"This is ridiculous, I have tried this time, but they didn´t want to work with me! Sent THEM back to the Academy!" screamed Byakuya. He was eight now and this was the fourth time he didn´t pass the genin exam. And it wasn´t because he lacked the ability or his will to work with anothers, it was because of the attitude the others have towards him.

"They worked together, you didn´t and… who in their right mind attacked a comrade with such a huge Katon? You deserve it"

"This exam wasn´t suppose to be approved by all three genin or none of them?"

"Yes, but the problem is only you, so I´m going to give this opportunity to another kid more fit to serve" the young Uchiha growled and stormed away. Now he knew why Sorato didn´t even bother to try, practicing by himself. He reached his house, damming his uncle to hell. The man was so blind that he didn´t noticed he what he was doing…

"I´m home" he said. His prodigy of a little brother was there playing with two bells, as if he didn´t have a care in the world. "How was your exam?"

"I win this myself… I didn´t pass again, not that I care" answered the young raven. "We weren´t going to pass anyway, they didn´t want us to become shinobi… not that I care" he sighed before putting the bells down. "What I´m more worried about is mama´s reaction"

"Yeah, me too" the first time they didn´t pass, Madara had a little breakdown. He hugged his sons and told them he was sorry, that it was all his fault. They tried to calm him down, after all they know he wasn´t at fault. This was that bastard of a Hokage´s fault and now the brunette was more than willing to make him pay. "But he was better last time, now it won´t be a great deal"

"I´m still worried"

"Yes, me too"

-In the Hokage´s office-

"Hashirama, you know this jounins were only failing the kids because they were my sons" Madara tried to bring some reason to his ex-lover´s mind. "Byakuya is not taking this well, and he is trying. He practices everyday and his Katon is the best of all the Uchiha children…"

"In this whole time, you have been only defending Byakuya" Hashirama tried to avoid the conversation. "What about Sorato?"

"He isn´t even trying and he is too young, soon to be four. He might be a genius, but even for him is too soon"

"He isn´t even trying? He put his jounin senseis and teammates in a powerful genjutsu that no even the other Uchihas could break and he isn´t trying?" the Shodaime rubbed his temples, knowing that later he would have to see his youngest son´s latest victims.

"My God, Hashirama, he is just a kid… and a genius. He only wanted to get rid of the problem the sooner he can…" in that moment Tobirama entered the room with a frown that only deepened when he saw who was there.

"Aniya, we need you to stabilize the little demon´s latest victims" the brunette Senju nodded, got up and rushed past Madara. The albino one looked at him serious. "Aren´t you going to apologize?"

"For what, might you tell?"

"For your damn son´s actions! He ruined the day of joy of another pair of children!"

"Hum… if Sorato didn´t find them worthy of being his teammates, then maybe sending them back to the academy is the best" answered the raven before he left. In his way home he cursed his old partner. Of course he couldn´t trust Hashirama! For taking his children away he can count on him, but to help them, to be a father… no, he was alone in that. "I´m home"

"Welcome back, mama" said Byakuya, reading a Katon scroll on the table. "Where were you?"

"Talking to the Hokage about… important stuff" he sighed. "Of course he didn´t listen to me or even take my opinion into account. Such a friend he was…"

"Were you expecting something else from him, mama?" asked Sorato, stopping his genjutsu practice on a poor bird, that took the opportunity to fly away. "He is more worried about his precious little village than his family…"

"I guess… I wanted to see if there was something left in him from the man I felt in love with or if he even existed at all" he sighed before going to the kitchen to prepare dinner. "I´m going to make some inarisushi today, how does that sound?"

"Great, I love your inarisushi" Byakuya looked towards the Hokage monument and felt like vandalizing it, but it would only make things worse. There was a knock on the door and he opened.

"Byakuya-sama, you and your family have been called a the clan meeting today at night. Please, don´t arrive late, an important decision is going to be taken today" the messenger said and then left. An important decision? That sounds bad.

"Mama, we have been called to a clan meeting" said the boy. Madara stopped preparing their meal and Sorato looked at them with his Sharingan activated. They knew bad news when they heard them and being called to the council was not good in their current situation. And they were right. In the reunion, the elders pronounced a long speech before getting straight to the point.

