After Bakorio's true clone left, the negotiations with Iwa advanced further… This was especially thanks to Kurotsuchi who upheld her end of the deal and was trying to reason with her stubborn grandpa as much as she could to make him accept this alliance…

Although Onoki was struggling inside, that struggle would only increase whenever he laid his eyes on a member of the Uchiha clan including Fugaku…

…

Meanwhile, as this was happening… Bakorio's true body summoned the clone that had the Rinnegan and made him bind Tobirama and Hashirama's remains to his Rinnegan's six path ability.

Then, he summoned the head of the king of hell through the Naraka path ability and made it swallow those remains…

*Munch* *Munch* *Munch*

Hashirama and Tobirama stared at the weird ability curiously as the head seemed to be chewing on their remains which in no way appeared as a form of restoration…

"What the hell is this thing?" Asked Tobirama, interested in this weird ability as well as the unique Dojutsu that the true clone had that allowed it to summon and control the weird creature in front of them.

"These are Madara's eyes…" Replied Bakorio calmly startling both Hashirama and Tobirama and the latter couldn't help but yell "Impossible, that guy would never exchange his Mangekyo Sharingan for any treasure in the world"

Bakorio shook his head and said "I never said he exchanged his eyes…"

"You mean…" Asked Hashirama in shock feeling like he understood something, but the conversation was abruptly interrupted when the king of hell spat two perfect bodies…

This was an idea that Bakorio came up with to revive the dead… The only downside is that the Rinnegan had a restriction of requiring a body to be bound to it to be able to manipulate the king of hell into restoring it, otherwise, it won't work and the king of hell would simply devour the body or the remains…

"I'm sure you two can both use the spirit transformation Jutsu, go ahead, I removed my control over these bodies" said Bakorio, and right after, Hashirama and Tobirama witnessed the eyes of the bodies turning back into their normal eyes…

The duo nodded before directly entering their bodies and right after, a terrifying aura radiated from the two of them that would make most Kages pale in comparison… Especially the one radiating from Hashirama that reached the high super Kage level!

Meanwhile, Tobirama was only at the low super Kage level, but his arsenal of Jutsu granted him a lot of utility that could allow him to fight even those stronger than him!

"Brother... should we?" Asked Tobirama while staring coldly at Bakorio hinting at something sinister but Hashirama simply sighed at his brother's antics before he said "When will you learn to control that hatred of yours?"

"But…" Replied Tobirama but Hashirama quickly cut him off and said "No buts, this isn't the time for infighting, there's a much troublesome enemy lurking in the shadows…"

Hearing this, Tobirama reluctantly nodded and remained silent, so Hashirama turned to Bakorio and spoke with an apologetic smile on his face "Sorry about that… What do you plan to do now?"

Bakorio had a stoic look from start to finish and he kept staring at Tobirama eerily as he responded "First, I need to remove some loose ends… Jikininki!"

"YOU!" Tobirama quickly reacted by averting his eyes thinking that this was some kind of Sharingan Genjutsu. However, he soon felt something disappearing from his heart that greatly lessened the hatred he was feeling toward the Uchiha… but that was it

His hatred wasn't born solely from the darkness, it was born from the many loved ones he lost to the Uchiha during the wars between their clans, including many of his brothers… So how could he forget all of that? Even if the darkness is gone and that hatred wouldn't increase in the future, it was still big enough for him to rage at the thought of someone messing with his emotions!

"What did you do to me?" Asked Tobirama with a cold look on his face… Clearly, he finally found a reason to attack Bakorio, and he wasn't going to miss it

"Nothing, just removed an annoying pest" replied Bakorio nonchalantly as his eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was still on full display and Hashirama who also felt the darkness disappear from his heart quickly stepped between the two of them and said "Stop Tobirama, I can explain"

"I don't need an explanation" Said Tobirama. Then, he directly rushed past Hashirama and muttered "Water style: Water severing wave!"

Just as he finished saying this, he launched an enormous wave of highly compressed water in the shape of a slash at Bakorio… clearly he wasn't messing around!

Bakorio's true clone that had the Rinnegan calmly stepped in front of the real body and used the ability of the Preta path that grants the user the ability to absorb chakra in any form… And he directly absorbed Tobirama's attack which shocked him but he didn't stop as he kept rushing at Bakorio despite his brother's pleas to stop him

'It's unfortunate that I don't have my special kunais to use the flying thunder god Jutsu… And those eyes are really annoying, they can actually absorb my chakra' Thought Tobirama, then he created many shadow clones and surrounded Bakorio planning to attack him from different directions to make it harder for his true clone to defend all of them… But that's when Bakorio calmly spoke

"I don't know what kind of grudge you hold against the Uchiha, but I won't be having an unstable factor like you near our ranks…" The moment those words were uttered, the air turned chillier and both Tobirama and Hashirama could smell a familiar scent, it was the scent of death…

A weird dark aura appeared behind Bakorio and eventually formed into a giant humanoid figure…. It was pitch black and its body was covered in a robe that hid all of its features except for its eerily shining eyes… In its hands, it held a long black scythe and the two brothers immediately understood that the aura of death was coming from it…

Tobirama felt his heart shivering slightly, and his fears soon came true as the Susanoo held the scythe horizontally and Bakorio said apathetically "Die"

Right after those words echoed, time seemed to stop as the Susanoo slashed its scythe creating a circular slash that extended in all directions… It was made of a dark energy… Death!

Tobirama's clones tried to defend using water style but it wasn't enough and the nearest clone was directly shopped in half and was corroded before it could even dissipate, so Tobirama decided to use all of his clones to defend his real body by creating multiple giant water wall… And it was barely enough to stop the slash…

This was the strength of the evolved Susanoo, even in its smaller form… It was still terrifying enough to deal with someone like Tobirama! And seeing two more slashes flying at his real body made his heart sink 'I knew it, this guy is too much of a threat…'

So, this time he went all out and created a giant dragon made of water that offset Bakorio's attack again, but he was starting to despair as more slashes simply came his way and he soon won't be able to deflect them anymore while Bakorio didn't seem to be exerting any effort…

'If only I had my kunais' thought Tobirama again seeing the slashes about to land on his body since he wasn't able to block all of them but a man suddenly stepped in front of him and created many domes of wood to block the slashes…

"Brother…" muttered Tobirama and Hashirama replied with a disappointed look on his face "I will stop being your brother if you keep acting like this"

Tobirama felt the world pause slightly when he heard this, and soon after the sounds of attacks stopped as well. Hashirama removed his defenses, all for Tobirama to find the countless shopped domes of woods showing just how terrifying the man In front of them was… After all, those domes can even withstand a tailed beast bomb from Kurama!

Hashirama was about to speak but Bakorio quickly cut to the chase and said "I will leave him to you… Hopefully, this won't be needed again in the future"

Hashirama nodded seriously at this while Bakorio calmly said "Now then, time to revive the other troublesome guy…"

Meanwhile, Tobirama clenched his hand tightly at the helplessness he just felt… But Bakorio wasn't worried anymore about him… For he replaced the dark seed in his heart with one of his own just to make sure...