Hey guys, sorry for the long update, but I honestly got a lot of things in life to do other than writing, thank you for your patience, I thank all of you who have written to me, and hope you continue to enjoy this.

Chapter 10 - Konoha

To be honest, Erza didn't know what to expect from this, from the start she wondered how involved she wanted to be into the naruto plot, well that changed severely ever since madara's change of heart, and she didn't know what the hell caused that kind of thing.

Well, she didn't until now that is, because as soon as she arrived at the newly made 'village', which by the way was too big to be called a village, there she saw two people at the entrance gate.

She was currently wearing her flying cloak, which seemed to go into its form of...well not quite asleep, but it is not active, so she will just call it "inactive" state, since that was the most accurate thing close to it.

As usual she is wearing baggy pants, well she was able to craft socks and shoes, wasn't at all that difficult, she literally just needed to add imagination to the crafting bench, but she left darkstalker at home, she didn't see a reason to bring him along.

Plus, he can serve as security if anyone unwanted came along and tried to get to her floating mountain/island, for as long as he was in the same dimension, he can send his thoughts to me and vice versa.

As for the two at the gates, well one was gray haired, though he obviously looked young, red markings on his face and was currently frowning and glaring, while the uchiha one was a typical guy from his clan who had black hair, the reason I know he is an uchiha is the fact he was glaring with his sharingan.

Between the two, only one should've, according to naruto canon, be alive, seeing as madara and hashirama seem to be passed their "kill at sight" phase, they were already passed the time where tobirama stabbed izuna,...which would explain why they were currently glaring at each other and had one of their hands close to their pouch.

It was a nice day today, though a bit warm for my tastes, but it was still a good day compared to natural disasters. Too bad Tobirama had to ruin it for apparently switching targets and is now glaring at me.

"So this was the one you needed to retrieve, she doesn't look like much, who is she?" tobirama rudely remarked, apparently his mother hasn't managed to give him anything resembling manners.

"Hello to you too," she dryly says, which then turned to hashirama, "who the hell is the one with mannerisms of a bull," erza knew who this was, but this was her first time meeting him, so she had to currently play along, lest she be suspicious on knowing things that she shouldn't have any way of knowing.

Seriously, was he always this kind of personality?, was the mother that bad?, perhaps tobirama had resistance from learning it, hashirama seemed to turn out alright.

Either one of them could be a case, though tobi now looked annoyed and developed a slight twitch to the eye,...Izuna seemed to like that based on his failed attempt at not snickering.

Hashirama rubbed the back of his neck, slightly embarrassed, "His name his Tobirama, I believe I have spoke about him before we separate, sorry for his behavior, he is usually not like this," after apologizing he put both of his hands on his hips and turned to his albino brother, "Tobi!, what have we spoken about how to speak with other people, we are trying to build connections, not deny them before we even have a chance to make one,".

Now it was hasirama's turn to be glared at by Mister McGlary, seems to be his thing, and angrily, and with slight embarrassment, said "Brother, how many more times do I have to tell you to make you stop calling me that, in both private times and in front of people,".

"But he does bring up a good point, Tobi, when will you improve that attitude of yours," teased the younger uchiha currently here, currently using that uchiha typical smirk.

Coming full circle he was now back to scowling izuna, "Shut your mouth, uchiha, stay out of this," if she had to guess, he probably hated the nickname more when it was used by any member of the uchiha clan.

All izuna did was mockingly laugh, "no way in hell, Senju," and started glaring at tobirama with withheld hostility and his hand still on his pouch.

Erza can sense the tension in the air, so thick she might be able to cut it, and almost outright hatred from izuna at tobirama,...wait didn't tobirama originally in canon slice izuna open which point later was supposed to die?

...well you can't say that the hate isn't justified, she knew she wouldn't act nice to anyone who did that to her.

Still this was getting old really fast, "How was the village built this quickly anyway, or did tree man make all this in the matter of time ranging from minutes to days?" she asked, she didn't particularly want to stand here for the following hours so she decided to move onto a different topic.

Hashirama seemed to agree or he had no clue about the tension and simply wanted to talk about the new village, yes I made most of the housing here, though the uchiha clan seemed to not want any help in the matter," while looking at madara.

All he did was roll his eyes, and with annoyance spoke, "my clan is perfectly capable of making our own housing, we did not need any of your help,".

Hashirama recoiled back as if struck and sat down in depression with a literal aura of it surrounding him, erza can only look in utter confusion in seeing the anime effect that was currently happening wondering how the hell that works.

