FREEDOM AND DEVILSTHORN
"One of you will be Hokage." Tobirama said as he gestured to Kagami and Hiruzen. "You two can decide among yourselves."
Kagami Uchiha was always so self sacrificing, he often forgot he mattered as well. Madara tried hard to teach Kagami that he mattered too, but it seems that some habits don't seem to die. Still, Kagami Uchiha was taught by the best to be one of the best. Hiruzen Sarutobi was always a good student. Intelligent and talented. Hiruzen was good friends with Kagami. They got along. Both of them shared similiar ideals, except Hiruzen wasn't as self sacrificing as Kagami.
Both of them were good choices. If one became Hokage, one would undoubtedly help the other.
That's why Tobirama's conscience was clear about this and what he would do. This was something he had been planning for about a year now. It wouldn't be a lie to say he wasn't planning for an opportunity like this the second he became Hokage and Senju Clan leader (at the same time). This was his chance to disappear.
To fake his death.
And to make it even better, it would be seen as him sacrificing himself to save his team... it almost hurt him... to continue pretend as if this was a self sacrificing thing. No, it did hurt him to lie like this to his former students and his fellow Konoha shinobi. But he needed to do this, they wouldn't understand... and Tobirama wouldn't expect them to. Not at all, for they were more free than he. And now? Tobirama would be free too, or he would die trying. Both were ways out of his situation, only difference was that one was preferred over the other.
The Kinkaku Force has no idea of his true capacities. No one knows about his wood release, it's his secret. His secret weapon.
HA HA, LET'S MAKE THE DEVILSTHORN.
A wooden thorn sprouted from the ground and pierced a shinobi's chest before expanding and twisting in various directions. Blood splattered as the man was torn apart. Had that been Kinkaku? He wasn't sure. Most of the other members of Kinkaku's squad were impaled and torn to shreds in the same way. He could finish the rest off the still living stragglers without wood release. His eyes glowed eerily as his version Sharingan was activated.
Blood. Crimson
Tobirama was grinning and covered in blood. This was oddly satisfying for him. How curious. But he couldn't afford to be distracted. He would finish off the enemy, and leave not one alive to tell of his wood release, then he had to plant the fake body he had prepared.
EVEN THE DEVILSTHORN IS SMILING!
It didn't take too long to kill the rest of the squad. Some of them had thought he was Hashirama returned from the dead. How wrong they were. It was funny, so very hilarious. A head falls to the ground. It wasn't Tobirama's head, no. It belonged to a Cloud Shinobi. The last Kinkaku Squad force member was now dead. Now all that's left was for him to take the fake body out of the scroll it was sealed in... and perhaps add a few details to make it seem more convincing-- for an example, blood stains would be appropriate for a corpse that supposedly died in battle.
*The air crackles with freedom
Free, free!
He was finally free.