Wow, it has been forever since I have updated this due to how long it takes for me to update my story 'Shattered Mirror' so I apologize!

As always,

Enjoy!

~Kyvena

Chapter 4: Severed Bond

Sakura didn't know what to do, say, or think as she stood there like a petrified log merely staring at the now living legend. She had heard so many horror stories about the unspeakable acts that Madara had committed in her time spent with her birth parents. As the two stared at one another, Hashirama then glanced back towards the Uchiha heir before glancing back to his daughter, "Sakura? What is wrong?" The moment the pinkette broke eye contact with the god of war, all hell broke loose.

Looking back at her father, she then noticed Madara appear right behind him, "FATHER!" Before Hashirama even had time to turn around or react in any sort of manner, a sword was then lodged through her father's chest; missing his heart by only a mere few inches. She knew he wouldn't die right away, but if she didn't get him medical treatment right away... his life could come to an abrupt and screeching halt from blood loss.

All of the color drained from the pinkette's face and her emerald orbs widened in horror as she watched her father fall to his knees, coughing up a small amount of blood in the process, "FATHER, NO!" Hashirama gave a sad and tender smile towards his daughter, "At least I got to see you... one last time... Sakura..." With that, Hashirama passed out and Sakura began to sob heavily; now believing that her father being harmed was her fault just for showing up in the first place.

The moment Hashirama fell forward, Sakura caught him and began to scream in agonizing mental pain, "WHY MADARA!? YOU KNEW I LOST MY MOTHER! WHY WOULD YOU TRY AND TAKE MY FATHER FROM ME AS WELL!?" Madara hadn't wanted to answer, but now everyone stared at him as if a spotlight had been placed right on him for an unplanned speech and were now awaiting a valid explanation for his actions.

Madara's hate filled orbs then snapped towards Sakura's emotional emerald orbs, causing him to almost flinch. Keeping his composure and cold personality strictly kept in place, the Uchiha heir then merely stated, "This is a war Sakura. You honestly did not expect me to just wait for him to strike me down first, did you?" Sakura could no longer recognize this man in front of her and began to wonder what had happened to him in the time she was away that would have caused him to become as cold as he was now.

Naruto appeared just as equally as shocked at his sister, yet couldn't find any words to say that would actually create a plausible sentence for anyone to understand. Tobirama was now pissed and knew that if the clan leader died, this war would never end. So he took the first step to getting his revenge as he hurled a barrage of kunai towards the shocked Izuna that now merely stood there staring in disbelief at his elder brother's actions.

By the time Izuna caught on to what was happening, all that could be heard was Tobirama's voice, "FLYING RAIJIN SLICE!" Not a single soul had even turned their head at this until the sound of yet another person coughing up blood could easily be heard. Madara snapped his head behind him and that's when he noticed the shocked facial expression that his younger brother now held before the thick nauseating scent of blood began to waft heavily throughout the air.

Now panicking, Madara bolted away from the pinkette that now appeared equally as shocked as himself to catch his now descending little brother. Quickly catching Izuna and wrapping his arm around his shoulder, Madara stared for a moment at Sakura with a pleading expression as she quickly pulled the blade out of her father and began to press her healing chakra through her palms to aid her father in his recovery.

Shooting the pinkette a look of distress, the future leader of the Uchiha clan hoped she understood that Izuna's life was now in jeopardy and he would need her help to save him. Yet... once the two made eye contact, Sakura glared at him with a look he had never seen on her beautiful facial expression before... no doubt a glare of hatred now held for the twenty two year old Uchiha male.

At this point, Madara knew he would get no help from Sakura to help save Izuna; so he quickly reached behind his body to grasp at a smoke bomb within one of his storage compartments and yelled out, "UCHIHA! RETREAT!" The moment this was called out, Madara then hurled the smoke bomb to the ground, which caused everyone who stayed put to cough harshly. That night, all of the Senju shinobi decided that they would stay put so that the Senju heiress could heal her father without putting his life in immediate danger.

