Before the fight

Chapter 1: the beginning of everything

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Thoughts

Paragraphs are memories

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One day a woman appeared in the five elemental nations. It was said that her hair was as crimson as blood, her eyes as pale as translucent jade and her skin was as pale as a new snow. Her name was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and she was a princess from a very distant land. No one really knew much about her other than that she had come to their warring lands to stop said wars. She had tried to talk to the various leaders, had tried to reason with them, but she had only been ignored. In a panic and with a heavy heart, she sought out a tree in the highest mountains of the land of clouds. This tree was slightly different from normal trees, this tree was called Shinju and its fruit had the most destructive power in all creation. Kaguya took a bite from this tree's fruit and realized her mistake a little too late.

Fainting at the base of the tree, Kaguya's maids rushed to her side, trying desperately to wake her. Realizing that there was nothing they could do, they lifted her and returned her to her home in the land of fire. She slept the entire trek home, her face red as if she had a fever, her skin clammy as if she had just stepped out of a hot spring and little by little, her unusually crimson hair turned paler and paler with each step taken to Kaguya's home until it became a translucent white.

One week after their return the maids found that their mistress was withering in pain, and before their very eyes, two horns ripped and torn their way out of Kaguya's forehead. Holding her down to keep the princess from hurting herself, the maids watched horrified as a part of her forehead began to split open, revealing a single crimson eye with two sets of three tomoe spinning lazily.

After another week of restless fretting and keeping the princess from scratching her skin off in her blind pain, the young woman had finally awoken. Kaguya looked around herself blurry, before smiling apologetically at her closest maid, the young woman gasped and cried out in joy. She imminently launched herself at her friend, murmuring her worries as her tears fell. Kaguya chuckled and, at the insistence of her head maid, returned to resting to regain her strength.

The next time Kaguya woke, she awoke to the sounds of chaos. Struggling to her feet, Kaguya commanded one of her maids to take her to the platform just outside of her room. Snarling disdainfully at the sight of three fully forged armies at her palace's gates, Kaguya watched as they launched attach after attach on her home. They flung giant fire balls, shot flaming arrows and threw poisonous gas bombs at her home. Seeing that there really wasn't much that she could do herself, Kaguya raised her hands towards the sky begging for lightning to strike the armies at her door steps. She watched, hypnotized, as the elements around her did just that. She watched as a heavy rain dowsed the fires within her walls, but didn't touch the flames licking at her enemies beyond her walls. She watched as a great landslide fell from a nearby hill, crushing and swallowing half of one army.

Lowering her arms, Kaguya watched as everything fell silent once more. No fires were flung, no arrows were shot and no poisons were thrown. Kaguya didn't move from her balcony until the next day, when the clouds cleared to revile a clear blue sky and a bright shinny yellow orb. She watched as the armies slowly collected themselves and just as slowly marched away from her home. She waited until she couldn't see any more flags or persons still near her home and then, and only then, did she collapse into the waiting arms of her best friend.

After a year of negotiations, Kaguya accepted that in order to stop another war from breaking out, she would need to marry one of the most powerful men in one of the thousands of clans that made up the elemental nations.

So she held a competition

The winner of the competition would be her husband and after four months of endless games and tests, the strongest male from the clans prevailed. Shortly after she was married and a year later she gave birth to two Sons. The eldest she named Hagoromo and the youngest she named Tonoromo, her husband was away from the palace when she gave birth, and had sent a maid from his clan's household to give her the news. When the maid found the children, she re-laid the message that Kaguya's husband had given her should the children not take after his likeness. She told Kaguya that he would be furious that his sons had her snow white hair and horns on their heads. She said that he would claimed that Kaguya was more demon then human and that he wouldn't be returning to the palace, Kaguya would need to raise the boys by herself.

She had done so without complaint, she taught them as much as she knew and even went so far as to ask the best teachers in the nations to teach her sons what she couldn't. Not once did she seek help from her husband or his clan, she refused to bow her head to the man who abandoned her and his sons because they didn't look like him.

And as the years passed and with each report that the teachers would give, Kaguya was pleased when she learned that her two sons showed to be as unique as she was.

Hagoromo, with his cheerful purple swirled eyes, was the more active and emotional of the twins. He was constantly coming up with something new to do with the abilities he inherited from his mother, he called these strange new things 'Nin jutsu's' and he was always more than happy to show and teach anyone who asked.

