Fated to Meet You

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hi Friends! This is my first Fanfic, and I'm soo excited! Feel free to leave a review, and a follow, and a favorite. Lately, I've been obsessed with TobiramaxOC fanfics, and I was like "Why not write my own?!" So here it is!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, character or plot, from Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto.

Synopsis: It was as long as history that the Senju and Uchiha rivalry was evident. Children of one were taught the kill the other. But why couldn't Senju Tobirama bring his sword across the Uchiha's neck when her blood was already trickling down from the wound. His scarlet eyes looked into her onyx ones that with all her strength masked her fear. TobiramaxOC. M rating just in case.

Chapter One: Uchiha

"Uchiha Mai! Get up!" The sternness that possessed each word caused the sleeping girl to wake up and immediately sit up in her futon. The sense of panic made the girl's onyx eyes dart right and left, and up and down at everything in her room. It took a few seconds until her eyes could see the fine lines engraved into the wooden floor panels. Too tired to even speak, the Uchiha child's dark eyes looked cautiously up from a pair of white socked feet to a blur that covered a woman's face in front of her. The woman, a fellow Uchiha herself, scowled with her own onyx eyes down at the young Uchiha. "It is already sunrise. Who do you think you are to sleep in?" The middle-aged woman did not waver the discipline that embraced each word as they came out of her mouth.

The girl, Mai, looked down to the brown wooden floors of her room, and blinked. Something was wrong. She was in her room, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was how this woman in front of her get into her home? Why would any Uchiha want to come to the outskirts of the Uchiha Village to see her? She was a mere, lone child. Was this person an Uchiha impersonator? No, she couldn't be. She had all the Uchiha characteristics to prove that: onyx eyes and ebony hair. However, this was the Warring States Period and anything could be possible. But how could she have known of Mai's name if she was an impostor?

Mai rarely went into the concentrated heart of the Uchiha Village; therefore, the woman in front of her was just as new to her as the majority of the clan was. "I-I apologize for my inconsiderate action." Mai apologized as clearly as she could. All the while, her throat constricted at every word. The dryness in the back of her throat did not recede even after swallowing her own saliva. With guard, Mai's onyx eyes looked up to the adult in front of her. The middle-aged woman's ebony hair was gathered into a tight bun behind her head and her onyx eyes had light crow's feet that extended out from the corners of her eyes. Mai couldn't tell whether or not the woman was frowning or if it was the effect of the lines on both sides of her mouth that made her look like she was.

The woman in front of girl internally scoffed at knowing why the girl looked up at her in such a way. "Get up. Elder Mio would like to speak with you." She said to prove her lineage.

Staring up at the woman, her memory played for her of Elder Mio and her always-present-right-hand-servant, Uchiha Ayaka- the woman in front of Uchiha Mai. Every Uchiha have seen at least a glimpse of the elders in their clan. Shedding off the guard, Mai immediately stood up with her eyes wide. "Y-Yes, of course." As she stood up, she ran her fingers through her long ebony hair in an attempt comb it. "I'll be right out, Miss Ayaka." Her onyx eyes were casted down at Ayaka's socked feet still in shock and embarrassment.

"You have five minutes. No later." was all the woman commanded before leaving with light thumps on wooden floor proving her experience as a maid.

"Yes. Thank you." Mai said softly with her eyes still to the ground, and she remained standing until she heard the house door close. When the door closed, the girl's forehead and brows furrowed in a moment of disappointment before she dashed into the washroom.

Upon finishing her hygiene business, Mai took one last look at herself before exiting. Like all Uchiha's, Uchiha Mai possessed long ebony hair, onyx eyes, and fair skin. Her face was small with soft definition, like smooth hills, and her jaw came to a dainty point of her chin. The only thing contradicting her inherited beauty were her eyes that held fatigue with the color of red mixed and swirled into the whites of them. One last time, Mai patted her eyes with fingers soaked with cold water before exiting the washroom. Walking out of her small home, Mai was faced with Ayaka. And she cast her eyes down immediately. It was as if the woman's onyx eyes seemed to constantly hold a constant scowl of discipline like a head and experience maid. "Let's go." Ayaka said softly like a maid but with the sternness of a teacher.

Mai, in response, nodded.

