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

"Bear patiently, my heart- for you have suffered heavier things."

Homer (The Iliad)

That Fateful Meeting

By the time Izumi reached the Main Compound, it was well past midnight. There was dried blood and tears streaming down from her eyes while she looked…damaged. A few feet away from the gates, the guards realized who it was and started yelling orders at each other.

"It's Izumi-sama, open the gates!

"What about her father?"

"It doesn't matter, open them!" Izumi stood still as she watched the gates open, her hand on the scroll that contained her father.

"Izumi-sama, are you okay?" She took another step forward and fell to her right knee, then to her left. She looked up to see the gate guards looking down at her worryingly.

"The Elders… My brother's… You need to get them; you need to get them both." And with that, she collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

The guards stood there, unsure of what to do, until the head guard Hiroshi realized what was happening. "You, go and wake up her brother's! And you, go get the Elders!" He then pointed to the newest guard. "Tell the healer to be prepared for a patient!" Hiroshi carefully picked up the Uchiha Matriarch and slowly started walking Etsuko, the clan's main healer. There was just one problem, her house was all across the Compound, and Hiroshi wouldn't use any chakra to get there faster for the fear of hurting Izumi-sama.

"Etsuko-san, I put Izumi-sama in your care." Hiroshi bowed to the older lady and walked out of the house. Etsuko raised an eyebrow when not even a few seconds after Hiroshi left, Madara and Izuna came storming into the house.

"Manner's boys."

"S-Sorry Etusko-san."

"Is my sister okay?" She stood up and motioned for the two to follow her.

"Your sister is fine, she is just chakra exhausted." Etsuko slid open the door and reveal Izumi sleeping. "I removed her armor and weapons and placed them in the corner over here, but there is a scroll that I had trouble getting out of her grip." She pulled out the scroll and handed it to Madara since Izuna was already at Izumi's side. "I don't know what's in it, but it must be something important." Etsuko bowed at Madara and Izuna. "I shall leave you two alone with your sister." A few seconds of silence passed when Izuna broke it.

"Madara, what's in the scroll?" He asked, still looking at his sister. But Madara never replied. "Madara?" He turned around and was shocked to see tears in his older brother's eyes.

"T-This is a body scroll." Izuna slowly stood up. Madara looked at him, his right hand holding up the scroll.

"N-No."

"F-Father's dead Izuna. He's…gone."

Izumi's eyes opened and the first thing she saw was a pair of blue eyes looking down at her.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked as she scrambled away, crushing the flowers that surrounded her.

"Of course you don't remember, I erased your memory." The blonde lady stood up and dusted off the weird pants she was wearing. "Over 10 years ago Izumi, that was the last time I actually saw you. My, have you grown."

Izumi's eyes widened when she recognized the woman's voice. "You have the same voice as the one in my head." The blonde walked over to where she sat and placed both of her hands on her head. "What are you doing-"

Connie placed her hand on top of her head. "I'll always be in your mind, watching. I'll be the voice in your head protecting you. You won't remember this meeting and we probably won't see each other for a while, but I want you to know that you're the little sister I've always wanted. Maybe even the daughter I could never have."

Izumi looked at the blonde, her memories of their meeting restored. "Connie?"

"Hello Izumi." She slowly stood up, remembering her four year old self staring at Connie in wonder.

"Why am I here?"

Connie shrugged her shoulders. "It's probably because you are unconscious; you used up most of your chakra coming back to the compound. Your body is protecting itself by basically shutting everything unnecessary down." Izumi looked down, remembering what had happened.

"You say you know the future, then why didn't you tell me how my brother's died, how my father died?" Izumi asked. Connie could hear accusation in the girl's voice, and she didn't blame her.

"I only know the basics, like what will happen to your remaining brothers or what will happen between the Senju and Uchiha. I don't know much about this time period, I only know more of the future."

"Yet you block those memories from me! I should know what happens to my clan, I should know what will happen to my brothers!"

Connie looked at Izumi, guilt flashing through her eyes. "I'm sorry Izumi, but that is something I just can't do yet. I promised you that I would give you my memories when you are ready."

Izumi placed her hand on her chest. "I am ready!"

The blonde shook her head. "No, you are not." She sighed and walked over to where Izumi stood. "You have seen death; you have seen darkness, have you not?"