"… that´s why we think a change on leadership is in order" ended he speaker.

"WHAT?!" asked the older boy, earning a few disdainful looks from the old geezers.

"What you heard, Byakuya, from now on Uchiha Madara is not longer our leader. Uchiha Hikaku will take the leadership, we hope with some more moderation"

"Why?! This is not…" he wanted to scream bloody murder at them, but s harsh look from his mother shut him up. There was nothing they could do by just yelling at those idiots that they were making a mistake, that they were condemning the clan.

"Maybe it´s too difficult to understand for a boy your age, but the village did not trust your father anymore, nor the clan did" continued the elder. "Besides… we can´t have a clan heir that couldn´t even pass the genin exam, can we?"

"You…" he growled but was stopped. They left the place with the order to clear the house for the new owners and get prepared to be relocated. Madara and the children arrived at the house and both ravens started to prepare the moving. The brunette just stayed on the front door. "Are you really going to abandon like this?" he knew exactly how of a great deal leadership was for his mother… and for him. His dream was to lead the Uchiha clan to a new era of greatness between all Konoha clans. "Without a fight?"

"Byakuya, here me out" said his mom, hugging him tightly. "Don´t ever let them see how much they have hurt you" soon the guards came to escort them to their new place. It was a really tiny poorly made hut in the outside of the village, not Hikaku´s old house. It had only one room and barely a kitchen. The men left after their work was done. "I know this is going to be a smaller space than the one you are accustomed to" apologized Madara. "and we three are going to have to share the room…"

"It doesn´t matter" said Byakuya. "We are still together"

"Yes, as long as we are together, everything is fine" finished Sorato.

Some days after the little brunette was returning from the store when he saw the new clan head giving the children a class on Katon jutsu. His brother and him were not invited, such a surprise. He set the food into the floor and then made some hand signs. He yelled the techniques name…

"Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku!" it was a jutsu he just learned, but he executed it to the perfection. I was as if Madara in person was doing the jutsu. All of them looked at him with fear, since when a eight years old child that wasn´t even a genin was able to execute such a technique? Byakuya just left after directing them a Sharingan glare. "I´m home"

"Did you managed to buy everything?" asked his mother, showing Sorato some of his formal yukatas. The younger Uchiha shook his head silently and the older went back to picking one. They were for a party at the Hokage´s house, the motive was his birthday. At first it was a surprise, but the they thought he was invited just because it was him who signed the peace treatment.

"Yes" Byakuya put the things down and started to cut on the jam to prepare some sandwiches. He stole some of the things, after all since his mom lost leadership missions for him got down to zero and they barely had any money. "Do you really want to go?"

"It´s only a formality, I will be back before you can tell" answered the older raven, finally picking out a yukata. His brunette son nodded and handed him one of the three sandwiches. "No, you eat, I will eat at the party"

"Liar" the boy knew his mother was lying. Since they stopped having money, Madara started to skip meals at an alarming rate. The boys knew he was starving himself to give them food, so they can be healthy, but it only intensify their hate. "We need to leave this accursed place, quickly, before it kills us all"

"Indeed"

-At the party-

Madara was not having a good time, as not many people wanted to talk with the Uchiha leader that felt into disgrace. He took a quick look at the banquet table and felt his mouth water. He haven´t eaten in days, trying to keep his children with something on the stomach. Suddenly, he was pulled by the arm towards some place. At first he thought it was Mito again to tell him that someone that was struggling to maintain his family shouldn´t be invited to this kind of events, but then noticed it was Hashirama. He struggled but was too weak.

"Rikkudo Sennin, Madara! I´m not even putting that much strength!" said the Shodaime, worried about his ex-lover´s absence of strength. "You must be starving!"

"And whose fault is? There are no missions for me and that means no money for food… at least for me" answered the Uchiha feeling a bit dizzy. Hashirama felt guilty and rushed to the kitchen to bring his once best friend something to eat. The raven was about to reject it, but the Senju didn´t let him.

