Inside the alternate dimension, shinobi from every village throughout the entire shinobi world raised their heads, watching the video with expressions ranging from curiosity to shock.
The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was the legendary God of Shinobi who had dominated an entire era!
And now, the secret behind the First Hokage’s death was about to be revealed.
Could it be…
that he really had been killed by Kakuzu of the Akatsuki?
With this thought in mind, everyone watched the video with complete concentration.
The video began.
On screen,
Kakuzu was wearing the standard shinobi uniform of the Hidden Waterfall Village.
He was leaping rapidly between the trunks of trees in a dense forest, a shuriken in one hand.
In his other hand was an intelligence scroll, which contained a depiction of Hashirama Senju.
Kakuzu stared at the scroll and muttered to himself,
“Hashirama Senju? I’ve heard that guy founded the Hidden Leaf Village and possesses tremendous strength.”
“I just wonder who’s stronger between him and me.”
“Unfortunately, I’ve been staying in the village all these years studying the Secret Technique: Earth Grudge Fear. I’ve never witnessed Hashirama Senju fight. Otherwise, I’d have a much better chance of winning.”
After entering the Land of Fire, Kakuzu slowed down and carefully read through the intelligence scroll.
After a while, he rolled up the scroll and complained,
“These intelligence shinobi are completely useless! How can there be so little information? It doesn’t help me at all!”
“And this Hashirama Senju… Why is he called the God of Shinobi? What gives him that title?”
The moment he finished speaking,
Kakuzu suddenly noticed a familiar figure deep within the forest.
His entire body trembled.
“This is…”
Kakuzu immediately took out the intelligence scroll and carefully compared the person in the forest with the illustration.
After a while, he finally confirmed it.
He licked his lips, and a bloodthirsty glint appeared in his eyes.
“Hashirama Senju! I can’t believe I’ve encountered you so soon!”
Kakuzu gripped the shuriken tightly.
He swung his arm with all his strength and hurled it toward Hashirama Senju!
Whoosh!
The shuriken cut through the air, leaving behind a faint white trail.
The camera suddenly shifted to Hashirama.
Hashirama looked around and muttered to himself,
“Now that I’ve reached the border of the Land of Fire, there shouldn’t be anyone around anymore. I don’t have to worry about accidentally hurting anyone.”
“Good. Then let’s test this new combination of techniques!”
Hashirama brought his hands together and began forming hand seals.
After a moment, he shouted,
“Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Countless trees suddenly erupted from the ground around Hashirama.
Hashirama didn’t stop.
He continued forming hand seals and shouted again,
“Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!”
The instant his voice fell, all the trees created by Deep Forest Emergence began growing at an incredible speed!
They rose to nearly a thousand meters in height before suddenly twisting and intertwining with one another.
The trees continued winding together.
And winding together.
Gradually, they formed the shape of…
A divine dragon!
A thousand-meter-tall wooden dragon!
It stood between heaven and earth like an ancient deity that had existed since time immemorial, radiating an overwhelming pressure.
Hashirama raised his head and looked at his creation with satisfaction.
Originally, the Wood Dragon Technique created a wooden dragon that emerged directly from the ground.
But yesterday, he’d suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of combining the technique with Deep Forest Emergence.
So he’d come here today to test it.
The result was indeed impressive.
“I’ll try using this against Madara next time.”
Just then—
Ding!
A faint metallic sound rang out.
The shuriken Kakuzu had thrown had finally arrived.
It struck the wooden dragon.
“Hm?!”
Hashirama’s eyes sharpened.
He immediately turned toward the direction from which the shuriken had come.
However, there was no one there.
Only towering trees stood in the distance.
Hashirama scratched his head and smiled.
“What? I thought whoever launched that sneak attack would actually come out and fight me, so I could test this new combination of techniques.”
“But he already ran away.”
Hashirama shook his head with a smile and continued experimenting with various combinations of techniques.
The scene changed.
It returned to Kakuzu.
Kakuzu was running for his life toward the border of the Land of Fire!
His face was filled with terror.
His entire body was trembling violently as though he had just experienced the greatest shock of his life.
Even tears had been frightened out of his eyes, trailing behind him as he ran.
“That’s terrifying! Is that even human?! That’s a god!”
“I can’t beat him! There’s absolutely no way I can beat him! He might kill me instantly the moment we meet!”
As he fled at full speed, Kakuzu nervously looked back to see whether Hashirama was pursuing him.
Seeing that there was no one behind him, his violently pounding heart finally calmed down slightly.
Kakuzu couldn’t help glancing at the thousand-meter-tall wooden dragon.
The enormous amount of chakra contained within it made his entire body tremble even harder.
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“The God of Shinobi! No wonder the intelligence report said that the entire shinobi world calls Hashirama Senju the God of Shinobi!”
“With this kind of power, only the title of God is worthy of him!”
As Kakuzu fled beyond the border of the Land of Fire, the video abruptly ended.
Inside the alternate dimension, all the shinobi stared at one another.
Then—
Every village erupted into roaring laughter!
“Pfft—HAHAHAHA! I can’t take this anymore! So this is the truth behind Kakuzu versus the First Hokage?!”
“HAHAHAHA! I’m dying! Now I finally understand what the character description meant by ‘throwing a shuriken from 800 li away’!”
“No! No! My stomach hurts from laughing! Is Kakuzu the designated comedian of the Akatsuki?!”
“But seriously, the First Hokage is incredible! With a technique like that, who could possibly defeat him?”
“HAHAHAHA! Exactly! Just look at Kakuzu in the video! He was practically scared out of his pants!”
Over in Konoha,
Naruto was laughing so hard that he rolled around on the ground, clutching his stomach.
Rock Lee was laughing while repeatedly pounding his thigh.
Choji Akimichi laughed so hard that he could barely straighten himself.
Even Sasuke couldn’t help bursting into laughter.
The Third Hokage finally let out a sigh of relief.
He looked at Kakuzu in the distance with an extremely complicated expression.
“So it was all a false alarm.”
“Still, I think I understand why Kakuzu could defeat Minato Namikaze in the ranking and become the fifth biggest show-off.”
Kakashi nodded in agreement.
“Indeed. When it comes to bragging, no one can surpass him!”
Over in the Hidden Cloud Village, the Fourth Raikage wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face filled with speechlessness.
Killer B laughed so hard that his throat hurt.
“I, Killer B, admit defeat! Kakuzu really deserves to be the fifth biggest show-off! Even if I trained for a hundred years, I could never reach his level of bragging!”
Inside the Akatsuki’s area,
Deidara and Hidan were rolling around on the ground, laughing hysterically.
Tendo Pain covered his face, seemingly embarrassed to have such a subordinate.
Konan also covered her mouth as she giggled, her eyes curving into crescents.
Kakuzu lowered his head.
He wished he could find a hole in the ground and crawl into it.
“It’s over. Looks like I’ve become the laughingstock of the entire shinobi world.”
With that thought, Kakuzu gritted his teeth and simply gave up on trying to win any rewards from the guessing game.
He focused his mind and directly exited the alternate dimension.
Everyone continued laughing for more than ten minutes before finally calming down.
At this moment, the voice of the Lord of the Myriad Worlds rang out.
“Everyone, you may now begin guessing the identity of the fourth biggest show-off.”
“Each village will have five minutes to discuss.”
“After five minutes, the Hidden Sand Village will send a representative to make the first guess.”
Then the Lord of the Myriad Worlds continued,
“Alright, little Yusetsu of the Hidden Waterfall Village, I’ll now give you your reward…”