It is the start of a wonderful day for the for the Heir of the Senju clan. Just recently, his good friend and Heir to the Uchiha clan agreed to a ceasefire to form a village with him! Well, friend isn't a very accurate way to describe their relationship. After all, the Uchiha heir, Madara, is kind of the reason his father is on the verge of death… Also, the Uchiha clan is the reason two of his brothers are no longer of this world… Then again, the Senju clan is also the reason Madara is now three siblings short…
But none of that matters! Once the whole village thing is jump started, it will be the start of a long, loving relationship between the two most formidable clan to walk upon the lands: The Alliance of the Senju and Uchiha clan. No one will be able to stop them! And nothing can possibly go wrong at all!
First order of business, though: location. They would need a good location for creating the village, and the Senju Heir, Hashirama knew a spot that is just perfect for a village!
He and Madara are currently near the heart of the Land of Fire, very close to the region of land he first travelled in his childhood (during those rare moments he wasn't fighting other shinobi). He can still remember the area quite well. The land, ripe for vegetation, a giant plateau that overlooks a huge forest, wonderful weather year round…
"You are going to love it there, Madara! From what I can remember from the last time I was around, no one has claimed the area, yet! It has everything we need to be autonomous from the lords that hire us!" Hashirama can't contain his excitement. Once they gain autonomy from the lords of the land, there will be no reason for their clans to fight to the death to make a living!
"You should stop hyping this place up. I might just end up disappointed if it falls short from my expectations." Despite his sardonic words, Madara is also excited for the prospect of being free from wars funded by the lords. Once they decide on the village location, they will then announce the news to the rest of their clans.
As they get nearer to their destination, they sense a presence ahead. Not knowing if the presence has friends, the two slow down their approach. The two heirs have no reason to start a fight, so they make eye contact with each other and nod, mentally agreeing to do this diplomatically.
Ahead, they finally meet up with the mysterious presence; a woman with long, dark hair, tied in a loose ponytail, perching on a tree branch, using absolutely zero effort to hide from them. Instead, she stares at the both of them with an expression of boredom in her strangely, almost white pupil less eyes, as she eats a piece of fruit.
The two heirs have no idea how to react to her. She is most likely a shinobi, what with being so high up in a tree as if it is a normal thing… Also, she possesses a sword, so, samurai or shinobi, she could be dangerous! The two young future leaders have nothing to worry about, however, for they hail from the strongest clans in all five lands! If this woman is indeed dangerous, they can take her! First things first, though…
"Greetings, stranger! We are the Heirs of the Senju and Uchiha clan! We have no intention to fight, so who might you be?" Hashirama, using his friendly aura to announce to the stoic stranger that they will cause no harm, tells the stranger.
The stranger, however, just looks at them with disappointment. "Why would you announce both of your clan names like that? If you did anything at this point to piss me off, I could send my allies to take out your family… You just ruined the challenge of gathering intel…"
Yup, she is definitely a shinobi. A samurai would have too much honor to go stab someone in the back. Those guys would just straight up stab someone in the front, they were so honorable.
Madara is now steaming inside. How could Hashirama just trust this stranger?! She now has vital information on them: their family name. What if her clan is powerful?! The Uchiha and Senju have been fighting with one another for so long that… they rarely ever fight shinobis from another clan, now that he thinks about it… They have little to no experience fighting other clans! They don't even have intel on other great clans other than their clan symbol… without having a name on said symbols! Madara looks at the stranger closely. Nope. No clan symbol on her person. No intel can be made at first glance.
She must perish.
Acting quickly, Madara draws his tanto, throwing it towards the woman's head for a quick kill.
The woman, however, reacts just as quickly, dodging the tanto and jumping off from the tree. As she nears the ground a few feet from the two, she kicks at the air, surprising Madara, as the, what he now realizes, chakra fueled kick hits him straight in the jaw, hitting him with enough force to knock him towards a tree.
