Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 489 Uchiha Madara: If you say I'm a woman again, I'll kill you.

One week later.

Lush and verdant, in the grove of trees.

Aokiji arrived as scheduled. When he saw Madara Uchiha again, his appearance had changed considerably. He looked Madara up and down.

He was dressed in a white robe with a black collar, the edges of which were decorated with black magatama.

His original black hair had turned white, his skin was pale, and he had a pair of horns on his forehead. It seemed that he had become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

The villages of Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure were completely unable to stop Madara Uchiha, who possessed Limbo: Border Jail. They were probably not in the mood for playing around, and the entire process was a series of annihilations.

This is the result that Aokiji obtained by observing from the sidelines through his shadow clone.

"How terrifying, the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki..."

Aokiji felt a certain degree of apprehension towards Madara Uchiha in this state; the sheer amount of chakra he possessed was enough to send chills down one's spine just by him standing there.

"Did you bring the things?"

Madara Uchiha, now the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, exuded power in every gesture.

The black sphere floating behind Madara Uchiha moved in front of Aokiji and transformed into a disc.

"This is the power I gained after becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki, called the Truth-Seeking Ball. It's quite similar to your Kekkei Tota. Shall we send your true form over so we can have a match?"

Aokiji glanced at him, this guy was definitely showing off: "I'm not an idiot. The Dao-Seeking Jade has seven attributes, including Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, while my runes only have three. I can tell which is stronger and which is weaker."

Aokiji didn't even need to use his Sharingan; he saw through the Truth-Seeking Ball's true nature at a glance. Madara Uchiha murmured to himself, "As expected, what this kid said might be true." He smiled and said, "I almost forgot, you know the future and the past."

Aokiji took out the container containing the Mangekyou Sharingan from his pocket and placed it on the black plate.

With a thought, Madara Uchiha caused the black disc to wriggle, envelop the container, and return along the same path.

Madara Uchiha picked up the container, looked closely, and saw an eyeball floating in the pale yellow liquid. He frowned and asked, "Why is there only one eye?"

The Sharingan can only unleash its full power when there are two pairs of eyes, let alone two pairs of eyes that share the same eye technique.

"Any promises made to you by anyone else don't count; only promises you can make yourself count. If I remember correctly..."

Aokiji paused, then said meaningfully, "Mada-sensei?"

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes, his memory returning to that time, and suddenly smiled, his brows relaxing: "It seems you've remembered what I taught you well."

Aokiji countered, "What if I give you both my eyes, and you change your mind halfway through?"

"Why bother? I almost believe you now, and I'm no longer fixated on the so-called Infinite Tsukuyomi."

Madara Uchiha extended his hand, beckoning: "Come to my side and work for me. You are different from Obito; you are my true disciple. I can show mercy to you and your companions."

He wasn't trying to fool Aokiji; he genuinely wanted Aokiji to stay with him and work together to deal with the Otsutsuki clan that might appear in the future.

"To harbor wishful thinking means to have expectations, and expectations often lead to disappointment."

Looking at Aokiji's adult appearance, Madara Uchiha remarked, "You've matured."

Having said that, he sat cross-legged on the ground. Perhaps because he had become the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki, he now had ample time to sit down and chat.

"Anyway, I've done most of what I needed to do, let's talk."

"What are you going to talk about?"

"I don't understand where you get the confidence to defeat me, but let's assume you will in the future. After that, you will unify the world, and the world will usher in peace, but are you sure you can guarantee that? Great power can make people lose their way and become autocratic."

"With love."

"like?"

"Pain makes us grow, but love makes us humble."

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes: "It's only been a few days. When did you inherit Hashirama's ways and become all talk about morality and righteousness?"

"Don't misunderstand, the love I'm talking about isn't the kind of love that Grandpa Hashirama had in a broad sense, but rather a narrow kind of love. I only treat Tsunade this way, and I don't tolerate that kind of love with others."

