The Fail-Safe

by Athe-spirit

Story Adopted: "In that small amount of time that he'd been here with us he put the puzzle pieces together and devised a a fail-safe, safety-net if you will inside of the girl" A Time-Travel Jutsu was their last resort to save the world. Sakura would need to make sure that changing Madara's life around would change the outcome of the war they had lost in her reality.

3. Chapter III : Shinobi Creed

Authors Note

This story has been adopted from the wonderful Forever Gypsy.

All characters belong to Kishimoto Masashi.

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Chapter

III

Shinobi Creed

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He remembered Madara as a child, he remembered how neurotic his brother had been as they had grown up, of course though now since he was finally walking the path of the heir apparent he understood the pressure he'd been under all those years. With their father the Chief of the Uchiha constantly striving for perfection and the Uchiha Elders breathing down their necks about whatever they expected of the heir he truly understood why Madara was so wired all the time. Thankfully unlike Madara he only had the Elders that bothered him and the healers too now but it couldn't have been as bad as having their father there with them. Then Madara had been so young, the eldest of all their siblings and after their mother had died, how he'd tried to replace her himself, how he tried to care and protect them to their very last breath when their father wouldn't. Madara was a product of the clan and created to be the perfect heir.

Now though, now though he felt horrible about the situation, Madara was about to do something that no one in their clan had ever done and it would put an even bigger weight on his brothers shoulders. This could brake his brother if it didn't work out the way they wanted it to work out.

A truce with the Senju clan, never in a thousand generations had anyone ever called a truce between the two warring clans, but here they were walking to meet the Chief of the Senju and his own heir.

... That damned red-eyed demon Senju Tobirama.

"You were with her a week, did you learn anything else about her?" He turned his head in Madara's direction unsure of what they were talking about. "Sorry?" "That girl, the one that healed you, you were with her for a week, did you learn anything else about her?" He shook his head.

"She didn't talk about herself, not much, she claims she's on her own and she looks it too, beyond that she didn't say much else" "You didn't press more". He sighed, Madara just didn't realize that that girl was not the average girl. "She's not like other women, she's ... different, unless you think I should have used physical force on the girl that saved me, I couldn't push her for more information".

Madara stopped his head. "Or could you possibly been too attracted to her to interrogate her properly?" He stopped as he looked at his brother, not sure if his brother understood just how much they were indebted to the girl and why they couldn't treat her like the other women they'd came across. Sakura was special like nothing he'd ever seen or met.

... And even though she was an attractive women, it didn't mean he was attracted to her personally, no, he knew the moment she opened those green eyes of hers that she wasn't meant to be his.

Looking at his brother he wasn't sure how he could tell him that, his brother had stopped believing in fate a long time ago and lived in the reality of the world.

"If I had wanted her in such a way I would have brought her with me". "She slipped you though". Yes that little pink haired woman did slip him, although he wondered if Madara understood just how fearsome he had looked when the gates had revealed him and the other Uchiha men. Had he not been an Uchiha he would have fled too.

He doubted he could disappear as fast as Sakura did though, she hadn't left any trace of herself not even of her chakra could be tracked. They had even went back last night to the teahouse last night after they had gone to the Senju compound and it had been decimated to nothing but ash. Sakura didn't want anyone to be able to find her, and a part of him felt she didn't want anyone to know of her existence either.

"I told you, she's different". Madara stopped then and he felt it, the Senju brothers chakra, so out in the open like their own was just then. They didn't have that much longer to be alone and he turned to his brother. This was the last chance before they saw the Senju and the only opportunity to speak without anyone inside the Uchiha compound to hear them.

"She healed my eyes brother". Madara turned swiftly towards him, eyes wide. "My sight, she gave it back to me". Madara regarded him carefully. "You let her touch your eyes?" He nodded his head. "I was worry of her at first but her chakra Madara ... It's like breathing in everything bad in your life and breathing out only goodness, it's good and clean and pure chakra that she used to heal my eyes ... my mind, since I met her everything seems so much more ... clearer. It's as if having her chakra bring me from the brink of death, having that clean chakra inside me ... it changed something inside of me".

" ... And you let her slip through your fingers". A part of him blamed it on those large green eyes that Madara had drawn onto a beautiful Uchiha child, another part of him knew it was to save her from the persecution of what would happen when people found out that she was a woman who wasn't sealed.

"Yes, she slipped through my fingers". He knew Madara was looking at the benefits of her, then what she truly represented. Sakura healed his eyes, she gave him his sight back, and that meant she could heal the others in the clan.

Madara turned away from him and started back on an invisible path they remembered from their childhood. He knew eventually Madara would understand why it was okay, even if Madara was the Uchiha Chief, even he couldn't protect Sakura from what would happen when others found out about her.

They came out of the foliage and to a stream and across they saw the two Senju's waiting there for them, the both of them still looking as shocked at the sight of him as they had last night when they had greeted them at the gates of the Senju compound. He held in his anger at the sight of the Senju heir and watched with bated breath as Madara and Hashirama used their chakra to walk across the stream.

"And here I thought last night was a dream, yet here I am with the Uchiha Chief and his heir". The Senju's both turned to look at him and he felt weird, as if this whole dream had been designed with the idea that he would not be there. "It is good to see you Madara-san". The Senju bowed then and Madara did the same. "It is good to see you to Hashirama-san, especially on this occasion".

This occasion should have been written for occasion but no one cared about the little details of such things. "Uchiha" The Senju heir grabbed their attention as he walked onto the stream as well, it was obvious that he would not allow the Senju Chief to be so far from him. He didn't like Madara being so close to the slithery Senju either. He focused his chakra to his feet then and walked over to the three.

Hashirama was so open with his emotions and his gut twisted at the awed look he held as he stood next to Madara. "It is good to see you in such great health Izuna-san". Of course he wouldn't know his name. He hadn't been the heir that mattered when they were younger. He nodded his head. "It is good to be in good health Hashirama-san". The Senju heir cleared his throat. "We are here today to speak of an armistice between our two clans before we can of course begin talks of an alliance".

Hashirama rolled his eyes then and he wasn't sure what to make of it. "Calm down Tobi-kun, we can disperse with the propriety". The Senju heir didn't look happy about his brothers lax attitude. "Truly though". Hashirama set his eyes on him again. "It is good to see you Izuna-san ... I must say I am surprised though, my brother has an astonishing ability to deliver fatal strikes upon his victims, to see you standing here with us is astonishing, fabulous really, having Madara come here today is truly a gift, but having the Uchiha heir with us too, I sense good things coming".

"The Uchiha healers must be something pretty amazing". He noted his usage of words as he looked over to Tobirama whom was eying him as he spoke. Did he know of Sakura and her abilities, did she lie to him about not being a Senju?

It was Madara that deflected the conversation. "Yes well, you'll come to find that Uchiha's we made and born of fire from the gods, it takes more than a simple stab to hurt us". Calling Tobirama's attack on him simple was a jab at the Senju's inability to kill him, a well deserved jab.

Tobirama was angered, they could see it in his devilish red eyes how angered he was about his inability to kill an Uchiha heir.

Everything stilled as they watched Tobirama reach into his robes, was this just a ploy to get them to come without protection? His chakra swarmed through him and he held it together, he had his eyesight to think of right now, she had told him to give it at least a week before he used his Sharingan.

Tobirama pulled out a scroll and he let go of the breath that he'd been holding, Hashirama and Madara had as well and he watched as Tobirama pushed the scroll into the Senju Chiefs stomach harshly. Obviously the Senju heir didn't believe in the hierarchy of clans as he behaved so disrespectfully towards his Chief. He looked over to Madara whom had a calculating look on his face that he read to well.

... Senju Tobirama was going to be a problem, possibly even for the Senju Chief as well.

"Yes, we have some conditions for you to look over as well before we agree to any treaties as well" Madara stated as he looked over to him and he handed the scroll out to his older brother, making sure he showed just how well behaved an heir was to their Chief. The two chiefs traded scrolls then and Madara unrolled the one from the Senju's and began reading through it.

Turning his attention back towards the Senjus he watched as Tobirama pulled the scroll away from his Chief and began reading it for himself as his Chief tried to get it back. Did he even have any respect for his Chief?

"This will not do". Madara looked away from the scroll in his hands with a lifted brow at the heir and turned his attention towards the Chief. "Hashirama-san I must have heard incorrectly did you find something wrong with the demands I gave?" Hashirama looked clearly annoyed at his heir and Tobirama rolled the scroll up and handed it back to Hashirama. "No Madara-san nothing is wrong". "We will not being agreeing to this, go back and draw up a new agreement". Hashirama did not look happy at his heir just then and he looked over at his brother unsure of what was going on.

Madara handed the scroll to him as he looked over to the Senju's. "I am here to make an armistice with the Senju Chief, which of you is that?" Madara knew exactly how to put an end to this, he had been dealing with clan politics since he was a child, he knew what would put the Senju heir in his place.

Hashirama didn't look pleased with his brother and he was rather happy that he could say that never in any times had he ever shown his own brother such disrespect, even at the times when they hadn't agreed on matters.

Tobirama was a prideful man though, just as his father had been. "The Hagoromo Clan will not be a part of this treaty". He looked over to Madara whom had not allowed his stare at Hashirama to falter. "The Hagoromo Clan has been allied with the Uchiha for centuries, if they are not allowed to be part of this treaty then we demand the Uzumaki Clan to be eliminated from the treaty as well".

Hashirama finally spoke up. "Excuse my brother Madara-san, he seems to have forgotten his rank". The look that Hashirama was giving the younger Senju made him feel uncomfortable, it reminded him of the look his father would give Madara before he would beat him for his wrong-doings.

