DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.

"Lost time is never found again."

Benjamin Franklin

Family Reunion

Tobirama had been running for a while with Izumi on his back when he almost tripped off a tree. He was reaching his limit, he needed to rest.

Tobirama panted. "I'm sorry Izumi… I need to take a break…" He said, landing on the forest floor.

"I-It's okay." She said while sliding off his back. Looking around, she could see animals running throughout the tree they were resting against. A squirrel ran right in front of her, causing her to giggle.

"We're going to take a five minute break, okay?" Tobirama asked. She nodded her head and sat down. Izumi looked down at herself and noticed how much she had changed during these past few months. Despite being four (or five, she didn't know if her birthday passed or not) she could tell that she had lost a considerable amount of weight. She brought her knees up to her chest and placed her head on top of it, thinking about her family. She wondered how Izuna was doing without her, she was miserable without him. Izumi could feel tears form at the corner of her eyes. She missed her brothers so much; she just hoped that she could see them soon. But she wouldn't see all of them, not again, Katsumi was gone forever…

"Izumi, are you okay?" She looked to her left to see Tobirama looking at her.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just s-scared that I won't see my f-family again." He stood up and placed his hand on top of her head.

"You'll see them soon." Izumi smiled. "Now let's go."

After a week of traveling while eating plants and animals that Tobirama recognized edible, Izumi finally started noticing the trees surrounding them. She remembered that cherry blossom tree over there, she had gotten stuck on it and cried for someone to take her down until her father had come and gotten her.

"Tobirama, we're g-getting near! I remember t-this place; I played ninja with my b-brothers here!" She pointed at one tree. She traced a hole in the tree with her hands. "A-Arata threw a kunai here to p-prove that he could throw better than m-me and Izuna." Her eyebrows scrunched up. "He won." Tobirama ruffled her hair.

"Seems like you have a big family." Izumi's face suddenly saddened.

"Y-Yeah… I guess I still d-do." Smiling at her, he placed his hand on the ground and concentrated. He could feel a large group of people about 100 feet away. He knew that they were the Uchiha just because Haruka was getting more excited and excited by knowing where she was. He would have to part ways with her here or he would get captured again, but by the Uchiha.

"Izumi…" The little girl looked at him, her face showing excitement from that knowing she would see her family soon.

"W-What?" She asked.

"Do you know where you are now?"

"Yup!" Tobirama felt sad knowing that he wouldn't be able to see her again.

"I… I have to go now. You'll have to go on alone." Izumi's face suddenly fell.

"…W-What? But w-why?" He smiled, trying to cheer her up.

"I won't be welcomed in your home." He was a Senju, after all.

"O-Of course you w-will! I'll tell t-them you saved m-me!" She said, stubbornly. She didn't want Tobirama to leave; she wanted her brothers to know who saved her.

"I have a family too Izumi. I have an older brother and younger brothers that I want to see." He kneeled down to her height.

"B-But…" Izumi started crying, knowing that she wouldn't be able to see her friend anymore. She clutched her doll closer to her chest.

Tobirama wiped her tears away. "Don't cry Izumi." He smiled at her. "Despite being an Uchiha, I really like you. You… you're different from them, and I can't explain why."

"D-Did my clan do s-something to y-you?" He chuckled darkly.

"You'll understand one day." He stood up.

"W-We'll see e-each other one d-day! I s-swear it!"

"I hope so too." 'But I hope we never have to meet on a battlefield.' Izumi wrapped her arms around Tobirama and tightened her grip. As hard as she was trying to keep quiet, Tobirama could hear her crying. "You need to let go Izumi." Her grip tightened even more, but finally loosened. She stepped back and her eyes were red from crying.

"I'm gonna miss you." Tobirama could feel a mixture of emotions going through his head. He hated to admit it, but the little Uchiha standing in front of him had burrowed her way into his cold heart.

"I will too. Now go, your family misses you." She turned around and started walking towards her home.

"B-Bye Tobirama." She said.