Tonoromo, looking every bit his mother's male twin, took after his mother's intelligence and with his father's imagination, he was able to create strange drawings he called seals. He was calmer and stricter then his older twin, enabling him to read and understand the people that surrounded him and his family. It was how he knew a young maid had a crush on his brother and how he knew that one of the more loyal Samurai in his mother's guards would have been more than happy to give Hagoromo and Tonoromo siblings.

When the boys were sixteen, their mother had become ill and at her request both had let her be escorted to the Shinju tree by twenty of her best Samurai. She didn't allow them to come with her, knowing that she was going to die once she returned to the great Shinju tree. The brothers watched her leave the palace that they had grown in; knowing that it would be the last time that either one would ever see her again.

As the days turned to weeks and the weeks turned to months and still the Samurai didn't return, the twins were beginning to worry about the group of men. Seven months after their departure and a month after of Tonoromo's wedding, one of the Samurai from Kaguya's guard returned. He staggered and swayed until he collapsed into his wife's arms, seeing the twin boys, now men, he finally relayed Kaguya's last message to them.

"The Shinju wish's to reclaim its stolen power." The man recited his eyes wide as he tried to remember. "As such it has become a true demon, a demon Kaguya-Hime has returned her whole being to and still the Shinju seeks its lost power… by order of the princesses, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Tonoromo Ōtsutsuki must leave the palace and flee the Shinju. For surly he will absorb you as well." The man coughed harshly, blood spilt from his lips as he dragged in a ragged breath.

"This is Kaguya-Hime's final wish…" The man's voice died off in a faint whisper, his body becoming limp in his wife's arms. The two brothers shared a look before they left the weeping family of the last solider of Kaguya's personal guard. There was only one thing they could do for those they cared for… and their mother wasn't going to like it one bit.

"How strong are your seals?" Hagoromo asked his brother as he tucked his sword into place. Tonoromo thought it strange that his brother was wherein every single one of his many weapons that he specialized in.

"That'll depend on how much time I'm given to create one." Tonoromo countered as he started working in one of his larger scrolls. "When are you leaving for the Shinju?"

"Mother never did like it when we shared the same thought." Hagoromo smirked at twin, his smile slowly stretched to cover his entire face. "You still working on that tell-a-thingy?"

"It's not a 'tell-a-thingy'" Tonoromo growled as he reached for a small scroll nearby. "It's a teleportation seal." Tonoromo smiled at his twin as the scroll in his hand flew across the room.

"And yes," Hagoromo yelped and glared at his smirking brother. "That should be sufficient in summoning me when you get to the Shinju." Tonoromo grinned as he returned to sketching and drawing many different seals and sub seals.

"Who's sane enough to summon you?" Hagoromo grumbled under his breath.

"You, if you want to live long enough to marry Shikanami." Tonoromo replied with a mocking grin. Hagoromo growled in warning but otherwise didn't say anything as he leaped off the balcony of their child hood room.

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"Dearest," a soft voice called several hours after Hagoromo left, Tonoromo stopped his humming and turned towards the entrance of his old room, towards his slowly approaching wife. "There is news of new life… our new life..." a deep crimson blush stained her pale cheeks, her midnight brown locks were tied loosely at her shoulders and she stared worriedly at him, her hands folded in her lap.

"…Our new life…" Tonoromo repeated slowly as he stared at his wife for a moment then his eyes went wide and he made disbelieving sound. Stumbling up to his feet, Tonoromo rushed to his wife's side and swept her up into a laughing hug and spun her about his childhood room.

"I could never be happier then I am right now," Tonoromo whispered into his wife's ear, kissing her gently.

"But you're still leaving…" She whispered in return, her hands clasping at his chest in a white knuckle grip. Tonoromo smiled to himself, he wondered just when she had figured it out, after all out everyone who knew him; it was only his wife who could predict his movements so well, even compared to his brother. "After all that work you put in to get me… and you're still going to give up." Tonoromo chuckled and lifted his wife's face to place another kiss on her lips.

"I'll come back for you," Tonoromo promised, he pressed his hand to her stomach and smiled at her. "For her if nothing else."

"You seem to be rather sure about that daughter you want so bad," she huffed back at him with a chiding look on her soft face.

"Call it a dream," Tonoromo chuckled back to her. "And if you give birth to a boy then we'll just try again and again until we get that daughter." She smiled and put her head on his shoulder, Tonoromo wrapped his arms around her and squeezing gently.