Tobirama was not bothered by this look though. "The Uzumaki Clan are blooded to us as well as that they are to be married into our clan once more, can you say the same for the Hagoromo". "Tobirama that is enough!"

He wasn't sure he'd ever heard the Senju Chief ever sound so ... menacing. Even during battle Hashirama had always depicted a sort of ashamed shinobi, as if killing and fighting Uchiha's was something he'd rather not be doing.

"Go back home". "I will not leave you here with them alone". Hashirama turned his entire body to him. "I said leave". Tobirama didn't look pleased but he walked off the stream anyways.

Hashirama turned back towards them, his face red with embarrassment and shame. "Sorry about that, he's just very wary". He opened his eyes fully then a serious look on his face. "Do understand that the last time we had to deal with the Hagoromo Clan and the Uchiha Clan as a whole one of our younger brothers didn't survive it" Madara nodded his head in understanding.

"I understand that creating an alliance with someone that hurt your family is hard, we have lost brothers as well to clans that have sided with you, but that is why we are here, to stop the killing of innocent children ... I would not bring in any clan that would sully our dream of a peaceful shinobi village".

Hashirama nodded his head. "I know you wouldn't Madara-san, Tobirama is just very ... protective of the clan, honestly my father would have preferred him as Chief over me, but I was born first and my brother wasn't ... I was weary honestly though, I would have thought things would have escalated more with the realization that Izuna-san here seemed to make a remarkable recovery I worried that the two of you would have been spiteful for what happened ... Thank goodness that the gods have blessed you with a more understanding heir than they have me".

He looked over to Madara unsure of how to feel about everything. Madara looked clearly annoyed. "Hashirama-san, are there going to be issues with your clan elders or heir? I'd rather know now before we continue anymore talks of a treaty".

"Everything is fine Madara-san you won't have to worry about anything". Madara nodded his head. Hashirama clasped his hands together, his mood quick in its change as he went from serious too brightly happy in seconds. "Now let us sign these armistice and we can officially begin talks about our alliance!" Madara only shook his head in annoyance.

Hashirama looked away then and began to holler into the forest. "Tobi-kun! Tobi-kun! ... Ah that man! ... I think the table should be ready, come let us I brought sake to celebrate this occasion!" As they followed the Senju Chief they continued to listen to him babble and he turned his attention back towards Madara trying to convey his thoughts without letting the Senju know that he was worried.

Madara seemed distracted though as he spoke. "Hashirama-san must you be so loud all the time?" Hashirama only smiled lamely at them as he rubbed the back of his head. "Ne Madara-san are you married? Obviously with Izuna-san being your heir, you have no children but I've always wondered... "

Madara rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Always wondered why?" "I was hoping to meet the Uchiha Matriarch ... see what sort of women is willing to put up with your bland attitude and small" Hashirama stopped his talking just as quick as Madara smacked him on the head. "At least I'm proportioned properly compared to you". The air turned stale around the Senju and he was pouting at Madara. "Why must you be so cruel to me Madara-san?" Madara only crossed his arms as he shook his head in disappointment. "Shut up Hashirama you should know better".

Getting to the table that had been set up had been simple, and nothing that crossed his path seemed to scream trap, but his instincts had never steered him wrong and to ignore them was out of the question. So as Madara and the Senju began to speak to themselves and drink away at the sake that had been left at the table for them he decided to opt out of joining in much to his brothers chagrin.

feeling at the steel of his hidden kunai against his wrist, he watched the two Chiefs laugh as they caught up, his neck only snapping at the sight of the Senju heir, hiding in the trees and watching for any sort of signs of danger towards his brother. Despite the scene that had played out between the Chief and the heir everyone, even the Senju heir knew that Hashirama was the strongest shinobi that anyone had crossed. Challenging him would no doubt end in the younger Senju's defeat.

Looking back at Madara he took in the sight of his brother, so relaxed and at ease, a sight he hadn't seen in a long time, the relationship between Hashirama and Madara was an odd one and he remembered after the confrontation what his brother had told him.

'I love you Izuna-kun, but I don't know, there's something about him, before I met him I felt like I was missing something in my life, when I met him, it felt natural, and a sort of pull kept me going back and now ... now it's like I lost a limb, it's not love, it's not lust. ... I don't know what it is, but he was it.'

A lost limb, a phantom limb that Madara had always felt missing and now he could see it in the older Madara and the Chief Senju. The reaction their physical nearness caused, it wasn't sexual, it was ... something different.

Tobirama walked over and placed two senbon on the table, looking apathetic to the situation, he couldn't understand how the man didn't see how momentous this occasion was, while it wasn't a treaty a standstill between the two clans said a lot, talks of peace could lead to prosperity for both clans.

Madara eyed the senbon and instead ignored it as he unrolled his scroll along just as the Senju did and used his own canines to tear into his pointer finger. Madara hadn't survived as log as he did by assuming that allies wouldn't kill him.

This sight of his brother so relaxed and happy was a sight to behold though, the smile lines and creases in the corner of his tired eyes, that was a real smile.

It reminded him of what his brother had looked like the day he'd gotten back to the Uchiha compound. Even though Madara looked menacing then, he saw what all the other kinsmen saw, his death had broken his older brother. He didn't know how he'd known, he'd never asked Madara about it either, but somehow, Madara had known that he had died and it had broken him, even for a moment he had fallen apart. It worried him, he knew, even if he was alive and well that Madara hadn't come back from the realization that he'd lost him.

Even if for a moment he had died. ... The realization brought the thought of Sakura back to his mind.

He'd been up all night trying to think of ways to get her to Madara but each and every route he'd though of was blocked by clan laws and regulations. The Uchiha clan had always been careful with bringing outsiders in and new blood never crossed with pure blood which is what he and Madara were, the purest of the pure. Sakura's blood didn't even touch the surface of an Uchiha's. She wasn't made in the fires and hearth of an Uchiha woman.

She was special though, especially with those green eyes and healing hands, and Madara had dreamed of those green eyes and he would make sure that Madara would have the girl. ... Sakura was the Uchiha clans salvation, even if she didn't know it.

He froze in his spot as he felt two chakra signatures getting close to them, he looked over to the two chiefs and noticed they too had noticed the chakra signatures and they stood, Tobirama getting closer to Hashirama as he did so.

There was something about those chakra signatures that were so familiar though. "There!" Madara called out as two shadows appeared above them.

'Shit' That cloak, that mask, it was Sakura and she was falling very very quickly from the mountains cliff, another shinobi clad in a black cloak and samurai mask fell along with her and Izuna watched trying to figure out how he was going to be able to save her from that fall. Instead he watched as she grabbed onto the other shinobi and switched their bodies around quickly before they made the landing.

The dust picked up heavily from the fall and a crater had been formed. Madara's Sharingan was spinning and he watched as Hashirama stopped him from going towards the two shinobi that had just fallen off the cliff.

"Wait Madara, don't interfere unless it's a threat to us". Madara huffed, "That's one of the men that broke into my home and destroyed the main house!" So he'd learned that before Sakura had gotten him to the teahouse, there had been two shinobi that had broken into the main house and had kidnapped him and fought Madara. Together with Madara they'd destroyed his bedroom and nearly the entire main house. For some reason he wasn't sure that was what really happened, a part of him, the part that had blocked out the hours before his death did he remember bits and pieces of his kidnapping and he remembered a shinobi standing before him, but his memory of the time still hadn't come back to bits and pieces but not completely or whole at all.

The air cleared and from the crater a tall shinobi with the samurai mask stood, his killing intent strong and he moved quickly forward towards the four of them. Katana out and ready to kill, before any of them could react Sakura had jumped on his back, quickly subdoing the other shinobi in a chokehold and he shook her off as he threw her over his shoulder. The shinobi kept moving towards them and that was when all of them pulled out their weapons.

"So much for no weapons". Madara commented, Tobirama hissed at him. "Do you really think we trust you not to try to kill us?" Hashirama stopped the squabbling before it could get out of hand. "Focus! The smaller one is none hostile, the samurai". He was stopped short as the samurai attacked him first, his eyes wide as he screamed at the samurai. "Your chakra!"

Sakura got in between them from her spot on the ground and rolled herself to trip the samurai, he twisted and hit the floor face first, his hood coming off to reveal his short brown and greying hair.

Hashirama stood frozen in his spot as Tobirama checked on him. "Hashirama?" He didn't respond just stood there watching the samurai. Looking over at Madara he noticed that his brother looked worried as well. It was Sakura, as she was covered up that took the brute of the samurai though, he stood from his spot and kicked her side, his back to them, spitting blood as he did, the mask must have broken if he was capable of that.

There was something about his chakra though, so familiar but he couldn't place it. A passed foe perhaps?

Sakura stood from her spot, holding onto her side as she did so and he could smell the blood that seeped out of the wound, he'd gotten her at some point. The Samurai turned then revealing his familiar face and the world seemed to freeze around them all.

Senju Butsuma ... Hashirama and Tobirama's father, he was trying to kill the heir. Hashirama couldn't hold back his thoughts any longer. "Why?" The questioned they all wanted to know. Why ... How?

"You are weak hearted ... and I knew that you'd ruin the clan by making peace with these devils" He spit out more blood before he continued. "Traitors like you make me sick". Hashirama looked sick just by the realization that his father was out to kill him.

Out of respect he and Madara would stay out of it. Tobirama was the only concern to them though, he was a wildcard, would he side with his brother or father? Would they step in? Tobirama asked the question that none of them could bring themselves to ask. "How are you alive father?"

