"You don´t have to order that woman to be around me every second, you know" said Madara, crossing his arms. "I can take care of myself!"

"Yes, but… you aren´t as strong as always" tried to make him understand Hashirama, but his lover was behaving like a stubborn child. Now he did see who was responsible for Byakuya´s storm of a temper. The raven was trying to argue when Maki entered to the room, sleepy from her nap and sneezed a bit. Her mother went into a fit, asking her if she was alright and demanding for her father to check her up. After the medical examination finished, the Hokage finally was able to calm his distressed partner. "She just got a little cold, there is nothing to worry about"

"Thank God…"

"Why did you get so upset because of a cough?"

"Well… it´s kind of a secret, but…" Madara was not sure if he should tell, but he was the father of his children, so he has a right to know. "Okay, in the Uchiha clan there is a disease that degenerates the respiratory system over time and causes death. My brother Haruka died because of that, he was sent to battle and couldn´t fend for himself while drowning in…"

"It´s okay" he patted the other´s back. "It´s going to be okay. I haven´t seen many sick Uchihas, so it must not be a dominant trait. And with my Senju genes our children will be alright" the brunette caressed the other´s belly, that was starting to show. "Everything is going to be alright."

"What if it isn´t?"

"Believe me, they are okay" they sat down. "And don´t stress yourself, you need to stay calm for this little one to be good."

"Yes, but…"

"I´m going to make some tea and Tokka left us some dinner…"

"I´m tired of those woman´s meals" said the Uchiha. Last time his lover´s cousin made him something to eat, the food was disgusting to say in one way. According to her, it was recipe her mother taught to her and was supposed to be special for pregnant women, very healthy… after eating it he began to wonder if the nutrient value made up for the flavor, because he was sure no sane person will eat that if they could avoid it.

"Come on, it can´t be that bad" the Senju spend a whole hour after dinner dry heaving. "Okay, that was awful, why did she cooked that?"

"Well, according to the matriarchs in your clan, there are some foods that had be eaten when expecting… As if pregnancy and labor wasn´t enough torment."

"You consider it a torment?"

"Try to go through hours of excruciating pain, one that you can´t stop no matter what and then having a baby passing through a very little channel between your legs, so little that you feel like you are splitting in two" he gave the other a nasty glare. "The outcome is the only good part"

"Yes, she is beautiful and this…" he caressed the tiny belly again "will be strong"

"You still think it´s going to be a boy?"

"Yep! And his name will be Byakuya!"

"Byakuya? I don´t know, I kind of like to decide my children´s names the moment they are born" he put a hand on his belly.

"I think you are going to like it"

"And talking about white things, where is that bastard brother of yours?" the raven took a bite of the chocolate ice cream his lover prepared him. "Where did you sent him?"

"Remember the creature that attacked you some months ago?"

"How could I forget it?"

"I sent him and the redhead of hell after it"

-In another place-

"I can´t believe it" said Tobirama. Months chasing that Zetsu thing across the shinobi countries and his lair was actually so close to Konoha… Mito and the other members of his team, besides him, were eyeing the place in suspicious. "He is here"

"We should get inside and beat him already" the princess was eager to return, because, hell, who knew what her husband was doing with that Uchiha whore? She was certain they weren´t just setting up the nursery for their new little monster. "Let´s go"

"Wait, Mito…"

"Look, Tobirama" she said in an authoritative tone. "I want to go back and I´m sure they do too" she signaled the men in their team. "But we couldn´t until this mission is over, so with the target on sight we should just finish it off"

"Mito, it isn´t…"

"It is going to be easy! Now go!" she showed the man out of her way and ran towards the entrance of the cave. The albino sighed and followed her along with his team, to protect her, but once inside, things started to get nasty. The black goo after many tries managed to unlock some white zetsus after stealing some of the two transmigrants DNA. They were very few, but still managed to make troubles and activate a trap to kill their attackers. Mito screamed and fled, leaving the others behind. She reached the cave´s entrance just in time for it to collapse. She thought the rest of her team was dead and went back to Konoha.

"What a woman" spat Tobirama, holding appearing with his injured team outside thanks to knife he prepared if there was need. "Now I know why Hashirama wants to get rid of her!"

"I agree with Hokage-sama"

"Yes, me too" each at their turn, the other shinobi agreed.