Upon arriving back at the Uchiha Stronghold, Madara quickly tended to and dressed Izuna's wounds in the hopes that this was good enough to save his little brother's life, but hoping and praying would save no one at this point. Izuna stubbornly clung to life to the best of his abilities, but on the third day when Madara came to visit, Izuna weakly spoke out, "Big brother... I won't last much longer..." Madara roughly shook his head, "Don't speak speak such nonsense Izuna, you will make a full recovery."

Smiling sadly, the younger brother shook his head gently, "Once I pass, I want you to take my eyes and use them wisely... do you understand...? This is my final will..." Looking down, the real reason Madara had come tonight was to give Izuna the news that he had been named the clan leader... but now... it did not matter what he told Izuna or not because the moment he left this world, his beloved younger brother would not remember as to what he had told him.

Within an hour, Izuna finally took his last breath and Madara kept his word, doing exactly as instructed by his little brother and took his eyes before placing them inside his skull; causing his Sharingan to transform into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan after seven days of rest.

Izuna's burial was put on hold until Madara would be able to see once again and as he now stood there with his new eyes staring down at his deceased little brother, Madara reached a single hand down to place it upon his little brother's now cold and lifeless cheek before stroking the soft skin that had once held so much warmth within them. Noticing his bandaged eyes, tears now filled Madara's crimson orbs before spilling down onto his own cheeks, "Izuna... forgive me..."

Everyone who stood at the burial now sniffled at the melancholy separation of the two brothers that had always been so close. As Izuna's body was now being buried, Madara tightly clenched his fists before snapping around to look at everyone, "PREPARE! WE WILL STRIKE THE SENJU STRONGHOLD TONIGHT! TONIGHT WE WILL SHOW THE SENJU THAT THIS... THIS IS THE POWER OF THE UCHIHA!" Everyone hastily nodded and cheered before scattering off to equip any and all gear that they would need on for this night raid.

This was something that had never been done before. A night raid on a rivaling clan's stronghold had never been accomplished before, but now the leader of the Uchiha clan was more than highly determined to wipe the Senju clean off of the face of the earth. He now had a reason to literally fuck the entire world up and not give a damn.

Sakura was no exception to this plan either as he began to think silently, yet angrily, 'If Sakura hadn't been focusing all of her power on that damn Hashirama, then Izuna might still be alive today.' The more he thought of how Sakura had picked Hashirama over Izuna, the more pissed off Madara became.

"They will pay... no... they HAVE to pay for what they have done to Izuna!" Madara snarled through his gritted teeth as he placed his crimson red armor on and laced his weapons onto his armor with one clearly pissed off expression.

As he left to mount his midnight back steed, Madara was ready to spill the blood of each and every Senju out there, even women and children would not be spared. As long as he drew breath into his lungs, he would continue to fight until the very last foe had been vanquished. Even Madara knew that, that task was easier said than done.

"FELLOW UCHIHA'S! WE NOW RIDE TO THE SENJU STRONGHOLD! SLAUGHTER EVERYONE! NO SOUL IS TO BE LEFT ALIVE AND THAT INCLUDES WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS WELL! ON THIS NIGHT, THE SENJU WILL GO EXTINCT!" Madara cried out and his fellow Uchiha shinobi gave a rallying battle cry before everyone set out. In all honesty, it would not take long for them to reach the Senju Stronghold.

Walking, it would take two hours, but riding a horse cut that time in half... meaning danger was fast approaching the Senju's without any warnings to give the entire stronghold a fighting chance or a shred of hope to come out victorious. On this night, there would be mass casualties that neither sides were truly ready to witness.

Over in the Senju Stronghold, it had been a nice and peaceful week and a half since their leader had been stabbed and he had hastily made a full recovery with much thanks to Sakura. It had been such a long time since the pinkette had been home, so each and every time she looked into her room it felt as if she were peering into a portal of the past.

