DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO

Hashirama felt bad about his Otouto. He wasn't stupid, he knew Tobi was in pain like him, but he had believed the man didn't want to bother with emotions. For his aniki emotions were weak spots in the personality, or so he thought. Maybe he had been wrong for a long time.

He couldn't confront him right now because doing that would involve waking Tobirama up and that wasn't going to help in his mood, so he went to his room and tried to sleep.

The next morning Hashirama awoke early but his brother had already left the house. He tried to look after him and realized he was meditating near the river. He thought of going there some time later with food as a peace offer so they could speak properly. They weren't in bad terms, but he wanted Tobi to be ok.

After walking through the camp, lots of clansmen stopped and asked him if the rumors of peace and forming a village were true. He was pleased to discover that almost all of them were happy and some even thrilled of the idea to settle down and finally have peace. The ones that seemed to be against it the only cause of rejection they found was that they hated Uchiha. He explained them what was said on the council room and could reach to an agreement.

He finally reached his destination, Ichigo-kun's home, he knocked and Keito-san received him.

"HASHIRAMA-NIIIII" Ichigo beamed from his bed

"Be respectful of your clan leader, brat!" the old lady scolded her grandson

"It's Ok Keito-san I like him calling me that way" Hashirama smiled truthfully. This little boy remembered him of Kawarama, he had also similar features, black eyes and sand-like hair. But he didn't have the scar, and also his hair was longer tied in a low pony tail.

"Hi, Ichigo kun, how are you feeling today?" the Clan Leader asked.

"I feel fine, a bit sore, but fine. Have you seen the Frog Princess or Taa-kun?" The child asked expectantly

"Stop calling people with that familiarity, you need to be respectful" Keito San said again. Boy, this kid was always on her nerves.

"Taa-kun?" Hashirama asked thoughtfully "Oh, you mean Takato-San! And I believe the Frog princess is Takishima Hikari" The kid nodded "No I haven't, it's too soon. But I will meet them tomorrow"

"Ohh Please tell them I said Hi!" Ichigo pleaded

"Sure kid! I'm happy you're in high spirits. Let me see your wound so I can tell Haruno San how it is" And he then proceeded to check on him. Once he finished he bid his goodbyes to them and went to grab lunch for him and Tobirama.

"What do you want?" the albino asked dryly when he felt his brother approaching.

"Thought you might be hungry. It's noon." Hashirama answered " I wanted to talk to you, I've spoken with mostly all the Clan and they are in good terms with the truce and the idea of a village" he continued as he sat down in the grass next to his brother handing him some fresh sushi.

Tobirama eyed the food and tried to play it cool but his stomach growled so he quickly grabbed it a bit embarrassed and started to eat without saying a word.

"What's going on with you?" The elder brother asked

"What do you mean?" his brother answered with another question.

"I know you Tobi, you're feeling down" Hashirama said preoccupied "I heard you last night in your room"

"I don't know what you're talking about" the albino denied as he continued eating

"You said you hated Uchiha more because I shared my pain with Madara" His brother answered simply, looking somehow guilty

"I-I didn't recall saying anything like that" And he didn't or so he thought. Oh… maybe he had thought it out loud. It was really how he felt almost all the time, but he didn't want to bother his anija with stupid feelings.

Hashirama suddenly changed his posture and seated facing him in seiza bowing in the grass. Tobirama surprised of this action stopped eating and payed full attention to his brother.

"I'm sorry" the elder said. "I always thought you were tough and didn't want to speak about emotions, but it wasn't right. I've been a bad Aniki" he raised his head and looked at his red eyes, which were full of emotion, threating to make him lose his façade.

"You're not a bad Aniki" Tobirama said cooling down. "You are egotistical, but I can't blame you, because your egoistic dream is peace, and that is not even self-interested." His brother still looked at him without speaking, so he continued "I told you yesterday why I hated Uchiha, and there's nothing more at it. Stop speaking like there is some hidden meaning in my words and start making your dream come true, tomorrow is an important day and I bet you haven't even seen the council to establish the terms of the peace and village, and all the warranties we want."