"Yes I have."

"Don't chase after that darkness, don't follow its path. It speaks of vengeance, of pain."

"…What is so bad about that? The Senju killed my brother, they killed my father." Izumi closed her eyes and turned her head to the side, a tear falling from her eye.

"Because it will control you to the point of insanity." The blonde moved Izumi's head to face hers. "The Uchiha have killed Senju, have they not?"

Izumi opened her eyes and Connie saw guilt in her eyes. "…We have."

"Then it is the same. There will always be darkness in life, but there is also light. You my dear, can be that light."

"I can never forgive the Senju for what they've done-"

"I'm not saying you need to forgive them Izumi." Connie moved a part of Izumi's hair behind her ears. "You just need to accept it."

"How can I accept when I feel this hatred every single time I think of the Senju?"

"Dear, think of the good. Who was it that saved you all those years ago?" Izumi's eyes widened. "Who was it that awakened you so you wouldn't have to face the Senju that was prepared to kill you after your father's death?"

"N-No way. It was him?"

"Yes Izumi, it was."

"B-But why would Tobirama wake me up? Why would he…save me?"

"I wouldn't know, but he is an example. He hates the Uchiha for what they've done to his clan, to his family. Yet, he saved you, an Uchiha." Connie placed both of her hands on Izumi's shoulders and looked at her straight in the eye. "There is still hope that you can change everything, that you can prevent unnecessary deaths. You are already changing parts of this story." Connie kissed Izumi on the forehead, as if she was four years old again. "I think it's time for you to wake up now."

"…But-"

"And a word of advice dear, don't use your Mangekyō too much. It'll…damage your eyes."

Izumi's eyes fluttered open and the first thing she registered was the yelling coming from outside her room.

"This is why she shouldn't be a Kunoichi! She is the third in line for Clan Head, what good will it do for her if she is dead?" Izumi winced when she heard her grandmother speaking. She stood up and immediately regretted it; she could barely stand on her own. But she toughed it out and started walking towards the kitchen. "I say we marry her off, something my son always said no too."

"You will not-" The voices suddenly stopped when their heads turned towards the deathly pale girl standing in the doorway to the kitchen.

"M-Madara?" Izumi asked, her voice hoarse from no use. He pushed passed his grandmother and carefully grabbed his sister's arm and led her to a chair in the kitchen.

"Is there anything you need?"

Izumi shook her head. "Where is Izuna?"

"Your twin brother is on a mission right now girl. He has to be the one to explain to the Hagoromo why we don't have the scroll that contained the Senju Compound locations, and I wonder why we don't have it now Izumi."

"Grandmother, this is not the time for that."

"Not the time? Not the time? How dare-"

"Will you just shut up? Kami, all you do is moan and bitch about how it's that person's fault or it's my fault!" Izumi snapped to the old lady.

"Excuse me?"

"I understand that you are in mourning over Father's death, I do. I am also sad." Izumi stood up and walked her weak legs to the short lady and poked her in the chest. "But that does not give you the excuse to push all that blame on me." She activated her Sharingan, but didn't stop there; she turned on her Mangekyō. "Father died to protect me and in turn, his death gave me these eyes." Izumi closed her eyes and reopened them, her eyes back to normal.

"Grandmother, I think it's time for you to go home." Madara led the old lady out of the house and when he came back to the kitchen, Izumi was sitting back down on the chair, crying.

"I'm s-so sorry Madara-" Madara kneeled in front of his sister and pulled her into a hug.

"Father's death was not your fault Izumi." At the mention of their father, Izumi started crying even harder. "Please don't blame yourself."

"S-Still… If I had been paying attention, Father wouldn't have switched spots with me-" Madara rubbed the back of her head, trying to get his little sister to calm down.

"You need to calm down Izumi; you've been asleep for over a week." Izumi pulled her head away and looked at Madara, her eyes red from crying and widened from shock.

Sniffle

"Over a week? That means they made you the Clan Head already!"

Madara chuckled, despite everything that had happened. "Yes Izumi, that means I'm Clan Head now."

"…How's Izuna doing?"

"He's fine. He took to Father's death better then what I would expect, but I don't know about him." Madara looked behind Izumi to the painting of their family on the wall. "He's like a volcano; he can erupt at any moment."

