Just as Uchiha Hikari's worldview was being shaken, the scenery within the illusion shifted again, revealing a colossal Perfect Susanoo towering over the landscape and demanding her absolute attention.
"Is this... is this the battle where they broke up?"
Uchiha Hikari breathed a slight sigh of relief; if it was just a battle, that meant giant chakra avatars hitting each other, which meant no weird stuff appearing.
"HASHIRAMAAAAA!"
"MADARAAAAAA!"
The two men in the distance began screaming each other's names with enough passion to shatter glass, the Susanoo executing a massive drawing slash that decapitated the surrounding mountain peaks just for dramatic effect, while the Nine-Tails inside it fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that redirected an entire river.
Witnessing this, Uchiha Hikari had to admit defeat, realizing that either of these men was far more powerful than she was.
They should have been the ones to change the world, yet here they were destroying it; was it because they were both sons of their respective clan leaders, or was it because they were trying to rewrite fate with brute force?
"?"
Hikari's head tilted in confusion.
'Wait... where is that sad violin music coming from?'
"In this battle, Uchiha Madara was 'defeated,' and Hashirama Senju sacrificed his personal heart—and his boyfriend—for the sake of the village. Later, tormented by the guilt of killing his beloved with his own hands, he fell into a deep depression and died of a broken heart not long after."
Makoto narrated like a documentary host as the scene shifted to the aftermath: the Valley of the End, where two massive stone statues stood on either side of the waterfall.
"These are the statues later generations erected to commemorate this star-crossed couple, the two figures 'bowing to each other as husband and wife,' with a timeless poem written by a scholar carved right there beside them: 'Unless the mountains crumble, unless heaven and earth collide, I dare not part from you, my lord.'"
"..."
Uchiha Hikari's small mouth hung open as she stared blankly at the text.
Makoto's words didn't seem false, especially that poem—it was too poetic, too raw, surely no ordinary person would just make that up and carve it into a national monument, right?
(Makoto politely neglected to mention that he had stopped by the Valley of the End on his way back from the Chunin Exams specifically to vandalize that poem onto the rock for this exact moment.)
"But the story gets worse," Makoto sighed, shaking his head.
"After the breakup, the Nine-Tails—which Hashirama could have easily restrained with one hand because his Wood Release is broken—was forcibly sealed inside his own wife, Mito Uzumaki, under the fake excuse that 'its power was too dangerous.' "
"But according to the real unofficial history... the reason was that the Nine-Tails had been controlled by Madara and coated in his Susanoo armor."
Makoto leaned in, whispering the cursed truth.
"By sealing the Nine-Tails inside his wife, every time Hashirama hugged her, every time they shared an intimate moment, he could feel Madara's chakra inside her, effectively using his wife as a proxy to be close to his dead ex-boyfriend."
"..."
Hikari looked like she was about to vomit; that was down bad..... that was next-level toxic.
"But as time passed, the two gods of ninja history died, and the power level of the world dropped significantly, so this 'excuse' of sealing Tailed Beasts became standard military doctrine, turning Jinchuriki into weapons."
"The guy with the dark circles you met earlier wasn't lying; he is the One-Tail Jinchuriki, abused by his father since birth to erase his emotions."
"Compared to you, he's both lucky and unlucky: unlucky because his dad sucks, but lucky because he eventually meets a man named Uzumaki Naruto, a man who fills all the empty holes in his heart."
"There are nine of these poor souls in total—you know of the Tailed Beasts, right?"
Makoto paused, looking at Hikari.
She no longer doubted that Gaara was a fellow victim, but her brain was currently short-circuiting over the Hashirama/Madara lore, because until ten minutes ago, her understanding of "love" was limited to her parents, and in her memory, Dad was male and Mom was female.
Her worldview was being shattered in real-time!
"But the curse didn't end there," Makoto continued, relentless. "Everyone lives in the system created by Madara and Hashirama, everyone is influenced by their messy divorce."
"Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, tried to cover up this 'disgraceful history' by implementing a reform where Ninja teams must consist of three members—two males and one female."
"The official reason was that 'the female ninja acts as a harmonizing agent for teamwork,' but the real purpose was that the girl is a 'Beard,' a cover story existing solely to prevent outsiders from suspecting the intense emotional connection between the two boys."
"After this reform, countless tragic triangles emerged, creating a legacy of suffering: The Unfortunate Sannin, The Unfortunate Team Minato, The Team 7..." ,
Makoto waved his hand, and the Tsukuyomi visuals updated to show a montage of famous teams, highlighting the "Third Wheel" dynamic in excruciating detail.
"...What exactly do you want me to do?"
Uchiha Hikari was beginning to feel genuine fear.
When she was first unsealed, she was full of hatred and wanted to burn the ninja world to ash because it was cruel, but now she felt that if she looked at this world for one more second, she'd need to bleach her eyes.
She still wanted to destroy it, but not out of vengeance anymore; the current Shinobi World was like an overflowing cesspool of cringe, and even touching it felt like getting dirty.
"Hikari, you're too kind-hearted," Makoto said, extending his hand with a solemn expression. "With your power, you could easily just leave and be free, but I hope you can assist us."
"We want to change this world, to build a future where Jinchuriki aren't weapons, where no one has to erase their emotions, and most importantly... we will create a New Shinobi World based on traditional values."
"We are determined to sweep the weird, obsessive world created by Madara and Hashirama into the dustbin of history, we will make the Ninja World normal again!"
"Of course, if you don't want to help, you can just sit back and watch, but—"
"No."
The Tsukuyomi illusion shattered, returning them to the real world.
Uchiha Hikari shook her head violently, looking up at Makoto with eyes burning with determination!
"I will help."
For her, destroying the system built by the hated Uchiha and Senju clans was already a goal, but wiping out the nauseating, cursed reality created by those two toxic couples?
That was a public service.
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Goddamnit that dude still copy paste this story and republish it, but dont report it or i will get banned too like before lmao