Chapter 46

The news of Madara Uchiha causing a commotion at the Sarutobi clan quickly spread throughout the Uchiha clan. Many Uchiha clan members regarded Madara as a god-like figure. Their leader had not spoken in vain; he truly prevented a war for the Uchiha clan.

This news spread even faster outside the Uchiha clan, as if it had wings, and within a few days, it had spread throughout the Land of Fire.

No one could believe that the Sarutobi clan, the third largest clan in the Land of Fire after the Uchiha and Senju clans, would surrender to Madara Uchiha alone. However, with the Sarutobi clan's tacit approval, the rumor became a fact.

The name "Madara Uchiha" once again shook the Land of Fire, and it also caused a significant stir in the world.

More people learned that the Uchiha clan had a prodigious leader who, at the age of ten, possessed the strength to crush a ninja clan.

Before people could digest this shocking news, even more shocking news came: the Uchiha clan and the Sarutobi clan had formed an alliance.

This news was even more astonishing than Madara Uchiha's victory over the Sarutobi clan alone. People thought the leader of the Sarutobi clan had gone mad, and some even believed that Shizune Sarutobi must have been under Madara Uchiha's genjutsu to ally with an enemy.

At the Senju clan's shrine.

A handsome young man sat cross-legged on a cushion with his eyes closed. Various Buddha statues were enshrined around him, and in front of him was a statue of the Thousand-Armed Kannon.

The young man placed his hands together with his fingers touching, resting them on his dantian, sitting quietly in meditation. The surroundings were silent, and he seemed to have merged with the surrounding Buddha statues.

"Big brother, it's bad!" A young voice broke the silence of the shrine as a white-haired child ran in and approached the young man, hands on his knees, breathing heavily.

"What's wrong, Tobirama?" The young man opened his eyes and asked in confusion.

"Big brother, the Uchiha and Sarutobi clans have formed an alliance." Tobirama Senju, upon hearing this news, did not dare to waste a moment and hurried to the clan's shrine to find his older brother, Hashirama Senju.

"I need to see Father." Hashirama's pupils constricted, and he stood up to leave the shrine, but Tobirama grabbed his arm.

"Big brother, Father has already had a fit over this news. I know what you want to do, but your confinement isn't over yet. Even if you go, nothing will be resolved, and it will only add to your confinement days," Tobirama sighed.

"Damn it!" Hashirama gritted his teeth, sat back on the cushion, and pounded the ground hard.

"Is Madara Uchiha really that strong?" Tobirama, seeing his brother's dark expression, suddenly asked.

"Not just strong, he's invincible," Hashirama said with a bitter smile.

"I don't believe it!" Tobirama pouted, dissatisfied. He had never seen his brother praise someone so highly. He was the second genius of the Senju clan, but his brother had only ever said he was "not bad."

"You'll understand when you meet him. He's the person I admire most in my life," Hashirama said meaningfully.

"I heard he went to the Sarutobi clan alone, seemingly to resolve the war by himself. I've never seen such arrogance. Unfortunately, the Sarutobi clan not only didn't fight Madara Uchiha but also allied with him," Tobirama said lightly.

"Still as arrogant as ever!" Hashirama sighed. The person who understood him the most was his enemy.

Since his return, he had wanted to promote an alliance between the Senju and Uchiha clans, but the Senju clan was not under his control, and the result was his confinement.

While Hashirama was scratching his head, Madara Uchiha was excited. He had just sent off the Sarutobi clan's envoy. What excited him was not the alliance but the pleasant conversation he had with Shizune Sarutobi, even exchanging some ninja techniques.

Among these was the summoning technique, which he was most eager to learn. The Uchiha clan had complete records of the summoning technique, so he could use the basic summoning technique, but he did not have a summoning animal, and neither did anyone in the Uchiha clan. The Uchiha clan could not find powerful summoning animals, and they looked down on low-level summoning animals. Madara was very eager to see the application of summoning animals and techniques, and Shizune Sarutobi helped him understand.

The Sarutobi clan had a hereditary summoning animal, 'Enma,' known as the strongest summoning animal, but few could form a contract with it. Even Shizune's father, Ryoji Sarutobi, had not succeeded, but Shizune had.

Based on the information he obtained from Shizune and his research in the clan's secret texts, he had become very familiar with the principles of the summoning technique.

The summoning technique can be seen as a type of space-time jutsu, but it is not as powerful as the Flying Thunder God. It is a simple summoning technique that, through a blood contract with any creature, allows the summoner to call the summoning animal to their side, regardless of where it is. A seal would spread out, forming a small array, and the summoning animal would appear from the array.

This jutsu seems simple, but summoning a summoning animal requires a lot of chakra, and the more powerful the summoning animal, the more chakra it consumes.

After analyzing it, Madara concluded that the summoning technique was a type of teleportation jutsu. He even suspected that the Flying Thunder God, created by the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, was based on the principles of the summoning technique.

Another forbidden jutsu of Tobirama Senju, the Impure World Reincarnation, was also based on the principles of the summoning technique, showing how terrifying the summoning technique could be if fully developed.

Madara's efforts were not to study the Flying Thunder God or to form a contract with a summoning animal; it was for Cat Fairy.

The problem of Cat Fairy being unable to move in the fourth-dimensional space had troubled him for some time. In the future, he would face many dangers. If Cat Fairy hid in the fourth-dimensional space and missed their meeting time, she would be in great trouble and even in danger if she couldn't find him.

Later, Madara thought of the summoning technique. Assuming the fourth-dimensional space was where the summoning animal resided, Madara could form a blood contract with Cat Fairy and summon her to his side at any time.

However, he encountered a problem: Cat Fairy had no chakra. Although she was a black cat, she was not a summoning animal of the ninja world. He consulted Shizune Sarutobi, who said it was possible to summon her, but no one would do it. The main difference between summoning animals and ordinary beasts is that summoning animals use chakra, which is the primary measure of their strength. Some summoning animals even use senjutsu.

Madara was confident and decided to first try to have Cat Fairy practice chakra, then form a blood contract with her.