DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS/PLOTS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.
"Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Treaty
Izumi's eyes fluttered open and she quickly realized that she was alone in her room. She could hear someone moving around in the kitchen down the hall and Izumi knew that it was probably Kazuyo feeding Kagami. Looking at her hands, her hair fell over her face while Izumi recalled her meeting with Connie in the dream she just had.
Izumi looked up and saw a familiar blonde looking down at her.
"Izumi."
Pulling herself up from the ground Izumi smiled. "Hi Connie."
Connie gave her a small smile before turning serious. "You probably realize that whenever I summon you I tend to have bad news."
Izumi shrugged before giving a small chuckle. "My life is full of bad news. Whatever you have to say to me can not be that bad."
The blonde gave her an unbelieving laugh. "Well, I summoned you here because I realized something very important."
Cocking an eyebrow Izumi raised her arms above her head and stretched them. "What does that happen to be?"
"You being alive in this world has changed many things. You should be dead, you shouldn't even exist, yet you do. You're in a...relationship with Tobirama."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
Connie ran her hand through her shoulder-length hair. "Your brother Izumi, that's what has to do with everything."
"Madara?" Izumi exclaimed quite loudly. "What does that idiot do this time?"
"After Izuna's death," Connie saw a flash of pain in Izumi's eyes before she continued. "I came to a decision to that I should tell you what your brother does. I believe showing you will probably be the best thing to do." Walking over to the Uchiha she placed her hand on her head. "This is going to hurt a bit, sorry."
Izumi stood next in a forest alone, the woods looking eerily familiar.
"Will you destroy everything we've accomplished Madara? Nothing good will happen with a fight between us." A man with long brown hair stood in front of a large animal looking creature. "This fight will only damage the village and the people. Doing this is disrespecting our siblings and comrades deaths!"
The man who happened to be her older brother stood on top of the creature with his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan activated, watching Hashirama shout. "You know nothing..." He whispered.
"I don't want to kill you!"
Izumi watched them, confused on what was happening.
'You're seeing the battle that will happen between Madara and Hashirama after the creation of the village.' Connie explained as she came into existence next to her.
'The village?' Izumi asked.
'You'll understand soon.'
Pointing to her brother she looked at him, slightly afraid of what she saw. 'Madara doesn't sound like...him. He sounds meaner, darker.'
'I'm afraid that your brother isn't the one that you know.' Connie pointed at the battlefield. 'Just watch for now.' Nodding her head she turned back to the two.
"Are you implying that you could kill me at any moment?" Madara asked disbelieving.
Hashirama shook his head, his hair flying in all directions. "No, of course not! We're friends-"
"I've already reached it!" Her older brother suddenly shouted out. The creature let out a roar and that was when Izumi realized what the creature was surrounded in and what the creature happened to be.
'Is that...the Kyūbi?!'Izumi asked Connie. She gravely nodded her head before Izumi continued watching, shock at what her brother had done. He had used Susanoo as an armor for the Bijū. Seeing her brother doing that with a creature that large made Izumi realize that her weird and overly-protective brother really was a powerful shinobi, whether it was in a dream or in real life.
"So be it." Hashirama closed his eyes and black lines started appearing around them, almost like a drawn on eye mask. "Senpō Mokuton: Shin Sūsenju!" He shouted out. From behind him a large wooden statue with over hundreds of arms suddenly rose from the ground, dwarfing the already large Kyūbi. "Here I come Madara!"
"Come, Hashirama!" The two men, both on top of their large creatures, ran towards each other. When they clashed, they created a large wind causing Izumi to put her hands up to stabilize herself and close her eyes.
Gasping, Izumi pulled away from Connie's hands and looked up at her with eyes widened with shock. "My brother...does that?" Nodding her head Connie remained silent."W-Why?"
"You brother went mad after your brother's death, he followed into your clan's curse, the Curse of Hatred. He follows a plan that-" She suddenly stopped talking and looked around, worry on her face.
To Izumi nothing seemed off but to the blonde something had scared her. "Connie? What's wrong?"
