Kapitel 2: Eye to eye
As you open your eyes, bright light hits like a burning flame, you raise up to sit at the futon, you laied in. You feel so thirsty, as you look around in these traditional tatami room, with a half closed Shōji/rice-paper-door. The sun seem to ho down already, the sky begins to turn orange already. „where am I?", you whisper to yourself and stood up, only to realize, that you didn´t wear your gown and your hair was also loose, without any sign of hair-needles around, as you touch your lips, you only feel that your make-up must be still there. As you look around again, you see some dark clothes laying next to your futon, to switch out of your sleeping kimono, it was the best to dress in these clothes. „everything feels somehow strange... I wonder if anybody is out there... it seems I´m not a prisoner, when the door is halfway open and no shadow of a guard or something seems to be outside", you said to yourself, as you looked out of the Shōji-door, to make a step out of the veranda, before it.
„Your not a prisoner, but you I will cling to you like a shadow, ... Hime-sama.", an unexpected reply to your saying, came from a young men, leaning on a wooden Pilar, that hold the rooftop, near you. It was the young man, the guards of your father took as a hostage, Izuna Uchiha. He chuckled seeing your surprised face. „How interesting to see every emotion on your face, like a mirror of your thoughts", he smiled, „now come, we have to see if your of use or not. Nii-san and the elders are waiting in the big hall.", he said and begin to walk, but kept up the pace you had, as you followed him, not really knowing what will be happening to you.
„By the way, I hope you don´t mind, that I took every possible weapon away from you.", he said while walking, not looking at your eyes.„I understand, for that you took away my hair-needles.", you nod.„smart, women.", an more passive and cold voice said, opening the Shōji-doors of the big hall. The man you recognized immedatly, stood before you two only paying attention to his young brother now. „You´re a bit late. We all waiting here for a while, but now come in and sit down", he said and went back to his felt terrible, all these eyes starring at you, like they could see inside your head and read your mind, so you just sit down, try to make an emotionless face, as good as you could, waiting what would happen now... As you left the room after, what felt for en eternity, you let everything what they said, go through your head again. Unbelievable, that these 5 old people and Izuna said, it would be good to have an hostage like you around. Only Madara does´nt looked so pleased and couldn´t see the „sense" in it, but after all, he couldn´t make his brother unhappy, and also for the sake that you helped Izuna to survive, took a huge step for the consideration of saying it is ok, as long as you don´t break any rule, and as long as you don´t stood in anyones way. Deep in these thoughts, how your life will look now, you hadn´t realized, that the man who was walking before you stoped in his tracks and you suddenly bumped into his back. he turned around and sighed, as you apologized and took a step backwards.
„A daydreamer?", he said after having eye contact with you for a second and looked at Izuna now. „I really hope, it is a good Idea, if that clumsy woman does more actions like that, I´m sure she won´t live longer than a few month under our roof."
„clumsy?", you said and looked slightly angry at Madara, before Izuna could answer his brother. Madara only starred down at you with his deep black eyes, before there color changed to red and a pattern of 3 commas where seen, but showed no sign of fear and hold on your eye conatct to him. Izuna watched you both and tried to break these tension, which was building up.
„Nii-san?!", he said, looking at his brother, who sighed again and shut his eyes, leaning his Hands on his hips, griening and opening his eyes again. They had his natural Eye-color back and he looked at you again.
„It would be a waste anyway... but you have guts, no fear was seen in your eyes... maybe, Izuna is right when he says, that something is uncommon with you, ...Hime-sama", he turned his back to her while saying the words „hime-sama" with a mocking under tone in his voice, than he chuckled slightly and left the veranda into another room of the big house. You feel a hand on your shoulders, it was Izuna´s.
„my my... do you really want to challenge my brother? He is not the type who cares about people he don´t know... and how can I say that... he is not suited to take care of women. His only goals is to think of our clans wellbeing. He is not an ordinary man. He is meant to be a leader, and he is by far the best we could ever wish to have.", he said, and while talking about his brother, you hear Izuna´s admiration to him. They must be very close, even when you couldn´t think that Izuna, who was warm and open hearted, was the brother of the man, who seemed to have the definition of „Demon" or „Devil" kind of well deserved.