Hashirama felt woozy and threw up his breakfast because of Tobirama's flying thunder God jutsu, "A little heads up next time wouldn't hurt, little brother." Hashirama said.
Tobirama teleported them to a Konohagakure safehouse in the middle of the forest, it was used during the first and second ninja war.
The albino turned to him, "And allow Madara to attack, I don't think so. And besides, we have more important things to deal with, I can feel father's chakra."
"Wait father was brought back by the Edo Tensei too?!" Hashirama was shocked.
"Yes, we should help whoever conflicts with him," Tobirama said stoically.
"But we need to help Kakashi, he's not prepared for Edo Tensei Shinobi."
Tobirama closed his eyes and smiled, "You underestimate him, though my knowledge about him is outdated I still know he's got two geniuses' blood running through his veins. And with his Sharingan, he's more than a match for anyone, besides you and Madara that is."
Hashirama understood Tobirama's point and agreed to help the second company.
"Do you have any markers near their location?"
"No, we'll walk the rest of the way. I suppose you can bring me up to speed on everything since my death."
The Senju brothers ran towards the second company, Hashirama explained all that he learned after his death and then Tobirama's.
"So Madara's been planning everything all along, I can't say I'm surprised. She is a monster."
"Don't speak ill of her! Madara is a person just like me and you, she just had a rough life." Hashirama said.
Tobirama rolled his eyes, "We all had rough lives, but you don't see us trying to destroy the world. Honestly, I think you're too blind with your feelings towards her."
"She is my friend and I am the only one who truly understands her," Hashirama said.
"I think Izuna did, but I cut him down too quickly."
"I don't blame you, if it weren't for their Uchiha pride then he would have lived to see the village."
"And Madara is the pinnacle of Uchiha pride and arrogance, though I can't fault her for that." Tobirama chuckled.
Hashirama was deep in thought about her, always mesmerized by her three tomoe Sharingan. Hashirama's daydreaming of Madara did not go unnoticed by Tobirama, "Brother, I regret what I did and the rift it caused between you and Madara. I know you took your life because of it, and if I could take it back I would. Maybe if by a miracle she decides to stop whatever she has planned, you should at least have some happiness in your life."
Hashirama chuckled, "You truly have grown up, or maybe you did something to my real brother."
"I believe living with the guilt of my brother's suicide on my conscience is a big factor," Tobirama replied.
Hashirama's smile faded at the response, "Why did you hide the cause of my death?" Hashirama asked.
"Mostly to quell the rumors of you and Madara having an affair, and also it wouldn't look very good to have the village's first Hokage committing seppuku within the first year of its conception." Tobirama was blunt.
Hashirama thought about and understood his reasoning, he wouldn't have thought of something like that but that's why Tobirama was more of a diplomat anyways.
"Why'd you do it?" Hashirama asked.
Tobirama quirked a brow, "What do you mean?"
"You sent a letter of alliance through marriage to the Uzumaki, I know this because Hikaku was with you when you asked for the Uchiha Elder's permission for Madara's marriage to the Uzumaki."
Tobirama felt terrible, "I knew you were going to confess your love to her, I couldn't stand by as you spit on the graves of our brothers and father."
"I assume you spoke with Touka about that, but Madara doesn't have anything to do with our family's deaths," Hashirama said.
"I was young and stupid, I shouldn't have interfered with love. It is the single biggest regret I have made in my life." Tobirama said with sorrow.
Hashirama smiled as he reconciled with his brother, they came upon the second division.
The second division was currently being attacked by an Edo Tensei Fugaku Uchiha and Butsuma Senju, the Senju brothers were just in time before Fugaku launched a giant fire-style dragon flame song jutsu. Hashirama used his wood style to block it, not fully as the fire spread around the wooden wall but Tobirama easily doused the flames.
Butsuma noticed the wooden wall and wondered who had the wood-style kekkai Genkai, his thoughts were answered when he saw his son.
"Hashirama?!" Butsuma asked.
Hashirama looked at him, "Hello father, It's been a while. I think you've been dead for eighty years or so, but my math has always been terrible." He chuckled to himself.
"Eighty years?! Then how are you here? You would be well over a hundred." Butsuma said.
Hashirama scratched the back of his head, "Well it's a long story, but to keep it short I died when I was twenty-five and was resurrected by a different jutsu to the one you were reanimated by."
Butsuma noticed an albino currently fighting the reanimated Uchiha, "Have the Uchiha been wiped out?"
Hashirama's face turned sour, "Well yes, but there are still survivors."
"I see, what of the Senju? Did you have any children?"
"I heard there are only three of us left that haven't assimilated into every other clan, myself, Tobirama's granddaughter, and his great-grandson."
