaru is me?"