"… Hashirama wants to name it Byakuya, but the name don´t ring any bells for me. And we don´t even know if it´s really a boy this time, it could be another girl…" Madara continued with his tirade, making the veins in Tobirama´s forehead pop out. Since his brother told him his secrets (under Tokka´s watchful eyes and a lot of jamming on his ribs) his life turned a lot more stressful. Now he was forced to help the other two to take care of Maki, her mother and the future baby. It was needed to say the two males hated each other, but the baby made it impossible for them to fight, so they just swallowed down their wishes to go into a fistfight and try to annoy the other at the best of their capacity. The albino greeted his teeth, remembering when he found out…
-Flashback-
"I… eh… Tokka-san, do I really have to do this?" asked Hashirama, not very convinced on what he was about to do. His cousin has the best of intentions, but Tobirama was… not very found of Uchihas to say the less offensive thing.
"Yes" the Senju woman stated, giving her clan head a significant look.
"Just tell me whatever that you have to tell me" the albino crossed his arms, not liking the path this was following.
"I… hum… remember the rumors about me having a lover? Well, they are truth and…"
"Don´t tell me you indeed get her pregnant" Tobirama rolled his eyes, another stupid mistake from his brother he needed to fix. Well, it was no big deal, he was confident that the woman would be reasonable under the… right circumstances.
"The big deal is" Hashirama continued under the glare of Tokka. "That my lover is Maki´s mother too" Tobirama´s eyes opened wide. "I know you are mad at me because I lied to you, but I didn´t have a choice! And before you start yelling, Mito can´t have children because of a birth disease, so we had a deal…"
"Wait, she can´t have children? Why didn´t you tell me before?"
"She blackmailed me to keep my mouth shut…"
"But even like that you should have talked to me!" the younger Senju grunted. Great, now things were getting complicated. He was going to have a serious talk with his aniya and his secret girlfriend, so she knew what was expected of her from now on, as a mother and as the wife of the Hokage. "I could have gotten you divorced in five seconds, no matter what she used to…"
"Calm down, Tobi-nii san, and let Hashi-nii finish"
"Don´t interrupt us, Tokka"
"Excuse me, but I have been the one that helped nii-san to take care of his…" she shut up before she can say something that turned the albino´s humor into the worst. "It will be better if you explain this"
"Thank you for dumping the problem on me" Hashirama sighed, knowing that there was no way to escape this. "Tobirama, come closer" the younger Senju did. "Closer…" they repeated this until the blue armored brother was close enough for the Hokage to whisper on his ear.
"WHAT?!" the scream could be heard in Iwagakure. The future second Hokage ran at a speed that he tought was impossible without his Hiraishin no jutsu and arrived at Madara´s home, breaking said man´s front door. The Uchiha, who was in the kitchen at that time approached to him with anger, only for the other to position a hand on his midsection, feeling the chakra. He hyperventilated, yes there was definitely something that wasn´t there before, a complete new chakra system… "My brother… and you… and this… how…" then he fainted. When Tobirama woke up, there were more voices in the room.
"He came to my house! To my HOUSE! What exactly did you tell him?!" it was the raven´s voice, sounding a bit stressed up.
"Everything, so he could help us to…"
"I want no help from him!"
"Hey, everybody calm down!" interrupted Tokka, breaking the imminent fight. "Hashi nii-san, you have other problems to solve" she pointed at him, clearly noticing that he was up. "And Madara-sama, haven´t I told you about the importance of staying calm and relaxed when pregnant? Stress is no good for the baby!"
"It´s not my fault, he broke down my door!"
"Hashi nii-san will fix it, now calm down" she instructed. The Uchiha was about to retort, no Senju was giving him orders, when she looked at him with a bad face. "If you want to keep fighting, I will have to tell you that stress during pregnancy causes a sickness and that the only medicine I know that works tastes worst than my cooking" he shut his mouth. "Better"
"I will go upstairs to see Maki" excused himself the raven. "And when dinner is ready I want to see that door repaired"
"Okay…" Hashirama waited until his lover was out of the room and his brother recovered enough to grab him and run towards the woods. Once there he let go of Tobirama, who was about to scream. The younger Senju let go a list of swear words so big that the Hokage was sure he invented some of them just to curse at him. "Have you finished?" asked the brunette when his brother finally quiet down.