Butsuma was shocked, "Tobirama had children before you did!? Why didn't you marry?"
"It's because I can only love one woman, and I will die before I betray my love again."
Butsuma frowned, "It's that Uchiha girl isn't it? I thought I told you that you can never trust an Uchiha, they don't care about anything as long as they cause chaos. It's against everything my brothers, my father, and his father before him fought so hard to just survive."
Hashirama was tired of hearing the same thing over and over again, he launched himself toward Butsuma, "And I fought and killed for that to never be the case, Madara and I created a village where children don't have to die in wars. We brought Senju and Uchiha under a single banner, we fight for peace, not a petty rivalry."
Butsuma was shocked at how fast Hashirama was, he was unable to block any of his attacks and was reduced to paper over and over again. "You created that stupid village idea, with that Uchiha girl? If that be the case then one of two things happened, she did not love you or already married someone else and two she died before you could tell her how you felt."
Hashirama grimaced, "I was forced to kill her because of mine and Tobirama's choices."
Butsuma even though he hated Uchiha felt sympathy for his eldest son's guilt towards this one, "No one, no matter who they are should be forced to kill someone they love."
Hashirama looked at his father confused, "You agree?"
"Of course, I agree, you are still my son whether we see eye to eye or not."
"Can I ask you something before we seal you away?"
"Of course, ask away."
Hashirama gulped, "Madara is alive and is planning to put the world in an eternal genjutsu where there will be no war and you can have everything you ever wanted. We're trying to stop her, is that wrong?"
Butsuma thought about it, "Well I can see both sides of the argument, the only way I can see it not ending in blood is if you give her a reason to not want to live in a genjutsu world."
Hashirama smiled, "Thank you, father." Hashirama closed his eyes and reopened them with markings on his face, "Sage art: gracious deity gates."
At his words a red torii fell on Butsuma's head, he was left unable to move as one of the second company's sealers arrived.
Tobirama was preoccupied with Fugaku, it was the first time since before the village was created he had to fight an Uchiha. Well technically he fought the fourteen-year-old girl who killed Minato but that one didn't count to him.
"You look old, Lord second. You seem to have full control over your body unlike me, who used Edo Tensei for you?" Fugaku asked.
"Your son, Itachi Uchiha."
Fugaku quirked a brow, "So he's still loyal to the village. I've always respected you Lord second, but I was always curious how strong you were."
Tobirama smirked, "I haven't received such praise from an Uchiha in a long time, but I'd be lying if I wasn't excited to fight you as well."
Fugaku activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and Tobirama was forced to close his eyes or be trapped in a genjutsu, Tobirama was then hit by a fireball which leaves half of Tobirama's body to regenerate.
Once Tobirama regenerated he used a shadow clone to use water style: severing wave, Fugaku countered with a fire style: dragon flame song.
Tobirama expected this and threw a kunai, Fugaku dodged it to his surprise Tobirama teleported to it and sliced him in half with the same kunai.
"You Uchihas and your overconfidence," Tobirama thought to himself. It was the same way he killed Izuna and started this whole mess.
"I underestimated you Lord second, you're more experienced with fighting Uchiha than I thought," Fugaku said as his body was reforming.
Tobirama formed hand seals, "I'll let you rest now, Uzumaki secret technique: chakra seal of judgment." Tobirama put his left hand on Fugaku's chest and his body turned to paper and the human sacrifice appeared, Tobirama looked at the sacrifice solemnly as his forbidden jutsu was still taking lives.
Hashirama walked over to Tobirama deep in thought, "Uzumaki secret technique? You learned it from Mito didn't you?" Hashirama asked.
Tobirama snapped out of his thoughts, "We taught each other everything we knew, she had a surprisingly vast amount of jutsus to learn."
Hashirama laughed as his brother smiled thinking of his lover, "Mito was a nice woman, maybe if Madara wasn't a woman I'd have loved her instead."
Tobirama chuckled at that, never in his life-afterlife would he think to hear his brother say such a thing.
The leader of the second company came up to thank the two Hokage, "Thank you both, I'm not sure we would have been able to handle them by ourselves."
"No need to thank us, we were happy to help," Hashirama said with a wide grin as he began humming a melody.
At the same time, Tobirama felt a familiar chakra and Itachi's very faint chakra far away, "We are needed elsewhere brother, another company is almost gone."
Earlier Itachi was heading to the third company, once he arrived at the third company he watched as Nagato absorbed the chakra out of someone. It caused his white hair to return to its original red, he noticed his former comrade.
"Itachi, it's been a while. I'm sorry for what happened to your sister. Sasori was a cruel man." Nagato said.
"You've nothing to apologize for, it was my sister's choice for embarking on the adventure, she knew the risks."
