Naruto's Review : First Viewer is Senju Tobirama?

[The Second Shinobi World War, and also the childhood period of Sasori.]

[His parents were killed during a mission, by Kakashi's father, Hatake Sakumo.]

[Sasori's grandmother, Chiyo, in order to hide the truth, began teaching Sasori puppet techniques to distract him.]

[As a young child, Sasori created two puppets modeled after his parents, and every day he would hug these two puppets for comfort.]

[These "parent" puppets were the first two puppets Sasori ever made.]

"Wow, if it weren't for knowing the full story, just looking at the image on the screen, Sakumo would seem like an extremely evil person, ruining Sasori's happy life and turning him into a poor child without parents."

The words of the Fifth Hokage Jiraiya were met with agreement from most people present.

These ninjas kill without hesitation, but that doesn't mean they lack the emotions of ordinary people.

Before being a ninja, they are first and foremost individuals.

When they saw Sasori using his not-so-skilled puppet manipulation to hug his "parents," the two puppets he created, even the more emotional ones like Red and Kushina felt their eyes well up with tears.

"There's no choice, during the Shinobi Wars, it's either you kill me, or I kill you, there's no room for mercy."

Hatake Sakumo was also helpless.

When the two forces met, there was simply no time to think about anything else. For his own safety and the safety of his comrades, he had no choice but to strike first and take the initiative. If he hadn't, he might have been the one to die.

Even if Sakumo could make the choice a thousand times, he would make the same decision.

[As time passed, ordinary puppets were no longer enough for Sasori. At this point, Sasori had refined his skills in poison and creating human-modified puppets to perfection.]

[Gaara's younger brother, the puppet master Kankuro, had three puppets, which were toys made by Sasori in his early days.]

[After that, wooden puppets no longer satisfied Sasori's needs, so he began killing ninjas from other villages to create human puppets.]

[Among them was the later puppet, Hiruko.]

[Therefore, Hiruko's ugliness was not designed by Sasori, it was simply how he looked when he was alive.]

"Ha? Human puppets?"

In Tobirama's office, when he saw the human puppet created by Sasori, not only did Hashirama gasp, but even Tobirama seemed surprised.

Can humans really be turned into puppets?

At this moment, Tobirama couldn't help but think of the Third Hokage and Jiraiya, who had once told him their speculations about the abilities of the Rinnegan.

One of those speculations involved human puppets.

"I wonder if the puppets controlled by the Rinnegan are the same as the human puppets made by Sasori," Tobirama thought.

Because of the time difference, when the Third Hokage was summoning Danzo with the Reanimation Jutsu, Tobirama and the others had already returned to their own time.

This caused a delay in the information exchange. The Third Hokage and the others learned from Danzo that Nagato could control at least five Rinnegan puppets, but Tobirama only knew that the Rinnegan could control puppets made by humans. He didn't know how many or what abilities these puppets might have.

However, even if he didn't know those details, he could still guess that the puppets were probably not the same.

From the image on the screen of the Deva Path Pain, he could tell that the Rinnegan's powers were no joke.

No matter how powerful Sasori's human puppets were, could they possibly compare to the Rinnegan's puppets?

Whether others believed it or not, Tobirama certainly didn't.

"This kid is impressive. Changing the material from wood to human is a huge step up in difficulty." 

"Lord First Hokage is right," Danzo added, "And I believe that since the difficulty is higher, the resulting puppet's abilities must be significantly stronger as well."

Hiruzen glanced at Danzo, who was obviously flattering the First Hokage, and sighed a little, saying, "Making puppets out of humans... it feels a bit cruel."

"Speaking of cruelty..."

Hashirama looked at his younger brother with a look of disdain before continuing, "There's a ruthless guy here who doesn't even spare the dead. Compared to him, Sasori is just a small fry."

Tobirama: ???

Did he just bring me into this conversation?

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[Chiyo thinks this kid is really something, and she can't control him at all.]

[Because the Land of Wind is vast but sparsely populated, lacking resources, and they enjoy body painting, plus the fact that the Sasori's puppet-making skills were unmatched, he decided to leave Sunagakure and go out into the world.]

[Sasori definitely lived up to the title of "a person of society." When he left, he even gave Sunagakure a big gift: he killed the Third Kazekage, who was known as the strongest Kazekage at the time.]

[With the Third Kazekage's death, Sunagakure became even weaker.]

"Wait, so the Third Kazekage was killed by his own people?"

"Wasn't the trigger for the Third Great Ninja War because the Third Kazekage went missing?"

"Exactly. Because the Third Kazekage disappeared for a long time, Sunagakure had no leader. This gave the Cloud Village a chance to strike, and they raided the Land of Wind. After tasting success, they immediately declared war on us in the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth, hoping to unite the ninja world."

"Honestly, Sunagakure was just too weak. If they had gained even the slightest advantage in the war against Cloud Village, Cloud Village wouldn't have dared to declare war on us or the Stone Village."

"There's nothing they could do. Sunagakure's puppet techniques were completely countered by Cloud Village's Lightning Style and Taijutsu. The puppet attacks couldn't even break through the Cloud Ninja's defenses. How could they fight?"

"Wind Style counters Lightning Style, right? Shouldn't the Kazekage of Sunagakure be good at Wind Style ninjutsu?"

"Heh, how surprising. It's like saying all of our Hokage are good at Fire Style ninjutsu."

At the Fifth Hokage Jiraiya's place, everyone was still intensely discussing the events of the Third Great Ninja War, watching the light screen. But once Orochimaru spoke, everyone fell silent.

When you think about it, Orochimaru's words aren't entirely wrong.

The First Hokage was skilled in Wood Style.

The Second Hokage was skilled in Water Style.

The Third Hokage, well, he was skilled in Fire Style, but he wasn't just good at Fire Style; he was skilled in all five elemental ninjutsu.

The Fourth Hokage was skilled in the Wind and space teleportation ninjutsu developed by the Second Hokage.

The Fifth Hokage, according to Jiraiya, should be known for summoning techniques and the Sage Jutsu from Mount Myoboku.

Among the five Hokages, only the Third Hokage could barely be considered a "Fire" Hokage. The other four, aside from Jiraiya, didn't even come close.

It's ridiculous that the Hokage can't even handle "fire."

"You guys think the Third Kazekage might have been turned into a human puppet by Sasori?"

After a brief silence, Jiraiya spoke first.

"There's a very high chance."

Orochimaru licked his lips, looking incredibly excited.

Because he thought of something very interesting.

Since Sasori can turn others into human puppets, what if Sasori has turned himself into one too?

If Sasori really did that, would it mean he could live for long time?

Or even eternal life?

"No wonder back when he was in the Akatsuki, Sasori always went on about eternity. So that's what he meant."

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