Aokiji corrected him: "In other people's eyes, I'm a man who's afraid of his wife, but in this world, there's no such thing as a man who's afraid of his wife. There's only respect, tolerance, and acceptance."

"That's true, but what does that have to do with what I'm saying?"

"Of course it's related. I will support Tsunade as the queen of this world, and I am the sword in her hand." Aokiji said, "History is a little girl who can be dressed up as one pleases. There are some things that can be done but not said, and some things that can be said but not done."

"I don't deny that using you to do this is a scam of the century, but it's the least costly way to achieve world peace, except with the use of an infinite number of gods."

Madara Uchiha glanced at him, his gaze deep and thoughtful.

"It is extremely difficult for people to be honest with each other. Human nature is neither inherently good nor inherently evil. People like Grandpa Hashirama, who are pure and kind, are extremely rare. Most people are somewhere in between."

"Love can unleash a great deal of power, but sometimes love can bring more terrible disasters than pure evil."

"An even more terrible disaster?"

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes and listened quietly.

Aokiji told Madara about the history of "Liu Mang" and used Hashirama's split tailed beasts as an example: "Over thousands of years, the evolution of human nature has been very slow. Grandpa Hashirama thought too highly of people and believed too much in human kindness. But it was this kindness that caused irreparable damage to the world."

Madara Uchiha was quite impressed with Aokiji for making such remarks, commenting, "Truly insightful, penetrating to the core."

Aokiji pointed at Uchiha Madara: "And your problem is often the opposite. You only see the evil in human nature. Of course, this is not your fault, but your experiences have made you who you are now. If it were me, I would do the same."

As the saying goes, "If you haven't experienced someone else's suffering, don't advise them to be virtuous; if you have experienced my suffering, you may not be as virtuous as I am."

"No one is born heartless; everyone has experienced and seen too much that they don't want to see, and ultimately chooses to close a certain door to themselves."

"I was in your shoes once, but only for a short time."

Madara Uchiha chuckled, recalling Aokiji's previous comment that he couldn't use talk-no-jutsu. "Hmph, clumsy with words, you're too modest. If I hadn't watched you grow up, I'd almost suspect you were a wise old man in your eighties."

"Do you remember when I was little, I told you I wished you were a woman?"

Aokiji was deliberately bringing up a sore spot; Madara Uchiha's serious face twitched slightly at the corner of his mouth.

"Afterwards, I thought about it and realized how true that statement really was."

Madara Uchiha had a stern face and didn't seem happy.

"If you were a woman, you could have given birth to a child for Hashirama, and you would have had an emotional bond, and things wouldn't have turned out this way."

Madara Uchiha's face was as black as Amaterasu. "Shut up! If you dare say another word about this, I'll kill you right now."

"I'm just a shadow clone anyway..." Aokiji said nonchalantly, "You and Hashirama are just friends, at most you can only be honest with each other on a spiritual level, but Tsunade and I are in love, not only can we be honest with each other on a spiritual level, but we can also be honest with each other on a physical level, hehe... You can't do that, can you?"

Madara Uchiha, who had just been quite fond of Aokiji, suddenly felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly. He found Aokiji incredibly annoying and the Truth-Seeking Balls behind him began to wriggle, turning into black spears that surrounded him.

Aokiji, emboldened by his shadow clones, continued his teasing: "The power of mutual repulsion, when combined, can create the myriad phenomena of the universe. In my opinion, Madara-sensei, you may have misunderstood. The real meaning should be..."

His words came to an abrupt halt as a black spear pierced his head, silencing him. Then, several more black spears surrounded him, thrusting in and out, turning him into a pincushion.

What I see before me is just a shadow clone; even if I turn it to ashes, it won't make a difference.

Madara Uchiha looked at the pile of shattered ice in front of him and snorted unhappily.

Afterwards, upon reflection, I realized that what Aokiji said actually made a lot of sense.

Then I became even more annoyed.

Fly through the air, catch some truly wicked and evil people, and use them as ornaments on the sacred tree to vent your anger.

(End of this chapter)