Birds were still singing happily as the sun began to set in the far west. Once the sun had disappeared into the horizon, a female Senju civilian ran into the stronghold covered in blood, "HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!" Sakura was the closest and now was in the habit of always staying geared up for a surprise attack and carrying her weapons with her at all times due to her birth mother being as paranoid as she was.

Reaching the distressed brunette, Sakura looked at the woman over and noticed none of the blood on her was from any injury that she had sustained, "What happened!?" The woman jumped slightly as she then grasped onto both of Sakura's arm while projecting a pleading tone, "OH GOD, LADY SAKURA! PLEASE, PLEASE, YOU MUST SAVE MY HUSBAND AND SON!" Nodding her head, the pinkette had just figured that a pack of wolves or some sort of wild animal had attacked them, "Where are they Kannah!?"

Kannah could only point towards the direction of the forest with a shaky hand and just as she was about to explain what had even happened, Sakura bolted out of the stronghold. All she could do was run and run, yet she was getting nowhere with her search. Slowing to a halt, Sakura then turned her listening ears on and took a deep breath in through her nostrils to pick up any scents.

The pinkette heard nothing, but the heavy smell of blood and death was conjuring within the perimeter of the dense forest. Suddenly feeling drips against her skin, Sakura thought it was beginning to rain, yet it was odd that her nose hadn't picked up on the crisp scent that would fill the air whenever it was about to rain, "Well that's... odd..." Her voice slowly trailed off at the end of her sentence as she then slowly glanced her eyes towards the drops that was now drenching her skin, hair, and clothing.

She finally understood at that moment as she slowly tilted her head up to see Kannah's husband and eight year old son dangling upside down due to being tied high up in a tree, both of their throats had a clean gash straight across to the point where their heads had almost been decapitated. Now she realized... she had been taking a shower in two Senju shinobi's blood. In Sakura's eyes, this was the literal form of a blood bath as her eyes widened in horror, feeling petrified for the time being without knowing she was being watched.

Just as she was about to move out of the blood, due to finally snapping out of her trance, she figured that the father and son had been protecting her considering she slipped and fell into the pool of blood. As she fell, Sakura then noticed a barrage of katana's coming straight towards her head with deadly accuracy until she finally plummeted into the blood and her long pink locks were now soaked within the blood of her comrades.

Sakura's heart was now rapidly slamming against her chest and could be easily heard pounding harshly within her ears. An unknown voice then called out from the shadows; the trees making it physically impossible to pin point where in the hell this person was exactly due to the sound bouncing off of each and every tree trunk held within the woods, "Come on Senju trash! Allow me to cut those pretty locks of yours! I promise I won't take off too much! All I want to do is sever that head of yours!"

That is when Sakura had an idea. Of course, she did not like the idea, but it was a plan none the less. She knew that the Uzumaki Clan was currently aligned with both the Senju and the Uchiha so this was her only chance, "Please stop! I am from the Uzumaki Clan!" Well, it was half the truth considering Mito Uzumaki had been her mother. The Uzumaki Clan had not been too happy whenever they had found out that Mito had died while in the Senju's care, yet they did not break off the alliance due to knowing the importance of rules within a clan.

The man took a sharp breath that hitched within his throat and that's when the pinkette knew that all of this was Madara's doing. That same male quickly ran over to the now red headed female and skidded to a halt, "I'm so sorry ma'am, I mistook you for a Senju! Please don't report me to my leader! I beg of you!" Sakura then fanned her hand back and forth, "Oh, please do not fret young man. May I inquire as to what the Uchiha are doing so close to Senju territory? It is rather late, would you not agree?"

Sakura had to hand it to herself, she was one hell of an actress. The male nodded towards her and squatted down, "We are raiding the Senju Stronghold tonight. We plan to leave none alive. If you could call upon your clan for backup, the Uchiha would appreciate it." Sakura nodded politely and smiled, "But of course! However, first thing is first. If I am to trust you, I need you to deactivate your Sharingan."

