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Chapter 3: You Are Immortal Too?
Song of the Chapter:
Can't Get Over You – Groove Coverage
Reason: The attempts to get over each cause Madara and Akemi Uchiha to develop their alternate personality – Tobi and Minori Shokumotsu
Minori felt a finger touch her face and immediately sat up while grabbing the mysterious hand in front of her. The chuckling that followed did not reassure her as she forgot all about her façade and after some shifting, pinned the mysterious person to the bed that she was lying in seconds ago. She did not have a kunai or any weapon so to pin the mysterious ninja, she straddled him and glared at him, eyes emitting killer intent. The masked man merely chuckled. "Akemi-chan missed Tobi that much?"
Her eyes narrowed. Not good not good… "Tobi… the fuck?" He laughed and covered her mouth.
"Tobi didn't know that Akemi-chan cursed unless it is Minori-chan who is cussing." She felt Tobi's legs curl around her and she was pinned back onto the bed. Her onyx eyes flashed threateningly.
"How do you know about Akemi?" She growled and the masked man laughed again. He leaned his head down close to her head and blew air at her eyes. Her eyes widened as her pulse raced. It cannot be…
Tobi took off his mask but with the way Minori was pinned, she could not see him. He smirked and spoke in her ears. "Surely you have not forgotten me my precious Akemi-chan…"
Her eyes softened and she smiled. "Madara-kun… You are alive." He turned his head to kiss her cheek and got off of her. She looked at him and gasped. "You look like you have not aged a day…" Her hand reached to gently stroke his face and Madara leaned into her touch.
His eyes, alight with Sharingan captured her dark gaze. "I could say the same of you. I did not know you had the Mangekyo Sharingan yet alone the Eternal version." She sighed and dropped her hand. He held her hands with his own and kissed her cheek.
"It is something I would rather not talk about." She turned away from him and shivered. He wrapped his arms around her and used his finger to lift up her chin so that she faced him.
"Before I fought the First Hokage, how long have you had the Mangekyo Sharingan?"
She gazed into his arms and she gave a small smile in defeat. "Well… about a year after the negotiations between the two halves of the Uchiha clan started…"
Flashback
Akemi ran a hand through her long black hair. Negotiations with Madara were not going anywhere and everyone knew it but yet he would constantly send messengers to her wondering when the next War-Peace negotiation meeting would be. She groaned seeing the shadow of yet another messenger behind her door. The rest of the Peace Committee was going to love this… "Yes?"
The young messenger opened the door and threw himself down at her feet. She sighed and motioned for him to get up. "Akemi-sama, this message is from Madara-sama. He wishes to have more negotiations." She rolled her eyes and held her hand out for the scroll. The young lad passed it over to her and she smiled.
"You do not have to be nervous. I promise I will not bite." He laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head.
"Madara-sama tells us to show you the upmost respect Akemi-sama." She raised an eyebrow in the middle of reading Madara's elegant script.
"Why? I know that he cares not for the Peace Committee as we are all against his plans." She reached for an ink bottle and brush and with her left hand; long skinny script soon accompanied Madara's. Afterwards, she resealed the scroll and bit her thumb to place her own seal on the scroll. She handed the scroll back to the young man with a smile. "If you are so scared to see me, you do not have to come all this way."
The young man shook his head. "It is not that Akemi-sama. It is just there are so many tensions between the War and Peace Committees that this and Madara-sama's office are the only places were calamity exists." She laughed before standing up and walking towards her hair brush.
"Calamity around Madara-sama? Surely hell has not frozen over? You best be on your way young Uchiha before he begins to wonder why you dawdle." He saluted and stepped out. Just as she began to brush her hair, another knock was at her down. Her eyes narrowed feeling the intent of the person behind that door. It was odd for someone in the Peace Committee to be able to sense intent merely by chakra, but nonetheless she took pride in her abilities no matter how much she hid them. "Yes?"