"Oh! That's true! I have to go!" Hashirama said as Tobirama inwardly grinned realizing he had successfully changed the subject.

"Then go, I'll be with you shortly" The Albino said "I want to meditate a bit more fist"

The brunette stood up and smiled at his brother, but this one was different to his bright ones, it was mixed with comfort and understanding. That bastard had realized that he was indirectly kicking him out. "You know you can count on me, don't you?" he asked before leaving. Those words were deeper than they sounded.

"Yes." Tobirama simply answered "Now go, you are annoying me" he added and closed his eyes. He heard Hashirama bursting in genuine laughter, and then his chakra signature left.

'That was close; I don't want to speak with Hashi about this. It's embarrassing to envy an Uchiha. Damn it!' He thought, this time not out loud. Of course he remembered. He had said it. Maybe it was the only way he could do it. Without even realizing.

"I can't meditate any longer" he said angrily, got up and headed to the council to help his brother.

Fortunately the arrangements for the next day's meeting were quick, they wanted security that the Uchiha will not betray them –that thought annoyed Hashirama, because he didn't believe they will betray them, but he was kindhearted so it didn't count- also a good place to settle the Clan Compound, Access to a river and equality in the division of resources such as food, wood, and things like that.

When the night came, Hashirama and Tobirama left the council room with a neat scroll with all the things needed to discuss the next morning. They had arranged with Toka-San to meet at 6 am at the camp's doors.

In their home Tobirama headed to his room and stopped in his tracks looking at his brother meaningfully.

"Rest well anija, tomorrow is an important day for all of us." He smirked to him, and Hashirama's face lit up.

"You too Tobi" he answered "We're gonna make it. For Kawarama and for Itama, we'll create peace" and he raised his knuckle shut. Tobirama gasped at the mention of their brothers, they rarely spoke about them.

"We will" was all the albino could say without breaking down. He raised his knuckle too and clashed it with his brother's. Then they went to their rooms and tried their best to rest, but none of them could stop thinking about the loss that lead to this peace. If only it had come sooner…

It was almost noon when Izuna woke up. He found his siblings seated at the engawa eating some inarizushi and rice balls. His stomach growled.

"HOW COME YOU BOTH DIDN'T GET ME UP TO EAT?" he shouted grabbing Madara's and Takato's food from their hands and stuffing it in his mouth.

"Oh! Good morning sunshine! You're full of joy today, aren't you?" Takato said sarcastically as he took another rice ball and ate it.

"Shut up baka!" he said after swallowing hard and seated between them to keep eating.

Madara Laughed from his spot, he wanted so much that this joy would last. They spent all the morning with Takato speaking with their Clansmen about the peace and the village. It was hard at first, but they got the help of the ones that were at the front with them, and also Suri's, the pregnant woman that was saved by Hashirama Senju. Finally they reached an agreement, and they gave their ok because they were tired of fighting.

"So, can you tell me more about what happened?" Izuna said, his appetite finally sated. "What is going on with this mysterious Kunoichi?"

"We only know their names and that they were chased by the Hyuuga who had attacked the Merchant Village. We assume they somehow got involved. The rest is what we told you" Takato answered.

"Why were they in the Merchant Village?" the younger asked

"We'll question them about that tomorrow. Kido-san wants to come along to check Takishima-san's sharingan so you'll get to have some answers too." Madara Stated "We've spent all morning talking to our comrades about what may be happening; fortunately things may go smooth because they've agreed even if they still hate the Senju."

"That's good to hear" Izuna said, and blushed when both his brothers looked at him surprised "What? I'm happy we'll get to find peace. There won't be another Suzumi or Saito. Children won't go to war."

Hearing Izuna spoke so freely about their lost brothers was odd. They didn't speak about them because it was a delicate topic for him

"It's hard to be sharing a village with Suzumi's killer, though" he added.

