DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS/PLOTS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.
"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."
Walt Disney
So We Meet Again...
Just like what her brother said to their grandmother, Izumi and Madara left Nidai a week later. Izumi felt so refreshed, something that she hadn't felt in months because of the constant battles that the Uchiha were having with the Senju. But one thought never left her mind as she watched her brother while they traveled home,
Was her dream a vision or just that, a dream?
Since the two had no trouble on their way home, they were able to make the trip back to the main compound in one day. Although the trip was tiring, Izumi still felt more rested than ever. She was talking to Madara about Izuna when they reached the front gates. As they opened, she could see said person waiting for them.
"Izuna!" Izumi shouted. She ran towards her other brother and tackled him, causing them to fall to the ground. "I missed you my dear twin!" She could hear the people around them laughing as Izuna tried to get her off of him, but failing.
"Izumi, that's enough. Get off your brother." Looking up, she saw her father towering over them.
"F-Father!" She quickly got off her brother and started fixing her armor. From the corner of her eye, she could see Madara walking off, probably to see the Elders.
"I just finished talking with your brother; he said that you couldn't do the Katon jutsu?"
Izuna looked at Izumi, who paled at her father's words. "You can't do it?"
"N-No! I can do it, I just…" She trailed off and looked down, the happy mood that surrounded her disappearing.
"Just what Izumi?"
"I don't know… It's just really hard. If I concentrate, then it works." Tajima gave her a look, something scaring her. But he ruined that look when he scrunched his forehead, as if in thought.
"…Izumi, come with me. You can come too Izuna, if you want." He turned around and started walking towards their house, his children following closely behind him.
"Do you think I'm in trouble?" Izumi whispered to Izuna.
"I don't know but if you were, what for?"
"…I don't know."
When they reached the house, her father went straight to the scroll room that they had.
"What are you looking for Father?" Izumi asked as she watched him look at scrolls on the shelves. He had already went to the only desk in the room and took three pieces of paper, she couldn't see anything written on them.
"I'm looking for…" His hand stopped at a scroll that Izumi couldn't see. "Got it." He pulled it out and unfurled it. "Follow me; we're going into the backyard." He walked out of the room, Izuna and Izumi following him.
"Father, what are we doing?" Izuna asked, looking troublingly at his sister. Tajima rarely did stuff like this with his children, yet alone train. Their trip to the backyard with a scroll that contained jutsu's sounded suspiciously like training to them.
"Well, I'm pretty sure your sister isn't suited for the Katon jutsu's that we teach." Tajima said to them as he placed the scroll on the ground, Izuna and Izumi standing in front of him. He stood up and handed them both a slip of paper.
"This is blank, what are we supposed to do with it?"
"This paper tests your Chakra Nature and it's quite rare and expensive, not to mention only the Elders or I have it. And because most people in the Uchiha have the Fire Nature, we don't bother testing our kids for their Nature." He held up a paper and pushed chakra into it, causing it to ignite and then turn to ash. "But then again, you two might have the rare exception."
"So you want us to test our nature?"
"Yes." Izumi looked at her brother and turned her head back to the paper.
"Well, here goes nothing." She pushed chakra into her paper, expecting it to have the same reaction as her fathers.
But she was wrong, it did the total opposite.
Her paper turned damp, as if soaked in water. She looked at her brother, and then her father. "That…was not what I expected."
"Water Nature… Just like I thought." Tajima turned to Izuna. "Let's see what you are." Izuna pushed chakra into his paper, but unlike his sister, his paper ignited and turned to ash.
"Oh." Izuna stared at his paper in disappointment; he wanted to be the same as Izumi.
"Your mother, surprisingly, had Water Nature, unlike most Uchiha's." He handed Izumi the scroll that he brought with him. "I had a guess that you had Water Nature, that's why I brought this over."
"Suiton: Mizurappa?" Izumi asked out loud. Seeing this jutsu brought back memories.
If she remembered correctly, Tobirama used this jutsu to help them escape.
"We don't have many, obviously because most of us are Fire Nature, but your mother had quite a lot. I think she had the most in the clan." Izumi's eyes widened, as if she remembered something.
"No wonder why the Katon jutsu's you taught us were a struggle for me!" Tajima smiled.
"Can I try it too?" Izuna asked.
He turned towards his son. "You can try to do this jutsu, but I'm not sure if you'll be able to do it. Most people can't do two different Chakra Nature's at your age; one is hard enough for most." He smiled at his twins. "But I believe that you two can master both types of Chakra, even it being Fire or Water."
"This is so fucking hard!"
"Izumi, language!" She turned towards her brother, obviously irritated. Izuna sighed.