"We're on opposite sides yet again, if you don't mind me asking but what is the state of the First Hokage and Madara?" Nagato asked.
"Lord first was heading to the location of his nephew, but Madara is currently dismantling a whole platoon of a thousand Shinobi. I fear they don't stand a chance." Itachi said spinning his three tomoe.
"I assume you've already planned how to defeat me?"
Itachi nodded and said, "Orochimaru is going to activate your diva path to pull me towards you and then use shurado. If I'm able to get free from your hold he'll use the animal path to summon your three summons, if that is not enough then he'll use Chibaku Tensei."
"Always two steps ahead," Nagato laughed. As if clockwork Nagato pulled him close and used his asura path to restrain him with three arms, he then used the Naraka path to try and rip Itachi's soul out of his body but Itachi knew this was going to happen and activated his Susanoo.
The arms that were holding Itachi turned to paper as he backed away and used his summons once his arms regenerated, Itachi used his totsuka blade to seal all three summons and watched as Nagato threw up a gravitational core.
The ground, the third company, Itachi, and the reanimated Shisui were all caught in the gravitational pull of the Chibaku Tensei. Itachi was quick to find the weakness of the jutsu and launched a Yasaka bead with his Susanoo, his aim was a little off but it was pulled into the core.
The core was destroyed and everything that was attracted to it fell to the ground, Itachi used his Susanoo as a cushion to break his fall. Nagato used his asura path to change his hand into a laser cannon in one final effort, but before he could use it Itachi hit him with the totsuka blade.
Just before Nagato was sealed he had some final words, "Itachi, bring peace to this world."
"I will, old friend," Itachi said solemnly as Nagato's soul was sealed into the totsuka blade.
"So you were successful in stopping the Uchiha coup d'etat?"
Itachi turned to the familiar voice, "I was, Shisui, but without your help, I was forced to kill everyone in the Uchiha clan."
Shisui looked down in regret, "It was that bad? No one should have to do such a thing, even to their own family. Even if it was a lesser of two evils."
"It was, but the village is prospering now with Lord first alive again."
"Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage?"
"The one and the same, but I won't get into the details of everything," Itachi said with a smirk.
"Hopefully you can beat me this time as the world is counting on you," Shisui said before dashing at Itachi, Itachi was quick to block Shisui's incoming kick and returned a kick of his own.
He was all too familiar with how Shisui fought, they'd trained together for nearly two years.
However the last time they sparred Shisui was the victor but Itachi didn't have his Mangekyou then, which Shisui never used during training because of the blindness it caused from overuse.
But this Shisui was dead and could use both of his Mangekyou abilities which made Itachi more cautious since he knew if he was caught by kotoamatsukami he would be Orochimaru's ally, because of this Itachi activated his Susanoo to be immune to genjutsu.
Shisui was impressed by Itachi's progress, but what fascinated him more was Itachi's Mangekyou had two distinct patterns. There was a three-bladed shuriken design that was more prominent than the other which was a smaller shuriken with six edges in the middle.
Shisui knew by the two different patterns that Itachi had read the Naka tablet with his Mangekyou and obtained the eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, "How did you obtain the eternal Mangekyou?" Shisui asked.
Itachi looked at the ground with great sorrow, "Sasuke died three months ago and I thought of no other way to honor her memory than to fight for our village with the same power Madara Uchiha has."
Shisui was in shock as the former Uchiha clan leader was also alive, "Madara?! Now that's something I wish I could see, well just do everything you can to defeat me and help Lord first to defeat Madara."
Shisui was controlled to activate his Susanoo and attacked Itachi's Susanoo, Shisui's Susanoo had a drill as its weapon but it wasn't enough to get through Itachi's yata mirror. The perfect defense was quoted and with his totsuka blade, he had the ultimate offense as well.
Itachi used Amaterasu to burn away Shisui's Susanoo, Shisui's Susanoo was melted away and dodged as Itachi swung his totsuka blade. The two Uchiha were both skilled in different ways, Shisui in genjutsu and speed, and Itachi in power and intelligence.
Their battle was interrupted by a new challenger entering the fray, "It seems you boys are having a little too fun, mind if I cut in?" A feminine voice asked.
Itachi turned to the voice and saw a woman, her black messy hair was in a ponytail, she wore a blue robe, her face was scarred on her right side, and she had two Sharingan blazing.
"Obito," Itachi muttered under his breath.
Shisui looked at the older woman and couldn't help but find her attractive, "Who are you, lady?" Shisui asked.
"I'm your ally and I'm here to finally get revenge on that traitor," Obito said changing her right eye to her Mangekyou.
Shisui stepped back as Obito stood in front of Itachi, "It seems you ditched your mask, I have to say you are a beautiful woman." Itachi said trying to throw her off balance.