"I don't want you to go," She said softly. "Kaguya-kaa-san said to leave, why don't we? All of us together? We could make it…"

"But we can't run forever," Tonoromo said softly. "The Shinju will find us eventually and in the time that it spends searching for us it will do nothing more than destroy and kill any and all in its way." Tonoromo pulled away to look into his wife's frightened and yet understanding black eyes.

"It'll even hunt you and the children. I can't allow that." He kissed her forehead once more. "It'll kill me if you leave me behind so soon."

"And what about the children?" She asked, tears threatening her midnight-blue eyes. "Will you leave them so soon? Before they're even born?"

"I told you love," Tonoromo smiled as he whipped a tear away with his thumb. "I'll return to you."

"I know you'll return," She replied as she pressed her face into his palm. "I'm more worried about you returning alive."

Tonoromo's answering smile didn't reassure her in the least.

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A day and a half later

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"It's about time you showed up," Hagoromo panted with a half hearted glare at his twin. The Shinju gave out an irritated roar and sent out a wave of chakra at the twin brothers, making both young men jump and duck for cover.

"Mitsuki-chan is with child!" Tonoromo smiled at him in return throwing two large scrolls at his brother. Hagoromo thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head as he caught the thrown projectiles reflexively.

"Already?!" he asked bewildered. "It's been a month! Just when did you two—"

"Hagoromo focus!" Tonoromo cried out, watching as Shinju sent out an arm to capture the distracted boy. Hagoromo let out a yelp as he dogged and vanished from sight, only to appear closer to Tonoromo.

"How long have you been against it?" Tonoromo cried out as he ran off to a flatter plain nearby, hoping to draw the tree into his hopeful trap.

"I just got here!" Hagoromo snapped back. "The only thing I found out is that my Nin jutsu's don't work against it!"

"I could've told you that!" Tonoromo shouted as he laid out a scroll and ran in another direction. "You're Nin jutsu didn't work on mother! It would make sense if it didn't work on the thing that created her!"

"Shut it smarty pants!" Hagoromo cried out as he raced to place the two scrolls he was given. "What are these for?!"

"I'll tell you when it gets here!" Tonoromo snapped out as he set his last scroll in the center of the field. "Now get over here!" Hagoromo grumbled as he joined his brother.

"Well? What are they for?" Hagoromo asked as he landed beside his twin, Tonoromo gave him an exasperated look, one that was creepily similar to their mothers agitated expression.

"Well we have to seal it into something," Tonoromo answered as he turned to look back at the slowly approaching tree. "It would be best if we could get these scrolls around it, but I can't see how big—"

Suddenly both brothers jumped away as the demon tree tried to crush them with another shock wave.

"Hagoromo-nii!" Tonoromo cried out. "Get the Black and Golden scrolls four hundred meters behind it! I'll do the same with the Gray and Crimson ones!"

"Right!" Hagoromo answered as he ran to do as he was told. This better work brother.

Tonoromo smiled wistfully as he heard the Shinju give out a loud cry as it watched the brother's separate, it wasn't sure which one to go after first.

Now I just have to believe in my brother and hopefully everything would be okay. Tonoromo thought as he adjusted his sealing scrolls.

Forgive me love, but I fear your intuition is correct once more. Tonoromo steadied himself on a great stone, watching as the furious Shinju made way towards him. The great Shinju was chasing after his elusive brother who kept throwing different jutsu's at him just to make the stupid tree angry.

Tonoromo watched as his brother landed in the center of the seals, the Shinju not far behind him, he smiled bitterly before he activated the scrolls. He watched as pillars of light shot up around the Shinju and Hagoromo reaching for skies that towered even the great Shinju.

One crimson, one golden, one black, one blue and the one that Hagoromo held out before him flared out in the most brilliant of white lights that either brother had ever seen.

"Sealing art: Eternal Demon Sleep!" Tonoromo cried out forming a seal with his hands as he glared at the angry Shinju before him. The great tree cried out in anger and pain as it was ripped into nine different forms and sealed within Hagoromo.

Forgive me love… Tonoromo thought as he looked off in the direction of his home, his body already falling towards the earth. I'll be waiting for you on the other side…

"BROTHER!" a familiar voice cried out

"...Good job...My son..." a familiar voice chuckled at him. Just the sound of it enveloped him in a warm, welcoming embrace. "Welcome home, son..."

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Mitsuki panted heavily in her bed as her nurse maid commanded her to push harder, giving out a loud cry, Mitsuki flopped back onto her pillows when she heard another cry. She knew that this cry was different from her own. It was the sound of her first born. Her first born child was screaming their little heart out and she couldn't be happier, the nurse maid smiled as she put the small baby beside her.