The door opened to reveal her best friend, Megumi. They both grew up in the Peace Committee and shared many secrets but to hold such intent in her small chakra made Akemi suspicious. "Akemi-chan, you and I know that your meetings with Madara-sama is going nowhere." Akemi bit her lip and looked at her normally quiet friend. She was fiddling with the stick that held the bun in her hair up more than usual and her eyes stared anywhere but at her friend.
"Megumi-chan, if you want to kill me, you have to learn how to hide your killing intent better than that." She sighed and stood up to stare her friend in the eye. Akemi activated the Sharingan in her eyes which was yet another trait that was odd for the more peaceful Uchihas to obtain and advanced on her friend. Her best friend bit her lip but refused to back down from the mission given to her by the rest of the Peace Committee. She grasped the stick that held her bun together and upon throwing it at Akemi, it burst into thousands of senbon. Akemi's eyes tracked the movement of the senbon and avoided every single needle. Megumi gasped as Akemi was behind her and held a senbon to her throat.
"Madara-sama would not like it very much if the only person keeping the two sides of the clan from conflicting suddenly died, eh?" Megumi's eyes were wide in fear but Akemi's had hardened from the very moment she felt the killing intent. Akemi did not flinch as she easily pierced her friend's heart but she felt something like tears leak from her eyes. Walking away from the dead body, she lifted up her hand mirror and saw the bloody tears. She wiped them away and looked for a kimono to dress in. Looking at Megumi's body, she shook her head as she brought it to her courtyard and using a technique she had witnessed Madara used, incinerated the body.
When her brother came outside upon smelling the smoke, she merely muttered that a Rock shinobi had tried to break in the compound and he swallowed the lie without noticing how her eyes had changed. She blinked and then her eyes returned to normal as she headed towards the meeting place.
End Flashback
Madara looked down at the woman in his arms and sighed. "So you had the Mangekyo when that little interclan disagreement occurred? We were eighteen were we not?"
She nodded and rested her head in the crook between his shoulder and neck. "Yeah; I believe you had the Eternal by that time." He nodded and she breathed in the piney scent of his hair. "I missed you so much. After that final battle, I thought I saw you but when I went towards the shadow, you were not there anymore." He kissed her forehead and looked at her.
"I thought you had died in the conflict. When I saw you, I thought it was the First Hokage trying to play a trick against me." A couple of tears threatened to overflow when he rubbed them away. "Anyway, you need to come out as Minori. They cannot know the real you as they do not know the real me." He put the Tobi mask on and grabbed her hands happily. "Come on Minori-chan. Tobi is a good boy!"
Her eyes narrowed and she snapped. "Get the hell away from me Tobi or you are going to be castrated." Behind his mask, he shook and ran away being chased by the chef who had managed to sneak a kunai out of Tobi's weapon pouch.
"Tobi doesn't want to be hurt by Minori-chan!" He shouted through the hallway. He ducked around a corner but when Minori followed, she crashed into someone. Tobi stopped and looked around. "Uh oh…"
"WHO THE FUCK RAN INTO ME?" Hidan and Minori shouted at the same time. Hidan calmed down seeing the black haired woman.
"Why hello there…" She furrowed her brows and stood up dusting herself off. "My name is Hidan."
"Minori Shokumotsu. Chef." She allowed her hand to be shaken and was slightly annoyed when he kissed her hand. She smirked sensing a jealous aura from Tobi.
"Get back here Tobi; I have to pay you back for that rude awakening." He dashed off once again and Hidan roared in laughter watching her chase him. After being chased to the living room, he stopped and Minori crashed into him. Deidara and Sasori were in the middle of another artist argument but stopped hearing the crash. "You little shit! You don't just stop in hallways when being pursued."
Deidara laughed and helped her up. "You are interesting like Kisame mentioned, un." Minori raised a raven eyebrow and looked at them. Sasori walked towards her and surveyed her in interest.
"So… you are the new subordinate." She shrugged and tried to walk away when the puppet master's chakra strings held her in place. A flash of red coursed through her eyes but was gone again.
"Let me go…" Tobi back up feeling a sudden rise in killing intent in the room but behind the brightly colored orange mask, he smirked.
Akemi-chan with you by my side, everything will fall into place.