The male complied and deactivated his Sharingan and that's when Sakura vanished from his line of sight, appeared behind him, and roughly struck the back of his neck while grumbling, "Dumbass..." Not thinking as she tied the male up, another voice appeared behind her... and she knew this voice far too well, "And who might be a dumbass... Sakura..." The moment she snapped around Madara stood there with his arms folded angrily, "Answer this, why would I allow you to go and squeal to your clan that we will be attacking?"

Sakura began to tremble the moment Madara shot his arms out and caged her in between himself and a massive tree. Her beautiful emerald orbs filled with tears before they then cascaded down her cheeks and smearing the blood that currently was plastered onto her skin.

Sighing heavily, Madara clenched his eyes shut tightly and he abruptly shook his head, "Sakura do not cry. This is war..." He then quickly grasped the pinkette, walked to the rapids that had caused her to vanish for seven years and the last thing she heard Madara say was the most hateful and cold statement she had ever witnessed in her entire life, "Disappear..." Sakura's eyes widened and Madara released the pinkette back into the river that had separated the two for seven years.

. . .

It didn't matter if you knew how to swim or not within these rapids, because the moment you hit that water it was a fight or flight moment. She had escaped drowning once, but she wasn't so sure she would be as lucky a second time around in these waters of hell that had killed so many in her life time.

As she struggled to keep her head above the water, she noticed Madara at the edge of the rapids with a pain struck expression as tears rolled down his face before she simply sank beneath the surface of the raging waters for a second time.

Once Sakura finally emerged from the water, she had miraculously survived once again and had been swept ten days down stream. Cursing to herself, she pushed her body weakly out of the water and collapsed onto the ground, gashing her arm in the process by a sharp rock that jutted out of the ground before sticking her fingers down her throat to get any and all water left within her body pushed out. Coughing harshly, Sakura's bloodshot orbs glared back in the direction she had traveled from. Madara would pay for this and so help him if he had harmed any of her family.

Stumbling back towards the way she had come from took so much longer than ten days and by the time she had even reached the forest of her home... she wished she wouldn't have. In the trees all hung upside down were hundreds of Senju shinobi with their throats neatly sliced open. It almost looked as if her entire clan was here and that there was nerve wrecking enough. Right then and there, Sakura named this forest... the forest of death.

Making her way back towards her home, Sakura had to force herself to stay awake so that she could navigate as to where in the hell she was even going at this point. By the time Sakura reached the Senju Stronghold's main gates, she collapsed face first into the dirt below her feet. She hadn't known how long she had been there whenever she felt a pair of strong arms lift her up and carry her frail body inside.

Considering the pinkette hadn't eaten for over twenty days, her bones now protruded unnaturally from her skin and the coloration of her skin had now become pale and sickly appearing. A heavy sigh was then heard as three voices she recognized came into her distorted line of hearing, "D-Daddy...? Nar...uto...? Uncle T-Tobi...?"

The three men looked over to her as she rested within their hidden base that no one except the Senju knew of. Hashirama stood up with many gashes, bruises and deep penetration marks littered his body. Looking over towards her brother and uncle, she noticed they weren't in any better shape than Hashirama had been in.

Kneeling down beside his daughter, Hashirama brushed some of her hair out of her face, "Sakura...? What happened to you...? You've been missing for over twenty days." Sakura glanced away and noticed there was now only a third of their clan left, causing her eyes to widen in horror. Hashirama sighed heavily, "I know, I know, it's terrible... there are so few of us left that I believe that if the Uchiha found this hidden base now, the Senju Clan would cease to exist."

"You see sis, I told you Madara was nothing but bad news! You never listen, ya know!" Naruto yelled in a frustrated tone and finally Sakura snapped as she dizzily shot out of bed, "SHUT THE HELL UP NARUTO! QUIT SAYING YA KNOW ALL THE DAMN TIME! IT'S GIVING ME A BLOODY HEADACHE!"