"It's a girl my lady." The old matron whispered as she pushed back Mitsuki's dark bangs from her even darker eyes.

"A girl," Mitsuki whimpered as she pressed her face as close to the crying child as she dared. "Just what he wanted… a baby girl—AAAH!" Mitsuki gave out another cry as she pressed a hand to her still swollen stomach.

"Another one!" a panicked nurse cried out to the old doctor. "She's having twins!"

"Bloody hell," Mitsuki grumbled as she started the birthing processes again. Why is birthing twins so hellish? How did Kaguya-Hime make it?!

"For your sake Hago-kun, I'd better not be having twins." Mitsuki heard the soft mumble of her best friend from the other side of the room. Mitsuki chuckled before she gave out another pain filled cry.

"Hold on Mitsuki-Hime!" the nurse cried out as she grabbed a towel, looking like she was trying to stem the flow of blood. "Mistress?" She whispered softly, the old woman looked pained as she studied the steadily flowing blood and the small patch of blue skin trying to come out.

"Get Shikanami-Hime," the old woman said softly as she dug her fingers into the young woman's body, clasping desperately for the tiny life her body was trying to eject. "She isn't going to make it…" the nurse paled as she looked at the soon to be mother and with hurt look she turned and ran out of the room, tears streaming down her dark face.

"She's here!" the old woman cried out after ten minutes full of pushing. "Mitsuki-Hime! Your daughter is here!" she placed the child next to the dark haired woman, she watched as the woman smiled and lifted a weak hand to brush pain filled fingers across her two daughter's warm foreheads.

"I've been many places;

I've traveled 'round the world.

Always on the search for something new,

But what does it matter?

When all the roads I've crossed,

Always seem to return to you…"

Mitsuki said softly, sounding as if she was trying to sing.

"Old familiar faces,

everyone you meet,

following the ways of the land.

Cobblestones and lanterns lining every street.

Calling me to come home again…"

Hagoromo and Shikanami burst from around the corner and into Mitsuki's birthing room, what they saw halted both of them in their tracks. Shikanami's hands slapped across her mouth as tears spilt from her too dark eyes. Sitting next to Mitsuki was Tonoromo; between the two were their twin daughters.

"Dancing in the moonlight…

…singing in the rain…

oh, it's good…

to be…

back home…

…again..."

And as Mitsuki's voice slowly faded with her favorite song, Tonormo's deep baritone picked up and finished what his wife could only barely whisper to their children.

"Laughing in the sunlight,

running down the lane,

Oh, it's good to be

back home again."

Tonoromo smiled as he pressed his forehead against his weak wife's, tears gathering in his pearl eyes.

"When you play with fire,

sometimes you get burned.

It happens when you take a chance or two,

But time is never wasted.

When you've lived and learned

And in time it comes back to you…"

Hagoromo froze as he saw the life slowly leave Mitsuki's body and her spirit take form beside her husband and together they finished their song.

"And when I got weary,

I'd sit a while and rest.

Memories invading my mind,

All the things I'd treasured.

The ones I'd loved the best,

Were the things that I'd left behind…"

"What took you so long love?" Mitsuki asked as Tonoromo lifted himself from the bed and wrapped his arms around his wife.

"I told you I'd come home back for you." Tonoromo murmured with a sad smile, Mitsuki chuckled and wrapped her arms around him.

"You always did find a way to keep your word, no matter how late you were." Mitsuki murmured with a smile.

"When have I ever been late?" Tonoromo asked with a knowing grin, Hagoromo and Shikanami watched in stunned silence as the two faded, their laughter echoing in the suddenly still room. With wobbly legs Shikanami slowly walked foreword and with unsteady legs she sat on the edge of the bed. She pushed back sweaty dark hair from her friend's peaceful face before she reached over and picked up one of the girls, she smiled and cuddled the tiny baby close to her, Hagoromo soon joining her. As he lifted the tiny baby into his arms, he gasped and fell to his knees, tears finally spilt from his purple ringed eyes.

"Sweat heart?" Shikanami called softly, her voice thick with emotion. "Is there something wrong?" Hagoromo chuckled as he tightened his hold on the too small baby in his arms.

"She's perfect," Hagoromo murmured as he locked eyes with his wife, tears still falling gently. "Their perfect."

