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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace

Izumi groggily opened her eyes the first thing she noticed was how bad of a headache she had. She groaned quite loudly and it must have caught the attention of someone because when she blinked there was someone staring at her, someone eerily familiar.

"T-Tobirama?"

"Thank Kami you woke up." He helped her sit up against him but Izumi couldn't help but wince in pain when she moved too quickly. "I was scared that you wouldn't." She winced again from the pounding in her head before she realized that she didn't know where she was.

"Where are we?"

Tobirama shrugged his shoulders. "I have no clue actually. We're underground, that's for sure. I tried sensing but…it didn't work."

Izumi rubbed the back of her head and found the place that hurt the most. "Oh…" She was about to ask Tobirama what had happened when the memories of the past day came rushing back to her, causing it to overwhelm Izumi. She groaned and her head fell forwards into her hands; Tobirama whirled his head towards her and immediately placed his hands on her back, worried for her.

"What's wrong?" He asked her, his eyebrows furrowed. If this was any other time Izumi would be touched by how much emotion he was showing but the pain in her head was too much for her to even try to remember what she had for breakfast the day before.

"Madara…" She raised her head up and looked at Tobirama, tears streaming down her face. Her brother…her poor older brother. He already blames himself for their sibling's death; he would've blamed himself for hers too. "He probably thinks I'm dead, I-I need to leave, tell him that I'm alive!" Madara needs to know that she's alive. Izumi tried to stand up but when she did she didn't realize that her legs were still weak from injuring herself, causing her to fall onto Tobirama. It was a good thing he saw what was coming and held his arms out to catch her.

"We'll have to wait-"

Izumi spun her head around and looked at him, suddenly angry. "Why the hell are you even here? I remember that you were standing pretty far away from me when the earthquake happened." Tobirama remained silent, which gave Izumi his answer to her question. "Baka, why would you use your Hiraishin like that?"

"…I'm not sorry."

She sighed and leaned against him again. "Of course you're not… You could die down here Tobirama, why would you even try to save me?"

"I don't know. My body just…moved…"

"Well you did something really stupid." She paused after finishing her sentence. "For once." Izumi added. Tobirama narrowed his eyes as if insulted by what she said but Izumi knew deep down that he really wasn't.

"I do plenty of…stupid things."

Izumi gave him a look. "Your hesitation to use the word says otherwise." He scoffed and turned away. The sudden movement of his body caused one of his weapons to fall out of whatever pocket they were in. The weapon happened to be a kunai with his Hiraishin seal on it.

"Your Hiraishin…" Izumi's eyes widened and she grabbed it, pointing to the seal on the hilt. "Tobirama, can't you use your Hiraishin to teleport us back?"

Shock flashed through his eyes before Tobirama shook his head and looked away from her. "I can't. Someone from your clan did something to block my Chakra and I don't know what."

"Fuck." Izumi let out a curse and clenched her hands into fists, the playful mood in the air disappearing. "I can't look at your chakra without using my Sharingan and that's something I can't do right now because of my injury." Mentally cursing her for being so weak she looked around; Izumi could tell that where she had fallen into wasn't a natural cave, it was a tunnel that was obviously manmade. "We should look around; maybe we'll find an exit." She suggested hopefully.

Tobirama cocked an eyebrow. "Will you be fine?"

Izumi shrugged her shoulders and rubbed her face. "It doesn't really matter, if we don't find a way out soon we both won't be." She pointed to his stomach where bandages were wrapped all around. "Don't think I didn't see you get stabbed, you may have wrapped it to prevent anymore bleeding or stuff to get in it but if we don't have any food, medication, and proper medical care, we're done for. The water we both are carrying will last us about five days, maybe a week if we're careful." Tobirama sighed, knowing that he was going to lose whatever argument he got himself into with her.

"Fine." He stood up and gave his hand to her; Izumi placed her hand on his and let him help her stand up. When she did Izumi could tell that she was hell of a lot weaker than what she thought she was and that slightly worried her. "Are you sure you're fine?"

"Yeah." Izumi looked around and sighed. She grabbed onto Tobirama's arm and slowly started walking down the tunnel.

Madara

Madara couldn't help but clench his fists under the table because if he didn't, he would've punched the Elders in front of him.