Ayaka took one last look at the Uchiha child before leading the way into the Uchiha Village. The maid could not help but scowl in disgrace at the child struck with poverty who was sent to meet with her beloved elder. Her dark blue kimono shirt had minor tears along the black hem and the blue fabric had been worn down to the shirt's last layer of dark blue thread. Her black pants that skimmed the shape of her thin, yet lean, legs had a small tear on her left calf. The only thing presentable was the beauty she'd gain from her mother but even that wasn't enough when her eyes carried the bags of insomnia.

Elder Mio had told Ayaka of a capable kunoichi given missions directly from Lord Tajima himself by the name Uchiha Mai. The next day, her elder asked her to bring Uchiha Mai to meet with her. She have not heard of a child named Uchiha Mai until she saw the child's sleeping face. That was when the image of Uchiha Yuna appeared in her mind and in front of her, for she was the spitting image of her mother. Uchiha Yuna unlike her child but like many- if not all- Uchiha women were kept within the walls of the Uchiha Village and away from the battlefield of wars. That wasn't uncommon here in the Warring States Period. In a time when death was more prominent than life, women's primary role was to have and care for children, especially if they were of a shinobi clan. Rarely were they ever sent out to the battlefield. The Uchiha Clan was one of the most strongest shinobi clans in the world. And to keep the clan's renown name, and more importantly its blood, children were needed. However, if a female Uchiha was capable to fight for the clan, she was put on the field. That, however, is a slim to none chance for any women in the Uchiha Clan- especially at the odds of Uchiha men. The only exceptional kunoichi she knew of who defied those odds was her mistress, Elder Mio.

Walking into the Uchiha Village, Ayaka guided Mai to the home of Elder Uchiha Mio. Out of all the six Uchiha Elders, Elder Mio was the only female. In her youth, the female elder was renown throughout the nation and beyond as an accomplished kunoichi. And with her name, along with many others, the Uchiha Clan held the revered power of strength throughout the world- next to the Senju of course.

The light thumping on the smooth, dustless floor stopped when they haulted in front of a papered door. Ayaka cleared her throat before announcing her and Mai's arrival. "Elder Mio, Uchiha Mai is here."

There was a long pause before a response was said from the other side. "Let her in."

Following her elder's order, Ayaka slid the papered door open revealing a tea room. In front of the company, Elder Mio sat behind a low wooden table with a cup of tea in hand. Ayaka glanced at Mai signalling her to go in, and Mai carefully walked in. It was Mai's first formal encounter with the renown and respected Uchiha kunoichi and elder. She could feel something build up under her chest and her heart beating fast. Bowing, Mai greeted the elder. "Elder Mio."

"Sit." The elder gestured to the empty pillow seat in front of her with a cup of steaming tea set on the table as if for company.

Mai complied to the command and seated herself in front of the elder. "Thank you, Elder Mio." Mai thanked with her eyes casted down onto the murky, light brown water in the cup.

The elder hummed before initiating the conversation. "I believe this is my first time meeting you." She sipping her tea. Her eyes only leaving Mai's face when she drank her tea. "I have to say, I didn't know Uchiha Ryou and Uchiha Yuna had a child."

Mai's onyx eyes looked up to the female elder. It had been so long since she'd heard those names from another mouth. "Many people don't know." With her eyes remaining on the elder, Mai waited for the elder to speak again. Through the elder's lines, she could see that she was once a beautiful kunoichi, but time had done its job and aged her. Her skin had sagged making her cheekbones point prominently on her thin, wrinkled face. Her fine Uchiha hair remained black but some had grayed, and it was up in a bun, not too tight but also not too loose, behind her head; and above her left brow, there was faded scar the length of a needle. The only things that looked as if time had not touched were her eyes. They looked as if they remained the same immortal, onyx black- stark, observant, and calm- for years.

"How old are you?" The elder asked; although, she already had a hunch for the child's age.

"Fifteen," Mai answered bringing her eyes up to meet the elder's.

"Is that so." Elder Mio's hand, although her eyes were fixed on the child in front of her, felt for the scroll by her right knee.

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"An assassination mission on a scholar and his inner circle." Elder Mio concluded before putting the white scroll down. "Who gave us this mission? And for what price?" She looked at the faces of the other five elder's in the circle.