"Well, I will take this back to the council, I´m sure there is going to be a punishment for this" the angered albino took his knife out of the tree trunk. "Touch me again, I will take you back to Konoha to treat your injuries."

"Okay…"

-Meanwhile in the village-

Hashirama was walking from his lover´s home to the Hokage tower when a ball nearly collided with him. The skills of years of battling made him catch the flying object, that was easy enough. The difficult thing was to get rid of the Uchiha children that now were surrounding him. One of them let out a cough that alarmed him a little after what their clan leader have told him.

"Are you okay?" he asked politely.

"Yes" answered the child. "I just happen to have a little weak lungs. Healer says I will grow out of it soon!"

"Yes? let me see" he used his healing jutsu to scan his respiratory system and his eyes widened immediately. It was slight, but there were definitely signs of degeneration in the tissues.

"Taichi! What are you doing?!" a woman yelled near them. The kid´s parents were approaching. "Stop troubling Hokage-sama and…"

"Madam, you should take your son to the hospital immediately. He is really sick" he warned. The kid looked at his parents with confusion, but they didn´t say any other word and immediately rushed him to the hospital. There the healers from other clans took a look at him and diagnosed poor Taichi with a degenerative disease that without treatment will kill him in a few years. The Uchihas cannot believe those news.

"Is he on the Academy?" asked one of the medics. Hashirama, that stayed there just in case they need guidance, waited until the parents nodded. "You need to withdrawn him."

"What?!" asked the Hokage. He did that to help the kid, not to take something from him. "Why would he need to leave the Academy?"

"Because shinobi couldn´t have this kind of disease" the medic started. "It´s bound to incapacitate him on the battlefield, causing an early and unnecessary demise. Apart that he is going to need constant medical attention for all his life…"

"Incapacitate him in the battlefield?" asked the father, who was called Taiga. "Now that I remember, Tajima-sama got really angry at the council after the death of his eldest, Haruka-sama. He died because of a coughing fit in the battle, I was there" his eyes widened. "Don´t tell me… Madara-sama told you something, Hokage-sama?"

"No" he quickly answered.

"But you were at his home last night"

"Yes, we played poker" he threw the excuse. "But he didn´t tell me about the disease. I asked about his reunions with the clan council… they were making my brother paranoid… but he just answered that he was having a little bit of trouble form them, but he could sort this out on his own. And there was this time he freaked because one child of your clan had a coughing fit…"

"Maybe this was the problem" the doctor, who was a Senju, said. "From what I see there is a great possibility that this disease was hereditary. Then Tobirama-sama would be wrong too, Madara-sama wasn´t planning a coup, he was just arguing with the elders for hiding such a problem from the public."

"Doctor… how many of our clan members could be affected?" asked Taiga.

"I don´t know, I need to make a scan…" Taiga walked towards the door. "Where are you going?"

"Anata…"

"Susume, stay here with our son and make sure he starts his treatment" the man sad with a cold voice. "I will talk with the others. It´s time for the elders to start telling the truth…"

-In the entrance, the next day-

"Here we are!" said Tobirama, satisfied. He let the other two shinobi in the care of hospital personnel and went to the Hokage Tower. There he found his brother rubbing his temples and looking towards the Uchiha compound. "What happened? Those bastards made a coup? Is Madara behind it like I told he will be?"

"What? No, they are angry… but at their elders" Hashirama made sour face and started explaining the current situation. "It´s been a pain"

"Indeed, but not for you" the albino crossed his arms. He didn´t like it when he was wrong, but it does make sense that Madara was fighting with his council over a problem like this, more if one of his brothers died because of it. "Let them solve it themselves"

"The problem that is currently making my head ache is that the doctors want me to remove the affected from the shinobi system."

"A wise choice"

"You don´t see it? I will ruin their lives!"

"Stop being melodramatic, you are saving them! They can´t be sent into the battlefield with an ailment like that!" he looked at the papers on his brother´s desk. "How many of them have this sickness?"

"It´s very rare, even between them. Out of the hundred or more Uchihas, only ten were found positive, three of them academy kids"

"They can´t continue" shook his head the younger Senju. "That will surely kill them"

"They want to become shinobi… and the Uchihas could react badly to that measure"

"I don´t think so" frowned his brother. Then something came to his mind. "By the way, how did the bastard reacted? And how did you find out if he didn´t tell you?"

