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  Hiruzen was walking through a dimly lit hall. He was alone and there were no others present near him. Even his personal guards were absent. The hall was more of a tunnel made up of rocks ah. In his hand was a rge scroll which had the word forbidden written on it. Several mier he entered a room at the end of the tunnel.

  'I just hope Lord Sed uands the reasons for my as.'

  The room was much rger than it seemed from the outside. It had several desks and chairs with many scrolls and materials on them. Hiruzehe scroll on a table and looked at another one.

  'I was able to advahe jutsu much further with my research…'

  His eyes then shifted to the other end of the room. In the er of the rge chamber there was a man lying unscious. Hiruzen frowned as he looked at the man.

  'But finding the secrets of the jutsu came with a cost. Now I'm no different than my student. I've bee a hypocrite…'

  The Hokage took the scroll and pced it on the floor. 'Please five me for what I'm about to do, Lord Sed.'

  The kage quickly made several seals.

  "Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation!"

  As soon as he pleted the final hand seal, the scroll on the ground became active. Several seals came from it and surrouhe unsan. Dust and debris started to swirl around his body and he looked like he was in pain.

  Hiruzen watched the se with a steely heart as he had dohe few times before. Several moments ter in pce of the unknown man stood another.

  A fair skinned man with silver shaggy hair and red markings on his face appeared. He had blue armor with a white fur colr over a bck suit.

  The man who was summoned was her than the Sed Hokage Tobirama Senju.

  Hiruze out a deep breath of air as he looked at the emotionless face of his predecessor aor. 'Time to see this through.'

  The kage of the Leaf vilge walked forward and took a kunai with a special tag attached at the end. He slowly pced the tag into the back of the Sed's head and as soon as he did, steam started to rise from the reanimation's body.

  The lifeless eyes of Tobirama gained a spark as if he had e alive. Hiruzen walked back to his previous spot and stood in front of his teacher.

  Tobirama Senju slowly came to life and looked at the man in front of him in total surprise. He then looked at his own hands and body and he details. The sed he id his eyes on Hiruzen he made sure to check his chakra signature and made sure it was not an enemy in disguise.

  "I khe day I created this jutsu, that it ossible for it to be used on me. But I never expected to be resurrected by you of all people Hiruzen." Tobirama's tone didn't indicate disappoi er. It tained ion at all, it was as if he was stating a fact.

  Hiruzen looked down for a sed and then looked at the man. "Five me sensei but I had to."

  The Sed Hokage raised an eyebrow at that statement. 'Under normal circumstances, Hiruzen would never use a jutsu like this. But every man has his breaking point. For him to use a jutsu of this nature, that too o seems he has reached that point. Something serious must have happened.'

  "Based on your appearance I'd say it's been a few decades since I died. What's going on Hiruzen? Why did y me baow? What's happening in the vilge?"

  "So many things… I don't even know where to begin."

  Tobirama didn't say a word and patiently waited for his successor to speak.

  "The Leaf vilge has faced many adversities over this st decade but the vilge still stands strong… At least from an outside perspective. After you died we've had two more world wars. The vilge had a fourth Hokage for a brief period of time."

  The sed Hokage's eyes narrowed when he heard that. "What do you mean had? What happeo him?"

  Hiruzen sighed and replied. "He was a talented young man. A genius from his geion. But he sacrificed his life saving the vilge from a great disaster… The ails attack."

  Tobirama's ever expressionless eyes slightly narrowed and hands slightly ched. "For the ails to have gotten free and that to the st decade… I assume it got free from Lady Mito's successor?"

  Hiruzen nodded. "Yes. Her name was Kushina Uzumaki. She was from the Land of Whirlpool. She was the sed Jinchuriki of the ails."

  Tobirama pondered on the information and quickly came to a clusion. He had a suspi in his mind and wao firm it. "Was the regnant?"

  "Yes. She was married to the Fourth Hokage. It was on the day of her child's birth that the ails got loose and wreaked havoc. The fave his life and sealed it away inside his son."

  The sed Hokage listened and thought about the situation. "I see… But there should have been tingencies in pce for something like this. I know you're not inpetent. You must have had some safeguards in pce for the birth."

  "The birth was taking p a secret location far away from the vilge. Her pregnancy was kept a secret and only a select few knew about it. I've had special Anbu members on standby guarding the location and there was a barrier around the whole area created by the Fourth…"

  "And the ails still got free… It seems to me that this was no act."

  The third Hokage agreed with that se. "Yes. I iigated the matter. My wife was there. Delivering the baby. But she died with her throat sshed. The guards stationed were also killed. The attack had a perpetrator."

  Tobirama's mihrough the sario described and the clusions he drew troubled him greatly. 'Someone who khe location and could get past such precautions put in pce. And to somehow separate a Kage and force the ails to attack here... And on top of that they had to have known top secret information, meaning this is an inside job. Only someoh intimate knowledge of the vilge could pull off something like this…'

  "Do you have any suspects in mind?" Tobirama asked his student.

  "The st thing Kushina said before she died was Uchiha…"

  Tobirama sighed in irritation. "Why is it always that ?"

  "What happeo the Uchiha who did this? Or was the whole volved?" He looked at the old man and questioned.

  "We don't know the identity of the one responsible but the Uchiha is gone now. They were massacred."

  Tobirama was surprised to hear that information. "Tell me everything regarding the i."

  "After the ails attack we suspected the Uchiha d their pound was relocated to the outskirts of the vilge. After that…" Hiruzen expined how the suspi towards the grew and the beginning of the 's revolt. Their pn for a coup and about the double agent Itachi Uchiha. The mission assigo Itachi and finally the extermination of the .