"Izumi is as good as dead with that fall."

"But that Senju said that he could sense both of them still alive."

"Hashirama? You can never trust anything that comes out of his mouth."

"Izumi deserves to die; everyone saw how she screamed for Tobirama instead of one of us. She must have-" One of the Elders said. Hearing this caused something in Madara to snap, no one would that about Izumi talk like.

"That is enough." He slammed his hand onto the table, catching everybody's attention. "We are not here to talk about my sister and her relationships with people; we are here to talk about the treaty with the Senju."

"I do not agree to this… treaty." Heiji spat out. Madara shot him a glare before turning back to the group.

"This depends on Izumi's life; I will not make the same mistake I made last time." He looked down at the opened scroll on the table. "They want peace and that is something we can give them-" There was instant outcry over what Madara just said.

"No!"

"That is obscure!"

"Peace? We will never achieve peace with that clan!" Madara felt his eye twitch before he slammed his fists on the table again.

"Shut up!" He shouted out over the yelling. The Elders quickly stopped, disbelief on their face.

"How dare you talk to us like-" Madara pointed to Heiji and looked at him dead in the eye.

"You were with my father during his time as Clan Head and I respect that, you were very good with him and the choices he made for the clan. But you dare to talk about my sister like that? I will not accept it, Elder or not. If you will not even try to listen or consider to what we are here to talk about then leave, walk out of this room and never come back." Heiji opened his mouth to say something, his face getting red but Madara cut him off with a wave of his hand. "You are replaceable; your position is one that anybody could fill." Looking back to everyone sitting at the table he smiled and brushed away the dust on the table. "Now, about this treaty." Madara said calmly.

After the meeting Madara was standing in his office with another person, preparing for his upcoming mission.

"Madara-sama, are you sure you don't want anyone to go with you?"

He looked to the teen. "Yes Noizumi. Thank you-"

"Madara! Madara!" Madara was interrupted by the only person in the clan that wouldn't add 'sama' to the end of his name besides Izumi -but she was his sister so she was an exception.

He turned around the woman. "What do you want Kazuyo?" Stopping in front of him she placed her hands on her hips and stared at him.

"I want to go with you."

Madara cocked an eyebrow, shocked. "What about Kagami?" Someone would have to watch over his nephew.

She waved her hands in front of her face. "I've gotten someone to watch over him."

Kazuyo suddenly grabbed his shirt and brought him closer to her face. "I need to with you, I know I haven't been an active kunoichi lately but this involves Izumi, I'm not going to allow someone I love die again."

"How dare you act like that to Madara-sama-" Noizumi suddenly shouted out, his face red. Madara looked at him to say something but Kazuyo beat him to it when she glared at the teen, effectively shutting him up.

"You better shut up gaki if you know what's good for you. I've known this idiot standing here longer than you've been out of diapers." Turning back to Madara he knew that there would be no argument with her. Sure, he may be the clan head but he knew that if it came down to an argument between them he would lose, hands down.

It was just her character, her personality. How Izumi and Izuna dealt with it? He can't –and probably never will- understand.

A few days later…

Izumi

"Tobirama?" She turned around, a dull ache in the back of her head. Izumi managed to heal the outer part of the wound in her head but she could tell that there was something wrong inside of it. At least the pain was almost gone; it was only a slight pounding now.

"I'm…fine." He winced and leaned against the wall. Izumi slowly walked forward and noticed how pale he was with perspiration lining his face; she placed her hand against his forehead and realized that he was burning up with probable a fever.

"Oh Kami." The ache in her head forgotten she gently pushed Tobirama down into a sitting position. "You're burning up with a fever Tobirama." He waved his hand weakly in front of her.

"I'm fine…Izumi."

"Sure you are." She pulled up his shirt and saw his bandages; there was blood on it where his stab wound was, showing that it had bled through the bandages. "Fuck Tobirama, why didn't you say your wound was this bad?"

"It's…not bad." He said unconvincingly as his eyes fluttered close.

"Shit." Izumi pulled her sleeves up and checked her chakra levels. Damn, she didn't have a lot of that too. She had enough to probably get rid of the infection but Izumi knew that she wouldn't be able to do anything afterwards, she would be chakra exhausted and there was no food or water to help with replenishing it.

