"I don´t know if we should continue this" commented one young Uchiha. Many more were listening to him and nodding. "I mean… Madara-sama, Izuna-sama and Sorato-sama fight well, but I don´t think event his will safe us and we lose a lot of shinobi on each fight. This just cannot go on"

"I agree with you" said another, frowning. "And the Senju leader seemed to be a very nice young man, I bet he would behave good with us. Me for me, I felt more comfortable with him than with our clan leader or his family"

"But what we could do? They are not going to stop fighting" a third person added. They sighed and started plotting. Their first idea was to send a secret message to Hashirama, requiring a secret meeting with him, but it was too risky. One of them suggested getting captured in battle. Yes, that was the best option, as no one wanted to get killed because of suspicions of a trap. Unfortunately for them, someone else was seeing this.

"So it has begun already, eh?" said Sorato, perched in a tree and seeing everything that was going on through his Sharingan. The young man frowned, remembering the day the clan betrayed both him and his family. "Should have known…"

"Should have known what?" asked Izuna, looking at his nephew with confused eyes.

"Nothing… for now. Just keep your eyes in the prisoners that will be captured in the next battle and your ears open with the clan"

"My ears open? I trust the clan completely…"

"You shouldn´t, believe me. We can only trust in our own family, that´s why we have to get stronger and stronger" he got down from the branch he was resting on. "I should have done it years before my brother´s murders happen"

"That´s no reason to doubt the clan" his uncle was even more confused. Was the boy warning him over something that was going to happen in the close future? He didn´t have time to think about it, because the alarm bells ringed, signaling a Senju attack. Both him and the angel reunited with his brother on the battlefield, who was already fighting Hashirama. The brunette´s way of fighting, even if it was already soft before, changed to be completely ridiculous. It was as if he was trying not to hut his enemy!

"Fight, you big oaf!" yelled Madara, enraged that his former friend was not giving him what he wanted. "Or I will kill you…"

"Please, don´t make me do that" said Hashirama, lifting his hands. "Just listen to me, I really have to talk to you and end this bloody war that cost us too much" the Uchiha frowned and put his battle fan in his rival´s chest, ready to break one or two ribs, but the Senju grabbed his hand. "I´m begging, hear me out. We need to stop this for our ch…"

"NOOO!" Sorato used the Kamui to get the brunette out of that place, before he could say anything about him being his child. He didn´t know where he was going to go, he just wanted to undo the mistake he did by showing the man his kekei genkai. Once inside the other dimension, thanks to Sorato´s for once poor abilities in manipulating this jutsu, they were expelled directly to a forest. "Damn, Izu made this jutsu look so easy"

"Where the hell are we?" asked Hashirama, rubbing his head. He has just being thrown into a tree. Now he knew exactly what his enemy´s felt when they were attacked by him and he didn´t like it. Maybe he should stop hitting Madara with his Mokuton, this will definitely put the Uchiha in a better humor.

"I don´t know… but I don´t really care" he crossed his arms, glaring at him with his Sharingan. "I know you are such an idiot that you can´t understand many things, so I am going to make this easy for you to understand…"

"You know, you look a lot less menacing without those red eyes… and cuter too. My green eyes surely suit you!" he smiled at his son, trying to start a conversation that was not battle like. The younger man didn´t buy it and keep glaring. "But you really are more like Madara than me, did one of your sibling resemble me?"

"I´m not going to answer that"

"Come on, I want to…"

"Can you shut up?" asked the angel, keeping his voice low so the others didn´t hear what they were talking about. "I want to make things clear with you" the red eyes make the Senju stay still. "First, don´t you ever dare to call yourself my father… or any of my siblings father. For us all, we only had a mother, we didn´t need you at all"

"You are lying, I can tell that" his only answer was a cold face. For his part the raven started to think about how the idiot managed to find about that. Well, he didn´t really care. He wasn´t either telling him that his sister was very united with him, the only child willing to stay by his side and honor his dream.

"Second" he held two fingers up. "Don´t tell anyone that there is any blood relation between us, because I will stop you no matter where you are and put you in such a terrible genjutsu that you are never going to be the same"

"I… you won´t do that to your own father, no?"

"Haven´t you hear me? I don´t think about you as my father, so I won´t have any second think about using my dear Tsukuyomi on you" he looked at his very well-cared nails, something strange on a shinobi. "Third… stay the fuck away from my mother!"

"What?"