By the time he recovered we started moving into the village, at the moment, there was way more space then what was currently needed as at the moment the only thing erza saw to the journey to the hokage tower were the some of the Senju clan, a little from Uchiha clan, and then a few dozens family of civilians that were probably passing by and decided that they liked the idea of shinobi defenders.

"How are you going to be able to support all the food you need?, there seems to be an increase of people, and there will be an increase once more civilians eventually join or/when your clans actually manage to repopulate," this was an actual good question, erza was literally seeing the the start of the Hidden Villages in the making.

"Well while the one who will be called the hokage be the leader of the shinobi forces, there is actually a person that the hokage would have to listen, which would be the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the reason being that most of our money and missions come directly from him," Tobirama remarked, as he observed each person passing by.

"Sadly we are gonna have to rely on the daimyo for the income and in exchange we are basically his ninja army," madara says, though she could tell he was irritated about it.

Hasirama on the other hand didn't seem to mind, "oh come now madara, it is not as bad as you make it sound, for now all he has us doing is some escort and bandit extermination missions, nothing to serious and is not something we have not done before," hasirama tried to lift the mood of his friend.

Erza on the other hand saw that they were already beginning some low rank missions, perhaps tobirama has already begun making things such as the ranking systems as well as the general rank like jonin?

Most buildings they passed by were rather simple, though it was expected, not like she was expecting decoration that she saw on naruto's time to be here in the first month, those took quite a long time to build up.

The same thing could be said for the Hokage Tower, it lacked color other than plain wood, but it definitely had the same shape to it, now the question was if the anbu even existed yet in the timeline, all she could remember was that tobirama had created numerous stuff during the time he was alive, but that could mean literally any time he was alive or when he was the leader of the village.

Generally like stated beforehand, there was just so much space, so they must be expected to sometime this year or more to fill it up with people.

I wonder how long it will take for clans like Hyuga and Aburame to come around and request to join the village?, the Senju and the Uchiha were already big names where literally no one else other than themselves wanted to mess with them.

All things considered, things were already looking good so far, as she was thinking that hasirama took his seat and put on the fire hat.

Oh, that already happened, hasirama cleared his throat, "now tobi, as for your earlier question on who she is, well she is a friend of mine and madara's when we were younger, and she is the one known as The Witch," he happily announced.

At that instance tobirama earlier grumbled when his accursed nickname was brought up, but it soon disappeared when her title was given, and soon he was looking all over her and reanalyzing all things he knew about that with narrowed eyes.

To be honest it was amusing to see tobirama's and izuna's wide eye expressions, and made sure to remember them for a very long time for future reference, that should be a good memory for a rainy day.

"...Is that so, too be honest, I was not entirely sure if you even existed, you have no idea how many rumors I have heard from them to trust anything they have said about this sort of thing" tobirama remarked, keeping his eyes on her.

Erza on the other end rolled her eyes, "well I would hate it if it was a common fact to the point every single person comes to me for everything, I already have enough problems for those religious ones that come to vanquish the vile 'evil' that I exhale everytime I breathe," she complained.

This was actually the original reason why see made her a floating fortress… well floatable, she had enough people who constantly tried to hunt her, she had cursed quite a few of them, which unfortunately only reinforced the woah 'evil witch'.

Though to be honest she did love some of the reactions she has gotten from the crystal orb from the blood she has managed to gather from some of the cursed ones, especially on those with the curse of sinking and insanity.

To be honest, she isn't much of a fighter, the first one was the worst, if she wasn't fighting one of the ents at the moment, she would've been caught off guard, afterwards she just placed in traps where they fell into pits where tons of zombies were lured in, one where there are rows of skeletons shooting...that was a paint to set up.

Hashirama and madara frowned, not particularly happy that their friend was being hunted she would assume, before they could voice their thoughts, she dismissively waved her hand, "at the moment it is just civilians searching for glory or literally just are religious to the fault, it is the shinobi ones I am honestly worried about," she didn't think she could be prepared for that.

Hashirama hummed, "well, I guess my request at the time would be very beneficial, so allow me to officially once more ask you, Erza Gremory, would you join the Village Hidden in the Leaves in the Land of Fire,".

At that moment, I was not sure where this would lead, when I either refused or accepted, well I could predict future problems with the 'witch hunting', so this was one of the many downsides for refusing, and so many pros in accepting.

"I, Erza Gremory, accept your proposal in joining the Hidden Leave," as both madara and hashirama happily smirked and smiled, respectively,

Sorry for the Long wait, here is the chapter, don't know when the next chapter will be out, though I will be working on my other story, along with other things.

So hope you enjoy

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