Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

"Revolve on!"

Madara Uchiha, his face expressionless, raised his head. His originally yellow compound eyes had now turned completely blackish-blue. With a flick of his hand, the belt at his waist smoothly flipped around once.

At the same time, the buckle, which was originally just a bit strange, suddenly popped open and transformed into a seated, blue-black nine-tailed fox demon, exuding an ominous aura and with captivating purple fox eyes.

"Darkness Boost!"

"Sorry, Mada, something's wrong with you right now."

Sensing the danger, Hashirama Senju immediately decided to intervene. He clapped his hands together, and several thick wooden branches burst from the ground near Madara Uchiha.

"Wood Release: Thorn Killing Technique!"

Just as the Wood Release branches had bound the strangely charismatic Uchiha Madara, he touched the edge of the straps and gently pulled them back.

"Cross Geats!"

The black and blue nine-tailed fox at his waist suddenly shone brightly with red light, and a chilling aura burst forth. Nine black fox tails extended from his back, shattering all the wooden branches wrapped around him into dust. As the wood chips fell from the sky, Madara Uchiha's long transformation animation finally ended.

With a black fox tail hanging down, the black and blue God-Slaying Knight, a blend of intelligence and luck, makes a grand entrance!

"Ready to Fight!"

"Is it the motor?"

Hashirama Senju watched Madara Uchiha, who had transformed into the Black Fox Knight, with great vigilance, and cautiously asked,

"."

But after a long time, the other party did not reply, as if they had been silenced.

"Damn it, this joke isn't funny."

The black-clad knight exuded an extremely cold and obscure power, as if he had been immersed in a deathly stillness for a thousand years. Hashirama Senju tentatively took a few steps forward, his eyes filled with deep sorrow.

Just then, the Black Fox Knight, who had been motionless, suddenly tilted his head, his purple compound eyes revealing a sense of vicissitude. He then looked around at his surroundings, seemingly filled with curiosity about everything before him.

Witnessing this scene, Hashirama Senju felt a sudden, inexplicable tremor in his heart, causing him to instinctively stop in his tracks.

Click!

Drawn by the sudden sound of footsteps, the Black Fox Knight, who was surveying this familiar yet strange world, fixed his gaze on the tense-faced Hashirama Senju. That one glance seemed to span a thousand years.

"Asura?"

Under the gaze of the Black Fox Knight, Hashirama Senju felt as if he had been stripped naked. Just as he hesitated about how to speak, the Black Fox Knight, who had been staring at him for a long time, suddenly spoke in a slightly puzzled tone, uttering a name he had never heard before.

What surprised Hashirama Senju even more was that the voice coming from under the Black Fox Knight's mask was not Madara Uchiha's, but another unfamiliar male voice.

"Pfft!!! Cough cough cough"

Uchiha Gin, who was watching from a distance, listened intently for a long time until his younger cousin, who had transformed into the Black Fox Knight, uttered the words "Ashura." This startled him so much that he spat out his iced tea and coughed repeatedly.

Holy crap!

Wiping the stains from the corner of his mouth, Uchiha Gin's brain almost went blank, and it took him a while to finally utter a word that described his utter shock.

I thought it was Madara Uchiha who had gone to despair and turned evil, but I didn't expect him to bring in his ancestor to fight for him. Now he'll probably beat up all the shovels in Hashirama's cell.

"Who are you? Get off Madara!"

Now Hashirama Senju was completely certain that the black fox knight exuding a chilling aura before him was not his close friend, but another usurper. He immediately clenched his fist and warned him...

"Isn't that right? But her personality is still just as annoying."

Seeing Hashirama Senju's intense reaction, the Black Fox Knight twisted his neck and then moved his limbs, like an elderly person doing rehabilitation exercises.

"Whoever you are, get out of here, or I might..."

Before the fully alert Hashirama Senju could finish speaking, the Black Fox Knight, who had already largely adapted to his new body, vanished from his sight in the blink of an eye.