"You heard me! Stay away from him, I prefer not to be born than to see him suffering again" he put his hands on his hips. "And if you don´t… let´s just say that you don´t know how terrible I could be"

"Come on, son" Hashirama tried to calm the young man down, lifting his hands and looking the least threatening he could. "I want to talk to you… o get to know each other" an even harder glare made him notice that his good intensions were not welcomed at all. "You know… to fix what was wrong… I really want to form a family with you…"

"We grew up okay without your help and your idea of us being okay" he tried not to show emotion. That time without his mother was great to learn how to be as cold as an ice block, great to make masks. "is not what everyone will call okay"

"I´m just trying not to make the same mistakes the Hashirama you knew commit"

"Then just stay away from my mother"

"Sorry, but I´m not going to make that. I love him and I will fight for his love, even against you" he was dead serious. Determined green eyes clashed with cold identical ones. Inside, they knew the other was going to be their biggest headache. The brunette cursed low, why did he had a kid as stubborn as himself? Now he was going to fell what his brother felt when dealing with him.

"Then let´s see each other on the battlefield" he showed the other his back. "Don´t say that I didn´t warn you, I´m even worse than a bijuu when I want to be"

"That surely comes from your mother" commented the Senju. "I´m not going to give up either. I´m making you see that you are mistaken about me"

-Later-

"What do we have here?" asked the clan head when he entered the camp. His brother had met him in the compound´s door, relieved after seeing him come back harmless. After making a request, the albino guided him to the little healing room they had. The medic nin started treating patients, not really worried for their injuries, when he found someone. "Madara did him good"

"And Izuna too, I can´t believe they are that protective of their monster" rolled his eyes Tobirama. Laying on a futon was Gari, barely alive and with his face a mass of black and blue. During the battle he was hit by Madara several times and nearly killed by Izuna. The worst thing was that the younger Senju brother had already made a plan with him to give Sorato the scare of his life. With him completely froze in panic, killing him would be a piece of cake. Unfortunately somehow his brother ruined that. "They even called him a Monkey Vermin"

"He is" answered surprisingly Hashirama, leaving the injured young man there without even an anesthetic.

"Aren´t you going to make something to heal him?"

"Nope"

"Why?"

"Because I don´t like him at all and he deserves to die… for some reason you are going to understand in the future… a very close future if I´m lucky" he continued walking. "Were there prisoners in the battle?"

"Yes, they want to talk to you" they continued walking together. "They surrendered by their own will, but I wouldn´t put pass the Uchiha to use this to…"

"I will see them" he went to the prisons and has a short talk with the young men that wanted to make a truce with him. This left him thinking… maybe Sasuke was right and he needed to know the opinion everyone had on his love. He personally thought Madara was the most adorable thing that ever walked on earth, but apparently not many people had the same opinion. Those youngsters wanted another clan leader, a more moderate one. After telling them he was not accepting the proposition because he would only make peace with Madara, he left the prison, wondering how bad the things were twisting for his old friend. His own clan thought he was dangerous, some of them were ready to betray him, what was next? He wanted to know, so he made a beeline to visit Sasuke-san. Down in the prison the captured Uchihas were chatting, thinking about why the Senju leader was so against them bringing down Madara. One of them even wondered if the man liked Madara… in the romantic way, but the argument was rejected as soon as it was brought up. After all that was not possible… right?

"I see things were not as you hoped today" greeted him Sasuke when Hashirama visited him after tending to his clan. "And Sorato wasn´t interesting in hearing you speak"

"Well… he can be worse than Madara when it came to listening the other´s opinions"

"That he gets from you"

"I listen to the others opinions! I do it all the time!" defended himself the brunette. "I listen to my advisors, to my brother…"

"Just when they are ordering you as if they know what is the best for you" the Uchiha rolled his eyes. "Something else that is worth my time?"

"He said some creepy things, like that I don´t know how bad he can be on the battlefield"

"That´s true, Sorato is a menace worse than a Bijuu when he wants to be"

"How could that be?"

"You are going to find really soon"

-In the Uchiha compound-

"I can´t believe that much of our men gave themselves up just to… to… aghh, it´s like they don´t trust us" grunted Izuna, walking trough the room enraged. The other occupants of the place were his brother and nephew, one with a worried face and other with a knowing look. "Okay, Sora-chan, something you want to share with the class?"

"Well, I thought I still have time to counteract before this happen, but as it has already begun…" he shook his shoulders and made sure no one was listening to them. "Remember what I told you earlier? That we can only trust in our close family?" his uncle nodded. "It was because the clan betrayed us"

"No way!"

"Not so loud, please" he looked around again. "The thing is, they are in favor of a truce with the Senju clan, even sharing the same idea of forming a village with the Senju"

"No one can see that doing so will only condemn the clan?"

"They have to be more naïve than me when I was a child" spoke Madara for the first time, then sighed. "Those men… some of them have to be trying to talk to Hashirama, they would have not surrendered if it wasn´t that way"

"Yes…" Izuna was in deep thinking. "did this… uprising bring great consequences to our clan?"

