"Do you know us?"
Faced with strangers, Young Sasuke was extremely wary and instinctively ducked behind Kagami and Edo Madara.
Young Naruto, by contrast, wasn't afraid of them at all and approached with easy familiarity.
"Grandpa Hashirama, you look so weird! Where did all those lines on you go?"
He released his tight grip on Sasuke's collar, took a few curious steps forward, and even took Hashirama's large hand. Then he turned toward Shingetsu and asked innocently:
"Big sister, who are you? How come I've never seen you before?"
During the past month, while helping clean up the Third's mess, Tobirama had discovered that the unfortunate Fourth, who had died young, had left behind an equally unfortunate son.
The Third's attempts at secrecy had been half successful and half a failure. The success was that nobody knew this blond kid was the Fourth's son; the failure was that seemingly everyone knew he was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
For a Hokage to sink to such a level truly added another "glorious achievement" to Tobirama's failed teaching career.
Furious, Tobirama had gone straight to the Sarutobi Clan Compound and given the Third a vicious lesson in front of the entire Sarutobi Clan. Naturally, that meant beating him within an inch of his life.
The elderly Third here wasn't the young Monkey from Shingetsu's Timeline, who had been beaten until his body became practically indestructible. His old bones were quite fragile, and with Tobirama holding nothing back, the old man had been left partially paralyzed.
An old man beaten into paralysis naturally couldn't serve as Hokage. Just like that, the elderly Third had retired and gone home.
Such wickedness was truly gratifying-no, wait, utterly inhumane!
As for the Fourth's unfortunate son, Tobirama hadn't left him to fend for himself either. He had simply hauled