"You should know, you developed the jutsu". They all knew what he was talking about, the kage bunshin no jutsu, was it really so powerful that the former Senju Chief was able to trick everyone into thinking he was dead?

He looked over to Madara unsure of what to do at this point. "So Tobirama will you continue to protect this traitor or side with me and help me destroy him and the Uchiha's?" That put everyone on alert and they watched the red-eyed Senju carefully. Madara would not allow Hashirama to die, at least not by anyone else's hands but his own.

Tobirama sighed then "It is unfortunate for you father, but I am loyal to the Senju Chief and since you faked your death and left the clan you no longer hold the title of Chief, he does".

That was a relief to know, he wasn't supposed to use his Sharingan and he didn't know what would happen if he did and fighting against two Senju's without his Sharingan was a death sentence. Butsuma sighed talking in a bored tone. "That's a pity, I'll have to kill the both of you and then I'll be forced to take another wife to make a new heir".

He pulled out his Katana again and this time he created two more clones and rushed at them. Fortunately for them, Sakura caught him unaware again and kicked him from the side, all three of him went flying into a tree.

He hadn't known that she was capable of that, now he wondered if maybe Madara had gotten everything wrong about the night he'd been taken.

Sakura rushed herself towards the Senju and he caught her by the throat easily and threw her towards a boulder, he heard a sickening crack as she hit the boulder and knew that her skull was cracked.

He went to check on her but was stopped by Madara. "That shinobi is not a threat to us, the Senju is" In the corner of his eye though he watched as Sakura stood up unsteadily and from her cloak, he watched as a black pole came out.

The Senju stood up and leaned against the tree and they all knew he wouldn't survive the four of them. He chuckled though and in a blink a black rod had pierced his shoulder and then another pierced his other shoulder. He turned towards Sakura who was holding a black rod on her side and waiting, her killing intent strong as she walked over towards her intended.

Butsuma may have been pinned to a tree but he wasn't giving up that easily as he pushed through the rods. "You may kill me, but it won't matter, I've paid good money to make sure that the Senju line stays pure and they'll keep coming until your dead Hashirama" with that Sakura threw her rod at him and this one was dead center in his brain.

The woods were quiet save for Sakura's steps as she walked over to the dead Senju and began pulling out the black rods, they disappeared before they could hit the ground, the one in the brain, she saved that one for last, the sound it made as she pulled it out a squelching sound as she moved it around trying to dislodge it, made his stomach twist in disgust. That one was thrown behind her too and it disappeared just as quickly as the others. She grabbed the Senju's body only to watch as the head severed itself from the body, he shuddered and Sakura seemed to ignore it as she bent down and grabbed the head with one hand while tossing the body over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes and his eyes widened, that body had to be twice her weight and twice her size. 'Holy fuck'.

She didn't even give them any attention and began to walk away only to stop when Madara threw a kunai at her and she blocked it with her own kunai. "Madara!" Hashirama hissed as he tried to hold his brother back. "They are not a threat". Tobirmama though seemed to think otherwise. "He could be taking the body to the exchange master on the borders of Hi no kuni ... Is he not a threat then brother? Shouldn't we allow Madara-san here to give our father, our kinsmen the opportunity to be give a proper funeral?"

Sakura was gone already though and as he blinked so was Madara. He turned his attention back to Tobirama. "Must you open your mouth?" Tobirama surprised him though. "I want to know what other things she is capable of". Hashirama turned his attention to them then. "She!" He looked back towards where Madara had chased after Sakura. "Tobirama! How could you?" Hashirama didn't bother waiting for a response as he followed after Madara and Sakura.

He looked over to the Senju heir, wondering just how much he knew about Sakura. "So you've spoken with her, the woman?" The white haired Senju gave him his attention. "The witch, yes and I suppose she's the one that saved you? I can only assume, I watched her heal others on the battlefield". He knew about Sakura, but he didn't know her name, that was good, he couldn't let him have her.

"She's ours". He actually made the demon smirk. "No, she's not". 'Shit' How did he know? Or was he just guessing, no he knew, somehow the demon fucking knew and he wanted her.

Sakuras body flew towards them and Tobirama was quick to catch her, Sakura was quicker as she kicked her foot up and jumped onto the Senju's shoulders, her thighs wrapping around his neck and twisting. There was a soft pop and Tobiramas body fell to the floor just in time as Madara and Hashirama came back to the clearing. The two out of breath but Madara looked excited, very excited.

Had Sakura been fighting against both of them? His eyes widened as he watched Sakura stand up from the floor and Madara rushed at her with his katana and Sakura did the same, but her killing intent was surprising. He watched as Sakura blocked and parried with her katana while at the same time kicking and punching and elbowing Madara. He took every hit and kick and attack with a masochistic smile and threw everything back at her and she took it as if she was a man.

Hashirama dragged Tobirama to where he stood and the Senju Chief turned towards him expectantly. "Aren't you going to stop him?" He turned his attention from the fight to the waiting Senju. "Oh no I can't take Madara, I'm not nearly as strong as him especially now that I can't use my Sharingan". The Senju looked angry then as he pulled at his hair like a tempered two year old. "Are you kidding me!" He stomped towards the fighting shinobi and got in between them, only Sakura slid beneath him and pulled his ankle and threw him at Madara as if he was nothing more than a Shuriken.

He knew his eyes were wide just then, as he watched the two men go threw the trees, Madara came to faster then dragging Hashirama. "You idiot, I can handle this on my own!" "Shut up Madara!" It was apparent that Madara was not going to let up on this fight, he was enjoying it way too much. He should tell him that she was a woman, but if he stopped fighting her she'd get away ... again.

Sakura was going to walk away just then with the two of them distracted with their bickering and then Madara saw it, and he growled, Sharingan bright and spinning at the realization that Sakura was walking away.

"Coward!" He ran towards her and a part of him knew that he'd have to stop Madara somehow before he actually killed her. He looked to Hashirama then his legs crossed, his eyes closed as he started doing handsigns. "Are you not going to help him?" "I am, Madara is relentless ... I'll have to stop her before he can kill her and he's a good distraction".

Chakra oozed from Hashirama then and he watched as wood appeared from all sides of the clearing and slither like a snake towards Sakura, it wrapped around her ankles and wrist, locking her in place before finally wrapping around her neck. He could hear the sound of her wheezing trying to breath. "Your going to kill her!" Hashirama opened his eyes then and stood up. Madara turned to them then angrily. "I had him!" He shook his head as Hashirama patted his shoulder and walked ahead of him towards the two. "No you didn't".

He shook his head at Madara then as he walked over to Sakuras imprisoned form, the hood covering everything up. "Oh Madara". Madara looked on the verge of pouting at the fact they had taken his kill. "It's a good thing Hashirama-san stepped in, he saved you from breaking a very important law". Madara looked stumped then as he looked back towards Sakura. He turned his attention towards Hashirama. "Is it safe?" Hashirama nodded his head. "Yes, it's very safe". He released the jutsu and Sakura's body almost fell before Madara caught her.

Her hood fell revealing dark green hair and he blinked owlishly, green like the leaves, was it Sakura? "You see Madara" Hashirama started as Madara removed the mask. "He's a woman".

Her skin was covered in blood, sweat and dirt but there was no doubt that it was Sakura. He looked over at his brother and noticed he was staring at her in a way he hadn't seen him stare at anyone before. That was good, that was very good. "That is the woman that healed me brother". Madara snapped his attention back towards him then before looking over at Sakura before he picked her up in his arms and stood up. "Let's get back home, she's bleeding from the head and I think she has a stomach wound as well". He nodded his head.

"Hashirama will you be joining us?" Madara asked as he looked back over to the Senju who was staring at his fathers body. He didn't answer and they both looked at the Eldest Senju's dead body. He looked back over at Madara who looked down at Sakura before looking back towards the Senju Chief.

"Nobody can know she killed him and your clan can't find out that he hadn't died that day on the battlefield ... The Uchiha Clan can ensure this". Hashirama nodded his head. "I know".

Madara turned to him then. "Get his body and we'll make sure the others know too dispose of it properly". He nodded his head. "Of course!" Hashirama walked away from his fathers body and focused on putting Tobiramas body on his shoulder. "I don't know how my brother will feel at being taken to the Uchiha compound ... Perhaps I should leave him here". Madara shrugged his shoulders. "Then leave him here". Hashirama looked over at his brother then. "Or perhaps I should put him in a very uncomfortable position ... Yes that sounds much better!"

They walked towards the Uchiha Compound and Madara turned to him as he slipped Sakura's hood back on her covering her face up. "Next time be a little more vocal about the situation Izuna". He looked over to his brother. "I did try to tell you ... although I also couldn't let her get away again so I was planning on stopping you before it got too far".

Madara looked down at Sakura again. "Do you know her name?" "It's Sakura". Madara didn't stop staring at her. "Sakura huh". He nodded his head then. "Madara". He looked over to him again. "We can't let anyone hurt her". Madara nodded his head. "I agree". They made their way to the gates and Madara stopped and hounded out orders.

"The Senju's will be here with us, they are allowed to come and go as they please" Madara pulled out the scroll with the armistice signed. "Give this to the Elders, and have the healers in my chambers immediately". Madara then looked down at the dead Senju, and he let go of him. "And make sure that his body is destroyed, no remains are to be left". The Shinobi nodded their heads before disappearing.

They continued their trek to the main house where their kinsmen were fixing parts of the house, many had stopped and stared at the sight of the Senju's in their compound, their home.

Madara stopped at an empty room and looked over at Hashirama. "He can stay in there, I'll make sure the healers have him looked over". Hashirama nodded his head as he placed his brother in the room carefully before sliding the shoji screen shut.