"Well, finding it was easy when you see how much he freaked out when someone from his clan had a cough" Tobirama nodded. Yes, that would ring the alarm bells even in his idiotic brother´s mind. "And he was very pleased with the public release of the problem… but not with the consequences of it"

"I can imagine" what he was imagining in that moment was a freaking Madara, remembering Haruka drowning on the battlefield. "Talking about problems, I came bringing the solution to one: Mito"

"What about her?"

"I have something about her that could get her court martialed and divorced without losing the alliance we need with her home village"

"Do tell me"

-In another time-

Tsunade was seeing her younger self preparing herself for a mission. As she was still a genin, it was not a difficult mission, but it could get complicated. Older Orochimaru and Mitsuki weren´t going, as the older for some reason didn´t want his son close to Jiraiya and the youngest still had the scroll with the Twins jutsu, so they stayed with it as an excuse.

"I can´t believe him" she commented.

"Mitsuki is a great boy, we go along great! why didn´t Orochimaru let me near him?"

"Older Jiraiya w… is a bad example that peeks on girls on bathhouses and writes porno books that every kunoichi despises…"

"Okay, don´t give more information. Let´s go" Sarutobi ordered and they went away. Very soon into the assignment things started to get complicated for them. They were attacked by enemy ninja and quickly separated. The younger blond was surrounded by at least three jounins that were eager to kill the Shodaime´s granddaughter. The first one attacked… and it happened. Suddenly her eyes could see everything. It was very strange. She killed the man with ease. Hiruzen killed the last two men and ran by his student´s side.

"Oh, God" he said, recognizing the change.

"What is it… everything is so strange…"

"Tsunade-chan, please calm down" he patted her hair until her breathing got back to normal and her eyes too. Orochimaru and Jiraiya arrived at that moment, very worried and confused. "Tsunade just awoke Sharingan."

"But… wasn´t this supposed to happen much later?" asked the white haired child.

"Yes" answered the older version of her. "Time is changing, things are changing, for the best or the worst"

"If that´s happening…" the jounin´s expression turned serious. "You have to tell us everything, Tsunade"

"What are you talking about, sensei?"

"I have been investigating" he admitted. "I wanted, for Tsunade´s sake, to know the name of Hashirama-sama´s lover, but I found nothing about him being close to any kunoichi or civilian woman of the Uchiha clan. At first I thought it was because the woman wasn´t a great ninja or her abilities were too poor to keep her alive for much, but I found nothing." He sighed "I´m starting to think that I might be mistaken, that she was a powerful person and there might have been… problems with the Shodaime and the village."

"You wouldn´t believe me if I tell you…"

"Please" said the younger Tsunade. "I want to know the truth"

"Okay… but promise me you won´t tell anyone, specially the Hokage!" Hiruzen raised and eyebrow and tried to argue, but the woman was adamant. He finally promised and she answered the question. "It´s Uchiha Madara"

"No way!" answered the future Sandaime in a shock. They all looked at him and he proceeded to explain. "Madara was a man, it was impo…" he remembered the older Orochimaru and had to rethink his argument. "Madara tried to kill Lady Maki once…"

"According to who?"

"To Mito-hime… don´t tell me" me understood.

"Yes, SHE tried to kill my mother and then blamed him, who tried to save her"

"And why did he killed Lady Maki´s youn…" Hiruzen remembered Madara´s two sons that appeared right when Pochiri and Ahou disappeared. "They just moved with their mother and changed their names, no?"

"Yes… and I have to say that they weren´t bad people, they just got feed up with the hypocrisy and hate of the people. Hell, they even got angry at their father for not protecting them."

"What happened in the Valley of End?"

"Madara decided to leave along with his children… all of them. Hashirama wasn´t willing to renounce to the only child he was allowed to keep, even if he had to keep lying to her his whole life" she lowered her head. "Madara wasn´t going to leave his daughter without a fight so… it ended how it ended" a pause was made. "Can you believe it? That epic clash and it wasn´t about the village, it wasn´t about destruction, it was about a girl who didn´t knew her parents were trying to kill each other over her"

"Tsunade, is Madara really dead?"

"No, he is alive… somewhere, but he has lost nearly everything"

So what do you think? What should happen when Hashi tells Tobi? And with Madara´s future in the time Tsunade ended up? What should I write? Review!