Tajima Uchiha was talking with some members of the Shirohebi clan, master investigators, about a possible alliance. They were adamant in receiving a child from them, strong enough to survive their procedures. He tried to think about a child like that, the Uchihas needed that alliance or they risk being destroyed by the Senju. Then he remembered something… yes, that would do. Madara, the little traitor that was playing with an enemy, was perfect. He still has Izuna anyway, so he wouldn´t need his first born.

"Izuna, where is your brother?" he asked upon arriving home. The little kid shook his head, signaling that he didn´t knew. For his part, Izuna was scared. What would happen to his nii-san? Madara was practically his parent, what would he do alone? "I will wait"

That afternoon, when Madara returned home and his father informed him what was his destiny for betraying the clan, he was terrified. He didn´t knew his friend was a Senju, he just wanted to play like a normal kid for once. He kicked and screamed, trying to fight his father, to escape the horrible things he reserved for him… but it was no use. In a few minutes his hands were tied up and he was dragged in front of the snake mans.

"Father, please…" he begged.

"Silence" the clan head ordered and the child cried. Izuna was walking behind in silence, not letting his emotions get the better of him. He was going to lose his beloved brother… but he would move on. Or at least that was what he was trying to belive.

"So you finally came…" a hissing voice said. Madara´s blood ran cold, they were there. He wanted to run, something impossible with the hand of his father holding him tightly. One of the man grabbed his tied hands and forced him to walk along.

"No… no! Father, please! I won´t do that again! I will fight! Please! Izuna! Please!" yelled the kid, resisting. His family didn´t move an inch, as they watched him go away to be experimented on like a rat. "Let me go… I said let me go!"

"Too brave for a common brat!" laughed one of his captors.

"He is not common brat, he is Tajima´s son, haven´t you heard him?" another person mocked. "Those Uchihas… they has to be cold blooded. Look, to give us this own son"

"Maybe this little shit wasn´t up to daddy´s standarts" they laughed and continued walking, dragging the fighting Uchiha. He looked up to the moon, there has to be some way to get out of it, some way to escape.

"What are you waiting for? Move!"

"Don´t yell at me" Madara growled. He was prideful as ever, even if he didn´t have anything to fight back and would definitely die in the hands of the men there, in the most miserable way. Well, he would find strength even if he needed to go back from hell.

-In the Senju camp-

Hashirama was sleeping peacefully when he was woken up by a bad feeling. He looked at the moon and somehow was sure of it, Madara needed his help. He got up and, without awakening Tobirama or anyone, he walked out of the house. He put on his armor and started running, somehow knowing where he was going.

"Don´t worry, Mada, here I come"

The young Uchiha has already lost hope of escaping when a tree suddenly attacked his captors. They tried to fight, but were quickly overpowered by the mysterious attacker and lied dead in the floor. He keep walking until he was caught by somebody.

"Mada…" he heard his friend´s voice and felt like crying. Someone heard his prays ad saved him from the horrible fate those men were conducting him to. Not his family, not his clan… but his friend who he thought was an enemy. "My God, Madara, what was happening? Does those guys kidnapped you or something?"

"My clan gave me to them… to be experimented on" this took aback the young brunette. How could a clan even think of giving away their children for something like that?

"Why?"

"I´m an Uchiha… who made friends with a Senju" the raven felt very tired suddenly, after being forced to walk such a big length for the first time. "But now I´m glad I did. Thank you for saving me"

"You are welcome" Hashirama rose with his friend in his arms. For once the younger male didn´t reply, he was already falling asleep. While he was running towards home, the brunette pondered on what to do with him. He couldn´t just return home with an injured Uchiha, they will kill them both. Then he remembered he saw a little cave that would make a nice temporary home once when he was going to the river. Without even thinking he headed towards there.

"We are here!" he woke up his friend once they were in the place. Madara opened his eyes only to find himself surrounded by rocks and dust.

"I didn´t knew that you Senju slept in caves" he said a little bit sarcastically.

"Hum… well… no, but… I can´t take you to the compound, my father would kill us both" explained the brunette, lifting his hands in surrender. "Believe me, Butsuma Senju is capable of anything, he beats me up like three times a day"

"I can say, you are always covered in bruises" the raven said and yawned, he didn´t have even the strength to tease or pest the other. "You can go away now, I can sleep on my own."

"But, Mada, you still need…"

"Whatever I need, you could bring it tomorrow" the Uchiha yawned again. He didn´t want to depend on the Senju, but he had no other option for now. Hashirama nodded finally and went away, running as fast as he could.

-in the morning-

"I heard some strange sound last night" commented Tobirama to his half asleep brother. Hashirama had been nodding away from conscious, as if he spent the whole night awake. Finally the idiot felt asleep over his breakfast and Tobirama dropped the issue, not wanting to cause more troubles for his nii-san. Butsuma entered that moment and threw the brunette out of his seat to wake him up. After some training from hell, the poor Senju went full of bruises to his home and stole some food and necessities for his friend. Upon arriving at the cave, he noticed the raven still asleep.

"I´m here" he announced himself.

"I´m aware" said Madara, fully awake now. He noticed the other boy´s marks. He raised an eyebrow. "Felt asleep in training?"