They didn't even make it to Madara's rooms before the healers surrounded them. Madara batted them away as he walked into his room and had the screen shut, his brother looked over at him and he knew that nobody could hear what was to be said in the room, quickly he started to place seals onto the walls in order to make it soundproof and turned around just in time to watch as Madara placed Sakura onto his bed then and turned towards the healers. "She is to live do you understand". They nodded their heads too terrified to say anything to him.

The moment the healers began to remove Sakuras clothing though everything changed, the healers stopped moving instantly and he looked over at Madara and Hashirama as the healers turned towards them.

"Madara-sama, the girl has no wounds" One of Madara's brows lifted in question "What do you mean she has no wounds? There was a noticeable hole in her stomach earlier" The healer only shook there head. "I don't know sir, the blood is fresh and her clothing is torn through as well but she has no wounds to be seen" The three of them moved forward to look at what the healers were looking at. They'd removed Sakura's cloak and placed a small blanket atop her chest and another was used to cover her hips and legs covering her modesty while they had begun to work.

What was intriguing though was that the area that had been covered in blood, the place where the Senju had stabbed her was stained with her blood but smooth, very smooth.

Hashirama moved then, with a wet cloth in his hands he ran it over the blood and revealed smooth, peach colored unmarred skin, he dipped the towel into the basin once more before wringing it out and moved the cloth over her head where he knew she had cracked her skull and blood matted the corners of her temple.

... Nothing. Hashirama stepped back again. "By the gods, I've never seen anyone heal in such a way". He and his brother turned towards the Senju Chief as Madara questioned him. "Don't you heal just the same?" Hashirama shook his head. "No" He looked over at them carefully before he continued. "It's hard to describe how it works ... but the downside to healing is that I need to rest after using it for extreme wounds". He nodded his head towards Sakura. "A wound in that spot would surely destroy organs, muscles ... A head wound" He pointed at her forehead. "Is even more complicated when healing and tiring, bone, especially of the skull is tiring on me".

He looked away from Sakura's form. "My blood is ... different ... Nobody in my clan, not even Tobirama someone who shares the same parents can heal like I can"

Madara shook his head. "Doesn't matter, we'll figure things out after she wakes up". Hashirama nodded as well. "It would be best to seal her, before that happens though, she may not have been intent on killing us ... me at least ... "

He snapped his head towards his brother, he too did not seem to like the idea. "Madara we can't". Hashirama folded his arms "She's a woman Madara, if others were to find out that her chakra is not sealed it could get very bad for her". Madara sighed as he stepped towards Sakura and he moved in front of her, Madara's eyes widened. "Izuna?" He shook his head.

"Madara I promised her we wouldn't hurt her". Madara rubbed at his neck. "Izuna, sealing her will protect her". He refused to move. "She saved my life, she used her chakra, her unsealed chakra to save my life". Madara breathed out hard as he looked over at Hashirama.

"I'm sorry Hashirama, this is something I will not do". He relaxed at Madara's words and stepped out of the way. Madara looked over at the healers. "Clean her up". The nodded as they swarmed Sakura again.

"Madara-sama". Again they turned towards the healers. They lifted Sakura's arm gently as they showed him a golden bracelet. It looked like a claw of some sort. Hashirama moved forward. "Let me see that". The healer looked over at Madara and he nodded his head in consent and the healer removed it.

Time seemed to stand still then the moment the bracelet was removed from Sakura's wrist and they heard a groan escape her, her chakra began leaking quickly out and the killing intent coming from it was nearly unbearable.

Hashirama looked over to him and Madara and they couldn't stop him. His chakra was swirling as his fingers glowed as he grabbed her arm. "Madara stop him!" Madara sighed then and they smelt the burning of flesh, there was a painful groan and he turned his attention to watch as Sakura's eyes groggily opened.

"My chakra". She struggled and tried to pull herself away from Hashirama, his gut twisted again as he looked at Madara whom seemed stuck. Sakura continued to struggle as Hashirama attempted to grab her other arm from her and she continued through the grogginess. "No!"

Hashirama grabbed her other arm finally and he heard her crying as he did the last seal on her wrist and she screamed. "No! My chakra! Give me back my chakra!" Hashirama immediately pressed on the temple of her forehead as he put her back to sleep, laying her back down on the bed. Hashirama stepped away from the bed and looked down at the golden bracelet.

The Senju looked at the cuff slightly curious before he handed it to Madara, he turned it over carefully inspecting it. "This ... Is the work of the Ninso".

The Ninso? He snapped his neck back towards Sakura but her body was hidden behind the healers, he looked back to Madara. "Are you sure?" Madara nodded his head as he turned around and began to open a medicine cabinet, looking through the drawers he until he found the one he was looking for, reaching in he pulled out a golden cuff as well. Different in style but he turned it over as he walked over to him with the two bracelets.

"The outside of the bracelets are smooth, but the inside has a broken sort of design, that comes from the stone they use". Hashirama looked on in awe. "How do you know it's from the Ninso?" Madara put the bracelet back in the cabinet. "That bracelet was given to the Uchiha from the Ninso long ago as a payment for protecting their temple. That's been in our possession for a century at least".

Hashirama nodded his head in understand and he was surprised, he couldn't remember the last time he'd been shown that bracelet or told about how it came to the Uchiha.

"Although" Madara had a contemplative look on his face as he turned Sakura's bracelet over in his hands, his Sharingan activated. "This bracelet was infused with the Ninso chakra and if you look hard enough you can even see the seal work that they used on it".

Hashirama looked questioning. "Why would they use seals?" Madara tilted his head as he turned over the bracelet again before looking back to where the healers were cleaning up Sakura. "To suppress something".

Hashirama didn't seem pleased with that answer. "What should we do with her then?" Madara shrugged his shoulders. "I'm not sure". He pleaded with his brother though. "Madara I please we can't let any harm come to her". Madara looked up to him as he smiled softly. "Don't worry Izuna, I won't let anything happen to the girl that saved your life". He nodded his head in thanks. It was relieving to hear.

Madara straightened out his form before he placed the bracelet on the nightstand. "We need to finish our business Hashirama, please if you will follow me". Hashirama nodded his head as he followed Madara out of the room.

Looking back to see that the healers were finishing up on Sakura he to followed his brother, his mood considering was in good spirit, now that Sakura was there with them, he had a better chance at helping her and Madara. He looked over the green hair, he could have sworn though she had pink hair, and the green it looked ... Off. He shrugged his shoulders, he'd figure it out eventually. Either way she was here and that was the part that really mattered.

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The brain was an interesting organ, especially the sensory cortex of the brain, the occurrence of hallucinations were not something she was unused to anymore. She'd imagined seeing many of her former nakama, especially Naruto, considering the world didn't lack in blonde haired blue eyed boys it was easy to confuse someone for the energetic child. Hallucinations though had always fascinated her though a simple hit to the right part of the frontal lobe could completely warp the reality, a persons visual stimulation mixing the past and the present. ... Or in her case the future was truly fascinating to her.

Her body ached, and she groaned at the kinks in her body. She didn't know how or when, but her target had changed from a simple assassin to someone much more dangerous. The target was still the same, they were after Hashirama Senju and she couldn't let anyone hurt him as they seemed determined to.

Somehow he'd found them, she'd been attempting to put up a border to protect Senju Hashirama from this new assassin, but he was smart he'd figured her out, figure out her weakness quickly when he realized that she was protecting the Senju Chief. Because of that she got found out, she'd fought him head on trying to keep him occupied long enough, hoping to all the gods that he wouldn't sense the four chakra signatures below them, but he did and he gave her what could have been a deathly blow and she'd fell off the cliff, quickly healing herself as she did so.

In a rather coincidental moment she was falling again and she was falling fast as she did, the momentum from the fall would definitely kill her before she could heal. If she had been one Kaguya's kindred she would have been able to survive the fall, but alas her physiology was greatly differed compared to them. In a quick moment she grabbed onto the assassin and switched them, he couldn't survive. ... He did though and then she knew she was in big trouble.

Normal human anatomy was nowhere near the genetic anomaly that was the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, Ōtsutsuki progeny had a very hard skeletal exterior, even their muscles were stronger. Normal humans wouldn't be able to handle the same things that and Uchiha or Senju was put through. So when he had stood up before she could gather her thoughts correctly after falling from the cliffside she knew then that this was no going to be an easy kill.

That last though bounced through her head when his Samurai mask fell apart in front of her, mentally she groaned when she remembered the Senju's face. Outwardly she actually groaned, she was so fucked if she did something stupid during her blackout, she didn't remember anything after she had been thrown into the boulder.

She did remember one thing though, Uchiha Madara, he was there, his skin that horribly grey color she remembered so well, that manic look in his eyes, that wild white hair, the horns, the darkness that spilled from him. She was back in that cesspool of blood and bodies, the screams and cries echoing all over, she could feel the death clinging to her skin and she lost it.

All she could remember was that she needed to kill him, kill him before he destroyed everything, kill him before he invoked her.

Just like usual though, she was waking up from that horrible nightmare, and for a single second everything was perfect and blissful and she was ignorant to her past and present, her mind contently hazy. Slowly though that gently warmth, the incredible feeling of well-being, began to slip from her entire being as she came back to herself and her surroundings.

The soft warm furs that surrounded her body and flooded her with heat were the first things she noticed, the very soft and firm and comfortable futon beneath her was the second and the pillows that her head seemed to sink into smelled very, very .. manly. Just the scent made her toes tingle in the most pleasant way and she gasped as opened her eyes to see elderly men looking down at her.

