Are you sure you're not joking?!
If the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, hadn't learned Sage Mode...
Where had Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands come from?
Had it just appeared out of thin air?
Shihōin Naraku stared at Tsunade in disbelief. No matter how he thought about it, this didn't add up.
"I knew you wouldn't believe me." Tsunade said helplessly, "I didn't believe it back then either, but Grandfather really never fully learned Sage Mode from Shikkotsu Forest!"
"But-"
"Grandfather did indeed know Sage Mode!"
Don't you realize how contradictory that sounds?
Naraku was utterly speechless.
"Hahaha..."
"All right, I'll stop teasing you."
Tsunade reined in her smile and explained, "When Grandfather went to Shikkotsu Forest back then, he only learned the basics and ran into some problems too. On top of that, Konoha wasn't quite stable yet, and Madara Uchiha was stirring, so Grandfather voluntarily gave up training in Sage Mode at Shikkotsu Forest!"
"But strangely enough, Grandfather later managed to master Sage Mode."
"Still, I'm certain that what Grandfather mastered wasn't Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode. Or rather, it only contained part of Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode!"
"I asked the Katsuyu Sage. Grandfather really never went back to Shikkotsu Forest."
Huh?
Then how exactly had Hashirama Senju mastered Sage Mode?
And judging by the tremendous power of Hashirama Senju's Senjutsu, he must have mastered a perfect Sage Mode.
So what exactly had happened?
Surely Hashirama Senju hadn't just learned the basics and then automatically mastered Sage Mode?
How puzzling!
"So, you should understand why I'm telling you these secrets." Tsunade reminded him earnestly, "It's all right if you fail to master Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode. You wouldn't be the only one, anyway."
"You can use this opportunity to develop new Ninjutsu and abilities yourself. There's no