"Madara…about my Sharingan…" He looked at Izumi's face. "I…I have the Mangekyō now." Madara sighed and stood up, helping his sister to do the same.

"I figured that's what you showed to Grandmother to shock her into silence." He placed his hand on her cheek. "Let me see it."

Izumi nodded her head. Madara watched as she activated her Sharingan and it change from the three tomoe into the Mangekyō. But he gasped in shock when he saw what hers looked like.

"W-What?" Izumi asked, panic in her voice.

Madara shook his head. "Nothing, it's just that Father and I thought that each person's Mangekyō would be different in form, yet…"

"Yet what?" She asked, pulling away from her brother's grasp.

"You have the same exact Mangekyō as Izuna."

One Year Later

Splash

"Kazuyo, be careful! I won't jump down there to help you!" Izumi shouted as she looked down the overhang and into the water.

"Oh shut up you big baby! I'll just get Izuna to come and save me, right?" Izuna looked up from where he sat (next to Izumi) and looked down to see his girlfriend swimming.

"O-Of course!" Izumi looked at her brother in false hurt and scoffed.

"Yeah, that's only if he looks away from whatever book he's reading." Her eyes widened and had a gleam that Izuna knew wasn't good. She looked back down to the river and shouted. "I think he loves that book more than you Kazuyo!"

"What?!" Kazuyo shouted out. Hearing her voice (and her tone) Izuna shot up and dropped his book.

"You may have just ended my life." He took off his clothes and was left in shorts. Shooting his sister a glare, he dove off the overhand and landed in the water. She could hear Kazuyo (playfully) scolding Izuna for loving a book over her, causing Izumi to laugh. She sat down and dangled her legs as she watched the two people she cared about look at each other with so much emotion, with so much love. This caused Izumi to think about her future. Would she ever get married, or have kids? Would there ever be peace in her life?

Would she ever fall in love?

One year later

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Izumi watched as the newly trained eight and nine year olds did the Katon jutsu that made them "adults".

"Why won't Madara change the age? I understand that we need new Shinobi, but still." She shook her head. "They're too young."

"But we were the same Izumi." She looked at her twin.

"Yeah, and look at where that led us." Izumi tilted her head back and looked at the clouds in the sky. "I question our sanity sometimes."

"Don't we all?" Izuna said, agreeing with Izumi. She looked back down at the kids that were still continuing with their coming-of-age ceremony.

"Let's go Izuna; I don't want to watch this. It makes me sick." Izumi turned around and walked towards the Elders house, Izuna following closely behind. "Watch the Elders try and marry me off again." She scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest. "Stupid."

"Can you blame them for trying? It doesn't look like Madara's ever going to get married again, especially after Koizumi."

"But what about you and Kazuyo?" Izumi pointed out.

"Eh, I can't promise anything, especially if it relates to children."

"Gee, thanks. Leave all the responsibility on me why don't you." Izumi suddenly stopped walking and stood in the middle of the path, Izuna almost bumping into her. "Izuna? Can I ask you something?"

He looked at her, suddenly serious. "…Of course you can."

"…When are you going to grow a pair of balls and ask Kazuyo to marry you-" Izumi was suddenly cut off from a strong push from her brother. "Hey!"

"I thought you were going to ask me something serious there!"

"That was serious! I really really want some nephews and nieces!"

"You just want me to get the Elders off your back about marriage and kids."

"Yes!" Izumi head shot forward from her brother's slap to the back of her head. "Ow! Quit hurting me!"

"Kami, you're hopeless." Izuna grabbed his (stupid) twin's arm and started dragging her to the Elder's house. "We need to go, don't want Madara to get mad at us again."

Izumi suddenly jumped onto her brother's back, causing him to quickly grab her to make sure they both didn't fall. "See, I told you! They asked me to marry Kaki."

"I never said you were wrong."

"Kami, who names their kid after an oyster? That's just sad." Izumi said as she shook her head back and forth. She moved her head to the side of his.

"Technically, his name uses the kanji instead so he's actually named after a persimmon." Izuna pointed out.

Izumi poked her brother's cheek, causing her to earn a glare from him. "It's the same thing; he's still named after a food." Izumi continued poking her brother's cheek. "All this talk about food is making me hungry. Let's go to Kazuyo's, she makes the best riceballs." She shot her hand forward, almost making Izuna loose his balance. "Onward my dear twin brother! We shall dine on delicious sake and riceballs!"