Connie turned her head back to her and Izumi saw her wide eyes. "We're being watched. I c-can't tell you here, it's too d-dangerous."
"Wait-"
"Watch your surroundings Izumi, watch your brother. Watch for weird signs that you know is wrong. Alright?" The blonde asked. Izumi nodded her head.
"What's wrong-"
"We don't have time. Wake up Izumi." Connie placed her hands on her shoulders and started shaking her. "Wake up!"
And that was how Izumi woke up. Just thinking about what happened caused the slight ache I her head to get a little stronger. She knew that she couldn't stay in bed all day -even though she wanted too, Izumi slowly got out of bed and walked to her closet to change. After changing and brushing her hair she walked out of her room and down the hall way to see Kazuyo feeding Kagami.
"Izumi, I see you've woke up." Kazuyo said as she turned her head towards her.
"Um...yeah." She answered as she stayed where she stood in the doorway.
"Well, there's some lunch in the kitchen. Also, Madara wants to see you. He has some thing he needs to tell you." Nodding her head she thanked Kazuyo and sat in the dining table, a bowl of rice and miso soup already waiting for her.
"Itadakimasu."
"Madara? You wanted to see me?" Izumi asked as she slowly opened the door to Madara's office.
"You've woken up?" He asked as he looked up from the paper in his hands. Izumi nodded her head before sitting in front of his desk.
"Obviously. Kazuyo told me that I needed to come here so..." Madara nodded his head and cleaned his desk up a bit and waited until she got comfortable.
"You were asleep for about three weeks Izumi-"
"Three weeks?!"
Madara winced, forgetting how loud his little sister could get in times of distress. "Yes." She placed her hand where her now-healed wound was at on her head. "But you've probably been awake for a few days haven't you?"
Izumi nodded her head. "...How did you heal me? How did you even find us?" He slightly darkened at the use of the word 'us' but he let it go, but not before remembering to put that on the list of things he needed to talk to Izumi about.
"That's what I need to talk to you about." He looked down, slightly worrying Izumi. "I need you to understand, I was desperate Izumi. I truly was."
"You're scaring me Madara, what happened?"
"...I agreed to the peace treaty that Hashirama had suggested." Izumi's eyes widened before she grabbed the handles of her chair and shot up.
"What?!"
"Please calm down Izumi." She slowly sat back down. "I knew that I wouldn't be able to get to you in time. And even then..."
"But the Senju..."
"What about them?" He asked.
"You hate them! Why would you do something like this? Why do something you never wanted to do?"
"I don't...hate them."
"Yes you do! You always tell everyone on reasons why! Father's and Arata's death, you always bring them up. You even bring up Izuna's, so why bother?"
"Just because Izumi."
"Because what? What's the difference between now and before? What made you change your mindset on never going to peace with the Senju?!"
Something in him must have snapped because in seconds Madara was shouting. "You would have died, that's why!" He stood up so quickly that his chair fell backwards. "How do you think I would feel, knowing that I caused the death of yet another sibling?! Knowing that I had a chance to save you yet I didn't take it, again! I wouldn't be able to live with myself Izumi!" By the time he finished Izumi was siting as far back as she could on her chair, her face pale from what he said.
"I-I didn't..." She looked down, ashamed of what came out of her mouth. "I'm sorry Madara."
He sighed and ran his hand across his face. "I didn't want you to come here so we could argue."
"Still… I'm sorry."
"It's fine." He turned around and fixed his chair before sitting back down.
"So...what did happen to me?" Izumi asked as she played with her fingers trying to distract herself from their earlier argument.
"We found both you and Tobirama in quite bad shape, you more than him. While his stab would was only slightly infected you were hemorrhaging in your head." Madara paused when he saw Izumi raise her hand to the back of her head. "It's fine now, Hashirama and his other Iryo-nin's were able to heal you but he said that you'll probably get bad headaches for the rest of your life."
Izumi body filled with relief before she realized she didn't ask about Tobirama. "What about Tobirama? Is he okay?" Despite trying to seem like she didn't care Izumi knew that she couldn't keep out the worry in her voice.
