I don't want to dance

Konoha Village,? Hokage Office——

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

"Half! Half! Half!"

Two figures, one big and one small, gathered together and stared at the two spinning dice on the table, holding their bets in their mouths to buff their luck.

And the end result is...

"Haha, it's Ding! Xiaogang, your gambling luck is worse than my grandfather's."

Hashirama, who won the round, smiled and looked at his little granddaughter lying on the table with a mournful face. If Tobuma saw this scene, he would definitely be accused of being "disrespectful".

Tsunade, who was quite unwilling to admit defeat in his bones, waved his small palm and slapped the table, "Again!"

Tsunade was born in the summer of the tenth year of Konoha, and is now three years old.As the first child of her grandchildren, this little princess of Konoha has been loved by thousands of people since she was born. As a pro-grandfather, Hashirama dotes on her first granddaughter even more. Beside,? Hand in hand with big.But because of this, Tsunade also subtly learned many of Hashirama's "bad habits", especially gambling.Ever since Tsunade was able to run and jump, he often went in and out of casinos with Hashirama. Perhaps it was the gambling factor imprinted in his genetic genes. Tsunade became obsessed with this "game" almost immediately,? Since then Became a "good comrade in arms" of grandpa.It's just that I don't know if the genes have intensified in the genetic process,? Tsunade's gambling luck is even worse than Hashirama's? If Hashirama loses nine out of ten bets, then Tsunade simply loses every bet.

"Okay,? Let's play another round!" Hashirama also slapped boldly, picked up the two dice and started another round, and at the same time did not forget to explain, "Be careful of your second grandfather,? If he comes to check the post We have to stop now."

"Don't worry!" Tsunade, who has already accumulated rich experience in the confrontation with his second grandfather, replied confidently, patted his chest.

And this new round, the final result...

"Eh? This is..."

Tsunade was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes, and after reconfirming the final points displayed by the two dice on the table, jumped up excitedly in the next second:

"I won!"

This is the first time she won a bet, and it can be recorded as an important note in the history of her life.

It's just that she is still young at this moment, and she doesn't know that the curse of bad luck will begin once she wins the bet, let alone what kind of magnificent but tortuous life she will usher in in the future.

Just when Hashirama sighed, "This is the first time Xiaogang has won a bet...", the next second, he suddenly stood up from the chair he was sitting on, with an expression of shock and excitement that he had never seen in these years. Seriously, even breathing became short of breath in an instant.

"...Grandpa?" Tsunade, who had never seen Grandpa's expression like this before, was also frightened, not understanding what happened.

Soon, the door of the office was pushed open, and someone with the same expression hurried in:

"Big brother!"

The two brothers exchanged glances and silently confirmed——

Madara Uchiha is back.

It has been ten years since Madara left Konoha. In the past ten years, Hashirama and Tobima have been secretly sending people to inquire about Madara's whereabouts, but they found nothing, as if the world had evaporated.Whether it's bondage or evil fate, it seems that the Uchiha patriarch who has been entangled with them for half his life never really existed.

And just now, the familiar chakra belonging to Uchiha Madara suddenly erupted, and it became more and more intense, as if announcing its existence to everyone.

At the first moment when he felt that chakra, Hashirama was excited, that feeling of reunion after a world away.It was only the next moment that he felt the undisguised strong malice of the Chakra, and there was even... Nine-Tails' huge Chakra and raging murderous aura.

No wonder he couldn't find the last tailed beast all these years. It turned out that Madara had captured it long ago.

And Madara is like this now, it is clear that the signal of "come to fight" has been thrown at him.

Although Madara has been away for ten years, and even there has been no news for these ten years, he has always had a vague premonition in his heart... Madara will come back one day, and come back to fight with him for the final "ending" battle between them .

And this day has finally come.

"Tobima, I'm going." Hashirama, who hadn't fought for a long time, finally ushered in the long-awaited battle, and the duty of being Hokage also made him not forget to make the final confession, put his hands on Brother's shoulder, "You know, I need to fight with my life in the battle with him. If I can't come back in the end... Muye Village, I will leave it to you."

Tobuma, who understood what this meant, also nodded solemnly, "I see."

Tsunade standing aside listened to the conversation between the two elders, but was full of bewilderment, and tremblingly grabbed Hashirama's sleeve:

"Grandpa, what are you going to do...why you can't come back..."