"The village war formed, our family was practically expelled from anything and in some point even forced to steal to get something to eat… pick up one thing" he sighed. "We were like symbols, you know? Symbols of a war that was already over, but no one can forget. They all thought that we wanted it back. It wasn´t true, but…"

"I understand" the clan head roused from his sitting place and put his arms around him. "Don't worry, this is not going to happen again, not now nor ever. We are going to fight the Senju until the death and no peace treatment nor village will change my opinion"

"That´s the spirit, nii-san!"

"For now, I need to think what we will do. If we can´t trust the clan… let´s just say that us three against the Senju isn´t a very good bet, no matter how powerful we are" he sighed and went to the door. "I need to take some air, if you need me I will be in the usual place"

"You shouldn´t go there" said Sorato quickly.

"Why?" Madara raised an eyebrow.

"Because no one can tell when someone will ambush you" and I don´t trust that bastard in the slightest, he added in his mind. "You will be better here"

"I can take care of myself" he argued.

"We know, nii-san, but he is right. We need to stay together" helped him Izuna.

"Okay, I will stay" he answered. "Now that I´m staying how about one or two games of Shogi. I bet I can beat you two in a row"

"In your dreams" Sorato accepted the bet. When the oldest Uchiha left the room in search of the game he turned to the other. "Thank you"

"What Are uncles for?" answered him with a smile. "Now go in there and beat nii-san for me, because I sure as hell can´t win against him"

-The following day-

"So the traitors are now in the Senju´s side" commented Madara, seeing the supposed prisoners from his clan in the lines of the enemy. Some members of his army were nervous, as if they were wishing to go and join them. "All cowards…"

"How disgusting" said Izuna, lifting his nose. "Let´s give them a taste of their own medicine" the clash began. After the inicial minutes of the fight, the Senju army regrouped. More Uchihas turned into their allies and some more wanted to abandon their actual clan leader, who was fighting his old rival. "Damn"

"You can´t win like that, Madara. Please hear me out before it´s too" tried to convince him Hashirama, but before he could even began to talk.

"We can win like this… with me!" declared Sorato. "I´m more than enough to bring an end to your stupid dream" his eyes turned purple with rings around them, which made his father take a step back. Tobirama also was looking in complete horror. That was the legendary Rinnegan. The angel smiled. "I told you I can be worse than any other enemy you had"

"Tobi…"

"Got it" the albino rushed. He didn´t know what that idiot was able to with that thing, but he didn´t want to find out. "Everybody go back!"

"Retire too" Madara nodded and ordered the retreat. Sorato used chakra to speed up and catch to the fleeing Senju army. He made some hand seals completely unknown to the people there. Hashirama decided it was too risky to see what was going to happen and used his Mokuton to create giant domes while he heard… "Shinra Tensei!"

"Woow, what a technique" commented Izuna, seeing the destruction his nephew has just caused. Not even a clash between Hashirama and his brother has caused this amount of damage. Sorato caught up to them a few minutes later. "You did it great"

"Th… thanks" answered the boy, feeling a little bit bad. "Is there… is there someone else who wanted to join them?" the wind can he heard. "Good"

"Sora, are you alright?" asked Madara worried.

"This technique just uses too much of my chakra, I need to…" he didn´t finished the oration. He felt to the floor unconscious, his eyes bleeding. Madara and Izuna didn´t waste time and carried the injured Uchiha to the compound. The older prayed that it was nothing serious. While they were getting away the domes opened.

"Well, that was a really powerful thing" he said, scanning the area. There were some injured people in the domes, having being caught by the energy of the technique. And there were some destroyed domes. Not many but… they have suffered many loses. "He was not joking about being worse than a bijuu"

"Great that you tell me that now… idiot" Tobirama hit his brother´s head, then he looked around at the destroyed territory. "I don´t know if we can deal with such a power"

"Hey, it´s going to be okay. One way or another we are going to survive and then…"

"How, Hashirama? He even destroyed a Mokuton technique and that was supposed to be unbreakable. If we got any closer or get any allies, he will just pull out his Rinnegan and…"

"Tobi, Tobi" the older brother held him by the arms. "It´s not like you to go into panic, calm down and give me back my cold headed baby brother" a glare made him smile. "That´s better. Now let´s think about a plan to…"

-In the Uchiha compound-

"It´s just a Mangekyo… well, he over used his eyes" diagnosed the doctor. "The bleeding already stopped, just let him rest and he will be okay in no time"

"Thank you, doctor" Madara got inside to see his son sleep. He has been unconscious since the time he used his Rinnegan in their enemies. He was sure many of them were still alive, but for now he didn´t care. The clan head just wanted his little boy to be alright. Something else plagued his mind. "Where did you get something so powerful and dangerous?" he passed a hand through his hair, caressing his locks. "You have many things to explain once you wake up"