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Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki was the master of the five element chakra styles, as well as the yin and yang releases. Yet as he sat at his dinner table, watching as his twin sons try to steal small bits of food from his brother's daughters, Hagoromo couldn't help but think that even in death, Tonoromo still bested him in something. Tonoromo's daughters, Shuiro and Tsukiko, were every bit their father's and mother's children. Even at the age of twelve they were well mannered and respectful… when it was required at least.

There was no mistaking Tsukiko's father, even if she looked like a perfect replica of her mother, she bore Tonoromo's strange pale white eyes. She acted every bit of the perfect little Hime the maids often called her, she never seemed to make a mistake; every action was calculated and well thought out—like her parents both had the annoying habit. Tsukiko had actually came up with her own fighting style, a hand-to-hand style that was pretty damn useful if she could get within range and if Hagoromo was going to be honest with himself, he'd say that the black haired beauty was a little scary when she got mad in a fight. As both Shuiro and Indra found out on multiple occasions… as did a few other children… and some Samurai.

Shuiro was a red head with eyes as blue as the moon sometimes became, other than that, Shuiro was a near replica of the previous Kaguya who hadn't yet eaten the Shinju's fruit. Hagoromo was more than glade that Shuiro only looked like her grandmother, if she had the same abilities as her, Hagoromo was sure that he just might have gone insane trying to teach her how to control her powers. As it was, Shuiro was a master Sealer. She took after her father with his strange imagination and habit of making seals for both the most useless and useful things that Hagoromo would have never thought of using them for.

Like, for example, Shuiro had a small habit of putting a strange seal in the practice grounds of the guards, making the unfortunate sparing Samurai freeze from the waist down for about five minutes. Thus forcing the two men to spare in whatever awkward position they just so happen to be in when the seal was activated—which was, occasionally, quite amusing to watch. It wasn't so amusing when a passing servant would get caught up in the seal and end up spending five minutes avoiding the strikes of the suddenly irritated Samurai.

The only good thing that came from that was the few attacks that were landed inside the walls of the palace ended in failure because the servants learned very quickly how to avoid getting hit by sharp things in the most awkward of positions. Hagoromo wasn't sure what the red head did to the servant's dorms each month, but more than once he had seen the squealing girl go running through the house trying to avoid the very furious women hot on her tail... and sometimes a few Samurai where chasing her too.

THWACK

Hagoromo's eyes twitched as both Shuiro and Tsukiko stabbed both Indra and Asura's hands with their chopsticks.

"Don't touch my food," the girls said threateningly to their respective food thief. Hagoromo watched as both boys readied their own chopsticks and knew that if he didn't interfere soon, then there'd be another food fight—he wasn't in the mood to play food-dodge tonight.

"Boys," Hagoromo called, his sons froze mid strike. The girl's, smirking together from their seats, believed that they hadn't been caught. "Girls." Well that whipped off their smirks.

"No fighting at the dinner table." Hagoromo warned as he placed his coup to his lips. I need to find a woman for the girls to look up to. They act too much like boys to find appropriate husbands… I wonder if that thought is making Tonoromo squirm in his grave?

With a new train of thought, Hagoromo watched his sons tried to continue to steal small bits of food from their older cousins without getting caught (if only they knew that Hagoromo and Tonoromo often did the same when they were young and it was Kaguya who would get after them for trying to be sneaky at the dinner table). The girls would in turn either let them steal whatever piece of food they didn't like or played the chopstick war over the piece they did like.

Hagoromo sighed as Tsukiko skimmed the edge of Indra's crimson utensil with a well placed fingernail, making the younger boy frown at his broken chopsticks, his crimson circler brows pulling down and his crimson ringed eyes narrow disdainfully at the broken pieces of wood.

"She warned you," Shuiro said softly, trying to hide her smile behind her bowl of rice.

"Just as I did," Hagoromo said just as softly, the four children stiffened and turned wiry eyes his way, not one of them daring to look into his eyes because of embarrassment. "After dinner prepare—" He didn't get to finish the sentence as the four children groaned together and the door to the room opened, reveling a shy maid bowing in the door way.

"Forgive me Hagoromo-sama," the maid said softly as she shuffled forward slightly so she could kneel within the room. "Messengers have come from the Hyunsa and the Uzunashi clans."

Hagoromo felt his brow twitch at the names, the two clans were trying to get both Tsukiko and Shuiro to marry into their families and he wasn't too sure if he should let them send their heirs here to woo the girls. The up-side is that both Asura and Indra would beat the living daylights out of the boys, the down side is that the girls were interested—curious, he reminded himself, the girl's were curious—about the heirs that they—might—someday marry.

