"I found that years of war couldn't be washed away in a few weeks time."

I got to know both men well over the weeks that they spent with us. Tobirama-san, with the help of his brother, finally came clean about why he was so cold upon first meeting. It seemed that Hashirama-san was the more outgoing one of the two. Tobirama-san had simply been shy and wasn't really sure what to do or how to respond.

He told me that he was more comfortable on the battlefield and training fields than he was at formal meetings. I was a beautiful women and if all went well I was going to be his wife and he just wasn't sure how to act around me. I thought it was cute. I was raised my whole life to be a hostess and clan lady, but I understood. I never really liked being in crowds or the center of attention. Sure I could pull of the perfect daughter act when I needed to, but that didn't mean that I wasn't freaking out on the inside.

I told Tobirama that if having our talks and meetings over tea with my mother was too much for him than I was more than willing to spar with him. Well, I wasn't a shinobi like my brothers, but I had been taught our clan jutsu. I was of the main family and everyone was expected to know and be able to pass that knowledge down to the next generation if it came to it. Plus Ken and Ren never liked that my father refused to let the women in the village learn how to defend themselves. So they taught me what they could. I was by no means a powerful person but I was fast.

Where I could sit and talk with Izuna for hours. I sparred with Tobirama. We could go of hours and it would frustrate him when he couldn't touch me at first. He went to easy, afraid of hurting me. But at one point he watched me with my brother Kenjin. Kenjin never went easy. Well, he wouldn't use jutsu beside the clan ones but other than that I was just like any other man he sparred with. Before long Tobirama began to do the same.

I became close to the Uchiha and the Senju but I knew that I wasn't going to fall in love with either of them. The point of my marrying them was to help put an end to the clan wars. They both knew that if one or the other became aligned with my clan it would tip the scale in their favor. But both continued to talk of destroying the other. I had already lost one of my loved ones to war and I refused to lose my children to it as well. If they couldn't see that an alliance between our three clans would put an end to war than I didn't think that I could marry either side.

A few days after I came to that conclusion, the tension between our guests came to a boiling point. Tobirama-san made a comment to his brother about Izuna-kun's brother. Normally I would have smiled politely and moved the conversion into a different directions but Izuna just happened to walking by with my brothers. And the next thing I knew we had a giant flaming hole in our dining room wall where Tobirama had been sitting at moments before.

I could only gape at it from behind Hashirama and my brother's arms. They had both moved to protect when Izuna lost his temper. I could hear yelling and raised voices. But they seemed to be coming for a long tunnel. My eyes were just focused on the wall, or what was left of it. I walked over to the vase of irises that had survived the blast and pulled then out and laid them down on the table before walking over and pouring the water on the fire to put out what was still burning.

I could hear them screaming about how once I married so and so they would wipe other clan off the map. Both so very confident that I was going to marry them. Neither one doubting for a second that their actions in this moment would change anything. And if I had been anyone else, it wouldn't have. But I had another option available to me. One that hadn't been all the appealing to me a few weeks ago. But as I watched the water drip from charred walls and pool on the floor at my feet. I could see the future of my home. For the first time I truly feared that war would come to this island. Would the Uchiha burn this place to the ground if I married Tobirama or would the Senju level it if I married the Uchiha.

I reached up to rub my head, their yelling was giving me a headache. I just wanted it to end.

I vaguely remember hearing one of my brothers calling my name as I stepped out if the hole in the wall and made my way into the woods that surrounded us. I kept walking not really sure where I was going, just away from the compound. Before I knew it I had reached the Temple.

I had to admit that it was a beautiful building. It had been made from the white marble. Artisans had made vines of jade that creeped up the two marble columns by the doors. The doors themselves housed pictures of the different wildlife on the island. I had only seen the inside of the temple once when I had been a small girl but I knew that inside had statues of past priestess and a truly beautiful picture of a mountain spring that was said to by the gateway to lord Salos' home. Each statue showed the gift that Salos had given his wife. These gifts were meant to be used to protect her and the island that we called home. It was why the priestess was often called the guardian of the island.

I wondered what mine would be. It was then that I realized that I had finally accepted what Salos had whispered into my mind all those weeks ago. I was his. I had been his since the mark appeared on my body. I guess I knew in the back of my mind that I wasn't going to marry either of the men that had been sent here. That was why, when Tora had claimed that her word was law as the priestess I had been upset. I knew then that she was no longer the priestess.

Something in the air seemed to change. It felt heavy as if a big storm was coming in. It almost seemed as if the isle was holding its breath.

Just before I could take another step toward the Temple to accept my fate, I heard the yelling and screaming again. Before I had much time to react, Izuna Uchiha landed at my side in a heap followed shortly by Tobirama with his sword drawn.

Izuna rolled out of the way and was on his feet and in a battle stance before I had time to blink. I felt a small breeze on my thigh and realized that upon landed Tobirama had kicked up enough stones that some of them had cut into my kimono.

I watch horrified as the two rushed each other with weapons drawn. I could hear my clansmen yelling in the distance and I knew that they wouldn't make it here in time. I panicked and throw my arms out screaming at them to stop. That fighting was forbidden on the island, that they had swore that they would mind the laws, but the words never made it past my lips because in my panic, the vines and trees around us had answered my call for help. They rushed the two and caged them. The power behind them were fueled by a mix of anger and fear.

At first I thought that Hashirama had finally made it here to stop his brother. I even looked around for him before I realized that the plants that were holding them done hadn't come from an outside force but were the very plants around us. I guess I knew what gift Salos had given me. I was going to have the power over the plants of the island much like Tora could call upon the animals to help her when needed.

All I could do was stare at what I had done. Not sure how to process it. Everything seemed kinda fuzzy. I couldn't really focus on anything more and I was starting to feel really light headed. As everything started to go black I could hear Ren tell Hashirama to collect his brother and the Uchiha and leave. That they were no longer welcome here.

Then it all went black.

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