Izumi started unwrapping his bandages and there –in all its glory- was an infected stab wound. There was puss all around his wound and it was red and inflamed, an obvious sign of an infection if the fever and chalky skin wasn't enough to tell. Gathering all her chakra she moved her hand above his wound when a certain…thought ran through her head.

Tobirama…his wound was just like her brother's all over again. The stab wound, the infection. He was stabbed in the same place as Izuna too. It was as if fate was messing with her, teasing her with things. Tobirama was going to die; he was going to die hewasgoingtodieandshewouldn'tbeabletodoanything-

"I-Izumi." A hand grabbed Izumi's arm, startling her out of her negative thoughts. Looking down she saw Tobirama staring at her, worry in his eyes despite his current situation. Her eyes widened when Izumi saw what she had done to herself, without knowing she had grabbed both of her hands and was clenching them so hard to where there was slight bleeding from the cuts in her palms from her fingernails. Shaking her head she unclenched her hands and gave Tobirama a smile trying to show him that she was okay –but she wasn't, not like she would mention that though.

"Stay still Tobirama, I'm going to get the bad things it out." Gathering her chakra again Izumi's hand was glowing green with Iryo-ninjutsu. As she focused on getting the infection out she realized that Tobirama's wound wasn't that bad, as long as she got the infection out he would probably fine as long as he was careful. But another thing Izumi was noticing was how quickly her chakra was disappearing. Izumi didn't mention anything about this though, not when she saw that Tobirama was looking better and better by the second. By the time Izumi finished her healing she was the one breathing hard with sweat on her face, she was tired and lightheaded and not to mention that the ache in her head that wasn't bad earlier now felt like it was a hammer hitting her head every second.

"Izumi, that's enough." A voice said but it sounded so far away. She blinked and saw black spots in her eyesight.

"Izumi." Whirling her head to the right, she saw her older brother, one that she hasn't seen in over ten years.

"K-Katsumi?" He smiled before he opened his arms, only to reveal a sword sticking out of his chest.

"Why didn't you run? Why didn't you run like I told you too?"

"W-Wait, what-"

"Izumi." Turning around at the voice Izumi could feel her heart beating painfully at who she saw. She tried to reach out to him, to her twin, until she saw blooding suddenly appearing on the bottom of his shirt. "Why didn't you save me Izumi? Why didn't you stop anything?!"

"Please, please don't leave me!"

"Too late Izumi, this is your punishment for not saving me!" She clenched her eyes shut and placed her hands over her ears as if to block out all the sounds, the sound of her brothers voices.

Izumi screamed and screamed and screamed, until there was no more.

Izumi slowly opened her eyes, letting a groan come out at the same time. She was so warm…so comfortable. Feeling her eyes close again, she suddenly realized how off everything felt.

"Izumi?" Her eyes flew open when she heard the voice. Despite wanting to sit up and look around, she couldn't help but turn her head only to see her older brother.

"M-Madara." She said out loud but immediately realized how dry her throat was, resulting in her rough voice.

"You're fine." He shot up from wherever he was sitting at and was quickly at her side.

"Where…am I?"

"You're back home in your room." Slowly blinking, Izumi looked up at her brother.

"Home…? But….how?"

Madara flinched at her question. "We found you in the tunnels underground, you and Senju Tobirama."

Recognition flashed through her eyes when she heard his name. "Is he…okay? Is Tobirama…okay?"

"Yes." She tried sitting up but Madara quickly pushed her down, stopping her. "You're chakra exhausted, when we found you guys you had internal bleeding in your head. Hashirama was able to heal to you but you're still weak."

"…Oh."

Izumi smiled when she felt Madara place his hand against her forehead. "Go to sleep Izumi. You need rest."

She nodded her head and listened to her older brother, feeling like she the little girl that listened to what Madara had told her to do. Closing her eyes, she let the drowsiness pull her into the lulls of sleep.

A/N: OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS, FOLLOWS, AND FAVORITES GUYS I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCHHHHHHHHH. 3

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So I hope this chapter didn't disappoint! I managed fix any mistakes in the beginning but not so much at the end, sadly.

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