"Hey, just because I cussed-"
"You're cussing because of Kazuyo, isn't it?"
"What?! Of course not!" Izumi said. She started rubbing her head sheepishly, already knowing that Izuna didn't believe her.
He started shaking his head. "I don't understand why you bother being friends with her, she's so crude!" Izumi placed her hand on her hips and started laughing.
"The only reason why you don't like her is because she won't leave you alone whenever she sees you."
"Of course! Like yesterday, she came out of nowhere and slapped my butt! My butt!" He shouted out, annoyed.
"You know you secretly enjoyed that Izuna-kun." He looked behind him in surprise.
"Kazuyo-chan! You came!" Said girl started running towards the two, causing Izuna to hide behind his sister.
"Of course I would. Why wouldn't I?" She looked at Izuna, her eyes shining with mischief. "I figured that your brother would be with you too, so I couldn't pass off your invitation Izumi." Izumi radiated with happiness and excitement while her brother was the total opposite, he radiated with annoyance and surprisingly, a little fear.
"Oh, come here Izuna-kun. Let me give you a hug." Kazuyo said, amused.
"I'm good!" He said from behind Izumi's back.
"So does anybody want to explain why there mud like, everywhere?" She asked, changing the subject.
"I have Water Nature, so I'm learning some Suiton jutsus." Izumi answered.
"Oh, no wonder the Katon ones were so hard for you."
"You wanna see?"
"Sure." Izumi turned around towards Izuna, who was currently trying to sneak away back into the house.
"Suiton: Mizurappa!" She shouted out. Instead of a large wave, only a decent jet of water came out of Izumi's mouth, but it was strong enough to reach and push her brother- face first -into a puddle of mud. Her brother glared at the two girls, but it was hard enough to look intimidating when he was covered in mud, it's even harder when they weren't paying attention because of their laughing.
"You idiot, you thought we wouldn't notice you sneaking away?" Izumi shouted out to her brother while Kazuyo was gasping for breath because she was laughing too much.
"Goddamn it Izumi!"
"You want me to help you clean it off Izuna-kun? I have no problems helping you shower!"
"What?! Gross!"
One Month Later
Izumi was sharpening her katana when her father came barging into the house, Izuna close behind him.
"Izumi, get your armor and weapons." Tajima demanded. She quickly stood up, clearly confused.
"What? How come Father?"
"Because I said so, now hurry up." She scrambled to her room and quickly put on her armor. In less than five minutes, she was all suited up. After he told Izuna to stay at the house, Tajima motioned for Izumi to follow him.
"Father, where are we going?" She asked as they traveled deeper and deeper into the forest.
"Izuna told me that your older brother was meeting up with a Senju, and that Senju happened to be Butsuma's kid."
An image suddenly popped into her head, Madara and a boy with brown hair talking and training together, Izumi immediately knew the name of the boy.
Senju Hashirama
"But Father, are they doing anything bad?" She asked. Izumi was about to ask more questions but when she saw her father's face -Sharingan activated- she decided that asking it would be a bad idea. By the time they reached the river, Izumi could see her brother.
They hid behind the bushes and watched as they exchanged greetings, but Tajima could tell something was off. That Senju already knew, he could tell with the way his face looked. Not to mention he could tell that Butsuma and his other kid was with him. He watched as his son skipped a rock.
"Actually, I can't stay anymore. I realized that I had to do something today." Madara announced to the boy from across the stream right after he received the skipped rock from Hashirama.
"Me too Madara, I remembered I had something to do today too."
Tajima watched as both boys ran back into their sides of the forest. "Damn it, Madara's warned him. Let's go Izumi!" He commanded.
Tajima and his daughter ran past a shocked Madara as they both landed onto the water, Sharingan's activated. She unsheathed her katana, ready for a battle if one came to be.
That is, until Izumi saw the white haired boy standing next to Butsuma. The grip on her katana weakened as she saw Tobirama, his hand on his own katana. 'No… I can't do this!' She thought to herself, freaking out. She was pretty sure her father caught onto her sudden nervousness so she wiped her face of emotion and faced the two Senju. Besides, he probably wouldn't recognize her.
'The Senju killed your brother, they killed your family Izumi, and they've killed members of your clan. What will stop him from doing the same thing now?"
"Seems like we both had the same idea, Senju Butsuma." Her father announced with his hand on his katana.
"And Senju Tobirama, I believe." She added on, making sure to not add any emotion into her voice.
But she was recognized. At first, Tobirama didn't. But he soon remembered the chakra signature the girl standing in front of him had; it was Uchiha Izumi, the girl he saved years ago. He may not be showing it, but he was currently panicking inside his head. He couldn't believe it; the five year old girl he rescued had a fully matured Sharingan and prepared to fight him, not to mention that she was the clan head's daughter, something he didn't know. But he tightened his resolve; after all, the Uchiha had killed his brothers Itama and Kawarama, not to mention many members of his clan too. She was an Uchiha, the enemy.