They all looked very similar to one another, dark eyes, dark hair, her mind snapped to attention as she quickly sat up as the thought was at the very tip of her conscious.

Uchiha! ... They were whispering amongst each other and one had turned away and disappeared from her sight as the elderly men talked amongst themselves, not bothering to even acknowledge she was wide awake. Looking around the room, she noted the everything was impeccably clean, the warm red wood was polished and dusted so fine she could see her reflection almost, and on the far side of the wall, was a collection of weapons that looked very familiar, especially the kama and gunbai and her heart lurched in her throat as she looked at the tomoe's that were painted on the gunbai, but it was the red armor, shined like everything else, but worn out with dents and scratches and she knew she needed to get out of there immediatly.

A screen slid open and all sounds in the room stopped and she swore her heart jumped out of her chest as the elderly Uchiha's moved out of the way for one Uchiha Madara.

... She was so fucked.

he wore a a long black long sleeved turtle neck with matching shinobi pants that were too bloused into white wrappings. She sucked in a breath as he made his way towards her with sharingan eyes bright and solely focused on her. Looking away she looked around the room for anyway out of the room with her life intact.

"Sakura-san!" She turned wide eyes towards the voice that came from behind Uchiha Madara and watched as Uchiha Izuna moved passed him with Senju Hashirama right behind him as well.

... She was triple fucked.

"Sakura-san?" Izuna questioned her once more and she blinked unsure of what to do in this situation. Her hands under the blankets had found a kunai and she gripped it, hoping no one would realize her hands. She took a deep breath and tried to calm her racing heart, she needed to focus. Not sure how to question, or what question to begin with her mouth moved with her racing thoughts. "Izuna-san ... How - What am I doing here?"

Izuna sighed and it almost sounded as though he was relieved and he turned away from her then as he looked over at his brother and she didn't know what was silently being said but she knew something was being spoken between the two Uchiha's.

Before she could get a grip on the reality of the situation she was thrown for a loop once more as Uchiha Madara moved in front of her his bright Sharingan eyes devouring the sight of her as if she was a little lamb and he was a starved wolf. In that moment she realized how very, very nude she was and she averted her eyes away from the Uchiha Patriarch to see her clothes very neatly folded on a desk very, very far away from her. She used her free hand to clutch the blankets tighter to her.

There was a sound and she whipped her head back to watched with wide eyes as Uchiha Madara and Izuna got on their knees before her and bowed all the way down, the elderly Uchiha's doing the same as well.

Madara's deep voice resonated through the room. "I Uchiha Madara am truly grateful towards you Sakura-san, you have saved my heir, my brother, and for that the we the Uchiha clan are indebted to you".

She blinked, she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do, especially in this situation because never would she have believed she would see Uchiha Madara on his hands and knees bowing to her. Looking up at Senju Hashirama she noticed that he looked as dumbstruck as she did just then and she looked back to Madara and Izuna who seemed to be waiting for something from her and she wasn't sure what was happening.

She really wasn't sure what to say in that moment. "..." She shut her mouth unsure what she needed to say and realized that they should not be kneeling before her like she was some sort of royalty or deity. She sighed "Please standup, your gratitude is appreciated, but you owe me nothing".

Madara's head snapped up quickly and he met her eyes with his own and she watched as he deactivated his Sharingan looking up at her with large glassy black eyes that reminded her of two black diamonds, they were so deep and dark, like pools of an endless abyss. She looked away, it was not appropriate to think on such lines, she focused on the fur blanket that covered her and listened as the other Uchiha's in the room followed Madara's que and stood up as well.

Madara's voice as deep and smooth as he spoke. "Leave us". She watched out the corner of her peripheral as one of the elderly Uchiha's moved towards Madara and spoke. "Madara-sama that is most inappropriate ... at least let one of us stay out of proprieties sake" He didn't let his eyes leave her and she clutched the blanket tighter around her "I said leave". The bowed their heads and left the room quickly shutting the screen behind them.

She found no comfort in the silence that stretched through the room and less comfort at the way Uchiha Madara was staring at her.

It was Izuna that broke the silence as he sighed and handed her a cup. "I'm glad to see you again Sakura-san". She looked into the cup and looked up at him, he seemed genuine but she knew that she couldn't guarantee that. "I see you changed your hair".

She wasn't sure how to approach this situation and with Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama watching as they were, especially now that the Uchiha Patriarch was watching her with his Sharingan activated again.

Izuna sighed as he placed his cup down. "You're not in a very talkative mood are you? ... Well then how are you feeling?"

It was a wonder to her how she hadn't even done it, maybe it was because she woke up in such an unfamiliar setting, maybe it was because she took a nasty blow to the head, but she realized that she hadn't done her usual checkover on herself. It was a morning habit of hers to make sure that nothing was wrong with her, time-travel and having an alien sealed inside you could have dire consequences if not done right and considering how things had happened to get her there she was a bit paranoid about those consequences befalling her body.

She had the worst headache she'd had in a long time though, like that time after she'd passed the chunnin exams and drank way too much sake with Ino and her body ached as so similar to when she'd first started training with Tsunade.

Calling forth on her chakra to erase the pain was when she realized something was very wrong and she closed her eyes trying once more to call on her chakra. The more she tried to call on her chakra the more drained she felt and she struggled to figure out what was wrong. Her heart was beating rapidly and she was sure she was on the very of a panic attack.

"Sakura-san are you alright?" She turned to look at him as she gripped the kunai tighter in her hand. What happened to her chakra? "My chakra ... I can't feel my chakra .. where is my chakra?" She tried to control her breathing, tried to control the beating of her heart but it was no use. Izuna looked very guilty just then and he turned away from her and looked over at Madara.

Hashirama finally took a step towards her and he took the cup that Izuna had tried to give it to her and held it out for her as he spoke carefully. "Your chakra is blocked Sakura-san, I sealed it in order to protect you and everyone else, if you can comply with us I may be convinced to unseal it for you".

There was something in the Senju's voice that pissed her the fuck off right then, she wasn't sure if it was how he talked as if he was in control of everything or if it was he deemed himself the right to take her chakra away from her.

He sealed her chakra and if she played nice with them he might give it back ... No, that wasn't how it worked. Nobody stole her chakra.

She didn't care if she was nude, all she cared about was getting her chakra back and this ... man was the only one that would be able to unseal it, she grasped the kunai tight under the blankets as she tried to think logically, but the voices in her head only saw red. "You blocked my chakra?" The Senju in the room seemed to be backing away from her and she looked up at him finally and felt white hot rage run through her veins.

"Who are you to have such audacity to think you can seal my chakra" The voice was hers, but the darkness that surrounded her was not, she looked to her wrist, her bracelet was gone and all she saw was the burnt flesh in the markings of the seals he used. ... No, that was not how this worked.

She lunged with the kunai in her hands and watched as Izuna pushed Hashirama out of the way and Madara grasped her body and held her to his, officially blocking her from the Senju. "Unseal me this instant you ignorant fool!" She screamed and threw the kunai just missing the Senju who looked so terrified in that moment. "Give me back my chakra!"

Madara grasped her hands then and held them towards his chest, his Sharingan spinning and she didn't back down. His voice was deep and rumbled through his chest so harshly she could feel it against the furs that covered her. "Calm down!"

"She's crazy Madara do some hypnoses or whatever and make her not want to kill me!" Hashirama's voice pissed her off and with Madara's body standing in front of her she couldn't see him, but that didn't matter.

She kicked and attempted to twist of out his grip but he held still and didn't flinch, he looked smugly down at her, his eyes practically glowing with mirth and she seethed. "When I get my chakra back I'm going to wipe that look off your face".

his head tilted to the side with the damnable smirk of his as his eyes stared brightly at her. "Is that so?" She kicked again and it didn't bug him and she twisted more and then decided to knee him in the groin, he bent down with a groan and his hands loosed on hers and she saw that he had a tanto on his back she unsheathed it and hit him across the nape of his neck with the hilt before she threw it across the room at the terrified Senju.

He ducked and she missed and before she could cross the room towards him she was grabbed once more by Madara and he held her arms at her back against his chest she continued to struggle against him."Let me go! I'm gonna kill him!" She screamed and Madara held onto her tight. He seethed and tightened his hold on her "Calm down woman!"

Hashirama cried as he inched his way out of the room. "Madara use your Sharingan on her!" "It doesn't work like that you moron!" Madara used more force on her and he twisted her arm back behind her in a very horrible way as he pushed her further down to the ground. "I said calm down!" She screamed, if he bent it back anymore it would brake.

"Let me go!" Madara ignored her as he ordered his brother. "Izuna get the guards now!", 'Tobirama!Thank god!' She gulped as she focused on the pain in her shoulder, moving it just a certain way she heard the pop and felt Madara stiffen above her and he eased his weight off her and let go of her arm very quickly. She took that moment to elbow him in the face with her other arm and he fell back quickly and she grasped the blanket around her then and ran to the other side of the room.

A very terrified Hashirama stood in the room ajar with Izuna and before she could cross the threshold to get to him her body hit an invisible barrier. She fell to the ground, she glared from her position on the ground and watched as Tobirama emerged from the other side of the shoji screen. Hashirama looked relieved as he walked over to her. She breathed hard as she glared at him.

"Undo this seal now" Hashirama bent down to her level then, his face completely devoid of emotion and she flinched. "How very intriguing". She didn't like that and she felt Madara standing behind her.

With Tobirama, Izuna and Hashirama on one side of the seal and Madara blocking her in on the other side she felt a little bit of that raw anger and hate fade and being replaced with some semblance of understanding. She looked down at her wrist again ignoring the burns of the seals on them and realizing that her bracelet was missing.

