Naruto: The Abstract Strategist of the Akatsuki

Chapter 176 The Seemingly Honest First Generation

Mei Terumi hesitated.

Being able to fight the First Hokage is indeed a rare opportunity.

Bai Mo had told her about the future before, that the Five Kage would be utterly defeated by Madara Uchiha.

She was the worst performer among them, lacking both fighting spirit and combat experience.

Mei Terumi turned her gaze to Bai Mo, seeking his opinion.

"Go for it, keep your spirits up, don't embarrass yourself, I'll take responsibility if anything goes wrong."

Bai Mo gave Terumi Mei a positive answer.

Mei Terumi's problem is that she was too confident when facing Madara Uchiha in her normal state in the original story, and now that she's in her enhanced state, she's too cautious when facing Hashirama Senju.

Of course, Mei Terumi's caution mainly stemmed from Bai Mo's story about how she was utterly defeated by Madara Uchiha; otherwise, she wouldn't know the true strength of these two.

Apart from a few people like Onoki who knew about their strength, no one else in the entire ninja world knew much about them.

Otherwise, when Kakuzu mentioned fighting the First Hokage, the reaction from those facing him wouldn't have been "Wow, awesome, that's incredibly intimidating," but rather "Wow, you idiot, are you kidding me?"

"Um."

With Bai Mo's encouragement, Terumi Mei felt much more confident and was about to set off when Uchiha Hikaru suddenly stood in front of her.

"What's wrong?"

Terumi Mei was confused.

"It's nothing, just checking out your appearance."

"Hmm... okay, it's alright now."

Uchiha Hikaru looked Mei Terumi up and down, then patted her arm and stepped aside.

—Actually, she secretly left eight thousand spear marks on Mei Terumi's body.

If Mei Terumi can't win the battle later, she'll have to secretly buff Mei Terumi.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Hikaru disliked and loathed Senju Hashirama so much that he didn't even want to leave the mark of the Eight Thousand Spears on him.

Otherwise, at a crucial moment, transferring Hashirama Senju's chakra directly to Mei Terumi would be the real "behind-the-scenes manipulation," "backroom deal," and "match control."

Therefore, users of techniques like Eight Thousand Spears and Flying Thunder God are extremely terrifying.

Even in normal diplomatic situations, would you, as the Kage or a high-ranking member of another ninja village, dare to shake hands and take a photo with Minato Namikaze?

What if you leave a Flying Thunder God mark and someone suddenly comes at you while you're sprinting at night?

Look at Uchiha Hikaru, who is naturally kind. Under Bai Mo's influence, he knows to pretend nothing happened while taking pictures of Mei Mi, leaving behind eight thousand spear marks.

"First Hokage, please enlighten me."

Mei Terumi landed on the lake and launched the first attack on Hashirama Senju on the shore.

A high-speed stream of water shot out from Terumi Mei's mouth. Just like when she tried it on the lake earlier, the stream suddenly thickened in front of Terumi Mei, and its diameter was longer than Terumi Mei's entire body.

"oh!"

Hashirama Senju was very excited upon seeing this.

It's true that he loves peace, but it's also true that he enjoys fighting and gets happy and excited when he sees advanced and powerful ninjutsu.

Hashirama Senju clapped his hands together, and a palm emerged from below, blocking the flow of water in front of him.

To Hashirama Senju's surprise, the hand formed by Wood Release couldn't stop the Water Release and was being slowly pushed backward, with some cracks appearing on the Wood Release.

"Wow, that water jutsu is impressive. It feels even better than Tobirama's."

Hashirama Senju slammed his hand on the ground, and the hand that had been blocking the water broke through the soil, allowing the wooden doll to emerge from the ground. The doll then began to use both hands to block the water while simultaneously moving forward by stepping on the ground.

Mei Terumi was startled when she saw the wooden figure.

This wasn't a probing attack.

The reason why Boiling Release and Lava Release were not used is because, in the previous attempt, these two techniques were actually less powerful than ordinary Water Release.

After entering this special mode, she could clearly feel that the power of the Water Release technique had been significantly enhanced.

Moreover, after she entered this special mode, it began to rain continuously from the sky. This rain was not ordinary rain; it contained natural energy, which seemed to enhance the power of the Water Release technique.

Mei Terumi's sea-blue clothes began to flutter, and the brownish-red patterns on them, the same as her hair, began to glow.

Water spheres began to condense around her.

It floated behind her like a jade pendant for seeking enlightenment.

then……

Each water ball simultaneously sprayed water at the wooden figure.

The wooden doll was nearly knocked over by the sudden increase in power. Hashirama Senju quickly controlled the doll to stabilize its body, and then, while blocking the water flow with one hand, he threw the wooden dragon on the doll towards Mei Terumi.

The wooden figure managed to block the increased power of the water flow with one hand, which shattered one of its arms, but in return, it was met with an attack from the wooden dragon.

Faced with the approaching wooden dragon's attack, Mei Terumi hurriedly stopped spraying water and instinctively swung her arms. The lake surface surged, and a fathead fish made of lake water leaped out of the lake and bit the wooden dragon to pieces.

"Huh? What's this? A variant of the water dragon bullet?"

While Hashirama Senju was still surprised, he didn't stop. The wooden doll, which had lost an arm, had recovered and started running towards Mei Terumi.

Madara Uchiha was actually a close-combat ninja. His Susanoo was made with a sword, not a bow and arrow. He also liked to charge into groups of people to fight using group techniques and ask others if they liked to dance.

However, when facing Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha transformed into a long-range bombardment type ninja.

There was really no other way; whether it was Wood Release and Wood People, or even Hashirama Senju himself, his close-combat advantage was simply too great.

Hashirama Senju himself goes without saying; he possessed superhuman strength and regenerative abilities. His Wood Release technique was incredibly tough, and he could also absorb chakra.

How do you fight in close combat?

When Mei Terumi saw the wooden figure running towards her, she knew that her chances of survival were slim.

She is a turret-type ninja and is not good at close-quarters combat.

If they get close, wouldn't we be completely finished?

"Let me handle it."

Bai Mo stopped Uchiha Hikaru, who was about to help.

He had anticipated that Terumi Mei's meeting would fail.

Who is Hashirama Senju?

The story goes that Indra was a genius, while Asura relied on everyone, but in his generation, this premise was completely abandoned.

Madara Uchiha pursued power, and every time he finally advanced to a higher level and went to fight, he was always brutally beaten by Hashirama Senju, who had also inexplicably advanced to a higher level.

There has never been an exception.

Even after finally finding the Nine-Tails in the battle at the Valley of the End, and with the arrival of the Beast Tribulation, it was wiped out by the True Thousand Hands Ora Ora.

This is not the end of the story.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Madara Uchiha with the Rinnegan and reanimated through Edo Tensei faced off against Hashirama Senju, who was also reanimated through Edo Tensei.

Hashirama Senju won again.

Madara Uchiha was directly suppressed by the Myojinmon. If he hadn't been resurrected by Rinne Rebirth, he would have been completely defeated.

Who can I complain to about this?

Everyone was weakened by the Edo Tensei, and Madara Uchiha had already evolved from the Mangekyou Sharingan to the Rinnegan, yet he still couldn't defeat them.

Don't let his honest and simple appearance fool you; he's got a lot going on.