Uchiha Mikoto's birthay today! Chapter 15 could be published if I write the not-yet-written battle scene in the next chapter. But, this is the last chapter before Epilogue! So it's extra long!

Now, some hints at what Juubi has been up to...


Interlude: What happens in the Afterlife?


"Tobi's a good boy!"

"Oh shut up, Tobi." Hashirama groaned, "Now you're supposed to be dead, and what's with those clouds?"

"Oh!" Tobi chirped. "Hashirama-san doesn't know? hashirama-san is dead!"

"I know that, obvioiusly." Hashirama snapped, albeit a bit grumpily. "My actual body's dead, and I'm just a soul fragment stuck inside Madara for his Wood-release abilities. Now explain why I'm here."

"But you ARE dead, Hashirama-san! You're in the afterlife right now!"

"Well, if Madara died and got us all here, where is he? And Juubi?"

"Hashirana-san misunderstands. He is dead, Madara-san is not. Hashirama-san is killed by Juubi."

"W-wait, how dd that happen? I didn't remember dying."

Tobi shrugged, then bounded away. "Bye, Hashirama-san! Tobi has a job to do!" and he just vanished.

"Huh, wonder what that was about" Hashirama rubbed his forehead, then suddenly remembered. "TOBI! WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT JUUBI!"

No answer.

After a moment of blind panicking, Hashirama calmed down. Juubi was out, and the others are in danger. And he was here without even doing anything before getting killed.

"Don't worry, you're not the lamest death here." a voice sounded behihd him.

It was Uchiha Mikoto.

"Death by fangirls, actual fangirls alling into Naruto world and landing on something sharp and pointy, being eaten by that 10-year old Ramen Vampire..." she went on, listing the top ten lamest deaths.

"Okay, I get it." Hashirama said, "And the Ramen's still alive?"

Mikoto shrugged. "Strangely enough, yes. How it survived four tails of Kyuubi's chakra, was a mystery."

"Soooo..." Hashirama felt awkward. "We're dead. What now?"

"This." the Lady Uchiha gestured towards a huge room full of TVs. "One pops up when you die, so we don't really have to pay for it. It can show you anything in the living world, and can enlarge if you want to see two places at once."

"Wow..." Hashirama said, impressed, "Cool..."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be back to my spot, seeing what idiotic revenge spree my son's focused on now." she left.

"Okay... So, TV. Show me Madara, Juubi, and Izuna." stated Hashirama. The screen enlarged, and divided into three sections.

One look at it and-

"I AM GOING TO KILL THAT (BEEP)ING IDIOT!"


Tee hee, Tobi appears! Hashirama has seen something that makes him homicidal! Madara has obviously done something stupid!

Find out next time, on tSoC! (I am TEMPTED to reveal more of next chapter, but that'd be spoilers)