And she was right, Madara did hear the worry in her voice. "That Senju is fine. His brother healed him within minutes." Although his little sister didn't say anything, her relief was obvious through her body language. "Izumi, is there something you need to tell me about him?"
"About who?" She asked, quite innocently.
"About that Senju, Tobirama."
"There's nothing to say Madara."
"Bull crap Izumi, why would you scream for him? Why would he risk his own life to save yours?"
Izumi stood up with her hands balled to her sides. "I don't know, why don't you go ask him then?"
"If you don't want to talk about it now-"
"Which I don't."
"Then I'll let it go for now." He realized that there would be no point in trying to get his sister to tell him, she was as stubborn as a rock. He gave her a smile -it was forced, he looked through the piles of paper trying to find one that he wanted Izumi's input on. "Izumi-"
There was a sudden sound of a chair being pushed backwards. "I-I need to go right now. Uh...I'll come back and see you soon." Madara quickly looked up only to see his sister's face before she rushed out of the room, leaving behind a confused Madara.
Why did his sister look so scared?
Shrugging, he went back to his paperwork until he felt another presence in the room, one that wasn't human. It was a presence that he had gotten used to lately. "Madara-sama."
As Izumi ran away from her brother's office she couldn't help but feel shocked and scared at what she saw. It was a black shadow that moved. It was different from the Nara Clan's famed shadow jutsu. That thing...it looked humanoid, scaring Izumi even more. Seeing whatever that thing was made Connie's warning more believable.
She really did need to watch out for her surroundings.
One Year Later
February
Izumi
Izumi woke up from hearing the chirping of the birds right outside her window. Sitting up she yawned and stretched, having one of the best night of sleep she's ever had and she didn't even know why. Opening the blinds Izumi still wasn't used to the unfamiliar trees that stood around her house.
Her house, it was one where she lived all alone in for once. It was hers, specially built by Senju Hashirama himself. Izumi still wasn't used to the emptiness of the house. Growing up there was always someone living with her, always. She was never alone, not like she was now. 'It's part of growing up Izumi.'
Smiling at the familiar voice in her head she got up and got ready for the day that was to come.
As she started preparing a few salmons to bake when she heard the front door open. "Hey brat, where are you?"
"I'm in the kitchen Kazuyo." She yelled out to her friend. A few seconds later Kazuyo walked in carrying a two year old Kagami.
"Izumi-neechan!" The little boy started wiggling in his mother's arms until Izumi grabbed him so she could carry him.
"How's my little Kagami-kun?" Izumi asked. Kagami giggled and smiled at her, causing Izumi's day to brighten just a little. "Well, I'm going to have to put you down so I can make you some breakfast, okay?" He nodded his head and Izumi placed him on the ground; she put her hand on his head and ruffled his hair before turning back to the salmon.
"Your brother's calling for you, something about a meeting with the Hyūga." Kazuyo said as she picked at her fingers, sitting down at the dinning table. Kagami was sitting on the ground, playing with the plastic kunai that Madara gave to him on his birthday a few weeks ago.
"Damn, I forgot about that. What time is it right now?" She asked as she turned to her friend.
"It's 9:30." Izumi's eyes widened and almost dropped the chopsticks in her hand. "The meeting's in 30 minutes!" Handing Kazuyo her chopsticks she ran towards the room to get ready. Opening the closet she pulled out a kimono and mentally cursed. "Kazuyo, I need help!" A few seconds later Kazuyo came running into her room, Kagami following closely behind.
"Goddamn Izumi, how could you forget about that meeting?"
"I don't know! I just...did!" Izumi grunted when Kazuyo started wrapping the obi around her abdomen. "Not so tight Kazuyo!"
"You don't have enough time to be picky!" After they finished rushing through Izumi's kimono Kazuyo grabbed her face. "What are you going to do with your hair? We can't do anything with it with the time we have."
"Just let it down!"
Groaning Kazuyo pulled out Izumi's hairband and fluffed her hair a little to make it look presentable. "You are a goddamn idiot Izumi." She whirled Izumi around to face her. "This is the best I can do at the time."
