#249 Kill Your Brother or Kill Yourself

Naruto chapter 624 : Aiko [read here]

Ermagurd. So much rock analogy. It’s pulling at my heartstrings.

Storytime was kinda short… like 5-6 chapters?

So we find out Hashirama was visionary while Madara was more practical. Both ways could work except Madara is a very odd ninja. It even states in the beginning of the chapter that ninjas never show emotion, but Madara’s the complete opposite of that. Everything he does is driven by emotion. He rivals Hashirama as a child because he feels weak and helpless. He agrees to face the Senju on the battlefield because of pride and to protect what’s left of his family. He fights Hashirama to the death in revenge for his brother.

In the end, Hashirama becomes the more practical one while Madara is in an illusion that things will not and should not change. He also wants things to go his way. I mean, he sat in a cave for hundreds of years waiting for the day to create a world for himself. He’d still be sitting there daydreaming if Obito never fell in the cave as well.

And then Madara says he would never trust Hashirama again unless he suffers as much as Madara did. Kill yourself or kill your brother?

Prior knowledge says Hashirama does neither. More prior knowledge says Madara actually lived in the village for some time before leaving.

Somewhere in between Madara appeased to the Senju temporarily before ending up in a cave on life support from a tree. Somewhere else in between, Madara was able to clone Hashirama to make Yamato as well as a freaking Zetsu army.

What is this, I don’t even…! Good luck tying this story together. I can’t make up any logical explanation to connect anything anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the way the story is going right now. We’re getting a lot of background from the big umbrella bad guy, Madara. Seriously, he is the cause of everything so far. Forget what I said about half of the Naruto plot was Itachi screwing up and Tobi being a dickwad.