"Indeed, Uchiha Tajima."
"And Izumi, right?" The two stared into each other's eyes, her eyes revealing that accursed kekkei genkai.
Tajima knew that Butsuma had strength akin to his own, only because of the constant battles they had against each other. Izumi on the other hand, wasn't sure if she could battle against Tobirama, especially after everything she's heard about him on the battlefield. But she saw her father motion for attack, and so she followed his orders.
After all, he was her father and clan leader. She had no other choice.
"Stop!" Madara and Hashirama shouted out at the same time, but their family didn't listen.
Clang
Izumi looked straight into Tobirama's face and saw nothing, no emotion, no remembrance. This helped steel her heart because if he didn't remember her, she wouldn't feel as guilty if she killed him. But in the end, she probably wouldn't even be able to give the killing blow.
She quickly looked up to see her father high above her throwing a saber straight for Tobirama while a kunai was headed for her. She was even more shocked that her father didn't bother trying to stop the kunai headed towards her; his only focus was to kill Tobirama. But a rock suddenly flew past her head, knocking away the kunai while one from the other side hit the saber away, secretly relieving Izumi. That it, until she saw her brother jump in front of her.
"I'll never forgive anyone who tries to hurt my little sister, no matter who it is!" He shouted out.
"I think the same!" Hashirama also shouted out, his hands balled. There was a few seconds of silence, until Madara started talking.
"Hey Hashirama…"
"What?"
"That dream we were talking about…is probably impossible, unobtainable."
"Madara… You-"
"It may have been brief, but it was fun…Hashirama." Izumi may have been standing behind her brother, but she could tell with the slight waver in his voice that he was angry and sad. Izumi could feel the wind blowing all around them; she could smell that certain smell before a battle, the once smell she hated more than anything.
"Three against three… Do you think we can take them Madara?" She heard her father ask. Her hand tightened around her katana in anger, her father didn't even bother try to stop that kunai Butsuma threw at her, she was saved by a rock thrown by Madara.
"No…" Izumi's eyes widened from her brother's statement. "Hashirama is stronger than me. If we fight, we'll lose." She couldn't believe it, someone stronger than him? But Izumi said that out loud, slightly embarrassing herself.
"I see." Her father said, sounding quite impressed. "We're retreating, let's go." She took a step back and looked at her brother, who happened to be facing her and her father.
"Goodbye."
"Madara, you…haven't really given up, have you? You thought the same-"
"You are a Senju; I really wish it wasn't. My brother was killed by a Senju and yours by the Uchiha…" Her brother trailed off. But Izumi looked at her brother's face, only to be surprised once again; his Sharingan was activated…and had three tomoe's in each eye. "Our next meeting will likely be on the battlefield." He turned his head toward Hashirama, eyes flashing red.
Izumi heard her father chuckle and she knew exactly why. "Well, what do you know? All it took was this to mature your Sharingan." He turned around and ran into the forest, Madara following closely behind. She took one last look at her savior from five years ago, the same boy that had smiled at her, hugged her, and had made her that doll, and closed her eyes. She ran after her father and brother, feeling a slight pain in her heart.
She felt tears sliding down her face as she looked at the backs of Madara and her father. "Tobirama… Why?" She whispered.
A/N: Well, that scene ended. This was so goddamn hard, not to mention that I have a serious case of writer's block. I was lucky that this was already ¾ done; I wouldn't know what to do! Hope it was good and not dull, but I'm not proud of it. At all.
SO OMGOMGOMG I WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO SEE KAKASHI'S FACE I'M FREAKING OUT A LITTLE PEOPLE HES SO FUCKING HOTT I'M SO DONE.
I swear I died a little. Not even kidding. UGH KAKASHI'S SO BEAUTIFUL AND I'M JUST SO DONE IT SHOULD BE A CRIME TO BE THAT ATTRACTIVE, MANGA OR NOT I SWEAR THIS IS THAT ONE THING I WILL LOVE KISHIMOTO FOR MORE THEN ANYTHING I'M STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS AND IT'S BEEN OVER 12 HOURS WHAT HAS MY LIFE BECOME.
…Well, got that off my chest xD
So, can't promise when this will be updated, but it won't be too long, I swear!
For this chapter's book recommendation, I say Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. If you like to read historical fiction, especially about the Soviet Union during World War II, then I totally recommend this book! It's just so heart touching and probably in the top three of my favorite books of all time, and I've read A LOT.
Until next time!~