Long ago in a time forgotten by the people of earth, was an era of long lasting rage and unending wars. The people fought each other, for even the pettiest of reasons. Some of them simply sought to gain more power through bloodshed, others simply fought for the sake of fighting.

Humanity had a curse – a sickening and infectious curse so great that in time even the other creatures were caught in it and soon, the earth was slowly being choked to death by the curse of the humans. This curse was named hatred. A powerful force that could drive any person from the innocent bystander to a rage-fuelled killer who would hunt down those who wronged them, inflicting more pain and brutality, effectively spreading the curse to others.

It was like a vicious cycle, a chain of hurt. The more one fought, the more blood spilled, the more hatred spread among the humans. Not even the new generations of the world were safe from it, as parents taught their children to hate, at the same time as they taught those children to walk.

One day, however, a princess came from a faraway land. This princess sought the Shinju, to harvest its fruit and take it to her family. This princess was Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. Originally she had sought the plant to take the fruit and destroy the world. Yet as time went by, she became attached to the humans, as a few had treated her with kindness. The people gave her home, despite being an outsider – they treated her, like one of their own. She had even found love.

However, war and hatred still thrived and she despised the idea. She now wished for peace – she wished to protect those whom she had come to care for. So, she sought power to break the chain which was hatred. She ate the fruit of the Shinju gaining power beyond human comprehension.

Using this great power, she ended the bloodshed and pain. For the first time since the dawn of this world humanity knew peace. Like the Shinju, Kaguya was also worshipped as a living god on earth. People bowed before her in respect and reverence for her power and divine will, that which many considered to have no equal.

Later on, she gave birth to two sons, who were both born with a part of her great power.

At one point in her reign however, Kaguya herself fell to the curse of hatred. She enslaved the people she once cared for and protected, driving fear into many peaceful hearts. From that day forward, behind her back, people called her a demon. She became so greedy, that she even wished to end the life of her own two sons, to gain back the chakra, the power, which they'd 'stolen' from her. In her great rage, Kaguya became one with the Shinju plant, giving life to a great beast – the Jūbi.

The beast was so great, that a swipe of a single tail could level nations and mountains within a blink. The beast, which had once been caring to Princess Kaguya, now had no compassion left for her or anything else. The Jūbi merely wished to destroy everything and to get hold of all the chakra in the world.

The two sons of Kaguya, Hagoromo and Hamura, fought against the Jūbi in a great battle that reshaped the world and they sealed it. Its power was sealed within Hagoromo and the empty husk of the beast was locked far away, creating the moon. Hamura and a few of the brothers' clansmen left the world to guard the seal for the Jūbi.

Hagoromo remained with the humans and decided to guide them, for unlike his mother, he had not lost faith in the good of humanity. He taught people to use chakra for connecting, healing and spreading good – these teachings were Ninshū. For his efforts against the beast and for bringing the teachings of love and understanding, the people gave Hagoromo the moniker of Rikudō Sennin and some even called him a god.

After some time, Hagoromo would split the chakra of the Jūbi in nine equal parts, giving them consciousness and names. And so, the nine Bijū were born.

With time, Hagoromo would have his own children – two sons, who would inherit parts of his power.

The older, whom he named Indra would inherit the Yin part of his power and gain a lesser form of his grandmother's eyes – these eyes would later be known as the Sharingan. The younger son, Asura would inherit the Yang part of his father's chakra, which gave him a powerful body and strong life force.

The two brothers had grown up close, learning Ninshū from their father. However, the difference in their skills were extreme. Indra was hailed as a natural prodigy – even by the high Ōtsutsuki standards and many of the Sage's followers believed that he would inherit.

At the same time, Indra led a solitary life. He cherished his family – his brother was his greatest treasure and anyone who dared say otherwise would face a very pissed off Ōtsutsuki Indra, and if they managed to survive the prodigy's anger they were never seen near the family again. Because of Indra's solitary nature, yet still cherishing his family, he preferred to work alone. He believed that others would hinder his progress.