Tobirama didn't walk away from where he stood until he couldn't see Izumi anymore. He took one last look at the little girl he had taken care of for the last few months and turned around.

It was time for him to go home.

As Tajima read through the reports, he felt dejected. The team had come back and they still haven't found a single sign Izumi. Other than that, the report had stated that they had found a compound burned to the ground with the dead lying everywhere. Tajima sighed and stood up from his desk, he could feel a headache coming on.

"Those damn Elders…" He muttered. They were the one's making him to all this paperwork. If it was up to him, he would be outside the compound, searching for his daughter. He slid the door open and walked out of the building. Tajima decided sometime during his walk that he wanted to see how Madara and Arata were doing with their training. After all, Masaru was the one training them now, not him. Tajima just didn't have the time to do it anymore. Izuna was probably getting his tutoring done with Hitomi.

Tajima walked through the fields when he sensed someone's chakra in front of the gate… It was a chakra signature he hasn't seen in months.

"Izumi." He whispered to himself. Tajima ran towards the gate, ignoring the weird looks that the clan members were giving him.

He came to a stop in front of the entrance to the compound. "Open it." He commanded to the guards. They stood still, not sure of what to do. "I said open it!" Obeying the clan head, they hurryingly ran in front of him and started pulling the gate open.

"Who the hell are you?" He heard one guard said to the little girl standing in front of them. Tajima ran forward while pushing those two guards away and stood a few feet away from the little girl.

"…Izumi?" He couldn't believe it, was this her? This wasn't some genjutsu, right?

"F-Father?" He fell on his knees, his arms handing limply on his sides. He would know that voice anywhere. Izumi ran forward and wrapped her arms around his neck, causing a few tears to fall from his eyes.

"You're alive, thank Kami you're alive." He brought his arms around her. "I thought you were dead." He said into her hair. Izumi had started crying sometime during their reunion

"I w-was so scared!" Tajima's grip tightened.

"You're okay now, you're okay." He stood up and carried her back to the house. Screw the elders; he would deal with them later.

The important thing was that Izumi was back home, she as finally safe again. He had thought that she had died along with his second-born. That was painful enough; finding out from Madara that Katsumi was dead.

"I-Is Madara and I-Izuna okay? T-They weren't k-kidnapped?"

"No, they're fine."

"Thank K-Kami." Izumi said into his neck.

It was Hitomi who was waiting for them when Tajima reached the front door with Izumi in his arms. After Hitomi smiled at the kidnapped heiress, she told Tajima that his other children were already in the house, waiting for Izumi.

"Well, we don't want to keep them waiting." He placed Izumi on the ground and let her run through the hallway to the living room.

Izumi was finally going to see her brother after all these months of pain and cruelty. She hurryingly slid the door open and stood there, trying to contain her tears. Standing in front of her were the brothers that she had thought about for so long, the people that had kept her going during her capture.

"I-Izumi, is that really you?" Madara asked. Izumi opened her mouth to say something, but her voice had failed her.

"Izumi!" Izuna shouted out and jumped onto his twin with tears on his face.

"I-Izuna!" She fell backwards, not able to keep her balance with her brother tackling her. Arata and Madara ran to the twins on the ground wrapped their arms the group.

"You're really here!"

"I missed you!"

"Don't ever leave!" Tajima stood by the doorway watching his children reuniting. Katsumi's death had been hard on everybody, especially Izuna. Everybody had thought that Izumi died along with him. Izuna had taken everything harder than everybody else; he believed that he lost his twin, his other half.

The only person missing in the group of people in front of Tajima was Katsumi, and he was sure he was on everybody's mind. But somewhere up there, his son was watching over them.

His family was whole once again.

Five Years Later

"Goddamn it Izumi, father told you to stay here!" Izumi shrugged her shoulders.

"I wanted to go see Aimi and Hina. Did you know their father's trying to marry them off?" She shook her head while she put her jacket away "He's such an ass."