"Where is my bracelet?" She didn't look up and focused her eyes on the wood floors, she heard Madara moving around behind her and she kept forced herself not to panic. The horrible feelings that were raging inside her may have dissipated a bit, but they were still there, making her feel horrible and clouding her better judgement. She closed her eyes as she felt Madara crouch next to her and she breathed in hard.

Her arm hurt so fucking much when she realized she couldn't move it, she remembered she dislocated it in order to get away from him. Grasping her arm with her other hand she felt the pop and the pain and it felt a little bit better, but it still hurt a lot. Especially as she reached out with it towards Madara who was holding out her bracelet for her.

The feeling of the cold metal against her skin was reassuring and then she felt relief as all those feelings, all her feelings completely melted away with the bracelets effects starting to take effect. The cloud in her mind was moving quickly out of her and she knew that she was in a very horrible position.

She didn't look at any of them as she spoke, hoping to every god out there that she could leave this situation quickly. "I apologize for my behavior, if you will now I would appreciate it if you'll be so generous as to do undo my seal, I am no threat to any of you and am regretful for how appalling I've acted".

Madara sighed as he stood up and Hashirama stayed crouched across from her. "So she has manners" she flinched, she really felt horrible for how she had acted. "I am truly sorry, but you are a woman and as such I must abide by the laws". So Senju Hashirama, 'The God of Shinobi' did not believe in allowing women to use chakra, how very sad. She looked down at her wrist, she'd have to break it, she was sure she could, but it would take a lot of energy and time.

"Hashirama undo the seals" Her neck snapped to Madara then and she was sure her surprise showed on her face, Madara wasn't looking at her thankfully, his attention was clearly on Hashirama. She turned back to look at him, hoping he'd listen to the older Uchiha.

Hashirama was staring at Madara though and it was like the two were talking to each other, a silent conversation that no one else was allowed to be part of. Tobirama though was obviously not going to let his brother listen to the Uchiha. "Don't unseal her, you can't trust her".

She was livid as she glared at the white haired man. "I beg your pardon? I healed your men the last time I saw you!" Tobirama shrugged his shoulders. "You also saved the Uchiha, your alliances are to no on and that cannot be trusted". She glared as she looked back down at the floor she needed to calm down, she needed to think a way out of this.

Carefully as not to garner the attention of the three men arguing above her she looked over the barrier ward that had been created to stop her, following the feel of chakra that was woven into the seals. It was a single barrier, the rest of the room was not sealed, a quick barrier seal placed up with no contingency plans.

The other three walls didn't have any seals from what she could tell, but getting to it was the issue, she didn't have any chakra to help her fight Madara or help her impair the barrier either. She looked down at her bracelet, she didn't like feeling out of control and she didn't like the unbridled rage that over came her, but in this instance she had no other choice. The only way she'd be able to get one up on Madara was by surprise and surprise only, but to surprise him was the problem.

There was only one way and to that she definitely knew she didn't want to do that but it seemed she didn't have a choice. She'd have to play at their weaknesses and the weakness of these men was that none of them wanted to actually hurt her, she was a woman. She was a woman and she needed to show them she understood that.

Adjusting her body she pretended not to feel all the eyes of the four shinobi on her as she reached the child pose with her arms outstretched, fingertips just touching the barrier, she breathed carefully as she tempered her feelings. "My Lords, I beg of you to release me, I am of no use to you as I am but a simple girl". There was a snort from one of the men above her and she grit her teeth. This had to work.

"Hashirama undo the seal now", "Tobi I really don't like the idea of hurting her", "If you don't undo the seal on her I will burn the armistice", "Don't threaten him with something we all know you won't do Madara"

They were arguing again and carefully, just moved her hand to her wrist and slowly slid off the bracelet, she felt the twist in her gut as the anger flooded her, she felt Madara'd body stiffen above her and she felt his eyes move over her and she knew he figured it out.

... It was working. Madara was quick as he reached down and grasped her wrist and pulled her up, she was just as quick as she used his own body weight against him and threw him over her shoulder, his head making a harsh sound as he hit the barrier, she stood up then and reached up to where the tanto was stuck in the wood and pulled it out. She looked down at Madara who glared at her as he stood up and she kicked at his legs, making sure that she hit the kneecap hard enough to break it before she kicked him again against the barrier.

Quickly she turned to the other screen and started towards it, only to watch as another barrier was placed up before she could make it out, she growled as she turned towards where Izuna was pulling Madara out of the room, they'd dropped the barrier and she ran towards it, the second Madara was pulled all the way into the room, Tobirama put the barrier up and she screamed as she hit against it.

"Let me out of here!" She grabbed every piece of furniture she could get her hands on and threw it at all the barriers in the room.

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He watched as she tore the room apart, his room, it was such a beautiful sight to watch as she lost all control, she was beautiful, odd looking but beautiful. Her eyes, he'd never seen such large green eyes before and her face was attractive, her hair, he could smell the henna that saturated her hair to give it that green look and knew that she was covering up the natural color of her hair. Still though, it was taking every ounce of control he had in him not to tear down the barrier himself and ravage the woman, broken knee or not, he wanted her. Especially with the way she looked wrapped in his blankets, just the sight of her had his blood boiling.

The realization that the small woman that was destroying his home had gone toe-to-toe with him and Hashirama in a fight was breathtaking, he'd never met a person that had excited him in such a way. She was small though and it was such a contradiction to the destruction she was creating, having her in his arms during the trek back made him realize she was very small, possibly underfed by how skinny her face was.

Izuna shut the screen blocking his sight of her as he called for a healer. "She broke your knee". Yes she did, and it hurt a lot. "She also dislocated her shoulder just to get out of my hold". Izuna shook his head. "None of which would have happened if she hadn't had her chakra sealed". They all looked towards Hashirama whom had been sitting in the corner of the room, trying to avoid them at all cost.

"It's the law! And you felt the killing intent coming off her when they removed the bracelet off her". Izuna was quick to defend his savior though. "It was unnecessary she healed our people and yours someone who does that has no intent to hurt anyone".

Tobirama was quick to defend his brothers choice. "It's still the law, women are to be sealed, considering how underfed she looks I assume she's a stray, it's the only logical explanation as to how she'd gone for so long without being sealed ... but, with her looks ... stray or not, she's attractive enough to marry, I assume she's of age, surely someone would have noticed an attractive girl without seals ... which brings up more questions. Not only is she unsealed, but she's trained in how to use her chakra and how to fight. Someone had to train her which means that she's not really a stray at all, and someone knew there was a girl that wasn't sealed and didn't seal her themselves".

He took in a breath as the healer set to work on his knee, he'd be out of work for months until it healed properly, he looked back towards his room where he could still hear the destruction and cries. She healed Izuna, a broken knee cap was nothing compared to what had happened to Izuna. "Hashirama". The man in the corner looked over to him.

"Unseal her now". Hashirama looked terrified at the though, he sighed. "She broke my knee I won't be able to do much with a broken knee until it heals, which takes months ... but she can heal and from what I can understand she can heal better than anyone any of us have ever come across".

"Maybe we should wait till she calms down ... or perhaps when she decides she doesn't want to kill me". Tobirama shook his head. "He can wait for his knee cap to heal, besides he's signed the armistice he doesn't need to be fighting anyone for now". He sighed he really hated the red-eyed man. "Yes I signed the armistice, but it is not a peace treaty, and until the peace treaty has been signed there is still the possibility of me to decline and walk away from this". Another though occurred to him as he looked over to his bedroom.

"And Tobirama, I'll walk-away and take her with me as well". While he was sure the Senju's had healers, and he knew they were much better than Uchiha healers, he knew that none were at all comparable to the woman that was locked away in his bedroom and Tobirama was not an idiot, there was benefit to keeping her. If he walked away from the peace treaty and kept her to himself, his military powers would be stronger than even the Senju's, their healers couldn't bring people back from the brink of death and she could, she did.

Tobirama glared at him as he challenged him. "It's a blood seal, even if you were to keep her, you can't unseal her". Izuna stepped up though. "Sakura-san uses chakra to heal, which means that she can teach people how to use their own chakra to heal just as well as she can ... we don't need her to be unsealed to use her knowledge".

He liked the look Tobirama had as he considered their words, he decided to add more flames to the fire. "Even if it's a blood seal, I'm sure there's a way to unseal her, I may even be willing to make a treaty with another clan that's notorious for their sealing abilities, I know they do want to make a separate clan here on the mainlands, a piece of our land could be sacrificed if it would mean getting the seals off the girl".

Tobirama didn't like the idea he was giving him and he relented. "Hashirama take the seals off her now". "Why don't we wait till tomorrow, maybe she'll have calmed down by then?" He rolled his eyes, really the man was overreacting. He looked over to Izuna. "Talk to her". Izuna nodded his head as he walked back to the screen and opened it.

His room was wreaked from ceiling to floorboards and she sat in the very middle of it all. "Sakura-san?" Izuna called out her head snapped quickly towards them then and he knew she still wasn't calmed down. She just ran out of things to destroy.

"Sakura-san I wish to ask for your healing abilities ... for my brother". She scoffed, how un-lady like. "I'm not exactly in any sort of position to heal". "Hashirama-san has agreed to unseal you". She perked up at that. "Has he now?" Izuna nodded. Tobirama went to dismantle the barrier but he noticed the bracelet on the floor. "Stop". Tobirama growled at him. "Do you want her to heal you or not?" He ignored him.

