Chương 176: Chosen.

"So? What are you thinking of choosing?" Tsunade asked Haruto while standing beside him as he looked over at the various jutsu in the scroll carefully. Haruto remained silent for a few seconds and slowly spoke up with surety and a firm mind, "Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags." Tsunade's brows twitched as her mouth opened and closed a few times before she asked Haruto in a soft tone, "You wish to learn elementalisation?"

Seeing Tsunade pin his thoughts so quickly Haruto wasn't surprised, he simply nodded, "If I can learn elementalisation and find a way to heat up my flames… I can become immune to damage… I'll only have sealing to worry about after that… Plus it's the only technique on the list that doesn't require me to have kage level chakra, which I don't have access to currently."

"Ho…" Tsunade sighed, but then just as Haruto thought she was about to disprove of his choice since a single wrong move while learning the jutsu could cause him to sacrifice his body or his lifespan, she nodded.

"Alright, that's a decent choice." Haruto nodded in agreement but Tsunade hadn't finished speaking yet.

"But you're only allowed to practice the jutsu in front of me." Haruto frowned slightly but didn't disagree, after all if something did go wrong while he was practicing, two hands would definitely be better than one, especially when the other pair of hands belonged to the best doctor in the verse. So Haruto nodded.

"Fine. What jutsu did you choose, Tsunade-sama?" Tsunade looked at the scroll herself and then looked back at Fugaku, "I need permission to do something." Tsunade said bluntly to Fugaku. It seemed more like she was informing Fugaku of what she was about to do rather than ask permission to do it.

"What do you need permission for Tsunade-sama?" Fugaku still asked respectfully. Tsunade folded her hands and clicked her tongue, slightly dissatisfied that she didn't have the ability to do whatever she wanted to do without permission but then she spoke up calmly.

"I want to resurrect the Fourth, Third, Second and the First Hokage using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu." Kakashi and Fugaku froze. While Fugaku froze because of the resurrection, Kakashi froze because Tsunade wanted to resurrect the Fourth Hokage! His teacher! The person whose death he felt guilty about! Fugaku instantly snapped out of his shock and surprise, "Absolutely not! I will not let you sully the graves of my predecessors!" Tsunade's brows twitched.

"Half of them are my ancestors and the other half have some form of a senior/junior relationship with me." Fugaku shook his head, "Absolutely not! How can I allow such a thing!? What if tomorrow another shinobi in Konoha comes up to me to resurrect their ancestors!? I know you might be missing them Tsunade-sama but you must not give into your emotions! Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

Have you seen me give up the seat of the Hokage and run around searching for my son even though he's gone missing!? I've told Sasuke that his brother has gone on a long mission and have kept the matter under wraps for this exact reason!" Tsunade's brows twitched again, "This concerns matter of great importan-""Nothing is more important to me than the eternal of my predecessors going undisturbed to me! They must be left untouched and allowed to seek their honors in Pure Land!

Not dragged back to solve the matters of the living!"

"Inherently Evil Uchiha." You know who said looking at the situation.

"Listen to me-""No I will not listen!"

"You will regret-""I am not Hiruzen or Danzo!"

"Can you shut up-""I will not shut up regarding matters that concern the freedom of my predecessors!" BANG! BANG! BANG! Fugaku finally shut up while rolling on the floor in a very undignified, un-hokage-like manner. Glaring at Tsunade through teary eyes, Fugaku asked Tsunade, "What is the meaning of this!?"

"Madara is back." Tsunade directly stated, causing Fugaku's eyes to widen.

"What???"

"That meteorite, it wasn't the work of Sungakure or even Iwagakure. It was Madara. He's the one that launched it on the village after he was resurrected. The only way to defeat him now is to resurrect the Four previous Hokage who can fight him together and beat him up before he does something even more dangerous." Fugaku's eyes trembled, not in anger but with fear.

"This can't be true!" Fugaku argued quickly and immediately in an almost pleading tone. But Tsunade remained silent. Seeing Fugaku's eyes firmly clouded by a layer of obscurity Tsunade sighed deeply and explained calmly, "Imagine it, if it were Sunagakure or Iwagakure, they would've required at least several thousand shinobi to pull off what just happened. And did you find any of them infiltrating into the village during that time?"

"But Madara…" Fugaku still couldn't believe it. After all, he'd grown up being told the horror stories of Madara by nearly every elder in his clan. Some in support of his actions and some in hatred to blame him for their past condition. But every single one of them had always told it with fear. Seeing Fugaku stunned into silence, it was Kakashi who spoke up, "Tsunade-sama do we really need to resurrect them to defeat Madara Uchiha?

Can't we just send a large force of the most capable shinobi on the planet and beat him up?" Tsunade looked at Kakashi's naivety and clicked her tongue causing him to feel slightly annoyed. After all, what was the big deal? Madara was one man. Could he really beat up the entire shinobi world? Surely the meteorite summoning jutsu he pulled off had taken all the steam out of him and had caused him severe injuries. If not, then where was he? Why had he gone so silent after that single meteorite?

Was Madara really that powerful? Why couldn't he summon a second meteorite that day and end Konoha once and for all? Seeing Kakashi looking at her with indignation, Tsunade finally relented and explained, "That meteorite wasn't even a fingernail of Madara's true strength. If he wanted, he could've summoned a hundred more meteorites above our village and absolutely annihilated all life here."

"Wha-" Now it was Kakashi's turn to become stunlocked. That was when Jiraiya added further fuel to the fire.

"Did you know… the Valley of the End wasn't always a valley? According to the Toad Sage it used to be a flourishing mountain range… it was simply wiped off the map and turned into a deep valley because of the battle between the First Hokage and Madara. And that was just a casual battle with them holding back, otherwise apparently the entire continent would've been destroyed." Kakashi's eyes widened, his shoulders that had just stiffened fell loose. He couldn't believe it. An entire mountain range wiped?

An entire continent destroyed!? How do you comprehend such power?

"Tsuande-sama then… why didn't 'He' end Konoha that day…" Fugaku finally asked. Tsunade looked at both Fugaku and Kakashi and then spoke bluntly, "His plan requires Konoha's Jinchuriki to remain alive, for now. I have information regarding an organisation he set up, the Akatsuki, they aim to capture all the tailed beasts on the planet and create a Ten Tails, a weapon of mass destruction to take over the planet through force." Fugaku and Kakashi instantly felt a chill run down their spines.

They had been alive on the night of the nine tailed beast's rampage. Putting nine of those beasts together? They couldn't even begin to imagine the scale of destruction that would occur because of that. Tsunade on the other hand felt sure of her choice not to reveal the eye of the moon plan just yet. After all, that part of the truth sounded more ridiculous than a story about Haruto's apparent regression.

After all who would believe that the mother of the Sage of Six paths was trapped on the moon and wanted to escape from there? But Haruto was confused, 'Has Fugaku not read the Naka shrine stone tablet yet?'