Asura, on the other hand, was a prankster and prefered to spend time with his friends as well as his non-human siblings. He liked to connect with people, rather than study. Yet given time, Asura unlocked his own powers manifesting the ability, which would later be dubbed Mokuton. As he gradually came into his powers, with the help of his friends, he gained skill and power to match Indra.

As Hagoromo realised that his time was getting shorter and shorter, he gave a task for his sons to complete. The result of the task would determine, which of them would be the Heir to the Ninshū. Indra, who had always believed he would inherit without question, as the older, had been quite displeased. Yet, he still respected his father's choices, so he accepted the task with the grace that was expected of him, confident in his ability to complete it and prove his father he was a worthy Heir.

So the two brothers had left on their separate journeys to complete their given task. As expected, Indra was faster and had made it back sooner. Upon arriving and giving his account of the ongoings to his father Indra expected to be declared the Heir. However, Hagoromo insisted on waiting for Asura to return. A few days later Asura arrived home as well, followed by a few people, who had become his close companions during his journey. After Asura told of his own experiences while away, Hagoromo asked for some time to properly decide.

The next day, the Sennin –to the shock of everyone gathered, his sons included, – declared Asura his Heir. Indra, in a fit of rage, stormed away. Asura wished to follow him, but Hagoromo had forbidden it, asking his younger son to let Indra think on his own for a while. Saddened and unsure of the reasonability, Asura complied with his father's wishes

However, leaving Indra on his own was a poor decision by both Hagoromo and Asura.

Indra retreated to the forest to train, trying to release all his pent up anger and disappointment. However, that was the time when Black Zetsu approached the older son. Zetsu spoke to Indra, even though what his words were are unknown. What is known is that Zetsu's words had turned Indra's anger to hatred. Hatred felt for his once-beloved and cherished brother.

So Indra left his family behind, only followed by a few of those who still believed in him. As time passed, Indra gained more power and understanding of such powers. What Indra had gained about his powers, had in the end proved quite deadly to his few allies. Set in his course to beat Asura and gain the mantle of Heir, Indra killed his followers gaining a new and improved Sharingan.

The Sennin trusted all his teachings to Asura on his deathbed. With his father dead and only his Bijū siblings remaining by his side, Asura continued to teach Ninshū to people. However, he didn't give up hope to see his brother again. To have him back by his side, kind and caring as he used to be.

Over the years, the brothers crossed paths several times. Each one of their clashes mightier and deadlier than the last – one wished to kill his brother while the other just wished to end this fight and see his family whole again. Asura even gained the help of their Bijū siblings – despite some of them being skeptical about Indra's nature – and so, he fought his brother to a draw several times.

Their last battle, decades after that fateful day when Asura was declared Heir, was the longest and bloodiest one. It claimed the life of both brothers and sparked hate of such a scale between their families, hate that had not been seen since long ago.

Asura's family (and followers) became the Senju Clan –and later, through distant ties, the Uzumaki Clan–, who held their forefather's ideals of peace through understanding. An ideal, which would be dubbed theHi no Ishi, thousand of years later.

Indra's family and followers formed the Uchiha Clan, who held the elder's belief of peace through power. His beliefs would spark theNikushimi no Noroi, which spread through the Uchiha like wildfire.

However, something occurred that had not been seen before in the world. Something that not even Hagoromo or Kaguya had foreseen. When the two brothers died their natural chakra remained, even after their bodies were destroyed. This caused the two brothers to reincarnate themselves into various individuals within their descendants throughout history, fuelling and continuing the bloody feud between their clans. (As time went by, the Uchiha and Senju forgot the meaning and cause of their fight, they ended up simply fighting for the sake of fighting.)

And like a cycle of seasons, life, death and rebirth would come again and again. And with each reincarnation, the transmigrants would grow stronger. Each and every pair of transmigrants were called the gods of their time.

One such pair of gods were Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara. The two legendary shinobi would befriend each other, as children and dream of peace. Of a time and place, where people didn't need to fight wars for survival. It would take decades, but their dream would come true. For the two Clan Heads would sign a pact, ceasing the war and for the first time since Indra left his family behind, the clans were at peace. The transmigrants stood side by side.