"I try to think that we are all victims of war, I still don't trust him too. But we were kids. Our family killed his siblings too." Takato sighed "I don't know"

Madara stood up and looked at his younger brothers with confidence. "Our siblings will be avenged with peace, no more hatred. If we had had peace earlier they might be here with us now fighting over the food." He smirked "But peace won't be for free. We must cope with a lot of things, and also we will establish some limits. I'm off to the council room to finished the peace terms and ideas for a Village" he continued "Izuna, please spar with Takato so he can check your health, tomorrow we have to be prepared for everything and I need to know you are at your best"

"Hai!" both of them said and smirked too.

Madara left to meet Kido san ant the other elders, whom were waiting him. Luckily they were less reluctant than the night before, and had already begun to work in some ideas. The Uchiha leader was relieved that it only took two hours to complete a scroll with thankfully more ideas than demands. The elders just wanted to make sure that the resources division was fair; that they could build a shrine and have a good spot to construct their compound. Also that their dojutsu would be safe and won´t be used to harm its clan. Its secrets would remain hidden in it. That last part had no point to Madara, because he believed that they comrades needed to know some things about the Sharingan if they were going to defend the Village. That was the only cause of discussion, but it was settled down by Kido-San who took the responsibility to speak on behalf the elders, they could tell the basics and some techniques of the Dojutsu, because the enemies had already seen them in action, but the way to execute jutsu had to remain hidden. Actually not many Uchiha had the Mangekyo so there wasn't a lot of information about it, and the ones that had achieved it had different techniques.

In the evening Madara went back home, and found their brothers still sparring. Both had the Mangekyo activated and were at their best in taijutsu. Takato stopped abruptly when he felt his aniki, but Izuna couldn't stop the punch that connected into his brothers jaw.

"BAKA!" Takato said to his little brother spiting blood "You need to practice more your chakra control to learn how to stop on your tracks almost immediately"

"Aw come on, Taka Nii, you stopped because you felt Aniki" Izuna said apologetically "You needed to be concentrated on our fight"

"It was a simple spar and you had to go "almighty Mangekyo" to prove yourself, you didn't even notice anija being here didn't you?" the middle brother scolded and his Otouto lowered his head in shame "You need to become more aware of your surroundings when you fight, and don't act recklessly every time. That almost got us killed yesterday."

Madara looked at them and said to Izuna "He's right, you know? You need to gain more control, what if you are in the middle of a fight and a kid gets in the way, or a loved one? Or what if you're too absorbed on your fight and don't notice someone else being in danger? Yesterday I felt Tobirama's attack intention on you both and I knew I couldn't reach to you because I was fighting Hashirama and knew my speed limits."

"It was fortuitous those kunoichi appeared then" Izuna said still ashamed but his cockiness never faltering.

"Yes it was." The eldest said seriously. "We all need to train harder to overcome our weaknesses, If Haruno San and Takishima San hadn't appeared, right now I will be blaming myself for not being fast enough to save you, so I will train my speed."

Izuna didn't say anything else, and Takato looked happy that he was being scolded.

"And Takato, you may be right in what you said, but stopping abruptly in the middle of a fight without checking your opponent's attack was reckless too." Madara Smirked as he saw his brother blushing a bit with shame and Izuna sneering.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I'll train harder." Takato looked like a scolded child, the youngest rolled his eyes.

"Ok anija, let's clean ourselves up and then grab dinner!" Izuna pushed his middle brother towards the house. "I'm sorry I hit you" he whispered only for him to hear. His brother smiled at that.

The patriarch sighed and smiled a bit looking at them, what he had said was true. He needed to become more powerful to save his siblings. He won't lose any other important person. He suddenly felt a shiver on his nape, and felt like he was being observed, but with his Mangekyo activated scanned the forest and he didn't notice anything. It had been a less than a second. 'Maybe I'm overreacting, I'm just stuck on the 'what if scenario' and being oversensitive' the thought. He went inside their house and grabbed something to eat before going to sleep.