"Ugh, you're lucky father or Madara weren't the ones that came home first."

"Oh shut up Izuna, you're worrying too much."

"No I'm not! One of the other compounds were attacked by the Senju-"

"And I would be able to protect myself." She tapped her eyes, flashing them red for a second until they returned back to their normal brown.

Izuna shook his head. "You're hopeless."

"That's one of my charm points." Izumi raised her arms above her head and stretched. "Where's Madara anyways?"

"I dunno, he went off into the forest, saying something about needing some time to meditate. I asked to come but he said he wanted to go alone." Izuna answered. Izumi froze at what he said. A forest…? "But Izumi… I followed him-"

'Let's building a village here and make it so kids won't have to kill each other! We'll create a school where kids can train and grow up stronger Madara!'

'Hashirama…'

Images of her brother and another boy sitting on a mountain came flooding through Izumi's head, causing her to push a hand against her head for the pain.

"Izumi? Are you okay?"

"…Yeah, I'm fine, just a headache." They both heard a knock on the front door. Izumi immediately forgot about what just happened and smiled. "That's Kazuyo! I invited her for dinner."

"What?! Why?"

"Because she's my friend."

"But she won't leave me alone then!" Izumi shrugged her shoulders and walked out of the room.

"Not my problem." She walked to the door and opened it. "Kazuyo-chan!"

"Hey Izumi." Kazuyo walked into the house. "Who's cooking dinner?"

"I think its Hitomi-baachan, but I don't know for sure-"

"Oh, is that Izuna?" Kazuyo ran towards her brother. "Hey Izuna, you missed me?" Izumi started laughing from the way her brother looked at her with so much misery.

"Leave me alone Kazuyo."

"Now, why would I do that?" Deciding to let her brother out of his misery, Izumi dragged her best friend away from him and dragged Kazuyo to her room.

She groaned. "Why did you take me away from my one true love?"

"We're too young for love, stupid."

"Still!" Izumi ignored her friend and continued looking at her closet for that book Kazuyo wanted.

"Hey Izumi? What's up with this weird thing?" She turned around and saw her friend holding a doll. Her eyes widened and she ran to grab it.

"It's a doll." Kazuyo looked at her weirdly.

"Uh… it's made out of cloth and rocks."

"So? It's something special." Izumi looked at it and felt a sense of reminiscence when she did. She remembered a certain white-haired boy making it for her. "Just let it go."

"Whatever. I'm starving, is the old lady making us dinner or what?"

"Don't call her that, she's taken care of my family since I could remember." Izumi took her friends arm. "If you're that hungry, let's just go make dinner together."

"Do you remember what happened last time we did that?"

Izumi turned her head towards her friend and Kazuyo saw a wicked gleam in her eye. "Of course I do."

"…I like the way you think, my friend."

"That's why you love me Kazuyo-chan!"

"What the hell?!" Izuna shouted out. He ran towards the sink and started downing water from the running faucet. He glared at his sister and her friend as they laughed at him sticking his tongue under the running water. Izumi was literally on the ground laughing so hard, there was no sound coming from her. Kazuyo was snorting and doing her weird laugh that sounded like the mixture of a pig and dog. To him, anyways.

"Wasn't it just delicious, my dear twin brother?" Izumi managed to say in between breaths.

"I hate you right now." He said. After a while, his tongue finally stopped burning from the sheer spiciness of the soup. He should've known those two had done something to it, they've done it before. Why did he accept and eat it? Why?

"I'll give you a sweet kiss to blow that spiciness away if you want, Izuna-kun." Kazuyo said to him as she placed her hands under her chin while they all sat at the dining room table.

"I'll pass. Go do that to Madara or something." Her face scrunched up at the thought of their older brother.

"Ew, your guy's brother would Katon my ass before I could step five feet near him." Izumi shoved rice in her mouth. "That's true. It'll be the end of the world when Madara lets you kiss him."

