"That's... That can't be Madara Uchiha... He's dead."

Kiba quirked an eyebrow over at Sasuke, but said nothing as he hugged the boy's waist even tighter and Akamaru nuzzled into his neck.

"Well you're wrong. Because here I am."

Or that Soulmate!AU where Madara is thrown into the future, somehow loses years of his life, and gets some much needed cuddles from his soulmate.

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Team 7 and Team 8 didn't necessarily get along. It was mostly Team 7's fault because they just weren't good enough to understand how awesome Team 8 was.

Their teachers had (in a very stupid hope to show them all teamwork outside of small units) arranged a joint training exercise in which they were supposed to pair off with someone from the other team and then work in duos to finish a scavenger hunt. Whoever got all of the items on the list first would earn a special day off while the other four genin that had not won would be tasked with a couple of D and C Ranked missions.

Kiba had not been particularly excited for the scavenger hunt for a number of reasons:

1) They weren't five years old and finding stuff wasn't as interesting now as when they had been in the Academy. (He was kind of excited for it, though, he wasn't going to lie, because he still enjoyed running around and finding stuff. He wasn't about to say it out loud, though, because of Reason Number 3.)

2) They would be split up with a member from the other team. That meant that they wouldn't be able to use Team 8's superior teamwork to beat Team 7.

3) He was stuck with Sasuke.

Sasuke Uchiha, Mr. Too Great to Pay Attention to Anyone himself, was the person Kurenai and Kakashi-sensei had deemed best to pair him up with. Stupid, right?

(Kiba wasn't a fool, even if he was reluctant to let anyone know this. He knew that there was no way they could have paired him up with Naruto because they would have most probably ended up killing each other. And Kurenai-sensei was more than aware of how dangerous it would be to leave Hinata with the blonde idiot. So the girls had to go together and Kiba couldn't go with Naruto. It was just strategic thinking.)

So this day had already started off pretty badly. And the more time he spent near the Uchiha, the worse the day got.

"Did you catch the scent? Or are you going to get distracted by the merchant's again?"

Sasuke was pissed with him and Akamaru because he thought that they had accidentally been led to the merchant area of the Village when they were trying to sniff out the third item in four-item scavenger hunt: a kunai drenched in cow blood.

Kiba really didn't want to know just who had decided that should be an item (the idea that it had been Kakashi Hatake was scary because his mother loved him; but the idea that Kurenai-sensei had done it was much more terrifying, so he would much rather just not think about it). But he had decided that the chance was too good to pass up, so he had lied and told Sasuke that he smelled such a thing and then had made his way to the merchants to buy himself and Akamaru a nice steak.

Sasuke-Jerk got nothing.

As he munched moodily on his steak, Kiba rolled his eyes.

Sasuke honestly believed they had messed up. He hadn't even contemplated the thought that Kiba had decided to mess up.

"We should check the Forest of Death. It's the only place I could think would be far enough away from you to not be smelled." Sasuke rambled in his shitty mood, all the while Kiba did his best to tune him out.

He knew where the kunai was. Kurenai-sensei and Hatake were good, but just about nothing could completely obliterate the smell of blood from someone's hands. Luckily enough, it was because of this that Kiba knew that the kunai was not, in fact, drenched in cow's blood. Instead it was drenched in red paint. And he knew how that paint faintly smelled. And there was only one place outside of Konoha where he could smell it.

Unfortunately, Sasuke was right to guess such a thing.

"Lead the way then."

Searing pain overtook him.

Tobirama Senju's cold and uncaring face was the last thing he remembers.

There was only one spot on his body that wasn't currently screaming in pure agony- the left side of his neck, precisely in the junction where his collarbone began.

The pain became too much.

All he knew now was nothing.

He only hoped Izuna had survived.

Akamaru and he had finished eating their steak by the time they reached the Forest of Death. Once there he decided to take pity on the stupid Uchiha that was completely alone in this world and led him (correctly, this time around) to where the kunai was.

As they ran there, a new scent hit Kiba's nose.

It was one of the best scents he had ever breathed in his life.

He kind of completely forgot where it was that he was supposed to be going. He became so focused with the new, sweet, slightly bloodied, smell that he didn't even notice it when Sasuke groaned in disgust when he caught sight of one of the bloodied kunai.