"Madara!" Madara, possibly suffering from a mild concussion, just gurgles and drools, in response.
It is now the woman's turn to steam inside. "You know, I was willing to do things diplomatically… But now, you've gone and pissed me off! The hell are you two doing here, anyway?!" She throws the remains of her mostly eaten fruit towards Hashirama, missing his head as it flies towards the trees behind him.
Hashirama shrinks in response to her rage. "I apologize for my friend's reaction! His people have a tendency to take something and bring it to an extreme conclusion! He probably took your statement and concluded that you would go off to kill his remaining family!"
She crosses her arms. "Yeah, I know… BOTH of you have reputations that precedes you… Frankly, I thought the over-reaction thing was other people over-reacting… I can now see that there is some truth to that." She turns away from them to leave. "Now, get the hell out! You're starting to get near my territory, and I'd rather not have clans I'm not allied with anywhere near my home…"
Hashirama's jaw drops, his hopes and dreams are now under the mighty heels of despair… Could it be..?
"T-territory..? B-but, this area was unclaimed five years ago!"
She looks back at him. "Yeah… was… I just claimed it a couple of years ago… You were too slow and missed your chance. Better luck next time."
"B-but… peace… the village… the alliance…"
"You know, I would have allied with your clans… But your clans fight way too much with each other. I can't even count the number of times plans had to be changed because you two, in particular, went and changed the lands… again." She thinks back bitterly on the number of times assassination missions were delayed because the path to the village somehow became a hill sized crater… or a landmark vanishing when it was there a few days ago… No, she is not fond of these two.
Madara chooses this moment to rise from his half-conscious state, his eyes dilating a bit from the hard blow to his head. "So, you know how powerful we are…" He walks towards her, steps shaky. "Then, we'll take these lands by force!" He starts to form some hand seals, slower than usual, and a bit shaky from his concussion.
Her eyes narrows at him and she snaps her fingers. Suddenly, Madara could no longer move. Noticing this, Hashirama tries to see what was wrong, finding that he too could not move.
"I have allies… Why do you think I wasted a perfectly good fruit to miss your head?" Before either of them could process this, a speeding spherical form of something hits them the moment they realize that they could move again, knocking them unconscious. The spinning form stop in its rotation, revealing them to be a huge man with long, spiky reddish-brown hair. Another man with a dark ponytail reveals himself from amongst the trees.
"So, are these the two that triggered the seals on our borders, Ma'am?" The dark haired man asks.
"Yeah… I don't see anyone else nearby…"
"Ah…" The man lifts his hand to reveal the fruit that was thrown much earlier. "I have to say, that was really sneaky of you to use your snack to send a message. How did you even manage to find the time to seal a message in the middle of a confrontation?"
She scoffs at him. "Don't underestimate me, Nara…"
Nara raises his hands in mock surrender. "Right, right… Troublesome Hyuuga… Why did you need our help, anyway?"
She points at the two unconscious men on the ground. "Those are Hashirama and Madara. Like hell I'm going to take them on my own. So, I took advantage of the fact that I know more about them than they know about me and this area."
"I see." He pauses. "So, what do you want to do with them?"
She think about it for a moment. "I don't know… Throw them in a river, or something… I'm pretty sure they can survive that… No way I'm picking a fight with either of their clans."
"Alright. Do you want to get more intel on them before we proceed?"
"Good idea. Where's that Yamanaka guy?" As if on cue, a blonde haired man jumps from the tree, landing in front of her.
"That's hurtful, Haru… I know you know our names…" The blonde man comments.
Nara waves his hand at the blonde. "Inoshi, you know Haru is perpetually grumpy… That's her way of showing her affections…" He points at the two unconscious men. "Now, dig in the mind of those two. We should get some interesting info on their techniques."
"Alright, Shikahiro…" Inoshi looks towards the large man who knocked out the trespassers. "Choshin! Let's go take them near a river!"
"Right!" With that, the two leave with the trespassers on their shoulders.
