C511 This Time I will Completely Defeat Him!

"Is every partner automatically trustworthy?"

Madara's eyes narrowed as his thoughts drifted back to a moment lost in the countless years past.

...

"Hashirama!"

The two young men met secretly in the fields, their smiles all the more precious in an era ravaged by war. As scions of the Senju and Uchiha clans, they had witnessed far too much sorrow.

Such moments of peace were deeply coveted