Naruto then scowled and laced his arms together, "Fine, do you BELIEVE IT!?" Oh hell, that was even worse and Sakura groaned before Tobirama released a heavy sigh, "Will you two knock it off? We have a crisis on our hands! We don't even know where all of our comrades bodies are!" That's when Sakura looked down and a meek whisper came out that was barely audible, "I know where they are... they are in The Forest Of Death..."

No one in their right minds knew where in the hell this "Forest Of Death" was so, they had to ask. Tobirama placed a gentle hand on top of Sakura's and smiled softly, "Where if this Forest Of Death Sakura...?" Sakura then wobbly stood up and Tobirama instantly lifted her body into his arms, "You will not be walking, so just guide me Sakura. Elder brother, Naruto, will you two be coming along as well?" Hashirama and Naruto both looked at one another before nodding.

Upon reaching their final destination, Sakura pointed within the forest that had been right outside of their previous stronghold, "In there..." She whispered and Tobirama nodded before everyone then entered. Naruto gazed around, yet saw nothing, "Sis were you fucking with us!? Because if this is a joke, then it's not funny, ya know!" That's when Sakura peered those exhausted emerald orbs up and instantly began to sob.

Everyone was rather puzzled at this and slowly but surely, everyone else looked up for horror to slap them straight across the face. Hashirama's hands trembled and Tobirama instantly clutched his eyes shut, bringing Sakura up to his face so that he wouldn't have to see this profound amount of clan members dead and tied up in trees. Naruto's face drained of color and he immediately jumped up to take one of the bodies down whenever Sakura shot her hand out, "NO NARUTO! THEY ARE TRAPS FOR ANY STANDING SURVIVORS!"

Tobirama finally calmed his breathing and looked up, "Their bodies are rigged with a heavy genjutsu for anyone who touches them." Sakura nodded but then added in, "That's one problem. The other is the rope, look at its coloration. As you can see from the bodies on the ground, they tried to cut down the dead... but the Uchiha knew people would have far too many cuts to avoid this extreme poison that stops the heart within minutes."

Hashirama then sighed, "The only people at this moment who are fit to handle this are Tobirama and Sakura... but Sakura first will need to get a sample of the poison to create an antidote. However, more than anything, she needs to get some proper rest. Tobirama and Sakura both can release all of the genjutsu. It will be a lot of work, but we will get it done once Sakura is back to her old self and not looking like she has malnutrition."

It took an entire four months to get all of those bodies down and an extra eight months to dig graves for each and every person. This war was draining any sort of innocence that the pinkette had once held onto and she was now a lot more tough and uncaring at this point, especially now that she was being sent into battle as well.

Now on the battlefield, Sakura realized they were VERY close to her birth parents home town. If she had wanted to, she could have walked there within ten minutes. As she darted throughout the trees, Sakura jumped out onto the dirt path holding her two twin short chakra blades that looked much like the Uchiha's blades. The moment she landed, she bumped into someone and snapped around only to see... "K-Kushina!? M-Minato!?"

They appeared just as shocked as she was as Naruto then flew onto the dirt path as well while fighting off one of the Uchiha. Sakura gave her apologies to the parents and without even thinking, Sakura called out, "NARUTO!" Kushina and Minato's eyes widened profoundly at the name the pinkette had just called out and snapped their head towards their long lost son. Kushina was having none of this as she grabbed her frying pan and bolted towards the Uchiha shinobi before striking him roughly behind his head and accidentally killing him.

Naruto looked shocked at this but then gave a signature goofy grin, "Thanks a whole lot! That was a big help, ya know?" Sakura knew they didn't have time for this touching family reunion due to another group of Uchiha dropping down to see their comrade slaughtered. Sakura ran her chakra through her blade, causing it to let out a high dense vibration that could actually be heard, "Kushina, Minato, you two need to leave... NOW!"

The two looked at one another and nodded before running into the village, waking everyone and their grandmother up and reappearing again with the entire village who now held weapons. Mebuki, being the loud mouth that she was then gasped and yelled, "SAKINA HARUNO! WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?"