Izuna started walking towards his girlfriend's house. "Maybe you do need a boyfriend, or at least someone to take care of you."

"Why? I have you or Madara or Kazuyo or Hitomi."

"That's not many Izumi."

"Oh well." Izumi could tell that under all that amusement, he was still worried about her. "Stop worrying, I'm serious. I'll be fine." Izumi jumped off of her brother and started walking next to him.

"So how is Hitomi?" Izumi looked up and shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know really, we haven't talked much since she moved to Nidai with Fuyuki." She placed her finger on her chin. "In her last letter though, she said she was trying for a baby with him."

"…Oh."

"I think 18 is too young for a baby, but then again, who knows when we're going to die." Kazuyo's house came in sight. "Come on Izuna, your girlfriend is probably waiting for us!" With a boost of chakra, she ran to her best friend's house. "Kazuyo!" Said girl's head popped out of the front door.

"What the hell do you want brat?"

"Make us food!"

"Us?"

"Hey Kazuyo." Izuna said as he finally caught up to his sister. Kazuyo looked at the twins and shook her head. "Come in."

Kazuyo finished making the riceballs when Izuna suddenly wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"What do you want Izuna?"

"Well, Izumi just left the house, something about needing to go home." Kazuyo cursed at her friend for wasting her time with making food. She turned around and looked at her boyfriend in the eyes.

"So that means we have the house to ourselves…" She smiled naughtily. "Don't we?"

"Yes, but I need to ask you something first." Izuna said. He let go of Kazuyo and grabbed her hands, confusing her.

There wasn't a lot of things that scared Izuna, there was only a few actually. Most of his fears are ones that involved the death of his loved ones. But there was one thing that scared him a lot.

Having his girlfriend say no to marriage.

"When are you going to grow a pair of balls and ask Kazuyo to marry you?"

Izuna closed his eyes and gripped Kazuyo's hands tighter.

"Kazuyo, will you marry me?"

Izumi was walking along the river when she felt a sudden burst of happiness, but she didn't know from what. But she pushed that to the side and kept on walking, feeling the river calming her. She walked down to the river bed and found a rock, perfect for skipping.

So many thoughts were going through her head, especially one's about Madara. She rarely saw him anymore, it was always excuses about paperwork or he was just gone on missions. She pulled her arm back and threw the rock. She saw it skip once, twice, three times, and then sink back into the river. She bent down and grabbed another rock. Doing this brought back memories of her older brother doing the same thing, but with another person.

The only thing missing was a Senju.

Izumi threw the stone again and watched it skip all the way across the river until it reached-

"When I thought I would see you again I never thought it would be like this." Izumi's heart skipped a beat when she saw the person who caught the rock she just skipped. She quickly turned to her left and tried running away, but she felt the man tackle her.

"Let me go!" She flipped the man over and raised her arm to punch him, but he in turn flipped her over, causing the two to roll around the riverbank. She suddenly stopped and stared at the man above over her. "What the hell do you want Tobirama?"

"I just wanted to walk along the river; you're the one that interrupted my walk." Izumi pushed him off and quickly jumped away. She raised a kunai that she had kept in her shirt at him.

"Whatever. I'm leaving, don't follow me. I won't hesitate to use a Katon jutsu on you." She knew that this was the perfect opportunity to kill him; he was after all, Hashirama's brother. But somewhere inside, she knew that she wouldn't be able to do it for some reason. If what Connie had said in her dream was right,

That would mean that Tobirama saved her that day, the day her father died.

Izumi jumped away and somewhere deep down, she felt something similar to relief when she sensed him going into the other direction, away from her.

One Month Later

"Izumi, I'll be fine. It's the same type of mission I always go on with Madara." Izumi fussed with her twin's armor.

"It doesn't matter, I just… It's that today is a day that I don't like for reasons." Izuna pulled her into a hug.

"Don't worry, I'll be back." Giving her brother a squeeze, she pulled away so Kazuyo could say her goodbye. Izumi looked behind her twin and saw Madara standing there, looking at the gates.

