Madara sighed in relief as he lead his group of Uchiha out of the compound . He left Sasuke with Lady kikyo and prayed that the kid doesn't try to run away.
Madara the Outguard Head, leading five other Uchiha's to meet with the SENJU leaders in what is called now konoha, or the beginning of konoha , Hashirama had confirmed that he and his brother will be there waiting for them . he was enjoying the peace while outside the compound… no flames… no screaming child to chase after… no trying to calm the elders after his son insults them … no reluctant brat to try and force into the bath. He didn't understand the brat's aversion to warm water. They were a fire-natured clan for a reason.
He glanced to his left, at Haku who was carrying a large bag full of their supplies on his back. it was a one day travel to reach konoha and they didn't need that much of supplies, so why would Haku bring all of that? and the bag was mov— Madara blinked. The bag was moving? A shudder ran down his spine.
Raven hair was the first thing he saw as the bag popped open, stomach clenching at the smaller version of his face that appeared. "So where are we going then?" Sasuke asked, looking eagerly over at him, a smug grin pulling at his lips as he got out of the bag "
"Sasuke !"Madara hissed, vein in his forehead throbbing. "What are you doing?!"
"Just chilling out in this bag, why?"
"DON'T try to play with me brat !" he snarled,
"You're supposed to be with kikyo in the compound…"
Haku had already moved away from the danger zone.
"you're going back to the compound right now kid ," Madara ordered, looming over him, hands on hips, restraining his killing
intent as best he could
One black eyebrow rose. "And if I don't?"
Madara grabbed Sasuke by his shirt like a naughty kitten, his legs dangling in mid-air as he held him above the ground – the drop a perilous height. Well, perilous for any other brat aside from the genius little monster child he has , Madara mused. "We're returning to the compound."
Sasuke pouted. "But I wanna see Naruto"
One finger levelled at his face. "NO. You're going back, your Uzumaki friend won't be there anyway "
"And how do you know that Mr I know everything"
The men standing behind madara chuckled and was rewarded by a deadly glare from madara
" Tobirama will never agree on bringing him, we will be working not babysitting"
"Hn." Sasuke scowled. "Tell you what , if you let me come along with you l'll be quite, you won't even notice my existence"
Okay now it was time for Sasuke to use his acting skills and hope that this madara has a soft heart unlike the future one
Large eyes watered, big pools of black staring pleadingly up into the narrowed matching ones. His lower lip quivered, and his face spasmed. " please ?"
Scowling madara turned away, pinching the bridge of his nose in exasperation.
" There's no way your going back to the compound is there? "
" None whatsoever " The tiniest smirk pulled at edge of kid lips
"Fine. FINE. You can come along , damn it " he muttered. "BUT…" He swivelled back, tucking him under his arm, tightening his grip on him so he couldn't slip away "You are going to apologize to my uncle when we get back "
"I changed my mind," Sasuke said almost instantly. "Can we go back to the compound?"
"No"
"That old man doesn't really love you, you know"
Madara glared at his son " the old man you're talking about is my uncle, and you don't have the right to talk about elders"
" I was just telling you"
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"Madara!" Hashirama waved him over. "Glad you could make it—Wait…" He peered closer at him.
"Are you courting someone ?"
Madara sputtered. "What the hell are you going on about Hashirama?" he asked, ignoring Tobirama who looked angry and tired
"Your face looks brighter, happier, you know less stressed. it's like you're... With someone "
He said with a smirk
"Hashiramaaaa!" Madara hissed, taking a deep breath, composing himself abruptly, one hand mussing in the spiky dark locks of his son who sat next to him primly.
"What's wrong with your brother? "
" Oh. He... "
Tobirama's glare stopped him from continuing
" don't mind him, we're not here for that "
"Oh, Naru-chan is playing outside. Mito's keeping an eye on him " Hashirama
said, waving towards the screen doors that led to the engawa and down into the garden. "Sasuke chan probably wants to go and play ?"
" yes " Sasuke said simply
Madara nodded his approval , watching as Sasuke run out . Children were oddly cute, especially when they were Uchiha's, when they were miniature version of him.
" aww, you're so found of him arn't you madara"
Madara's face turned a faint shade of pink
" hin"
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Naruto wasn't expecting Sasuke, but as soon as he saw him, he run and hugged him
"Sasuke teme I missed you"
" get off me dobe"
The blonde ignored the comment and asked
" So how's that monster treating you?"
" who?"
" Madara of course, isn't obvious? "
" Oh, nothing that I can't deal with"
" can we prank him while you're here ? You won't believe what I did to tobirama "
" seriously Naruto! What are you a seven year old!"
Naruto looked at himself " well yeah, I feel like I am "
" wake up dobe, we'r not kids, I'm thinking about a way to go home and you're thinking about pranking people, you're useless "
" calm down, I'v been working on a way to get home too, it's not like I spend the whole week pranking tobirama, I was just enjoying the little bit of peace before going back home "
Sasuke looked at his blonde friend eyes , he can understand, actually he too was enjoying the peace time, he too felt free, like a child again, he too wanted to live a little of the life that was stolen from him
" So, what you've benn doing aside from pranking the second hokage "
" well, I found nothing on time traveling jutsue in the SENJU library , I only found some of tobirama's work on time scape jutsue, nothing useful till now, but I found out that he used the Uzumaki library to create his time scape jutsue, so we should probably look there "
Sasuke simply nodded, the library that was a smart move from Naruto
" how about you, what have you been doing?"
Sasuke hesitate, he wasn't going to tell the blonde that he's been running around the compound, enjoying his time with his clan
" I'v been training and... "
" and? "
" and trying to understand madara, he's the key to stop the future war from happening"
" woah, I didn't think of that, that's smart teme"
"hin"
" can we still prank him though"
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Thanks for reading guys, I really appreciate your comments, they encourage me to continue
I'm so sorry about the mistakes though, English isn't my native language
So about the dream suggestion, I'm going to use your idea guys in the next chapters, if you have any other idea please write it and thanks again ️