Kiba's nose was much too focused to even notice the harsh smell of the paint.

"Kiba?"

He didn't really hear Sasuke.

He ran off after the wonderful smell without offering a word of explanation. And once he reached the spot where the smell was emanating from, the Inuzuka could not help but swoon as his heart beat accelerated.

Sitting down among some rather large roots, with eyes closed, was the most beautiful person he had ever seen in his life.

The world fell away from him at that moment- leaving only him and that person. He did not take note of anything that was going on around him seeing how he was much too busy burning the image of this person's beautiful face into his brain. The dark hair, the fair-skin, the thin lips, the dark clothes... Nothing about them should have stood out- yet everything did.

The only outside influence he actually managed to take stock of was Akamaru barking at him to get in gear- it wasn't every day he met his soulmate!

Without waiting a single second more, Kiba jumped towards the person and immediately made himself comfortable plastered to their right side. He made quick work of wrapping his arms around the person's waist and laid his head in the nook of his neck, inhaling as deeply as he could to make sure that his soulmate's smell was burned into his nose for the rest of his life.

Akamaru, while this happened, busied himself by walking over to the person's other side and lying down on the other side of his neck.

There was a soft groan from his soulmate's lips, a wonderful sound that somehow managed to make Kiba feel tingly throughout his whole body. Then he heard, "Wh-what happened?"

Ooh! That was a rather deep voice for such a young body. Kiba loved it!

The boy in his arms froze up after he had asked the question, then Kiba decided to be slightly decent and moved just slightly so he their faces weren't completely uncomfortably close and smiled.

"I don't know. But you're my soulmate." He smiled broadly, then immediately buried his nose into the boy's neck again. "Now hush up and cuddle. I've waited my whole life for this moment."

He awoke to find himself in the arms of a child.

He awoke to find his mind torn between memories he had not remembered in years and those things he knew he had experienced only a handful of days or weeks ago.

He awoke to find himself with a fuzzy, warm, completely pleasant sensation buzzing in every part of his body that the child happened to be touching him.

He awoke in a very strange place.

Sasuke-Jerk ruined everything as soon as he stepped onto the scene.

"What the hell, Kiba? We're supposed to be finishing with the scavenger hunt- did you forget we only have one more item to go? You didn't have to leave like that. Especially to cuddle up with some guy."

Kiba completely ignored everyting Sasuke said and instead bumped the tip of his nose into his soulmate's collarbone.

"Ignore that guy. He's stupid."

The boy shivered beneath him.

Kiba was never letting him go.

"My name's Kiba Inuzuka. I think I should at least tell you the name of the person that's never letting you out of his sights."

There was a sharp intake of breath from the boy, then, with a heavy exhale, he allowed, "Madara Uchiha... I... I am not sure what is going on."

"What's going on doesn't really matter- all you need to know is that we're soulmates and you're with me and Inuzuka aren't the kind to share. So either you're mine or we're going to have some trouble."

Now he understood why his mother had tried to drill the importance of keeping control around your soulmate. He had never understood because he had not yet met his soulmate. But now he did. Every single fibre of his being was screaming at him to dismantle Sasuke and take Madara with him somewhere far away where no one could bother them again.

He didn't even notice how odd it was that the guy was an Uchiha even though, well, you know... There was only supposed to be Sasuke left.

"Wait- what did you just say?"

Kiba had to stop himself from growling dangerously at the irritating Uchiha that kept ruining his day.

"That's... That can't be Madara Uchiha... He's dead."

Kiba quirked an eyebrow over at Sasuke, but said nothing as he hugged the boy's waist even tighter and Akamaru nuzzled into his neck.

"Well you're wrong. Because here I am."

This was one strange place.

This Kiba Inuzuka was one strange person.

This Uchiha looking boy was cutting into his time with the strange Kiba Inuzuka and, for some reason beyond him, that really pissed him off.

This was one strange day.

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I am back at it again! Madara/Kiba rare pair for you people!

Hope you all liked it! I'm thinking two or three more chapters detailing Madara's new life and just how different the world is because of him not being in his time, but nothing too big.

Please review and tell me what you thought about this chapter!