Hagoromo himself, who while dead, remained watching the world, allowed himself to hope. The pain and bloodshed brought by his descendants had caused him great pain, but upon seeing Hashirama and Madara, he hoped for a better world to come. A world he had failed to create.

The two clans would go to form the first shinobi village in Hi no Kuni. A village, which would be a symbol of hope and peace, named Konohagakure no Sato by Madara. Hashirama would marry Uzumaki Mito, to gain the might and support of her clan and the three ancient clans would lay the milestones of revolution.

In time, Hashirama was elected the first leader of Konoha – a decision even Madara himself supported. Hashirama's tenure as Hokage was one of prosperity and peace.

However, the idyllic peace was shattered, when Hashirama declared his younger brother, Tobirama to be the next Hokage. Displeased by the choice and saying he would not follow the killer of his beloved younger brother, Madara left.

Hashirama went after him, trying to make him see sense. Like a time so long ago, the time of their forefathers, Hashirama chased after Madara wishing for him to be by his side. However, his hope was not to be. The two fought and fought, reshaping the very land. Madara, to ensure his victory, even enslaved the mighty Kyūbi no Kitsune. Still, Hashirama reigned victorious with the help of his wife. Who, to save her husband from death, sealed the Kyūbi within herself, thus becoming the first-everJinchūriki.

The place of their last battle, which would claim Madara's life, would later be called theShūmatsu no Tani. It would be that time, when Indra's chakra would leave Madara, floating in the world, watching the clans and his brother's transmigrant.

Upon Hashirama and Mito's return to the village, the Bijū would be claimed too dangerous to roam free by Tobirama and Mito. The other eight would be captured and sealed as well and they would be distributed to the other villages, as a sign of peace. Despite Hashirama's efforts, a war would break out, which history would remember as the First Shinobi War. It would be on that battlefield, where Hashirama would die, by taking a blow to the back to protect his brother.

With that, Asura's chakra would be free once more and the two brothers would remain watching, as the world flew by. (Watching with no small amount of horror – even Indra – as Madara's plan took shape. A plan, which the ancient Uchiha would call ProjectTsuki no Me.)

And it is where the cycle starts again, for the new transmigrants are soon to be born.


It would be a fateful night – the last day of the Yondaime Hokage's tenure, as he would die on the battlefield with his wife – that the cycle of reincarnation would be complete once more.

Asura would watch, as the masked Uchiha controlled his eldest Bijū sibling, trying to destroy the village that one of his descendants and transmigrants had built from nothing. He would sense that the child about to be his fox sibling's host, was his own transmigrant.

A child with both Uzumaki and Senju blood in his veins. (Admittedly, the second was unknown. The father, who had the Senju blood, was unaware of his heritage, having grown up in an orphanage, due to the war, he had ended.)

Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto. That was the child's name. (Or more like Senju-Uzumaki Naruto, but that was a question of preference. When the time was right, the child himself would decide which variation of his name he wanted to use.)

Indra had already joined the world of living, attaching his chakra to a child by the name of Uchiha Sasuke. He had watched, with a bit of curiosity, as his brother's chakra sunk in with the child. Harmonising with the child.

Asura himself felt the pull of another complete transmigration. He could just see his fox brother raging at his descendants for sealing him again. He watched helplessly, as Kurama tried bisecting his infant transmigrant –No, no! Kurama don't youdare!–but of course, without a physical body he was not heard and so,could do nothing.

Both parents jumped in front of the sealing altar, using their very bodies to shield their son, stopping Kurama's claw inches away from its target. He listened to the parents' last words –Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato, if he was correct,– his heart breaking. The child would never know the clans' ways, would never know his parent's love. However, before he could ponder too much on it his senses ceased existing.

Roughly ten minutes after the seal closed around the Fox, the Sandaime would find the wailing Naruto with his dead parents, the altar's candles snuffed out and vines and leaves cradling the whole thing, as if it had grown out of the very ground.

However, it would be something the Sandaime would brush off and he wouldn't even remember it for a very long time...