Madara smiled as he looked over at the village below – the village he and Hashirama had created together. "Konohagakure. The Village Hidden in the Leaves," he said, ignoring the way Hashirama moped at the simplicity of it.
It was already getting to the time of year when the leaves were falling and drying to a crisp – perfect kindling material, which was probably why Tobirama was seemingly so eager to cut down a fair number and sweep the leaves out from under the rest.
"Naru-chan, Sasuke-chan, and Sakura-chan are starting at the academy today, aren't they?" Hashirama's grin widened, and Madara closed his eyes.
"Hn." He nodded, relaxing at the scent of the clean, fresh air and the slight hint of smoke—His eyes snapped open, fixing on the fire that had sprung into life. "Looks like Sakura is having fun…" he mumbled, smirking as a substantial water jutsu quenched the flickering flames.
The tell-tale sound of a shunshin had him spinning, but Izuna only raised an eyebrow. "Actually, I do believe that was Sasuke this time…"
"Sasuke-chan?" Hashirama blinked in confusion.
Izuna shrugged. "Something about a kid named Shimura Danzo looking at Sakura funny…"
Sasuke folded his arms, smirking as Naruto mirrored his actions, the smouldering wall behind the other pair filling him with smug pride – especially with the mild terror now settled on Danzo's face, an expression he would relish until the end of time. "Why do we have to be split up for a tour?" he demanded, blocking Sakura from sight. He did not like the way Danzo was looking at his sister, and he doubted Naruto appreciated Hiruzen looking at Sakura either.
Like they wanted to be friends… or more than friends…
No male aside from family could be allowed to get near their sister, partially because they loved her, and partially because they did not want her spawning. One Sakura was enough to deal with by herself, so they didn't need more.
"We can go as a group," Sasuke insisted, folding his arms.
"Uh, but Kagami already took Sakura for her—" Hiruzen began.
"What?" Sasuke hissed, spinning around to discover that Sakura had, much to his consternation, vanished. His eye twitched, feet pounding as he hurriedly tried to find his missing sibling – if only so she couldn't cause more damage.
"You just need to put more chakra in!" Sakura chirped, flicking through the hand seals for the Uchiha's staple jutsu.
"Cool!" Kagami said, grinning brightly, copying his sister's motions, and Sasuke felt a pool of dread build in the pit of his stomach.
This was not going to end well.
Been a while, but I'm afraid to say I've lost a lot of motivation for this fic - hence the painfully short chapter. This was always going to be a short crackfic with little plot, if any, aside from fixing the past through sheer Team Seven weirdness. Bookmarks on AO3 and other remarks being made calling this 'garbage' to put it politely (even if in a different language - because yes, I do have access to google translate, and I do use it occasionally) haven't helped either with my writing, though thankfully I think there were only a few. I never honestly thought this fic would get that much attention, and I can safely say I'm not fully happy with certain parts, particularly the first chapters.
The epilogue will be coming up next to tie things up, and over the coming months I may try to edit bits and pieces of different chapters, but for now, I'll be moving on to my other less cracky fics.
Though I may do a slightly more realistic Warring States time travel fic involving Team Seven Redheads if I feel like it, still with some crack but mostly plot and awesomeness. I might do a 'Twiceborn' Universe AU, who knows? Though I do have a fair few other ideas I want to pen down, and I have lots of WIPs which I need to finish.