Izumi always said goodbye to both her brother's on every single mission and Madara knew it. He would always stand next to Izuna so Izumi could fuss with his armor just like she always did with Izuna.

'It is the day Father died after all.' Izumi walked towards her older brother. "Madara, are you okay?" Her brother turned his head around and gave her a smile.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Did something happen with the Elders again?"

"No, of course not." But Izumi could see the lie in her brother's eyes. She was kind of relieved that he wasn't being too depressed about today's date.

"What happened?" He sighed.

"It's nothing to worry about; I just got in an argument with Tashiro about today's mission."

"Oh…" Izumi noticed how dark her brother was, so she poked him in the cheek. "Cheer up Madara; you'll be back soon, tales to tell us about how you beat the Senju."

Madara smiled and ruffled his little sister's hair. "Alright, I'll cheer up. That's what you want right?"

Izumi smiled. "You know me so well." Both of their heads turned to the side when they heard another person telling Izuna and Madara they needed to go.

"Well, good luck then Madara." Izuna walked towards them.

"You ready Madara?" Madara nodded and they both turned around to walk away, but not before Izumi grabbed both of their hands.

"Please… Please protect each other out there." The two brothers both gave Izumi's hand a squeeze, Madara on her left and Izuna on her right.

"Don't worry, that's what we always do."

She let go of their hands and started biting her bottom lip in unease. "I love you guys!" She shouted out.

"We love you too!" Izuna answered, also shouting. Izumi watched as the two people she loved more than anything in the world walked away, preparing to go for war.

Just like Izuna said, those two always went on missions like this and came back alive. So that should mean there's nothing to worry.

Then why did she feel like something was wrong, that something bad would happen?

"I can't just stand here and watch them leave." She turned towards her brother's fiancée. "If you need me, I'll be at the river."

"Okay. I'm going to be staying at your house today anyways; I don't want to be at home alone." Kazuyo said to her, still looking at the gate. Izumi nodded her head and jumped away, chakra boosting her legs with speed. By the time she reached the river, Izumi was tired and wanted to take a break at the little overhang that she always stayed at.

Izumi sighed as she sat down, her legs dangling over the river. If she thought about it, the last time she came here was about a month ago when she met Tobirama.

"Father…It's been almost two years since you've passed." She whispered into the wind. She felt a phantom pain in her eyes, like that day. She brought her knees up to her chest and closed her eyes. She could remember that day with perfect clarity, her father's death. Just thinking about it caused tears to form in her eyes.

She was there for an hour when she felt another presence behind her. But Izumi didn't really care; she was too caught up in her grief over her father.

It was after all, the day he had died today.

"What do you want?" She asked out loud, not bothering to turn her head around. But the person stayed silent, just watching her. "You probably think that I'm in such a vulnerable position. You could probably kill me right now." Izumi clutched her legs even tighter as she felt the person walk slowly towards her.

"You are scared."

"Why wouldn't I be?" Izumi whispered.

"But you are also grieving."

"Yes, I am." She turned her head to her left and felt her heart skip a beat again when she saw who it was. "Why are you here Tobirama? Why won't you kill me?"

Tobirama turned his red eyes to her dark brown ones. "Why don't you kill me?" She looked away.

"…I thought you hated the Uchiha."

"Don't you hate the Senju?"

Izumi whirled her head around and narrowed her eyes to Tobirama. "What's up with all your questions?"

Tobirama shrugged his shoulders. "Isn't everything I'm asking the truth though?" Izumi scoffed and looked back towards the horizon. But against her better judgement, Izumi decided to ask the question that was on her mind for years.

"Why did you save me that day Tobirama?" She looked at him and saw shock in his eyes. He didn't reply to her question immediately, he stayed silent for about a minute.

"…You showed me that I was wrong about how I thought about the Uchiha."

A/N: Well, I know I just updated yesterday, but I saw the amount of followers this story gained and I just felt like crying.

Thank you guys so much, I'm at 100 followers and I was just so shocked. It literally makes me want to cry! ESPECIALLY THE REVIEWS, WHY DO YOU GUYS DO THIS TO ME?!

And not to mention I'm like on a story typing roll right now, I have all these emotions that I want to give out and like scream about but I can't? I hope that made any sense. But I hope you guys liked this chapter! I worked pretty hard on it and I hope it also made sense!

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