When it reappeared, it was already in front of him. Hashirama Senju's eyes widened as he raised his hand to defend himself, but a dark fist was already pressed against his lower abdomen, a fleeting purple light flashing across the fist.

Boom!

"Ugh!"

The most vulnerable part of his abdomen was suddenly struck hard. Even Hashirama Senju, who prided himself on his superior ability to withstand blows, bent over in pain. Sour and foul-smelling gastric juices gushed from his mouth and nose. He had not experienced this spicy sensation for many years.

"thump!"

Clutching his stomach, Hashirama Senju knelt on one knee, raised his pale face, looked at the Black Fox Knight who had rendered him incapacitated, and asked through gritted teeth,

"Who exactly are you?"

"Who I am is not important. I'm just curious about your relationship with him. It doesn't seem too bad."

The Black Fox Knight gently shook his head, not pressing his advantage but instead asking with interest,

"Hmm"

Taking advantage of the moment when the Black Fox Knight asked the question, Hashirama Senju secretly refined his chakra. After his battle with Madara Uchiha, he had lost less than one-tenth of his chakra. Now that a mysterious and powerful enemy had appeared, he immediately exerted all his strength to squeeze out the vast life energy within his body and convert it into a massive amount of chakra.

"Oh? Still pulling these little tricks, even in this one detail."

The Black Fox Knight, awaiting Hashirama Senju's reply, saw the black-haired youth kneeling on one knee beneath his feet through his crimson eyes. The chakra that suddenly surged within him made him curl his lip in disdain.

"Super Strength Fist!"

Ignoring the opponent's taunts, Hashirama Senju, having replenished his chakra, unleashed a powerful, blue-purple fist imbued with monstrous strength, hurtling towards the Black Fox Knight.

Bang!

With a dull thud, Senju Hashirama felt a surge of joy, realizing he hadn't missed. But the next moment, he was shocked to find his fist gripped tightly, followed by intense pain.

"This energy... is from that strange technique that Father practiced."

After easily catching the monstrous punch imbued with natural energy, the Black Fox Knight looked thoughtfully at the Sage Mask on Hashirama Senju's face. He recognized the technique; it was said to have been used by his father when he beat his grandmother.

"hateful!"

Hashirama Senju, who was being restrained, did not sit idly by. He raised his leg high and stomped his foot, creating a gust of wind that forced the Black Fox Knight back several steps, thus regaining his freedom.

"Since you don't want to answer my question, then I don't need to go easy on you."

Adhering to the principle that if he couldn't beat his younger brother, he would beat his younger brother's reincarnation, the Black Fox Knight raised one hand, assuming an attack stance, and then vanished from the spot.

"So fast!"

However, Hashirama Senju saw it clearly, and he immediately clapped his hand, causing thick, green tree branches to sprout from the ground, instantly transforming the surrounding area into a dense forest.

[Wood Release: Descent of the Tree World]

"Asura's technique, huh?"

The Black Fox Knight surveyed the rustling branches at his feet, a barely perceptible hint of nostalgia flickering in his purple compound eyes, but it was quickly dispelled by indifference.

"That can't stop me."

"I wasn't trying to stop you. I just want to beat you down and get the engine running again!"

With his hands clasped together, Hashirama Senju's eyes were filled with determination. The wooden branches beneath his feet transformed into a ferocious wooden dragon, charging towards the Black Fox Knight.

"snort!"

The Black Fox Knight snorted coldly, then a purple light flashed in his hand. When the light dissipated, a beautiful black and blue longsword appeared in his palm. He twirled the sword gracefully and nodded in satisfaction, clearly pleased with the unique weapon that came with the Knight System.

Making sure the elderly have fun is what we, as their younger generation, should do.

Raising his dark blue longsword, the Black Fox Knight transformed into a bolt of lightning, charging towards Hashirama Senju, who was riding a wooden dragon. After a sickeningly loud noise, the once invincible wooden dragon was dismembered, turning into rotten wood and disappearing into the world.

