Orochimaru had only just begun his life in the Shinobi World when he witnessed Tobirama Senju's miraculous technique for summoning the dead from the underworld.
It gave Orochimaru something to look forward to in his everyday life in this world.
There were no cell phones, but he would make them sooner or later.
Orochimaru was brimming with enthusiasm.
Reality proved, however, that even in the Shinobi World, Orochimaru still had to face the hypercompetitive education of the dōjutsu world.
In the dōjutsu world, a sharp mind and an exceptional memory had allowed Orochimaru to get good grades very quickly.
The Shinobi World should have been much the same.
In the dōjutsu world, every day of Orochimaru's childhood had begun with a four-kilometer run to school with his Old Father.
In the Shinobi World, every day of Orochimaru's childhood began with his Old Father "correcting" him.
At six every morning, Yanbai woke Orochimaru on the dot.
Then, as Orochimaru howled, his Old Father, Madara Uchiha, "corrected" him, while Yanbai stood by to heal him.
The two worked in perfect tandem, one playing the bad cop and the other the good cop.
As long as the beating would not kill him, they beat him within an inch of his life.
Each time he was beaten half to death and then healed, Orochimaru grew tougher, until he truly was handsome on the outside and remarkably sturdy on the inside.
Tobirama Senju, who had been watching all along, finally understood why Yanbai had dragged Madara Uchiha into that world to spend more than sixty years living through another life with him.
It had all been for this: making Madara play the villain...
To Orochimaru, Madara Uchiha was always the stern father he feared, while Yanbai was always the kind mother he revered.
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