Another Hokage time and space – Ninja World, Version ②:
"Ninjutsu: Summoning Technique!!" ×N
In a flash, dozens of past Five Kage across the ninja world simultaneously unleashed the Summoning Technique.
Summoned from the spiritual realm to the physical world in their spirit forms by none other than the Sage of Six Paths, they had only one mission—
To bring back Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Hatake Kakashi, who had successfully sealed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and Black Zetsu in the original dimensional space.
The Sage of Six Paths needed help…
And so, combining the chakra of the Five Kage and numerous powerful warriors:
Puff———
In the next moment, just like in the original storyline, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Haruno Sakura reappeared in their native world.
Even...
Uchiha Madara, who had been spat out from the collapsing dimension during Kaguya's final sealing, was among them.
But the Madara of this time-space was no longer the formidable Ten Tails Jinchuriki.
Disheveled, broken, and stripped of his immense power—he lay dying, hair splayed across the dirt, his body limp.
And yet…
In his final moments, he possessed a strange and tragic beauty.
At this time, Naruto was celebrating the successful sealing of Kaguya with Kakashi, the reanimated Fourth Hokage Minato, and even the Nine Tailed Beasts.
Sasuke, however, remained quiet.
He seemed to be preparing, just like in the original timeline, to declare his plan for "revolution."
No one paid attention to the dying Madara...
Until—
Da— Da—
Footsteps echoed softly.
Senju Hashirama, the First Hokage, slowly approached the frail figure of his lifelong rival and friend, Uchiha Madara.
"Hashirama…?" Madara murmured weakly.
"Yes," Hashirama nodded, his eyes filled with complex emotions.
"Hashirama… my dream… is shattered."
Madara's voice trembled, his once-dazzling eyes now dim and drained of hope.
But there was a haunting melancholy in his expression that caught everyone's attention.
Only now did Naruto, Sasuke, the Kage, and the beasts realize Madara was still alive.
Just as Sasuke prepared to finish him off—
The Sage of Six Paths gently raised his staff.
Sasuke, eyes flickering with the Sharingan and Six Tomoe Rinnegan, stared coldly at the Sage.
But he ultimately paused.
Hashirama knelt beside his fading friend.
"Madara… you rushed things."
"The future… it belongs to the next generation."
"I believe they'll create a better world than we ever could."
Madara chuckled weakly.
"Hashirama… still so naïve…"
"…But maybe that's what makes you right."
His voice grew fainter.
"Maybe in another world… we can share a drink. As friends. No more conflict."
Hashirama smiled at the thought.
Surrounded by the Sage, Naruto, Sasuke, the tailed beasts, and the spectral Kage, everyone listened silently.
Then…
Madara's lips moved faintly.
"I… We also—"
Before he could finish—
A voice echoed from all directions.
"Are you willing?"
The words reverberated like thunder.
"Huh?!" Everyone looked around, stunned.
Even the Sage of Six Paths frowned in confusion.
Then—
BANG!!
Hashirama's reanimated body was struck hard, flung backward like a ragdoll, shattering in mid-air and crashing into the Divine Tree with an echoing boom.
Da— Da—
Footsteps again.
Out of the shadows stepped a mysterious figure in a black robe.
With long, flowing hair resembling Madara's, he exuded a terrifying, dignified aura.
He walked slowly, stopping beside the dying Madara.
"You… You..." Madara's eyes, dim with death, lit up with surprise.
His body was too weak to respond, but his eyes said everything:
Disbelief. Shock. Recognition.
"W-Who is that…?"
Even Naruto was confused.
Uchiha Sasuke's eyes narrowed sharply. Sakura, Kakashi, the Nine Beasts, and all the present Kage—both spirit and reanimated—stared in stunned silence.
"Another Madara?!"
Naruto, in Six Paths Sage Mode, said aloud what everyone was thinking.
Standing beside the dying Uchiha Madara was someone else—someone with the same presence.
It was Leo, a man from another dimension.
A man known as the one who "created Madara."
He had left his own time-space, the Eternal Kingdom, and now found himself in this parallel ninja world.
"You… What are you?" Madara struggled to speak.
But his voice, like his body, was failing him.
Still, he kept his gaze locked on Leo, filled with disbelief.
Leo looked down, his voice cold but commanding:
"I asked you… Are you willing?"
Madara's eyes widened. The question pierced through him.
On the other side, Hashirama had already reformed his reanimated body. He stared at the two Madaras with shock.
"What is happening?!" he muttered.
Even the Sage of Six Paths was silent.
Was the Madara who was taken over by Kaguya just a clone?
Was this real Madara someone else entirely?
Could the Otsutsuki even be fully resurrected if this was the truth?
Leo repeated again:
"I asked… Are you willing?"
His crimson eyes suddenly lit up with the Naoba Sharingan, a terrifying power unknown to this world.
"I… I…" Madara struggled.
Then, as if drawing on the last drop of his strength—
"I'm Madara… I won't accept this!!"
He roared defiantly, voice trembling with rage and pain.
Then—
"Very good!!" Leo shouted.
Snap!
With a sharp grin, he slapped his left hand onto Madara's chest.
At the same time, he clasped Madara's hand with his own.
Together, they formed an ancient seal:
[Six Paths: Ten Tails Coffin Seal]
BOOM——
"Arghhhhhh!!"
Madara screamed.
A pain beyond imagination surged through his entire body.
To be continued...