This distraction was clearly not wanted and it ended up with a blade in her gut. The Uchiha male grinned, but then again, so did she as she activated her one hundred healing mark and the minute she ripped the blade from her gut the wound began to heal extremely fast until completely healed.

Sakura then cut down the Uchiha right in front of her before deactivating the mark so that the diamond would set back into place. Now completely pissed off, the pinkette snapped her head towards her birth parents and yelled, "MY NAME IS NOT SAKINA! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING HEAD! YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN ME KILLED BY YELLING LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING IDIOT! THIS IS A WAR, NOT A DAMN DANCE RECITAL!" This made Kizashi snicker but everyone else was dumbfounded at the way the pinkette had oh so wisely decided to put her words.

Madara stood with a group of Uchiha's right in front of Hashirama, Tobirama and a few other remaining Senju shinobi. Hashirama was getting so sick of this fighting and wanted his children to live until they died of old age, not a stab wound or torture. Glancing down, the brunette took a deep breath before lifting his head and speaking, "Madara, can we not end all of this conflict? If we joined together, no other clans would have the means to come and attack us!"

Giving a lazy expression, the leader of the Uchiha said nothing until Tobirama spoke, "And what of Izuna? I have not seen him in quite some time." Madara's cold glare directed lazily towards the second Senju heir before answering, "He succumbed to the wounds he received that day, leaving me with powers that will help protect the Uchiha." Hashirama sighed heavily, "I have sent you a cease fire agreement to protect the Uchiha! The best way is to stop fighting!"

Engulfing his body within his own suffocating chakra, Madara's blue tinted Susano'o began to form until partially complete and began to throw a punch, "HASHIRAMA!" Hashirama was quick to make hand signs before calling out, "WOOD STYLE: DEEP FOREST BLOOM!" The movement of Madara's Susano'o quickly came to a screeching halt as the flowers began to bud and project out pollen. Madara got free from the vines, but then as he walked, his Susano'o dropped to one knee, "Gah! Poisonous pollen, huh?"

Hashirama then yelled out, trying not to become angry in the process, "ENOUGH MADARA! ALL OF THIS FIGHTING IS MEANINGLESS!" That's when something inside the Uchiha Clan's leader just about snapped, "Meaningless is it? Then tell me why Izuna is dead now!" Hashirama glanced downwards and Madara continued to become even more enraged, "FINE, I will tell YOU! IT'S BECAUSE YOU BASTARDS KILLED HIM!"

Right then and there, more chakra was added and the royal blue tinted Susano'o then transformed into the massive standing complete body Susano'o, giving it the appearance that it was an angelic warrior. Hashirama scowled slightly and made more hand signs before calling out, "WOOD GOLEM JUTSU!"

In the distance, Sakura and Naruto were just about to make there way back to their father whenever something froze the blonde dead in his tracks as his eyes became so wide that he feared they might actually pop out of his skull and he shakily pointed outward, "W-What in the HELL is that THING!?" Sakura glanced to where her brother was now pointing only to see the massive humanoid avatar along with her father's wood golem.

Turning towards Naruto, whom now took a shaky step back, Sakura then turned towards Kushina and Minato, "Kushina, Minato, will you please watch over my brother for me...? I must be leaving now... my father might need my help." The birth parents instantly nodded before taking the petrified blonde and just as Sakura was about to bolt off, Mebuki and her big mouth shouted out, "SAKINA, I FORBID THIS! COME BACK HOME NOW! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A STUPID BROTHER!"

That's when Sakura snapped and she turned towards her blood mother, swiftly brought her fist up, slammed it across Mebuki's face, and broke her nose during the impact, "NEVER TELL ME THAT NARUTO IS NOT MY BROTHER, YOU FUCKING BITCH! I CAN'T EVEN STAND YOU, SO SHUT THE HELL UP AND LEARN YOUR PLACE!" Kizashi began to laugh so hard that he didn't even care to notice the mass amount of blood that now poured out of his wife's broken nose.

