Tobirama has no idea how he's gotten into this situation. He's married now, which is strange, but his husband is a noble who seems fine with building him a lab for him to hide himself away in so that's a plus. Of course, it doesn't fully make up for being forced into a marriage but it's a good start. He's in his lab right now and it's actually impressive how much his husband managed to set up in such a short amount of time. It's not as good as his lab was in the Other Konoha but it'll do for now while he tries to figure out what's going on with that leech on his chakra.
It is a leech in that it is attached to and feeding on his chakra. It doesn't take so much as to be dangerous for him but it's still a rather bit annoying. No matter how slowly or swiftly he tries to remove it, it always sends him crippling pain when he reaches a certain point and snaps back into place as he's recovering.
Beyond the annoyance he is currently calling a leech for lack of a better term or name, he's quite enjoying his lab. He's blown so many things up in the name of science! And he's actually worked on some of his ongoing projects, of course. He's been focusing on making various techniques less chakra-draining, the hiraishin and kage bunshin most of all. He succeeds. A little. The kage bunshins explode a little and he has yet to test the hiraishin but he's sure it'll be fine.
In other news, he has two daughters, two nephews, and a niece now. In that order, they are Nao, Kyo, Isamu, Asuka, and Michiko. They came with his husband for free and he even gets to train them! Which is incidentally how he ends up making a jutsu for Michiko to change her physical gender because she apparently started out as a he. She was very thankful and he debates whether turning Madara into a woman would be worth being murdered. Maybe he can continually switch Madara through the genders just to annoy him? His reactions would bound to be priceless.
"Are you sure it's okay to teach them shinobi skills?" His husband, Nobuyuki, asks hesitantly, pulling him from his plans to swap the genders of everyone in Konoha. He's probably spent too long in the company of children, specifically Toshiaki, if he's coming up with things like this...
"They'll be fine," Tobirama assures, absently putting out the fire Nao started on Isamu. Nobuyuki doesn't look convinced. "Besides, if they know how to protect themselves, then they won't be in danger from simple bandits anymore," he adds. His husband still looks rather hesitant.
"But... you'll be there to protect them?" He says. Tobirama pats the man's arm.
"I'm a nuke-nin," he reminds mercilessly.
Several weeks later, once the four children have been trained up decently and can use everything in his lab without killing themselves on accident, he fakes his death. It's a very sad death and he dies in Nobuyuki's arms as the man promises never to love anyone else. The children make him promise to come visit when they help him escape. It's not like he hasn't already promised several others the same thing so it's easy enough to agree to.
He does mourn the loss of his lab, though, and can only hope his students/daughters/niblings take good care of it for him.