"If you continue like that you will die from hunger and then… who is going to take care of the kids? Because they would die before coming back to me" he handed the food back to him. "Come on, eat, it´s the least I can do for the mother of my children"

"Hum…" grunted Madara, but swallowed down his pride and started eating. The inarisushi tasted like glory. He swallowed down quickly and continued to eat without caring that the other was seeing him. Hashirama, for his part, was starting to notice just how much of a toll this situation had on his love…

"Do you want some sake too?" but he wasn´t going to lose this opportunity. It has been a long time since he had sex and passed so much time fantasying about touching the Uchiha again. He poured two shots of sake and handed on to the raven.

"Maybe one or two" Madara wasn´t thinking anymore. He wanted to drink, lo release some of the tension he was carrying for being a single mother without one ryo on the pocket. He drank the first quickly and soon lost count of his shots. Hashirama then laid him on the floor, barely conscious, and untied his yukata. He started to kiss his neck and leave love marks on it. "I missed you…"

"Really?" asked the brunette, startled by the other´s confession.

"Yes… a lot. I wondered… ahhhh…" the raven moaned when the Hokage touched his nipples. "where the man I felt in love went…"

"I´m right here now"

"Not you… the Hashirama that… ahhh… was willing to be by my side… the one that… ummmm… asked me to found this village… that loved me… that wanted to raise our children together… ahhhh… sometimes I even wonder if he even existed" the Senju couldn´t answer. He untied his own yukata and lied over the Uchiha, covering him with his body…

-The next morning-

Hashirama awoke to the sound of his lover redressing in a hurry and muttering curses under his breath. He yawned and stretched, feeling contented for the first time in a year. Madara, finally dressed, tried to walk, but his feet give up. It was no wonder, seeing that they haven´t had sex in a long time and last night he took the Uchiha more than ten times. It was obvious his tights would hurt a little.

"Come on, you don´t have to rush, stay here with me a little bit"

"No" answered Madara firmly. "This wasn´t supposed to happen. It shouldn´t have happened. I promised I would return home early and now…"

"Don´t be like that, they can wait some more minutes"

"No. Goodbye, Hashirama, and happy birthday" and he left.

"WHERE WERE YOU?!" was the greeting he got from Byakuya when he arrived home. He shook his head, that should be his line. He was the mother after all.

-The Next month-

Madara hurled in the toilet, feeling awful that morning. He haven´t even eating and he was nauseated. Byakuya approached worried while Sorato activated his Sharingan and scanned his mother´s body. What he saw left him with his mouth opened.

"I think I have caught a stomach flu" said the older Uchiha, flushing the toilet. His oldest helped him up and took him to the dinning room, where he could sit. "Hopefully it will go away soon"

"No" said the youngest, eyeing his middle. "This will last nine months" the other two opened their eyes big a saucers and activated their Sharingan to look at Madara´s middle. Indeed, there was a new chakra forming itself there. The former leader cursed at his luck and himself. He couldn´t believe he was foolish enough to let himself be impregnated again by Hashirama. "What do you want to do?"

"It´s obvious, we have to leave, now, before it´s too late" proposed Byakuya. "Or he will take our new sibling away from us"

"I… let me think about this one bit" the oldest left the house and walked towards the Hokage monument. He stood up in the same place where he named that village that was now rejecting him with a strange look. For some time he has fantasized about this place being his home, as well as his children´s. A safe beacon where they could grow up without knowing war. Now it was slowly killing them.

"I didn´t think I would find you here" said Hashirama, entering to the place. They haven´t seen each other since their night together and now… the brunette couldn´t have appeared in a better moment. "Is something the matter?"

"Hashirama… answer me sincerely. If we were to have another child… would you take it away from me?"

"The deal is still on" the man said. "Why?"

"Nothing…. I have to go, sorry" he left in a hurry, leaving the other confused. Madara ran to the woods until he felt to the floor and cried, rubbing his belly. He can practically sense his and his baby´s fear. "There, there… I´m here, I will not let you leave my side…" he got to his feet again, now determinate. They would leave Konoha immediately. And his new child… not matter it was a boy or a girl he would be named Izuna, in honor of his brother that wanted to protect him from this and was against the village. Hashirama appeared again that instant.

"What´s happening?"

"Nothing, I just… want to show you something" that night, after he show the Rikudo stone to his ex-lover and gave some excuse, he left the village with his children by the hand. They were not returning, ever…