Hashirama Senju dared not be careless. He reached into the scroll behind his back and summoned his broadsword, wielding it as he engaged the Black Fox Knight in battle. For a moment, the sounds of metal clanging together filled the air.

"Bang!"

The Black Fox Knight deflected the greatsword aimed at his face, a rare look of appreciation in his eyes. He discovered that his younger brother's reincarnation was quite skilled in swordsmanship, much better than the idiot protagonist.

"Huff! ~ Huff! ~"

After a fierce battle, Hashirama Senju's stamina was starting to wane. He had overexerted himself in the process of refining his chakra and was about to be unable to continue this prolonged fight.

"Continue? In his memory, you weren't this short~"

The Black Fox Knight, his fighting spirit aroused, taunted the panting Hashirama Senju, enraging him so much that he raised his greatsword again and charged forward, but a hint of consideration appeared in his dark eyes.

At this moment, in the huge crater that Madara Uchiha had created, a black figure was bewilderedly reflecting on his actions.

"I don't think I did anything wrong, so how did I manage to wake Indra?"

As the most filial son in the ninja world, Black Zetsu can now swear to the heavens that he just wanted to give Madara Uchiha, whose moral compass was unstable, a little more shock, so that he would turn evil a little, and then go out and fight Hashirama Senju to the death.

After all, only by sowing discord between these two could his plan to save his mother proceed smoothly; otherwise, Madara Uchiha, who was living a happy life, would never have implemented the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.

So, Black Zetsu channeled the guiding spiritual energy into a blank buckle he had found on the battlefield, and then, seizing the opportunity, tossed it to Madara Uchiha.

Just as Black Zetsu smugly uttered two profound and enigmatic verses, anticipating a deadly duel between the corrupted Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, a somewhat familiar aura entered the buckle.

While annihilating Black Zetsu's spiritual energy, it also imbued the buckle with its own true color.

Indra, the eldest son of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the first developer of the Ninja Sect, the creator of hand seals, and a good nephew who listened to the slander of Uncle Hei San.

In short, the chakra of that man who nearly destroyed the Ninja Clan a thousand years ago, after being reincarnated for many years...

It has recovered.

"Tsk, I didn't expect such an unexpected turn of events. But it seems that Indra doesn't intend to let Hashirama Senju go either."

Black Zetsu, who was secretly observing, comforted himself with excuses such as "the process is not important, the result is what matters."

"This is not a place to linger."

Now that his goal had been achieved, Black Zetsu worried about being discovered by Indra.

The two had communicated a thousand years ago. Who knows, after so many years, that kid Indra might have developed a brain. Black Zetsu still felt it was best not to meet him.

Not daring to linger any longer, Black Zetsu decisively burrowed underground and slipped towards Konoha.

On the battlefield, the battle between Hashirama Senju and Indra, the Black Fox Knight, continued, and unsurprisingly, the situation remained one-sided.

As an ordinary person, Hashirama Senju was no match for his ancestor, who had extensive combat experience, and was easily overwhelmed by the flashy moves.

"thump!"

Hashirama Senju, once again sent flying by Indra's sword, landed on the ground in a sorry state, looking at the Black Fox Knight wielding a sword with one hand, his eyes filled with resentment.

"Wait, no, your name is now Senju Hashirama. Can you tell me about your relationship with this guy?"

Having had his fill of fun, Indra found a relatively flat rock, sat down, rested his chin on his elbow, and asked the question he had asked earlier.

"Madara is my best friend in this life, closer than a brother."

Tobirama Senju: Shall I leave?

Hashirama Senju, whose body ached all over, remained silent for a long time before finally choosing to answer, hoping to buy time to recover his chakra.

"Closer than blood brothers?"

This time, Indra fell silent. In fact, he had only skimmed through Madara Uchiha's memories. The deeper memories were quickly blocked by this reincarnation of himself, who only knew that the relationship between the two was very complicated.