Hashirama squatted down, gently touched his granddaughter's little head, and said with a sunny and generous smile:

"It's nothing, Xiao Gang, don't worry, Grandpa just went to see an old friend."

Tsunade clenched Hashirama's sleeves even tighter, and a few tears already overflowed from her beautiful almond eyes:

"Liar! If it's a friend, why would he fight grandpa..."

Don't go, don't go...

However, before the cries in my heart could be uttered, in the last consciousness, I only heard grandpa smiling and saying to her:

"Don't worry, no matter what happens, grandpa will protect Xiao Gang and everyone in this village."

Hashirama picked up Tsunade who was unconscious by the illusion, and handed it to Tomona.

Fei Jian took over his niece and granddaughter, and the decades of tacit understanding between the brothers needless to say:

"I'll wait here for your return."

You must win this battle and return safely.

Hashirama also smiled:

"With you here, I feel at ease."

Everything will be left to you, Second Hokage.

……

Frontier of the Land of Fire——

The most earth-shattering battle in the history of the ninja world has lasted for three days and three nights, and the battle was so fierce that even the terrain was changed.

Finally, amidst the rushing roar of the giant waterfall and the torrential downpour, the battle ushered in its final chapter.

"sieve--!"

Accompanied by the sharp piercing sound of the sword, the sharp blade pierced Madara's heart from behind quickly and ruthlessly, and blood gurgled out from the heart.

Madara, who thought he had won the victory, stood stiffly on the spot, and could only look in disbelief at the "Hashirama" who fell in the water not far away... It turned out that it was just a clone of Mudun.

What made him even more unbelievable was... he was actually attacked from behind.

【I am very sensitive to my back! 】

No one has ever been able to stand behind him... No, there are still three people in this world who can do it...his brother, his wife, and his best friend...

The first two are gone, and his last best friend...

"Anyone who threatens the safety of the village, even my brothers and my children, I will never let go. No matter what happens, I will protect our... no, my village."

In the back, Senshou Zhujian closed his eyes tightly, and said the most decisive words in his life with all his strength.

[Build a village that belongs to us here! 】

[Even people from different families, as long as they can understand each other, they can definitely sit down and have a glass of wine together. 】

[In this place hidden among the leaves, protect everything we cherish! 】

Those words that have been said before, like babbling in a dream, all end here.

All the past passed before his eyes like a revolving lantern, and Madara smiled lightly... well, in this way, the last trace of his bondage in this world was finally broken, and he was finally completely alone.

He will not hate Senshou Bashirama because of this, after all, it is inevitable that this life-and-death battle will have such a result.

Moreover, the one who killed him was not the close friend who had been swimming with him on the banks of the Nanga River, but the one who killed him was Konoha's "First Hokage".

only……

"Hashirama, you are putting the cart before the horse..."

This is the last sentence left by him purely as Uchiha Madara.

……

Konoha Hospital——

"Is there really no effective treatment?"

Tomona asked some of Konoha's top medical ninjas, but all the answers he got were regrettable.

"I'm sorry, Tobima-sama, Hashirama-sama... he was injured too badly. You are also an expert in this field, and you know that, in terms of recovery ability, Hashirama-sama's cells are the most powerful in the world But, the injury is so severe that even Mr. Hashirama's cells can hardly be repaired."

"Moreover... it is also related to Lord Hashirama's own mental state. As you can see, Master Hashirama has no desire to survive at all now, and he is very depressed. Even the patient himself is like this Well, there's really nothing we can do."

Hearing the words of the doctors and ninjas, Tobima finally just sighed helplessly.

That night, he sensed that the battle was over, and when he arrived at the scene, what he saw was the scene of those two people falling together in a pool of water in the heavy rain.The appearance of these two strongest men in the world is unprecedented.

Uchiha Madara has died, and although Hashirama has passed out, he still has the last breath left.And seeing the way Uchiha Madara was stabbed from the back, it became clear to Tomama... This battle was won by his elder brother.

After that, he immediately summoned people to send Hashirama to Konoha Hospital for emergency treatment.As for Nine-Tails temporarily controlled by Mu Dun, Uzumaki Mito, who also came after him, chose to use his body as a container to restrain Nine-Tails, and activated the Uzumaki Clan's sealing technique to seal this dangerous monster in the into his own body.