"Ugh, gross Izumi. Finish eating before talking." Her friend said. Izumi shrugged her shoulders. They sat with silence, only the sound of Izumi eating when they all heard the front door open.

"I'm home."

"Well speak of the devil.

"Oh shut up Kazuyo!" They all looked up to see the 14 year old boy walking to the kitchen, cuts and bruises all over his body. Something told Izumi that he had gotten those from his little"meditation" trip.

"Where the hell did you get that black eye Madara?" Izumi asked, quickly standing up.

"I…fell."

"Yeah, and Kazuyo kissed Izuna."

"Hey!" Ignoring the grumbling coming from her best friend, Izumi soaked a towel with cold water and pressed it against her brother's eye eye. "Father's going to throw a fit if he sees you like this."

"You need to be careful Madara-niisan; you know how father feels about hurting your eye."

"You want me to heal it?" Kazuyo asked from her seat, her hand glowing green with iryo-ninjutsu.

"Thanks Kazuyo." Standing up, she walked towards the teen and placed her hand on his eye and started healing it.

"Madara, where is father anyways?" Izumi asked while she washed the dishes with Izuna wiping them dry.

"He said something about meeting the Elders. Probably about the Senju anyways."

"Did he say anything about the compound that was attacked?" Kazuyo asked, still healing Madara's eye. She was worried for her mother and sister who lived there, the Senju just attacked that compound.

"Sorry, but no." She signed.

"Well, you have a mission tomorrow so take a shower and go to sleep." Izumi said as she gave Izuna the last plate.

"Wait, how do you know about it?"

"Duh, I'm going with you." She said. Kazuyo yawned as she removed her hand from Madara's face to reveal a perfectly healed eye. This had cost a lot of her chakra, more than what she thought it would be.

"I'm going to go; my dad's going to want me home." After Izumi said bye to her friend and closed the door, her smile changed into a scowl as she glared at her older brother.

"So, please tell how you got those bruises and scratches."

"I told you that I fell."

"…Madara, I followed you today." Izuna suddenly interrupted. Izumi and Madara quickly turned their heads towards the boy.

"What?" Madara shouted out as he stood up from his chair, knocking it down.

"Why didn't you tell me?!" Izumi asked. Her twin flinched from the intensity of both questions. He bravely stood where he was though and stared at his brother in the eye.

"Madara, that boy-" The air in the room suddenly turned cold as Madara walked up to Izuna and grabbed his shirt, lifting him until they were face to face.

"Don't," Madara's growled out. "-tell father." Izumi ran forward and tried to separate her brothers.

"Let him go Madara." Dropping the boy, he apologized and left the room, leaving Izuna sprawled on the floor in a coughing fit. "Are you okay?"

He coughed as Izumi rubbed her hand against his back. "I'm fine."

"Just give him time. Arata's death was hard on him, probably more than us. It probably hurt since his birthday was just yesterday."

"I know Izumi. It's just that… the boy he met up with today, he wasn't an Uchiha." She looked at her brother surprisingly.

"What?" Izuna shook his head.

"It's probably nothing; I'll keep it to myself." Izuna knew who it was, but he didn't want to bring his sister into it, just in case.

"If you say so." She pulled her brother up. 'Well, I'm going to bed. Don't stay up too late Izuna." Hugging her brother, she kissed his cheek.

"Goodnight Izumi."

Izumi walked towards her room and slide her door open to reveal her doll laying on her futon, the moonlight shining on it through the window. She walked over to it and picked it up gently and looked at the barely visible face that was drawn on it.

"Tobirama…" She traced the face with her finger. "I wonder where you are right now…"

A/N: So, here's the next chapter! The beginning was so hard, I almost felt like ripping my computer apart. Yes, ripping. I did a time-skip because I just needed too. If I didn't, this story probably would've gotten worse.

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Uchiha

Madara: 14

Katsumi: Died at the age of 7

Arata: Died at the age of 8

Izumi: 10

Izuna: 10

Kazuyo: 11

Senju

Hashirama: 14

Tobirama: 13