Indra was a little puzzled. His original setup was that he and the reincarnation of Asura would inevitably clash to the death upon meeting, but now the situation seemed to have changed. Therefore, he decided to ask them himself.

Unexpectedly, the result really silenced him. His own chakra reincarnation had actually become best friends with Ashura's reincarnation. Wouldn't that mean his obsession of a thousand years would be ruined?

but

Looking down at the black and blue nine-tailed fox at his waist, Indra frowned slightly.

In fact, there was something else that puzzled Indra greatly. He was clearly just a wisp of chakra with consciousness, and at most he could only influence the thoughts of the reincarnated person in the subconscious, thus arousing his struggle with the reincarnation of Ashura.

But why is he able to control this reincarnated body now?

"What is this thing? Explain it to me, Uchiha Madara."

Within the pitch-black sea of ​​consciousness, time flowed differently from the outside world. Indra, clad in black fox fur, pointed to the driver at his waist and asked the black-haired, red-eyed man who was trapped and unable to move within the sea of ​​consciousness, "..."

"Hmm"

Bound by invisible chains, Madara Uchiha chose to remain silent, neither begging for mercy nor uttering any profanities. He simply stared at the Black Fox Knight before him with his Mangekyou Sharingan, without even blinking.

"If you're not going to answer, then I'll go ask the other residents."

Seeing that the Black Fox Knight showed no signs of being affected, Madara Uchiha remained expressionless, but his heart was in turmoil.

Madara Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan possesses extremely high-quality spiritual energy, making him virtually invincible within this sea of ​​consciousness. Yet, this dark-skinned fox knight before him is able to ignore the power of his Mangekyou Sharingan.

Who exactly is he?!

"Hey! Little fox, do you know what's going on?"

Upon hearing the Black Fox Knight's voice, Madara Uchiha also turned his gaze over and saw the Nine-Tails trembling in the corner of his mind. This previously arrogant Nine-Tails was now as submissive as a dog that had studied at Pan Hong Park in front of that mysterious knight.

"Yinyin."

"Shh~ You just need to answer my question."

Seeing the black fox knight before it, the nine-tailed fox was terrified. It frantically prayed in its heart that the old man would appear and take it away, sparing it further humiliation from Indra, but of course, there was no response.

"This is a ninja tool made from the old man's sauerkraut jar; it can store the chakra of tailed beasts."

With a heart filled with despair, Kurama chose to surrender and told Indra everything he knew, including information about the Tailed Beast Cards and Drivers.

"A kimchi jar? You mean the amber vase? Didn't Father's concubine's son take that thing?"

Hearing Kurama's explanation, Indra was somewhat puzzled. He remembered that the horned brat didn't seem very smart, but he didn't expect his descendant to be so capable of making such exquisite ninja tools.

"I don't know about that. All I know is that this tool was made by the old man's ninja tools."

Nine-Tailed Fox shook its head in fear. It really wasn't lying, because it truly only knew this much.

As a tailed beast released by Hashirama Senju, Kurama did not experience the pain of having its tail cut off by the other six tailed beasts, so it did not know that Uchiha Gin was the one who made the tailed beast cards and drivers.

If it were any of the other tailed beasts standing in front of Indra at this moment, Uchiha's silver vest would have been ripped off.

"Is it just for storing the chakra of tailed beasts?"

Realizing he wouldn't get anything more out of the nine-tailed fox, Indra turned around, gazing thoughtfully at the lifelike black and blue fox at his waist.

He could clearly sense that the wisp of chakra he had reincarnated many years ago was inside the fox statue at his waist.

"I remember that the Tailed Beasts are actually just chakra with consciousness."

The intelligent Indra quickly figured it out. He was certain that his chakra, which carried his consciousness, had been absorbed into the ninja tool, which was why he was able to see the light of day again.

"But how did I get out?"

Indra couldn't understand why he had come out on his own initiative, but if Black Zetsu were there, he might understand.