"How did you knew? Never mind, this is nothing. He was very nice today compared with what he usually does" the brunette put on the floor the things he got for his friend. "There is some food and blankets… and a change of clothing if you want to…"

"I don´t want to wear Senju clothes" he stated. "Unfortunately, I need clean garbs, I don´t want to go around stinking. Thank you anyway"

"Maybe we could go to the river now and…"

"My clan knows about that river, Hashirama, it´s not save for us to go back. Forget that place, this will be our new meeting spot"

"But I liked that place!"

"You are loud" the Uchiha covered his ears. "And I liked that place too, but I don´t want to end up dead or in the hands of a snake psycho who would do Rikudo Sennin knows what to me. Do you want to end up like that?" a shook of the others head was his answer. "I believed so. Come sit down with me and share the food"

"It´s for you"

"I don´t eat as much, come on, help me finish it" they spent the rest of the afternoon eating and chatting, then spar a bit until they felt asleep together. When Hashirama realized what hour it was, he panicked and ran home after telling his friend to stay inside and not made any sound. The young Uchiha nodded, covering himself on a blancket to pass the night… he didn´t want to be alone but for now he need to get used to it.

-In the Uchiha comppound-

"What?" asked Tajima after one of his men told him that the snakes were ambushed by a Senju. "Did he killed Madara too?"

"His body was nowhere to be found" informed the man. "But I was sure it was a Senju, I sense the chakra and recovered this" the man pulled out of his pocked a piece of cloth with the Senju crest in it.

"Interesting" said the clan leader. "A Senju helping an Uchiha, who would have told. And I know exactly who must be the one that showed up to save the little traitor. Let´s arrange a meeting with their leader, shall we?"

"Why?"

"Maybe we will get to see a Senju getting killed by another one after all" he laughed and went away. Little Izuna, hiding behind the door, prayed to whatever deity that was out there for his brother to be safe. He didn´t want him to be hurt, but lacked the strength to oppose his father. And if that boy saved him…

"Izuna! Come here now, you stupid little shit!"

"Right away, father!" answered the boy and ran to the place where the armors were kept hidden, so they couldn´t be stolen. He put on his in silence, not wanting to do this. "What going to happened with nii-san when…"

"He will be executed for sure… along with his Senju friend"

-In the Senju compound-

Butsuma Senju received the message immediately and prepared his forces to fight off the Uchiha invasion that was threatening his lands. Hashirama dressed up in his armor a little bit worries, why couldn´t this happen in another time? He had to get some food to his friend! Then he realized that the invasion was most probably his fault, that the enemy realized a Senju rescued their sacrifice and were searching specifically for him. In his cave, Madara felt the familiar chakras and rose. He needed to get Hashirama out of there immediately.

When they finally reached the river, the Senju and the Uchiha faced each others and Tajima walked to the front, smiling at the other leader.

"We mean no harm now, just hand over what we came for and we will leave" Hashirama tensed.

"Whatever it is, you are not going to get it"

"Oh? And what if I tell you there was a traitor in your clan that helped one of mine? I don´t particularly care if he stays between you, but I want the child that escaped back. Still need him, you know"

"But… that couldn´t be" Butsuma was now analyzing the situation. His eldest took a step back, preparing to leave in any moment. His father without any doubt will kill him first and ask questions later. "There was no one out that night except…" he turned to the brunette. "Hashirama… tell me you didn´t do what I think you did"

"Father…"

"Answer me, boy" his serious look was terrifying and all the clan was now analyzing him, as if they were trying to tell if he was really the culprit.

"Hashirama aniya?" asked Tobirama, remembering the strange noises he heard the night before. They could have very well be his brother putting on his armor and leaving to help an Uchiha.

"I…" that was all the answer they needed, it was obvious by his behavior that he was culprit. Butsuma landed a punch on his face that sent him to the ground.

"What did you do? You Traitor! You are a shame to the name of the Senju!" he yelled and grabbed his katana, willing to end his own son´s life. Hashirama closed his eyes, praying that the man didn´t do it and that his friend remained safe. He by any means awaited for a voice yelling…

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" the Senju fled from the spot, dodging the fireball and the young boy felt a hand grabbing his arm. "Let´s go, Hashirama! Run!"

"But…"

"There is nothing you can do! We have to leave, NOW!" the brunette listened to his friends and both boys took off, being chased by elder shinobi from both clans. By the end of the day, the persecutors retuned empty handed.

"Then, the name of Hashirama Senju will not exist anymore" sighed Butsuma. The boy was his son after all, and death was better than what he was about to do. "I declare him a traitor and expel him from the clan. Since now he is nobody" In the other camp, Tajima pronounced similar words when he banished his son Madara.

-With the boys-

"We have to get back" tried to reason with the raven his friend. The other boy was biting his lip, knowing full well what was happening back in the camps.

"We can´t go back… ever. We have been banished from the clans" with these, Hashirama´s eyes filled with tears, but he didn´t cry and continued on. They needed to put a great distant between them and the clans if they wanted to be alive in the following days.

hey, this is a little history that came to my mind when i was out of inspiration for the bet. hope you like it and review!