"Thanks Kazuyo." Giving her a smile Izumi ran out of her and the house, panicking.
20 minutes later Izumi was running up the stairs of the Hokage building. "Izumi, you're almost late!" Madara scolded her as she opened the door to the Hokage's office. The Hyūga Clan Head wasn't here yet but would be in about ten minutes.
"Sorry! I forgot that the meeting was today-"
"It doesn't matter-" Madara stopped talking when he saw the state of her hair. "What the hell happened to your hair?"
She started combing her hair with her hands. "I didn't have time to do anything with it, I just put it down but it got messed up when I used the Shunshin jutsu!" By the time she finished her hair was presentable again but it was obvious that she had rushed through everything.
"You're hopeless. You're lucky that Hashirama and Tobirama are here today too." She nodded her head as Madara led her to a different room, a room that the Hokage held all the formal meetings with important people in. After looking at herself in the window one more time, she realized that she didn't look as bad as Madara had reacted like.
Izumi opened the door, revealing Hashirama and Tobirama already sitting down, ready for the meeting. "Ah, Madara, Izumi! You made it!"
"Of course they did Brother, they have to come here!" Tobirama hissed to Hashirama. The brown-haired man sheepishly laughed, causing Tobirama to shake his head embarrassingly. Seeing the two act like that caused Izumi to snort which made Madara whirl around to glare at her.
"I haven't forgotten about you being late, don't think you're being let off the hook." She cringed at her brother's glare and sulked off to where they were supposed to sit in the meeting. Kneeling down, she started muttering not so nice words about how Madara was being unfair until she suddenly cringed in pain from being slapped on the back of her head from him.
"Ow!" Izumi held her head and glared at her brother who was in the progress of sitting down next to her.
"Can't you act like a lady for at least an hour?" He held up one finger. "Just one."
She continued to rub her head and glare at her older brother. "Maybe I can, maybe I can't. Who knows." Izumi said sarcastically. She was about to say something when the Hokage and Tobirama suddenly sat up straighter and became more tense, it meant that the Hyūga was here.
Two and a half hours later
"Thank you for meeting with us Hyūga-san." Hashirama said.
"No, thank you for having me." The Hyūga bowed and left the room. The moment he disappeared from her sight Izumi loosened her tense shoulders and groaned.
"The nerve of that man, saying that a woman can't be a shinobi!" She exclaimed as she stretched her arms above her head.
"It's their way in that clan Izumi, there's no point in complaining about it." Madara said as he headed towards the same door the Hyūga just walked out off.
"Madara, we need to finish some things." Hashirama announced. Madara nodded his head and walked out of the room with Hashirama.
"What time is it?" Izumi asked as she turned around to Tobirama.
"It's around noon I think."
"Huh, no wonder why I'm hungry." She clapped her hands together and looked up at the Senju with a wide smile that Tobirama found cute -of course he wouldn't mention this to her. "Let's go eat lunch at my place!" She grabbed his arm and started pulling on it.
"Wait-"
"Come on!" Sighing he let Izumi lead them towards her house in the newly built Uchiha complex. As she led Tobirama through Konoha, what the new village they all lived in was called, she knew that she was getting glares from the other Senju's that were walking around.
"What is Tobirama-sama doing walking around with the likes of someone like her?" She heard one woman the same age as her say to her friend as they walked by.
Tobirama noticed that her smile wasn't as bring as it was earlier and he knew the exact reasons why. "Maybe I shouldn't go-"
Izumi shook her head. "No, it's fine. I know a way to get to my house without going through the populated area."
"It might be a little messy so, sorry."
"It's fine." Tobirama said as he placed his hand on her shoulder. Izumi gave him a smile before heading towards the kitchen. He followed her, not sure about the layout of her house since he had only been here once when Hashirama was making it.
"What do you want?" Izumi asked as she opened the cabinets above her sink. "I don't have much-"
"Anything's fine." He responded, slowly sitting down at the dining table.
"Well I hope you like salmon because that's all I actually have at the moment." Tobirama cocked an eyebrow at what she said. "What? I haven't left to go get food yet." She said as she pulled out the half-baked salmon from the icebox in her room. Pulling out one more she began baking the salmon.