Releasing a sharp sound of annoyance towards the loud mouthed blonde, Sakura was about to turn to leave whenever Kizashi spoke up, "Go ahead dear. Go and save your father. We will make sure we keep a close eye on your brother for you. I wish you the best of luck." Sakura smiled and ran to Kizashi before giving him a big hug, "Thanks dad." Releasing him rather quickly, Sakura then waved before bolting off towards the massive royal blue colored humanoid avatar.

It had been closer than she had anticipated whenever she came to a skidding halt once she witnessed her father's wood golem being flung around like a rag doll. Tears filled her eyes as she tried to say something to gain the royally pissed off Uchiha's attention. Slamming her eyes shut Sakura finally found her voice before yelling, "MADARA STOP THIS!"

The moment he heard her voice, Madara froze due to the fact that he hadn't actually seen Sakura since he dropped her into the rapids. The grief that built up in him, thinking that Sakura had been dead this entire time, had pushed Madara into complete darkness. Yet here she was... his light at the end of a dark tunnel. Hashirama was promptly dropped and quickly turned towards her, "SAKURA GET AWAY NOW!"

Shaking her head ever so slightly, a saddened smile then graced her face, "I can't do that father..." Pausing to collect her thoughts, she then continued as the tears she shed never ceased, "I can't because he is more of my responsibility than he is yours!" Hashirama's face softened as a gentle smile crept onto his lips, "I see, I see... heh, it's funny how things like this can work out." Damn her father for being so clever... in no means had she forgiven Madara for trying to murder her in the rapids, but she would not allow him to harm her father again.

Hashirama then gave yet another heavy sigh, "I'm sorry Sakura, but I cannot allow you to get hurt. I do not know how long this will take, but..." Hashirama then narrowed his eyes at Madara, "Be sure to stay away from the rapids so you do not... DISAPPEAR!"

At the end of a battle that lasted an entire day, Madara's back touched the ground for the very first time. Tobirama instantly neared the gasping men with a katana firmly gripped within his hand before raising it above Madara's body, "Madara, you're finished!" Sakura's voice was quick to call out as she rushed towards Madara, "Wait uncle Tobi!" This caused not only Hashirama to curiously glance over his shoulder, but Madara's only visible eye veered towards the source of the ruckus as well.

This caused the male with silver locks to tense up as he turned to see his niece growing closer and closer until she was kneeling beside Madara's body. Frustrated at this, Tobirama then yelled out, "ELDER BROTHER THIS IS OUR CHANCE!" Hashirama couldn't get a word in edge wise even if he had wanted to considering Sakura instantly gave her uncle one of the most terrifying expressions that he had ever seen on her face, "No one touches him!"

Madara temporarily closed his eyes before sighing, "Just get this over with, Sakura. It would be an honor... to die by your hand." Sakura slowly turned her head towards the long haired male before raising her hand and swiftly, yet roughly slapping him across the face, "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I WANT TO KILL YOU MADARA!? STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF AND MOVE FORWARD IN LIFE! YOU THREW ME IN THAT WRETCHED RIVER AND YOU OWE ME BIG TIME!"

Sighing heavily, Sakura told everyone to leave, which they did, before she pulled out her canteen silently and placed it on the ground before lacing her arms around the leader of the Uchiha's upper torso to lean him upward; but found he was far too heavy for her and groaned in frustration at the fact that he was practically dead weight.

Releasing the male, she then picked the canteen up and began blushing furiously as she unscrewed the top and took some water into her mouth before leaning over, placing her lips against his, and passing the water from her mouth to his. He happily drank the water provided and the pinkette repeated this action until her canteen was completely empty.

Wiping her mouth, a silent tear then streaked down the side of her face and Madara's eyes widened slightly. Sakura lowered her head so that Madara would not see, but felt his much larger hand placed on the tops of her hands before he spoke out in a gentle tone, "That is enough... you have shown me what is inside you." Sakura opened her eyes to look at Madara as more tears welled up in her eyes...

"Why have you done this to me...? You've forced your way into my heart, but..."

"I hate you Madara..."