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There were always problems with war.

The enemy, the fellow clan members, things always managed to escalate quickly while fighting. There were always clans which would be up for hire, fighting for money or for food or even for a place to stay.

Rain hailed down just as a figure hurtled along the grassy ground in a flash of lightening, struggling to sit up and rest against there elbows, green eyes narrowed towards the village in front of her.

Guards ran towards her, full hostility was evident, "Hands up!" One shouted, the woman on the ground went to stand only to collapse again and not move.


There was nothing more annoying, apart from the obvious points in life, which Madara chose to ignore and other parts which he paid attention to.

"Remind me why I am here."

"Co-founder of Konoha you have to be here." Hashirama Senju, Madara sighed heavily at his words and crossed his arms over his black shirt. Hashirama chose to ignore the angered man beside him and opened the door to the hospital room. A doctor was pottering around the room and stopped his business when he noticed the two of them.

On the bed in the middle of the room was an unconscious red haired woman, Hashirama and Madara exchanged a look before looking at the doctor. "Is she alright?"

"Extreme exhaustion and a few broken bones, apart from that she's fine. Nothing a good long sleep won't fix."

"A drug induced sleep you mean." Madara muttered while uncrossing his arms and putting his hands in his pockets, both the doctor and Hashirama looked at him, walking more into the room the long brown haired man looked over the appearance of the woman. "Do you know when she'll awaken?"

"No, it could be anything between tonight and three days." The doctor said and then put down a chart, "Excuse me I have other patients to attend to."

"Hey," Madara said while stepping into the doctors path, the doctor naturally shrunk back slightly, "Why is she not rigged up to monitors and that?"

"She interferes with them."

"She's unconscious." Madara raised an eyebrow at his words, shrugging he let the doctor go out of the room and attend to his other patients. Hashirama picked up a wire which he presumed was rigged up to the woman, the end of the sensor was frazzled and charred.

"Think she fought back? That's no interfering that's just fighting the medical system." Madara said while picking up another wire and examining it, little did they know behind them the woman on the bed had opened her eyes and looked towards them.

Removing the oxygen mask from around her mouth she silently sat up and swung her legs over the edge of the bed. Wincing and clutching onto her head she shook it and then flinched, blinking and slowly looking up she flinched again when the dark spiky haired man was looking over his shoulder at her.

"Well look who has woken up, tonight or three days what a liar. What sort of people did you hire?" Madara questioned in a hostile tone, Hashirama shook his head and dismissed Madara with a wave of a hand. "Hello you are safe here." He smiled kindly, the red head nodded slowly and looked at the cast on her arm. "I am Hashirama Senju, this is Madara Uchiha." He explained while pointing to himself and then to the man beside him.

"Safe?" Came a quiet yet confused voice, "Safe?"

"Yes you are safe here."

"No I am not, can't you hear them?"

"You're a crack pot." Madara said simply while looking at her, the woman shook her head and put her hands on the side of her head. Hashirama looked at her worriedly, "Get a doctor."

"Why me?" All Madara received was a serious look, he sighed and went to leave to get a doctor to possibly sedate the woman. "It is no use! They are coming here."

"You're insane! Shut up and lie down...seriously," Madara ranted and put his hand on the door handle, Hashirama flinched when crackling erupted through the room and the Uchiha leader went shuttling backwards from the door and crashing into a wall.

Hashirama went to say something but the red head doubled over and disappeared in a flash, "When you've recovered from your moment we need to find that woman. She's unstable and confused."

"Unstable? She's insane!" Madara shouted while pulling himself from the rubble of the wall.


Standing on one of the tall buildings of the village Cho looked around seriously, she hadn't meant to come here. In all honesty she wanted to completely miss having to crash outside the gates, looking at her arm cast quickly she flinched when a familiar sandy haired man landed on the gates.

Gritting her teeth Cho ran towards the edge of the building only to be intercepted by the tall Uchiha leader, who look little less than angered by her. Shaking her head Cho jumped and grabbed onto one of his shoulders and jumped over him to head towards the man, who was running equally quickly towards her.

Madara turned and watched her run, shrugging he crossed his arms and watched, using her apparent skill of using lightening he didn't see the point of going to get her. He'd only end up getting electrocuted again.

He rethought over his plan though when he watched her get kicked to the side and smacking right into a building. He may not approved much of the village but he still had to live in it, and the less wreckage the better.

The last thing he wanted was to be sent on cleaning missions.

Groaning and rolling his dark eyes Madara jumped towards the sandy haired man, grabbing a hold of his collar he narrowed his eyes. "Back off and leave."

"You Uchiha are protecting her now?" The man asked seriously, Madara raised an eyebrow at him, "No. I don't know the woman, but I do know this place. You get my attention you get the Senju's attention, I would like to know how you'd escape here alive from both of us." He smirked and watched the man back off and disappear.

Turning and looking at the woman Madara tilted his head to the side confused, "You got your arse kicked."

"I'm injured."

"That's not really an excuse."

"That's not really an excuse," she mimicked and picked herself out from the building, Madara narrowed his eyes at her. "Whatever-"

"I just saved your life be a little grateful yeah?" He said while gripping her white t-shirt and pushing her to a wall. She winced and let out a rough cough, "Madara! Drop her!"

"Literally? Because it would be my pleasure might knock some manners into her." He seethed while glaring towards her again. "Madara." Hashirama said seriously, begrudgingly he let go of her shirt, coughing again and straightening the white hospital clothes she looked between the two.

"You have explaining to do." Hashirama said while walking up to her, she nodded slowly and looked up at him. "I'm Cho!" She beamed while sticking out a hand, the two males looked at each other confused and then at her.