  The sed Hokage sighed as he listeo the whole thing. "To think such a thing happened… I suppose this was aability. The Uchiha was a cursed after all…"

  Hiruzen didn't share the level of suspi his sensei had towards the Uchiha . "I didn't want it to happen but part of me is grateful that a civil war is averted."

  "Where is Danzo? Why isn't he here?"

  At the sed Hokage's question Hiruzen looked down in sadness. "Danzo is one of the reasons I had to use the forbidden jutsu on you… I'm afraid he's no lohe man you onew."

  That information shocked the reanimated Hokage. "Hiruzen. What are you implying? Danzo's loyalty to the vilge is uionable."

  "That may have been the case till several years ago but now he is putting his own i ahead of the vilge. He still cares for the vilge. I have no doubt about that. But I fear his as are causing more problems for the vilge than they solve."

  The sed Hokage rubbed the bridge of his nose in frustration. "This is ued. You said Danzo is one of the reasons. What's the other?"

  "My student. Orochimaru. He is anenius this vilge had produced. But his fasation with immortality and forbidden jutsus has caused him to go down a dark path. He is researg many forbidden jutsu and prime among them is the Reanimation teique. He has ducted immoral experiments on the Leaf citizens and has ducted bloodlihefts..."

  Tobirama sehe slight shift ihird Hokage's chakra. "What are you not telling me Hiruzen?"

  Hiruzen closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He then looked at his sensei and spoke. "I believe he is experimenting with Lord Hashirama's blood."

  The Senju only narrowed his eyes but Hiruzen could tell the man was furious hearing that piece of info.

  Hiruzen looked down and tinued. "I ned my student's as. Deeming him a dao the vilge. Yet here I am doing the same thing. The hypocrisy of the whole situatio elude me."

  "The man who you used as a sacrifice t me back. Who was he?" Tobirama asked suddenly.

  "He risoner of the vilge. He itted rape and murder and was senteo life in prison."

  The reanimated kage nodded and questioned again. "I assume this isn't the first time you've used this jutsu. The people who were used in the previous instances. Were they i people?"

  The third shook his head. "No. I only used this jutsu three times before. To study it's effects as. And the ones I've used as sacrifice weren't i. Two were captured enemy ninjas with a rge body t and another risoner senteo execution."

  "And there's the difference. You used the jutsu on those who itted heinous acts. While your student used whomever he could. There is a difference, Hiruzen… Besides, how do you think I created this jutsu."

  Hiruzen looked at his sensei and saw an expression he hadn't seen in a long time. Sadness.

  "My brother never dohe use of this jutsu. He was against its creation. I used several eo researd create this forbidden teique… Well, I had some help from Mito."

  That news startled Hiruzen. "Wait, Lady Mito helped you create this jutsu?"

  Tobirama Senju nodded. "Yes. This teique dealt with the souls and the afterlife. The Uzumaki had a small group of people who created methods to i with the Reaper and thus gained knowledge on souls. They sidered it sort of a religion."

  "The Uzumaki mask temple." The reigning Kage deduced.

  "Yes. They are the ones who build it. Even though Mito questiohe morality of creating a jutsu that uses the dead to fight, she helped me in its creation heless."

  "Yes. So you're the one who knows the most about this jutsu. It's why I summoned you. I o know of the ways it be stopped. It wasn't mentioned in any of the scrolls." Hiruzen expined his reasons fing the Senju back to life.

  "Very well. But before that, tell me, what happeo the Senju ? What happeo Hashirama's desdants?"

  Hiruzen slightly grimaced as he thought about the situation. "The Senju is ied with the vilge. And the one remaining with a direct link to the is Tsunade. She is… on aended leave outside the vilge at the moment."

  The Senju's eyes narrowed. "Eborate."

  The old kage wi the teacher's tone. 'Sorry Tsunade.'

  "Her brother died after he just became Genin asunade's fiance died in the war. And she was uo save him. These events traumatized her and she left the vilge. She's been wandering the fire try ever since."

  Tobirama was not happy with the situation happening in the Leaf vilge. "Your student must no doubt be capable. And now he's a traitor w against the Leaf? And then there is Danzo's betrayal, ails attack, Tsunade's exile and the destru of the Uchiha … Things have certainly not gohe way I expected it to."

  Tobirama thought about the fate of the two s that created the vilge. "Only one loyal Uchiha is in the vilge. The other is known as a traitor. And the only living person who bears the Senju name is in a self imposed exile. To think this is what has bee of the founding s of this vilge."

  "Five me sensei. I failed to fulfill my duties as capably as you did."

  "This is no time to wallow in self pity Hiruzen. We have much work to do."

  The Hokage was happy that his teacher was willing to help but he didn't want it. "Sensei, I didn't bring you baake you shoulder my burdens. You already gave your life for the Leaf. I 't ask anymore of you. I will protect the vilge at all costs. I just need your help with certain things. After that'll I'll let go of the jutsu and make sure your peace isn't disturbed."

  "I uand where you're ing from Hiruzen. But I 't leave as it is. And when I said we o get to work, I had no iion of revealing myself to the public. I will help you from the shadows. And this will only be for a short time. Just until everything is sorted out. After that, I'll rest in peace again."

  Hiruzen smiled slightly and o that dition. They had much to aplish.

  Even though he died, now that he was brought back, Tobirama couldn't leave the vilge in such a pitiful state. 'Brother, I will make sure the vilge you sacrificed your life for stands tall even through the darkest of times.'