After about 20 minutes of silence Izumi was finally done and placed their lunch on the table. "Itadakimasu." There was another 15 minutes of silence, only the sounds of their eating occupying the space until they were done. "Was it good? It wasn't bad right?"
"It was very good Izumi. Thank you." Tobirama thanked as he stood up. Izumi smiled and said that she was going to get changed into more comfortable clothes, leaving Tobirama alone. Having nothing to do he started washing the dishes in the sink. There was no one in the kitchen so he didn't bother turning around when he sensed Izumi walk into the room, it meant that his back was open, vulnerable to her.
Slowly walking towards him she quickly tickled him and ran away, knowing that he would be close behind to follow her. Tobirama quickly turned off the faucet and ran after Izumi; she was laughing and failing at hiding in the living room. Using his Hiraishin -because he was unfair like that- Tobirama was quickly able to teleport himself behind her; he wrapped his arms around her and fell to the couch that was right next to them.
"Hey! Not fair!" Izumi exclaimed as she laughed while trying not to fall right on top of Tobirama.
"I never said I was fair though did it?"
She laughed, leaving the man underneath her breathless from how beautiful he thought she was. Tobirama reached a hand up to hold her cheek, causing her to slowly stop laughing, noticing the change in the air.
Now Izumi was the one that was left breathless when she saw the amount of emotion in his eyes. She leaned down and closed the distance between them with her lips, feeling the soft, but rough ones of Tobirama's.
They both didn't hold back; the two missed each others company, their stolen kisses and hugs by the river. Izumi was the first to pull away, but only because she was out of breath. She placed her forehead against his and looked into his eyes. She suddenly felt tired and moved her face to the right to yawn, something that didn't go unnoticed by him, without asking she moved her head to where it could rest comfortably on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and leaned his head against the pillow that was conveniently right behind him.
"Tobirama?" Izumi asked, her voice revealing how tired she was.
"Hmm?"
"Please don't leave." She whispered into his shirt. His arms tightened around her and with the up and down motion of his chest, it slowly lulled her to sleep. Right before Tobirama was also pulled into the lulls of sleep he whispered his answer to Izumi.
"I'll never leave you."
If you had walked into Izumi's house a few hours later, you would have seen the younger brother of the Hokage and the younger sister of the Uchiha Clan Head in deep sleep; Izumi was lying down on her front, her head on Tobirama's left arm and facing the same direction he was . Tobirama's other arm wrapped around her back and over the side of the couch, barely keeping Izumifrom falling off. He himself was lying on his side, unconsciously making more room for Izumi. Their faces and bodies showed how much at peace they both were, it showed how comfortable they were both with each other.
If you looked at their faces you would have noticed the small smiles they both had.
A/N: I FINALLY FINISHED! YESSSSS! God, I fucking HATE finals and having to study for them. AND I AM STUDYING (To a certain someone that I happen to know and go to school with.)
I hope you guys like this chapter! I know the one year time skip was a BIG one but in all honesty I didn't really have any idea on how to write about the founding of Konoha so if you guys were hoping for that then...I'm sorry! But not to worry, the next chapter will interact with the village a lot more! The last part with Izumi and Tobirama cuddling is based on pictures I saw by searching up 'cuddling' in Google images. If you couldn't understand then look up those and then you will! Those pictures helped me describe their cuddle scene if it wasn't too confusing Dx
OMG THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE FOLLOWS/FAVORITES/REVIEWS that you guys have given to this story! I LOVE YOU GUYS! It makes me so happy and like a warm and fuzzy inside xD This story isn't over yet so stick around!
I have finals the whole week next week so don't expect any updates! After that is summer break which means I'll have enough time to actually start working on both of my stories! Yay for no school and summer!
So I finished this one book in like one day (during school actually) and it is A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I already recommended one story, I think it's the first one actually but she came out with a new one and I WAS IMMEDIETLY HOOKED! YESSS!
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[This story is very unedited, please forgive the author (me) for any mistakes!]