#there are still an equal amount of dissections and corpses and suspicious labs in dark caves

[emporiannee]

i think it would've been funny if tobirama had lived for another decade or two. He's passed on the title of hokage and hiruzen became the new jutsu expert but no one's inherited his spot as konoha's resident unethical mad scientist. until he's got one foot out the door of full shinobi retirement and hiruzen introduces him to this new orphan kid he found named orochimaru and Tobirama, age 60 or whatever thinks 'hmm..........one more student...."

#his very tenuous grasp of ethics boils down to: #'well after my edo tensei stint a few decades back anija said no more live experimentation so now we only use dead bodies okay? okay.' #there are still an equal amount of dissections and corpses and suspicious labs in dark caves #perk: i get to draw tobirama with some wrinkles #he still looks way younger than he ought to and when orochimaru asks he just shrugs and tells him it's genetics or something #so he still ends up digging up hashirama's body #tobirama senju