"Lord Atsuchiyo of the Land of Steel did." An elderly man with a frown said. "He has evidence to believe that one of his scholars is leading a coup against him." The elderly man crossed his arms over his chest. "The scholar's and his inner circle's names are all in the scroll."

"Has this mission been accepted by Lord Tajima?" The elder to Elder Mio's left asked.

"Yes." Another elder answered. "The pay was like no other and was accepted with gratitude, especially when we're in this kind of state in the Clan." That was true. The Uchiha Clan had gone a full month with limited missions because of Lord Tajima's declining health from a battle wound. No shinobi were sent out unless needed, and that number was few to almost none a week.

Elder Mio let out a tiring sigh. "And who are we going to give this mission to? For such a price, the Uchiha Clan cannot afford to fail."

"I would send Lord Madara to ensure the mission's success." One elder suggested but interjected. "However, we cannot do that in this time of… decline."

"Lord Izuna will also need to stay within the walls." Another elder stated. "The presence of the young lords give the Uchiha shinobi the moral support needed."

"Hikaku?" The elder with crossed arms suggested.

"Hikaku may be strong, but there is another Uchiha who has experience in assassination and reconnaissance." An elder stated openly. "Lord Tajima assigns her, her missions himself." This elder's response caught the attention of the other five.

"Her? A female?"

"And who might that be?" Elder Mio asked with interest.

"Uchiha Ryou's daughter." The same elder answered. "I believe her name is Uchiha Mai."

There was silence of disbelief in the room, and the silence prolonged until the elder on the lone female's left broke it. "I didn't know Uchiha Ryou had a child."

"That's understandable." The same elder who spoke of Uchiha Mai said. "Orphaned children aren't given much attention to."

Elder Mio slightly nodded her head at the memory of Uchiha Ryou and his beloved wife. "And how do you know of her?" Elder Mio asked.

The elder's wrinkled face held a smug grin. "It was fairly easy to find her. She lives in the outskirts of the village where there aren't many eyes." The elder answered. "Lord Tajima uses her skills on many recon and assassination missions because he knows she's skilled. Perhaps, almost as you were in your youth, Mio." He then went on to add. "If not more."

"...Is that so." Was all Elder Mio said with no interest while she traced her memory for any of Uchiha Ryou and his family.

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Elder Mio set the white scroll in front the Uchiha child. She gestured for Mai to open the scroll, and Mai complied. Respectfully, the girl took the scroll with both her calloused and thin hands off the table. Slowly opening the scroll, the girl's eyes moved right to left. "...An assassination mission." She rolled the scroll back to its original shape

"You must be skilled if Lord Tajima personally sends you to a number of the clan's assassination and recon missions." Elder Mio stated. "Although Lord Tajima is normally the one to give you missions directly, he isn't in the right…health right now to be up." Elder Mio said while observing the young girl in front of her. She had to acknowledge the girl was the spitting image of her mother.

Uchiha Yuna was no kunoichi, but Uchiha Ryou, on the other hand, was. Her father was moderately well known in the clan as a shinobi. She'd seen the husband and wife a few occasions before their deaths and knew of them fairly well through the mouths of her maids- although they were jealous mouths. Yuna was well known throughout the clan as one of the beauties of her generation, and Elder Mio could not agree more. Although Yuna, like her daughter, did not have defined facial bones, the smooth definitions on their small faces were what made her and her daughter appear youthful, and the simplicity the mother and daughter possessed were what made them beautifully unique compared to other women within and beyond the Uchiha Clan. However, Mio couldn't help but notice the signs of fatigue in and under the girl's eyes. Her stark, onyx eyes narrowed at the sight of them.

"I recommend for you to leave by sundown today if you want to reach the Land of Steel on time for their annual festival." She took a sip of her tea. "I heard it's beautiful sight."

"Yes, Elder Mio." Mai nodded with her eyes casted down. "I will be taking my leave." Mai bowed her head and stood up.

The female elder watched as the young girl began walking toward the papered door: the white scroll in her right hand, the tear on her left calf, and the worned blue kimono shirt she wore that bore no Uchiha Symbol. Her footsteps filled the air with light thumps. "I trust in your ability to complete this mission, Uchiha Mai." Elder Mio watched for any sign of reaction.

Mai's entire stature froze until she turned around to face the elder. "You will not be disappointed, Elder Mio." Mai reassured before bowing, sliding the papered door open and shut, and leaving.

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