And Uchiha Madara... There is no need to argue so much with a dead person. Tobima handed Uchiha Madara's body to the Uchiha clan. After all, he was the former patriarch, so let their clan arrange their own funeral.However, most of the Uchiha clan said that Uchiha Madara's attempt to attack Konoha is not only a traitor of the Uchiha family, but also a sinner of the entire village, and they would never shelter such a innocent person just because of their old love , Such a person is not worthy of being buried in the Uchiha family cemetery, and I implore the high-level Konoha to deal with it directly in accordance with the rules and regulations.

Feijian understands that the people of the Uchiha family express their views in this way, not so much because they hate and hate Uchiha Madara's "evil deeds", it is better to say that they are afraid of being angered by the whole village because of Uchiha Madara, so it is better to be with Uchiha Madara as soon as possible. The erstwhile patriarch drew a line and showed he was on the side of "justice".

From a rational point of view, Tomona feels that the Uchiha clan's statement is understandable, but from an emotional point of view, even he, who has always hated each other with Uchiha Madara, can't help but feel a little sad... Madara, you still What a failure.

In the end, Tobima just took Madara's body into the coffin in the most normal way, except that a few more layers of seals were added outside the coffin to prevent people with ulterior motives from coming to rob the tomb in the future. For an extremely strong man, every organ in his body can be called a treasure... especially those eyes, the unique eternal kaleidoscope in this world.

In fact, even he himself once thought about dissecting Madara's corpse for research. After all, there are few people in this world who are more interested in studying ninjutsu than he is.It's just... the person who understands him best in this world is indeed his elder brother.After the elder brother woke up after first aid, the first thing he said to him was that he was not allowed to do anything with Madara's body. Madara's life has been rough enough, and in the end, at least he can be buried in the ground.

And when he faced the corpse, he finally stopped and didn't do anything else.

This man is an old enemy of the Senju family, one of the founders of Konoha, and Uchiha Izumi's older brother... Seeing those peacefully closed eyes, thinking that they were also Izuna's eyes, for some reason, my mind Suddenly, the baby face of the mortal enemy who died more than ten years ago, which never seemed to grow up, suddenly appeared.

That's all, let's stop here.

……

However, just when everyone thought that everything was settled, what no one knew was——

The already dead man in the coffin suddenly opened his eyes, accompanied by the blindness of his right eye.

The Uchiha family secret technique—transfer seal, which seals a specific pupil power in the eyes, will activate automatically when the conditions set by the caster are met.And Madara Seal's pupil power is exactly "Izanagi" who rewrites reality.

Madara who "resurrected from the dead" walked out of the coffin, and then left a physical clone in this coffin that no one would care about again.

Everything was going well, everything was going according to his plan.

Before bringing real peace to this world, he will temporarily lie dormant in the darkness that no one knows, but before that...

Madara quietly went back to the Uchiha clan, and walked into his long-abandoned house.

He took out a box from the dusty shelf, opened the box, and found a few red strands of hair inside.Thanks to the nourishment of the chakra he left behind, these red hairs are still bright and full of vitality.

These were the red hairs he found on the floor of the hotel where he stayed when she was kidnapped on the first full moon night after he met her.It was also these red hairs that made him aware of her special identity long ago, and he told her all of this on the night of the full moon when he and her were honest with each other.What she didn't know was that he had always kept these red hairs that belonged to her, and even maintained them with chakra... This was the most beautiful color in the world he had ever seen.

[If you risk your life to save me, I will naturally risk my life to protect you... I, Uchiha Madara, will do what I say, and I will never break my word. 】

This is the promise he made to her the day they first met.

I'm sorry, Ayin, I've broken my promise after all.

but……

【Madara, you also said that one day, you will make the world peaceful forever... I believe in you, and I will always be by your side watching you. 】

I know, Ayin, you will never break your promise to me, you will always watch me, right?

He took off his gloves and wrapped these red hairs around the ring finger of his left hand.

In this way, the red thread of fate between you and me will not be broken.

Looking at the fingers entwined with red hair, I unconsciously felt peace of mind and the courage to be dormant in the darkness for a long time.

The future I hope will always have you.

Even if our initial encounter was just an accident of time and space, this red thread will make this accident inevitable.

I will be with you to meet that same future.

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