"Put the bracelet on". She looked over to the bracelet and crawled carefully amongst the mess she made to get to it, he was not going to let her go near him again without that bracelet, it seemed it suppressed her anger which was something that was worth noting. She clasped it on her wrist and he watched as he looked back towards him with those large green eyes. "Grab a robe from one of the dressers as well". He couldn't have her in his blanket the entire time, it was too tempting. She closed the screen.

"I really think we should not do this, it's against the law". He rolled his eyes as he looked over to Hashirama, "Technically, the law dictates that Clan heads, elders, immediate family or husband are permitted too seal a woman's chakra, as we are neither we are breaking the law by sealing her". Hashirama's body straightened immediately.

"I never knew that". Of course he didn't he was an idiot, but he was a powerful idiot, there was no denying that. The screen slid back open and she stood wearing a dark blue kimono, it clashed horribly with the green of her hair. He really was curious about her hair, why color it? Was there a specific reason? She was attractive enough, surely the color of her hair wouldn't deter any man from her.

Tobirama undid the barrier and she was careful as she crossed the threshold, like a gazelle surrounded by lions she knew she had no way out. Hashirama gulped as he reached out towards her, her seals red and blistering quickly. Hashirama used his nails to cut his thumbs and slid the blood over her seals, imbedding his chakra and he could feel the chakra seep back into her body. He watched as she relaxed before she turned towards him. He could see the confidence in her eyes as she called up her chakra and her hands glowed green with her powers.

Gently she pushed her chakra into him and he flinched at the intrusion. She remained focused and he could feel the bone in his knee begin to mend together again. He tried to focus on how she was doing it, but the feel of her chakra was distracting. Clean and pure, it felt like breathing in all the good things in the world and just holding onto all of it. He locked eyes with her, those big green eyes that he'd dreamt about on a child with black hair.

Her eyes glowed the same color as her chakra and confidence and burned bright with passion and vitality that he was almost afraid it would burn him. The more he looked into her eyes though, the more he saw, and it was heartbreaking to see how much anguish turned in those eyes of hers.

Hashirama's voice rang clear in the fog though. "Madara stay focused". Because the Senju knew where his line of thoughts were going. She looked away from him and he did his best to focus on everything but her. Like a moth to a flame though, he couldn't help where his eyes wondered too.

Her skin was a perfect ivory with peach and rose undertones and her forehead was just a tide bit wide but complimented her very large almond shaped eyes that reminded him of a feline, her lashes long and thick and white like a feather. Her skin was smooth and her face heart shaped, her cheeks high and just slightly sunken in with a small straight and just barely upturned nose. Her lips were small, but full and pink and like her face resembled a heart. Her jaw was softly but noticeably sharp at the same time and bleed into a smooth neck that wasn't long but not at all short.

The robe covered her chest but the soft curves of her breast were noticeable enough to show that she was developed as a woman, they weren't small, possibly a bit larger than his own hands. The sash that was used to tie the robe was cut into a small thin waist and he could see the fold of where her hips were and they were shapely if the robe she was wearing was anything to go by. Her calves were showing though and they were strong and lean with small ankles and feet, good clean feet.

Tobirama was correct she was attractive enough to have been noticed by men. Especially with her face, it was very feminine, and elegant, very well-bred. Many traits men would want in children, his eyes went back to the folds where her hips were, shapely, very well-bred and could certainly carry a child with her strong hips. His eyes went to the rhombus shaped tattoo on the middle of her forehead.

It wasn't a tattoo though, but it looked like one, his eyes flicked over to Tobirama and noted his facial tattoos before looking back towards the purple rhombus. Certainly she had to be part of some clan or family, she was too well kept up with to not be. Heiresses were always well cared for, especially with the purpose of possibly marrying outside the clan. With a face like that, with those eyes, certainly someone would be missing her. Attractive women weren't single for long, attractive girls went faster, many men preferred a young wife and the younger the easier to groom.

A lock of green slid in front of her face and he grimaced, that hair though, it was long and thick and looked very healthy, but it was green, green like the leaves that covered the country they lived in.

... His eyes widened, it was a camouflage, she dyed her hair to camouflage her looks, her actual hair color and her face would surely garner a lot of attention, and even with the Sharingan he couldn't tell what her hair color really was. She did it to cover up who she really was. ... But the question was who was she? The theory of her being a stray was impossible with the more he looked at her.

Her chakra was receding from his body and he snapped his attention back to the current situation, watching as she dropped her hands to her side, she looked demure as she moved the hair out of her face as she spoke. "There, you're healed, but I do recommend resting for a few days". He moved his leg, paying careful attention to his knee and noticed that it was indeed healed. He looked over towards Hashirama and nodded his head, letting him know it was okay.

Before he could move though, Tobirama had grabbed her and lifted her up by her wrist and held onto them with a bruising strength, she screamed and kicked and he knew after having her do the same to him that it hurt a lot to be kicked by her. "I healed him like you said!" He stood up. "Tobirama what are you doing?" he could smell the burning of her skin and knew that it would be infected after this. He breathed in hard as he watched Tobirama thrown her into the room and put up the barrier before anyone could question him.

"What was that?" Hashirama was angry now, that didn't bode well for anyone. "She's a threat until we can prove otherwise, personally I think it's best if we kill her, but considering her lesser standing than us, it would be unwise to break that law". He watched as the screen rattled against her fist and knew there was no way she would ever trust them. "She wasn't a threat!" Hashirama was seething, he'd never seen the Senju chief lose his cool but it was obvious that was going to happen now.

"She was, besides that's not the point, we need to finish the talks and go back to our clan with the armistice". Ah that's what he wanted, he knew that if they didn't finish talking about the treaty that he'd back out and with the girl sealed Tobirama knew that he would indeed keep the girl close to the Uchiha Clan, especially if he promised to make sure nobody sealed her again. Her chakra was special to her and her ability to heal would be useful to the Uchiha Clan.

"Fine then, Izuna go get the maps and clean scrolls". Izuna didn't seem to want to move from his position next to the screen, his concern for the girl was evident, she did after all save his life. "Izuna". He nodded his head as he stood up before facing him. He could see the worry in his brothers eyes. He understood all to well, Tobirama could not be trusted not to kill the girl, she was a threat to him because she could heal and she had healed not just any Uchiha but the heir of the Uchiha. If talks didn't go well right now, Tobirama would kill her to keep anyone from being able to have something over the Senju.

They couldn't let her die though, she healed Izuna and for that they were indebted to her, a life for a life, they were her slaves in a sense.

Izuna understood and left the room to get the maps. "Logically, you understand that when this village is built, that along with the Uchiha the Hogoromo clan will follow as well which will be beneficial as they carry the title to the lands that border the Uchiha and Senju lands, which will mean we won't have to push them out of their lands or buy them out". Hashirama nodded his head in understanding.

"Yes, we will also be bringing in a piece of the Uzumaki clan from Uzushiogakure, as you stated earlier, they wish to place a part of their clan here on the mainland, something I think would be very beneficial to all of us, they are very knowledgeable and already understand much about how to build and maintain a village". A very good idea especially considering the Uzumaki clan was planning to marry into the Senju clan. A dangerous idea for him if he decided to back-out, the Hogoromo clan was strong and had the numbers, but the Uzumaki clan was stronger.

If he hadn't found their women lacking in the looks department, he would have made a proposal to the Uzumaki clan, he knew that the Chief had no male born heirs and had a bountiful amount of female daughters and nieces. A bad sign he personally thought another reason why he didn't make a proposal to the Uzumaki's when they'd reached out to him after his father had passed away. A man that births daughters has daughters that birth more daughters and Uchiha heirs created more heirs not daughters. He and Izuna were proof of this as they were the last standing of five boys and his father was the last standing of seven boys and his grandfather the last standing of ten boys. Uchiha heirs made Uchiha heirs.

The Senju's seemed to not care about that though if they were willing to marry into the female dominated clan. He wouldn't comment on that though.

"It's understandable that they'd want to come to the mainland, Uzushiogakure is far and trades are even tougher with how far they are". Hashirama nodded his head and Izuna stepped into the room with necessary items. He took the map and unrolled it. "The land we need to worry about is here, the east that borders the Senju and the Uchiha and covers the entirety that is where we want to resettle our clans here, but this is the Daimyo's lands, we'd have to buy it from him".

He heard Hashirama gulp and look over to Tobirama, he didn't like that look for some reason. Tobirama spoke up. "Considering, the Senju are bringing the man power and the healers, it's best that the Uchiha pay for the lands". Of course, he sighed, he'd heard the rumors, everyone had heard the rumors.

"The rumors are true then, the Senju coffers are barren aren't they?" Hashirama and Tobirama were silent he sighed. "Of course it's why you're marrying the Uzumaki, Ashina-san has too many daughters and is willing to pay other clans good money to take them off his hands, very good if what he offered me is anything compared to what he offered you". There was a soft noise and he straightened out, he knew exactly where that sound came from and he was not going to let her get him in that position again.

"The coffers aren't empty, we just don't see the need in buying the lands when we're bringing in everything else". He scoffed Tobirama was always trying to make sure everyone believed the Senju were sinless. "The Senju don't have as much men as the Hogoromo clan, whom out number the Uchiha and Senju together by thee to one, you only have healers and from the looks of it, I think the girl would much rather stick around the Uchiha clan if we made sure the two of you never went near her ... I'm sure she'd agree to it considering you two sealed her chakra".

"Then perhaps we should reconsider the treaty", "Wait, no Tobirama, don't say such things!", "We are being proven how greedy and ungrateful the Uchiha's truly are, I'm sure there are other clans that are willing enough to help". He rolled his eyes.