Sakura was looking through the food Madara had given to them so they can have some breakfast. They had overslept, actually Hikari was still sleeping. When she woke up she saw the projection of Hamura near the nest's door. He had told her that his sister's chakra was replenished in the middle of the night, so he appeared to protect them in their sleep, not that they needed, they had place a lot of protection jutsu and the nest was almost undetectable.

The noise of them speaking and Sakura looking through the scrolls awoke Hikari.

"Hn, you're so noisy" she groaned rubbing her eyes "I'm so tired! How come you have all that energy in the morning?"

"Very funny. It's noon, we overslept!" the pink haired answered. "I believe it's the first time I sleep so heavily" she continued. "Do you want some rice? And there are some jerky beefs and… Oh Kami! DANGO!" she showed the delicious sweet as a price.

Hikari laughed at that and grabbed the rice and the jerky beefs. They were cold, but would do until they could roast some fish.

"So, Hamura-Nii, how come you are here?" Hikari asked while eating.

"As I told you, I'm a chakra projection linked with your chakra. When I sent you backwards in time I sealed a bit of my chakra in you to accompany you"

"Like Minato Nii did with Naruto? You're inside me?" she asked

"I believed Asura's last reincarnation's father did something like that when he sealed Kurama" he nodded

"It's Naruto" Hikari said. Hamura looked at her inquisitively. "It's not Asura's last reincarnation, his name is Naruto."

"Oh, yes. I'm sorry." He apologized "I didn't mean to offend you or him" he added "As I said, I sealed a part of my chakra into you to help your transition in here and with your mission".

"Hikari's mission is to stop Zetsu, right?" Sakura added siting down next to them eating some cold rice.

"Right, it's also your mission too. To help her, she must destroy him though, it's a family thing, no offense" he said

"None taken" Sakura smiled "and how are we going to find Zetsu here?" she asked

"At some point I'm sure he'll get close to Madara as he did with Indra. That's why it's so important to stop the curse of hatred. Zetsu feeds on that." Hamura said "I saw from the moon how that creature lured my nephew and destroyed everything he loved. I couldn't come to help him or my brother because it meant leaving mother's shell unprotected, and when I could reach Hagoromo, it was too late."

"What did Zetsu do?" the pink haired asked.

"First, Zetsu pretended to get Asura killed so Indra awoke his dojutsu. Indra was a sweet child before, and then before he gained his Mangekyo he started to want to be more powerful. He wanted to protect people but he was blinded by that creature. One day, Indra fell in love with a priestess. She was one of his father's comrade's daughter. They married secretly, and our nephew almost forgets all his darkness, but then…" He stopped with a painful look.

"What?" Sakura asked again, her heart beating fast.

"It killed her. Zetsu. She was pregnant at that moment and had just told Indra. He never knew it was him because Zetsu made it look like that she was victim of an attack on their village and was killed defending the children." Hamura sighed, he heard Sakura and Hikari suppressing a sob "The village was destroyed and all the citizens killed. That creature made Indra think that men were not to be trusted because they were greedy and violent, and that they didn't deserve the gift of chakra. He had already awoken his Mangekyo by killing his closest friends though, so he was already corrupted"

"He killed his friends? But wasn't he happy with his family?" Hikari said

"Before the attack on the Village, Zetsu made a first attack that threatened his wife's life. It used this as an excuse to lure him to gain more power. He fell on that because he really wanted to save her. He was fooled by that creature that if he experimented great loss by killing his friends, he will gain more power, and so he did it. His wife was a very clever priestess and realized that his husband's chakra had changed. He told her about this new power he had and though she was amazed by it, she wanted to know how he had gained it. He didn't tell her at first, but then he spoke about everything, the black creature, his friends, how he had gained the sharingan when he was a child. She was stupefied at first, and then started to yell and cry and he tried to sooth her. She made him promise her that he wouldn't hear or be near to this creature anymore, and that's when she revealed the pregnancy."