The spiritual energy that Black Zetsu released earlier, which had a guiding quality, was exactly the same as the aura he emitted when he tricked young Indra. So, the moment that spiritual energy appeared, Indra's chakra within Madara Uchiha was stimulated in some way and forcibly activated, thus entering the blank buckle.

"Hey, do you want me to kill that guy named Hashirama Senju?"

Having figured out how he had been reborn, Indra stood before Madara Uchiha once more, looking down at his reincarnation with great interest, and asked...

In Indra's eyes, this descendant before him was exceptionally outstanding, having already reached half of his peak level. He was the most outstanding among all the reincarnations in all these years, and there might never be such an outstanding reincarnation again.

Uchiha Sasuke: Please allow everyone to speak.

"Don't even think about it! Only I can kill Hasi Hot Mom!"

Madara Uchiha's heart tightened, then he raised his head, feigning indignation, and said fiercely,

"Oh? You mean, your relationship with him isn't good?"

Indra raised an eyebrow, his gaze becoming somewhat complex. The way he looked at Madara Uchiha was as if he were looking at his former self.

"Definitely, he's my lifelong nemesis!"

Fearing this guy might harm Hasi, Madara Uchiha had no choice but to fabricate a negative portrayal of his relationship with Hashirama Senju.

"Hehe, why are you two saying different things? Whom should I believe?"

"What did he say?"

Madara Uchiha was getting nervous; subconsciously, he was still very concerned about Hashirama Senju's opinion of him.

He said you and he are friends closer than blood brothers.

"!!!"

Rumble!!!

No sooner had Indra finished speaking than a violent roar came from beyond his consciousness, indicating that something had happened outside.

"I'll go out and deal with that guy first. As for you, you can stay here."

Frowning, Indra turned around, paying no attention to Madara Uchiha's expression, and left the sea of ​​consciousness on his own.

Madara Uchiha remained standing there with his head down, but the slight upturn at the corner of his mouth left the cautious Kurama (Nine-Tails) utterly bewildered.

Was this guy scared out of his wits by Indra? How could he still laugh in this situation?

Madara Uchiha, who seemed to have been rejuvenated, turned his head and looked at Kurama, who was hiding in the corner with its tail tucked in, and smiled.

"Hey! Nine-Tails, lend a hand, I want to go help too!"

"Oh no!!!"

In reality, communication within the sea of ​​consciousness lasts only a moment. Indra looked down at the large hand pressed against his chest, tilting his head in confusion, while Hashirama Senju, standing before him, wore a serious expression.

"Kuo'an enters the palace with ease!"

Since he couldn't win in terms of physical combat, Hashirama Senju decided to use this move to hypnotize the Black Fox Knight in front of him, and then take him back to Konoha to find the all-powerful Tobirama A-men to solve the problem.

"That's a good trick, but it didn't work."

Feeling the massive amount of chakra transmitted through Hashirama Senju's palm, Indra, who was well-versed in the art of ninjutsu, couldn't help but nod in admiration. This technique was virtually invincible in subduing enemies weaker than himself.

but.

He was Indra, the man who almost became the head of the Ninja Sect.

"Bang!"

Hashirama Senju, who was thrown back, performed several backflips in the air before landing on the ground. Looking at his slightly numb hand, he was quite surprised. His technique, "Kōan Rūyō Dài Tō" (賢庵入脽垂手), was virtually undefeated.

Even the most ferocious tailed beasts turned into soundly sleeping babies under this attack, but unexpectedly, they were defeated here.

"Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

Since that's the case, brute force is the only way to take this guy down. Hashirama Senju immediately activated the Wooden Dummy Arhat, its seemingly simple appearance carrying a chilling intent. Indra, upon seeing this wooden dummy, felt only nostalgia in his eyes.

"Did you think you could win just by getting bigger?"

His bratty younger brother once pulled out one of these gadgets, only to have it crushed into pieces by his purple Gundam, and then he cried and ran to their father to complain.

"It's a bit of a stretch, but this body should be able to do it, right?" (End of Chapter)