"You mean stupid enough, it's not my fault that you had an heir that everyone in Hi no Kuni knows spent the majority of his clans money on gambling and whores". Hashirama's mood darkened into a depressed stated as he huddled himself into a corner too mope and he rolled his eyes. "They were so beautiful and soft though, I couldn't resist".

There was a sigh and he looked up and watched as the ceiling board was slid and the woman's face appeared looking rather apathetic. "Honestly, did no one teach you how to manage money?" She sighed and she slipped down from her spot on the ceiling twisting like a cat, he noticed she changed back into her own clothes.

Without the robe he got an eyeful of her body, her flat stomach that tucked into good strong full hips that paired with good breast that were on ample display with the odd leather bindings she wore. Her pants were shinobi standard and nothing magical just as her sandals. Her thighs were more noticeable now and he saw how thick and strong they were.

As she walked she touched objects in the room, moving them and placing them back as she did so. "Next time you create a barrier, I suggest you come up with a contingency plan, but it's surprising that you didn't, never the less". Her back was straight and rigid and he could tell she didn't like how everyone was watching her. "So you're creating a peace treaty between your clans? Interesting ... any particular reason why?"

She turned her attention towards a book and placed it back down as she turned towards them. "Any particular reason why you're building a village together?" She cocked her head to the side then and she smiled. If they were any other shinobi he was sure they'd be fooled into believing her to be innocent, but she was up to something.

"Don't try to deny you need money, the Uchiha have it, and the Hogoromo and Senju do to, but it will still not be enough to buy the land from the Daimyo, you need more ... and I just happen to have money".

So she wasn't a stray after all, he looked her over, her clothing was tailored to her body and the material was expensive, it matched with her perfectly healthy skin and aristocratic looks. Hashirama piped up obviously just as suspicious as the rest of them. "You have money?" She nodded her head as she turned around and began to look through the things in the room again. "Oh yes I have a rather large amount of money ... but of course, I'm not willing to part with it without getting something in return". She held up her wrist as she turned towards them. "This comes off".

Tobirama was not one to take up an opportunity. "Payment first". She rolled her eyes, how very disrespectful, least it wasn't towards him. "Seals off first or this offer walk away".

Tobirama glared at her as he challenged her. "You wouldn't last long enough out there without your chakra". She nodded her head. "No, but I'd last long enough to make it to the capital and I'd make it far enough after that to speak with the daimyo and tell him about what you're planning ... and then, I'd last long enough to watch as your daimyo ordered you to undo the seals, because by then I'd have convinced him to make you do it and dear Tobirama-san are you capable of defying your precious daimyo-same?"

She had a wicked tongue and he wanted to taste it, she had cornered the Senju heir without even having to lift a finger. "My offer last for the next five seconds". She began putting on her cloak then and Hashirama stopped her. "Wait!" She slipped into her cloak and waited for him, tapping her long nails against her clothed bicep. "Tobirama undo her seals now!" She smiled with a knowing glint in her eyes at having defeated the shadow king that was Senju Tobirama.

Tobirama glared as he looked down at her and he noted she really was small even standing straight with her shoulders squared perfectly she was still a whole foot smaller than the Senju men, even he was shorter than them but nothing compared to her. What was attractive though was the fact that she didn't seem bothered by that little tidbit at all.

She sighed as her chakra came back to her and quickly he watched as the seals on her disappeared from her wrist and only unmarred ivory skin was left. He really wanted to know how she did that. Was she like Hashirama with special blood or was it something else entirely?

"Now girl, the money". She sighed again. "Give me a week and I'll have your money". He'd caught glimpsed over the years of Tobirama's rage, but never before had he witnessed it until this moment as he grabbed the girl up by her throat and held her there in the air. She didn't struggle instead she hit her fist against his forearms and he let go immediately. "Bitch!" She moved her hand to neck and he watched as the the bruise that had been beginning to form began to disappear just like the seals.

"Your really are a sourpuss". Tobirama then looked over to Hashirama with an incredulous look and Hashirama's mouth was wide open in awe before he fell to the ground laughing.

He knew it, Hashirama was insane. He stood up then and moved carefully towards her, Tobirama glaring at Hashirama who was laughing didn't seem to notice. Her neck turned in his direction and he really got to take in how short she was, he wasn't a tall man by any means, but no Uchiha actually was. "Sakura-san". She inclined her head. "Madara-san".

"You didn't lie to us, you have money, so how do we convince you to share it with us?" "Interesting". She looked him over as she started circling him, like a lion she observed her prey. "You know you could always approach the Uzumaki and Hogoromo clans by yourself with the offer of peace and creating a village, the Senju name would be nice, but if their coffers are empty then sooner or later, the clan will dissemble and use their name to marry into clans that have the means to support them. You've seen this happen, but still you wish to include them ... why?"

He had indeed seen clans tear themselves apart when they came to realize there was no money to go around, he learned that at a young age and had made sure that his own clan would never go hungry and rabid.

"I did not come up with dream on my own, Hashirama, the idiot that's laughing on his ass, dreamt it up alongside me, it would only be fair to include him in on something he helped create". She nodded her head and he realized that indeed she was right, if he had went to the other clans with a peace treaty even the Uzumaki they would surely turn tail on the Senju knowing that they would gain nothing but gain and their wish for trades would only fall through.

He could have defeated the Senju without even having to defeat them in battle but he could have rose up against the Senju by building the perfect village without them and even turned one of their closest allies against them, instead though he'd ignored the rumors that flowed and didn't think twice about betraying his friend in such a way. ... How interesting indeed.

She nodded her head. "Okay, give me a week and you'll have the money then". She turned to leave then and a part of him knew he should stop her but couldn't find it within him to do it, she was going to be back.

Hashirama though was quick in his reflexes as he grabbed her arms and once again grabbed her wrist. "How dare you try to turn people against me!" She tried to pull away then as she saw the chakra in his hands and he grabbed her wrist. "Hashirama she's not a threat". Hashirama had a dark side, and this was it, even he knew that deep down, there was the possibility of everyone turning on him and that brought out a very ugly side that they'd both tried to hide from the rest of the world.

The Senju were the heroes and the Uchiha were the villians, it was a tale as old as time and for his friends sake he'd keep it that way if it meant keeping his friend from falling into the darkness.

Hashirama didn't let go and instead his chakra flared as it was so strong that it felt as if he was being pushed down. Hashirama pushed his chakra into Sakura and she screamed, and he knew that this time there was no way, anyone was going to take off that seal, Hashirama deemed her a threat.

He pushed her away then and she fell to the floor, her face staring at the seals that were once more burned onto her wrist. Hashirama crouched next to her then and she looked up her eyes blazing with that fire that he knew was dangerous. "Don't confuse me for a simple man girl, now tell me where is the money"

She seethed at him "Undo the seals" he shook his head. "You have no control over this situation anymore, now tell me". She glared at him. "Sorry I can't" She pulled down her lower lip and showed the sealing inside her lip. Smart girl. "You can remove the seals now". Hashirama glared.

He sighed they were getting no where, this girl was way too smart to let anyone bully her or torture her to get what they wanted. "How about this". She stood from her spot and pointed at Hashirama. "You" She then turned to him. "And him, can accompany me to where I keep my stash and then you'll unseal me".

"That's too risky" Tobirama spoke up, he agreed it was rather risky, it was possibly she'd set everything up in order to catch them undetected in order to get the heads of the two highest priced heads in the bingo book. She shrugged her shoulders. "Well then, I'll just be on my way to the capital, now that I know the Senju clan is broke, I'm sure the Daimyo will want you to dismantle your clan since you can't afford them".

She was very quick to throw that in the Senju faces, it was as if she knew that it was hurting Hashirama. "Look you can't win this you'll unseal me one way or another and I'd prefer if you unseal me without having me having to go to the Daimyo". Of course Hashirama was most likely hurt at the knowledge that he would be the one that destroyed his own clan by binging on gambling and partying.

He sighed, he couldn't let that happen, Hashirama was not without his flaws despite what other may have thought. "How about a different deal, you accompany us to where you've hidden your money and you accompany us back here and then he'll unseal you". She looked as though she was thinking it over but he could tell she had already made up her mind.

"I suppose that could be worked with". Hashirama spoke up then. "But if this is a trap, I'll make sure you never get that seal off". She glared at him then. "Fine". He knew that if those three continued to glare and bicker amongst each other that it wouldn't work out.

"So where's the stash at". She smiled impishly at him and he knew his heart skipped in his chest at that smile. "Somewhere between Hi no Kuni and the border of Udon no Kuni".

Hashirama looked flabbergasted at her words. "That's more than a weeks travel!" She had dimples and that was impossibly more attractive to him, possibly just as attractive as her green eyes that dances with mirth.

"Well you agreed to it". Yes, yes they had.

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Sorry for the long wait, but somethings had come up like work, lots and lots of work.

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Translations:

Udon no Kuni - Land of Noodles

Kama - Japanese sickle/scythe

Gunbai - War Fan

Godaime Hokage - Fifth Fire Shadow

Shodai Hokage - First Fire Shadow

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu - Shadow Clone Technique

Nakama - Friends

Meisaigakure no Jutu - Hiding with Camouflage Technique

Henge no Jutsu - Transformation Technique

Mizu no Kuni - Land of Water

Hōrō-sha - The Wanderer

Hakke no Fui Shiki - Eight Trigrams Sealing Style

Tensei Ninjutsu - Life Transfer Techniques or Reincarnation Ninja Techniques

Shimo no Kuni - Land of Frost

Kaminari no Kuni - Land of Lightening

Hi no Kuni - Land of Fire

Tetsu no Kuni - Land of Iron

Sora-Ku - Sky Ward

Ninso - Ninja Monk

- Aethi