The silence was hard in the refuge, only interrupted by the sound of the wind on the treetops.

"Indra swore to her and their unborn child that he will cut all ties with the creature. He later confronted it, and Zetsu let him go without saying a word." Hamura finished.

Sakura was crying silently. That story was so cruel. "Indra…" She whispered sobbing softly. Hikari, who was crying too, got up and faced Hamura.

"That's when it killed her and Indra fell into darkness, right?" she asked wiping the tears on her eyes.

"Yes, but it got worse when our brother inherited Asura instead of him" He replied sadly. "I always thought that was unwise. He may have helped Indra in time, but he was too blind teaching everybody Ninshu."

"We need to be near to Madara then" the Takishima said.

"You must leave in the Village, you need to be accepted there" Hamura stated

"Then I must offer myself and my medical knowledge as a bargain chip, if it gets difficult" Sakura stood up as she said that. She had regained the composure and had found her resolve.

"Sakura…" Hikari said

"That's not a bad Idea. Your knowledge will be an enormous asset to any village." The Ōtsutsuki replied.

"What else do we need to do?" the pink haired asked.

"At some point you'll need to reveal where you come from. You must be truthful with them, so they make conscious decisions" He said, and both kunoichi looked surprised "but we'll get to that when time comes".

Time had passed really fast and it was now the afternoon. The kunoichi left the shelter for a bit to explore, Hamura stayed in the nest without a problem because Hikari had left a Kunai with her chakra embedded on it. They went to the river to refill their canteens and fished something to eat for dinner. Once they were back on the nest Hikari roasted the fish using a controlled small Katon. While Sakura prepared a pot of hot rice.

"I wish I was able to eat" Hamura said looking at them while they ate. Both girls laughed.

"Hamura nii I have another question for you" the Takishima said. "What's that about interdimensional chakra?"

"Oh, yes, I haven't told you about that, have I?" he said "Interdimensional chakra is a type of nature chakra that allows people to travel through dimensions, like mother did, or like Sennin do."

"That's the chakra the Old toad uses?" Hikari asked

"Yes, He teleports using that. It's the same that I used to travel, and it leaves a trail on the subjects while they jump. On people which are not users of it like you two, it takes cost and consumes their actual chakra." Hamura explained. "It will last some days I believe, maybe even a week. But you'll be fine" he smiled.

"Very well, so we must stop Zetsu and the Curse. And also live in the possible Konoha to stay close if that hideous creature attacks… what do we expect from tomorrow?" Hikari asked

"It will probably be a lot of discussion and we'll may need to be mediators. They'll want to know our story too" Sakura Said.

"We're Clanless, our village doesn't exist right now, and we were just passing by in the Merchants Village?" the brunette told them

"That will do for now" Hamura advised "try to be ambiguous about the village, so they won't ask many questions. If they get too annoying, bring them back to the Peace Settling."

The girls nodded as they ate their dango for desert.

"We need to sleep now, tomorrow is going to be a long day it seems" Hikari said, and then added "You'll stay and watch Hamura-nii?"

The mentioned smiled warmly to his sister "Yes Imouto, I will keep an eye for you both. Rest well."

Sakura greeted the Ōtsutsuki too, and went to sleep.

When both girls were asleep he scanned the area. He hid his chakra signature and Kokoro's one on her seal. He had made her clear not to use that chakra here only if needed. 'I know you are here Zetsu, I can feel you stalking Madara. You can't feel me or my imouto though and you won't see us coming' He thought.

*** AUTHORS NOTE***

More than 1k views! Thank you very much, and thanks for the Faves and Follows!

Hamura became Liam Neeson in my head as I wrote that last line. It took me some minutes to realized it was like Taken's one. As I said English is not my first language, I've watched Taken in Spanish but it still rang a bell. I believe i heard Liam saying that line on a tv show in English =')

I'll leave it as a small reference so Cap. America can understand it LOL.