Inside the Hokage Office.
Tobirama Senju shouted, "Yanbai built this house! Brother-you can't destroy the great legacy our little brother left behind!"
By the time Tobirama Senju finished speaking, Hashirama Senju had already raised his hands, ready to summon whatever he called for, but the words "Yanbai built this house" stopped him cold.
Tobirama Senju breathed hard and took a stance to protect the place.
Pain twisted Hashirama Senju's expression. In the end, he abandoned the idea of giving his younger brother a savage beating here.
But with nowhere to vent his anger, Hashirama Senju still lashed out, splitting every table, chair, and piece of furniture in the room.
"Tobirama, how did you become like this-"
"Tobirama, how could you become like this-"
Tobirama Senju watched silently. After rescuing a few important documents, he let his older brother vent.
"What are you going to do next?" Hashirama Senju practically ground out the words.
"I need to... apologize to Yanbai in person." Tobirama Senju lowered his head, his manner gentle and deeply sincere.
But now, Hashirama Senju could no longer tell whether his younger brother meant it or was plotting something.
Seeing his brother look utterly resigned to whatever punishment came his way, Hashirama Senju finally sighed. "Seal that ninjutsu away as a forbidden technique."
Tobirama Senju could only smile bitterly. He truly did not know how to answer his older brother.
A technique that toyed with the souls of the dead and treated living people's lives as worthless had been forbidden from the very beginning.
And so, although the process differed from its original course of fate, the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu met the same end: it was classified as a forbidden technique and preserved.
When dusk fell once more.
Tobirama Senju again set foot in the Memorial Stone