Obito was impassive, "Such flattery is child's play, or are you trying to get out of fighting a woman?"
She easily reversed Itachi's comment and it made him blush, "Well I mean... I haven't raised my hand on a woman since the Uchiha massacre."
"I remember, I was there. But I'm not just some housewife you can butcher." Obito said with a hint of anger.
Itachi prepared himself for whatever Obito would do, she was unpredictable because of her jutsu. Obito phased into the ground, unseen. Itachi thought she would appear behind him but she grabbed his legs and pulled him into the ground, he broke out using his Susanoo and when Obito appeared back on to ground he used Tsukuyomi.
Obito was caught in it and was unable to move, Itachi was going to hit Obito with his totsuka blade. However Shisui moved Obito out of the way long enough for Obito to free herself from the Tsukuyomi, but it sealed him at the same time.
"Seems Orochimaru would rather sacrifice a rook rather than lose a knight. But if you want to get rid of me that bad, I'll show you the same tenfold." Obito said launching a jutsu with her eye, "Fire style: bomb blast dance."
Itachi blocked it with his yata mirror obscuring his vision, Obito used it as a distraction and used Kamui to go through his Susanoo and attempted to suck him into her Kamui dimension.
Itachi was unprepared and was almost sucked in but managed to kick Obito in the chest, with both of his feet, but she smashed his left arm with her foot. He let out a small groan of pain as he fell backward.
With both of them knocked onto the ground, Obito was the first to get up and looked at Itachi knowing that he wouldn't last much longer due to his now broken arm, low stamina, and low chakra.
"You won't last much longer, Itachi. But you're already planning a quick and decisive victory, you should know anything you try will not work. My Kamui has no weakness, unlike your abilities." Obito stated.
He knew she was right as he thought of what to use to defeat her, he could use Izanami but he would be down an eye, he could use his trump card of Shisui's kotoamatsukami eye he implanted in a crow but then how would they defeat Madara if Hashirama died in battle?
"You're right, so I'll decide not to do anything," Itachi said calmly barely standing up off the ground.
Obito narrowed her eyes trying to decipher what he was planning, she didn't trust him one bit since Itachi was always clever and elusive with how he planned his next move.
The first and second Hokage's chakra was ever apparent and heading in her direction, she was unsure why the second Hokage was brought back but she assumed it was from the third's doing. Obito knew she could probably take Itachi and the second Hokage but not the First.
"Hmph, looks like we'll have to finish this another time. I don't want to spoil Madara's fun just quite yet." Obito said as she whisked herself away with Kamui.
Itachi collapsed to his back and looked at the carnage his battle with Nagato caused, the entirety of the third company was gone. He came to stop both Nagato and Shisui from killing Shinobi beyond their graves as Madara had been doing.
Tobirama was the first to arrive and quickly checked on Itachi, he was no medical-nin but he learned how to heal from Mito. He weaved the hand signs needed for healing.
"Lord second, I wasn't able to save them."
"Don't blame yourself boy, such destruction cannot be halted no matter how strong you become," Tobirama said.
Hashirama arrived late as always, Tobirama grumbled at him, "You're slower than normal today, why is that?"
"I've been distracted, mostly because I'm worried about Madara and then there's a song that's stuck in my head."
"A song? A song?! Your attention is on a song rather than the war!" Tobirama nearly shouted.
"I can't help it, it's just catchy" Hashirama defended.
"Then why don't you share it with us, brother? I'm eager to hear what it is that's stuck in that hollow head of yours."
Hashirama sighed before humming the tune, "Bit by bit I'm falling under your spell, your smile is all I need to know we'll leave this endless darkness. Saying come along with me, hold my hand."
Itachi chuckled as Tobirama facepalmed as hard as he could, "Why can't you be normal for once, brother?" Tobirama groaned.
"What, is there something wrong with music?" Hashirama asked.
Tobirama didn't have an answer but changed the subject quickly, "Nevermind that, my healing abilities are nowhere near Mito's or yours. So you're going to have to heal Itachi's arm."
Hashirama walked over to the injured Itachi and started healing without weaving any signs, his healing was more potent and within five minutes Itachi's arm was fully healed.
Itachi moved his arm around feeling better, "Thank you, Lord first. But I don't think we should dottle for very long. We need to go help the fourth company before-" Itachi was interrupted by a meteor entering the atmosphere.
"What in the name of Rikkudo Sennin?!" Tobirama exclaimed, all three of them watched as the meteor was stopped somehow. Hashirama sighed in relief, that was until a second meteor smashed into the first, Hashirama felt as if thousands of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Hashirama clutched his chest and thought to himself, "Why are you causing all this death and destruction, Madara?"