"Are they still pushing our marriage?" Shuiro asked, a look of disgust twisting her pretty face. Tsukiko's only sign of irritation was the wild twitching in her right eyebrow, something that Hagoromo thought was amusing to watch on her mother's face and he found it to be just as amusing on the younger girl's.

"Yes my lady," the maid said softly. "They are waiting for an audience with Hagoromo-sama in the main lobby."

Asura and Indra shared a look that Hagoromo knew well and judging by the soft nods both Shuiro and Tsukiko gave seconds later, the girls had just given the boys permission to run off the messengers. Holding back a sigh and the urge to rub at his temples, Hagoromo made a quick decision that would hopefully keep the four children from killing their guests.

"Our guests shall eat with us," Hagoromo said as he turned his purple ringed eyes towards the maid, trying to ignore the disbelieving and horrified looks on the children's faces. "They've traveled a long way, surly they are hungry… and tiered." Hagoromo regretted adding the last sentence as he saw the amused look Tsukiko and Indra shared with Shuiro and Asura.

Their guests were in for one hell-of-a dinner

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Hagoromo watched amused as Indra and Asura sulked in a corner of the ceremony, Shuiro was the first to get married off to the Uzunashi clan. Her hyper and cheerful personality made the stoic and calm Kentaro a little more emotional and less like a soulless doll. It had taken the two kids, three years to admit that they liked each other and another four years for Kentaro to gain enough confidence to ask him for Shuiro's hand.

Hagoromo's eyes wondered over to the bride's maid and best man, a light dancing his eyes as he watched the young Hyunsa heir try to gain Tsukiko's attention. The white eyed girl refused to admit that she liked the boy and was content with making the boy fight for her favor—the same stunt her mother had pulled with her father.

"Father," Hagoromo turned at the sound of his eldest son's voice, the pouting teen had finally decided to talk to him at last. "Why did you give that man permission? You know his clan only seeks the power that the Ōtsutsuki name brings." Hagoromo nodded in agreement with Indra, his eyes wondering back to watch Shuiro all but topple her new husband in a crushing kiss.

"But she is happy with him; would you deny Shuiro-chan happiness to state your own dislike?" Hagoromo turned and smiled fondly at his eldest son. "If I had ordered him to fight you for Shuiro's hand then you would have killed him in seconds."

Indra thought about it for a moment before he sighed and turned away from his father, content to watch Shuiro and her new husband walk down the aisle towards the carriage that would take them to their honeymoon destination.

"She's happy that he's alive and that she gets to spend the rest of her life with him," Hagoromo said as he watched the happy couple enter the carriage and wave good bye to everyone left behind. "Why deny her that happiness? Don't we all deserve happiness?"

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Holy Cow! 44 pages! Should I have split it up into different chapters?

What do you think? I made such a big change to the original first chapter of 'don't fight' that when I split it up as an experiment, I got a prequel instead.

Who knew fixing everything would be so difficult?

By the way, the song was 'home again' by Blackmore's night

By the way I found something interesting with Kaguya's son's names!

Ha-go-ro-mo

Ha-shi-ra-ma

And because the Manga apparently doesn't state what Hagoromo's brother's name was, I decided to use Tobirama as a reference.

I just thought that it was amusing that Hagoromo and Hashirama had so many similarities with the shared letters and beginnings.

So when I came up with a name for Hagoromo's brother's name I had to make sure that it was similar to his own as both Hashirama and Tobirama both share 'rama' in their names; which would make Hagoromo and his brother share 'romo'.

Since Hagoromo and Hashirama both shared 'Ha' in the beginning of their names, then Hagoromo's brother and Tobirama would share 'To' in the beginning of their names.

So for an hour I sat at the table starring at a line that said 'To_romo' and trying to figure out what would be good for the middle piece. I couldn't use 'bi' in Tobi because that'd be pretty unimaginative and people would figure it out pretty quickly.

Hagoromo and Hashirama only shared a few similar letters, then Tobirama and 'To_romo' would only be able to share a few letters too.

And then it hit me! (Literally I smacked my face to kill a bug and I figured it out XD)

Tobirama and Tonoromo!

Hagoromo has three 'o's in it! So then his little brother would need three 'o's too!

And I tried to figure out what the opposite letter of 'b' was in the Japanese alphabet, but I couldn't come up with anything.

So I just figured I'd use 'n' and be done with it, I was getting a headache anyways.

To-bi-ra-ma

To-no-ro-mo

Ha-go-ro-mo

Ha-shi-ra-ma

I feel so proud of myself

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