"Hum…" the albino has just lost his voice because of the hours screaming, but he was going to be fine soon.
"Now listen to me, I don´t know exactly how this happened, but it happened and, believe it or not, is a blessing" his brother wanted to answer, but his throat didn´t let him. "I know this is probably the worst thing for you, but I need your help. We need to take care of Madara and the baby. Tokka is already helping but… can you help too?"
-End of the flashback-
He grunted. Of course, leave it to his brother to make him do something he didn´t want. He was even forced to endure this hormonal Uchiha, that found pleasure in torturing him with his long tirades about baby names, his discordances with his brother about colors for the nursery, mood swings and other meaningless things that were annihilating his patience.
"… and I told him…"
"I don´t care" finally blew up the Senju. "If my brother wants to name his son Byakuya, then it will be named Byakuya! The mother has no say in important matters like this!"
"You damn Senju…"
"Stop! Don´t fight" interrupted them Maki, entering to the room with a wooden spoon in her hand. It was something she learned from Tokka. The first few times they stayed together, the female Senju did the same so they didn´t overstep their limits. But it was no easy, counting with the hate both men had towards each other. And since most of the time she was in the kitchen trying to make healthy dishes so the Uchiha had something to eat when hungry (something that was not the dango he always craved), and took the habit of hitting them with a wooden spoon when a fight was about to break. The little girl was quick to pick that trait from the older female and now was the one that keep them calm.
"You know, we should be grateful the only female she didn´t pick something from was Mito-teme"
-Flashback-
Mito arrived at the village, where she was expected by a very angry council of Senju elders and her even angrier father. She then found out Tobirama managed to survive the collapse of the cave along with his team, she froze. Now they were accusing her of cowardice in front of an enemy and practically forcing her to sign the divorce papers. The smug look on Hashirama´s face only made things worse. When the Uzumaki princess was taken back to Uzushiogakure, the albino followed the carriage just to make sure they were really leaving. In the middle of the way, he saw something that he didn´t like.
"Out" said the Uzumaki patriarch.
"What?!"
"Out!" he threw his daughter out of the car.
"Father, why are you doing this?!"
"I told you not to mess it up again, girl! And don´t call me that, you are not my daughter anymore!" he said completely enraged. "A daughter of mine wouldn´t be so stupid as to lose a good husband! This moment I banish you from the clan so you won´t mess our honor" he closed the door and left. The former princess stayed there, crying, until he left.
-End of the flashback-
-In another part-
Mito has to say she expected her banishment from her clan a little bit worse, but… thanks to Zetsu it wasn´t. Her new friend was definitely making things easier for her, teaching her things and behaving like the best host. For his part the plant man was doing everything he could to keep the redhead content, so he could user her for his plans. It easier to say than done, because that woman was even more self centered than Kaguya herself.
"You know, Zetsu, I wish I could make my ex husband pay for what he did to me…" she said with dreamy eyes.
"And why don´t you do it?" he asked. The Will of the Rabbit Goddess was very pleased with this development, as it will speed up his plans. At first he was planning to use the Indra transmigrant to be the vessel of his Mother, but then the Asura transmigrant ruined everything, fixing up the things between them. Now he came out with a new plan, using the child they were about to have for the same thing. "If you take away their baby, their world will fall apart…"
"Their baby? Why would I want another baby from them? I had enough with Maki, thank you"
"I didn´t suggest you to keep it, I just told you to take it away" the woman caught the message and started approaching. "I can say it will be a great revenge, as they took away from you all you ever dreamed"
"And I will take away the thing they love the most" she approached him. "You are a genius, my friend, a true genius" she dance-walked to the Gedou Mazou. "I will have to plan this very carefully. It´s a good thing I know everything about the village´s security measures and shinobi"
"Yes" the black goo smiled. It was not as if he needed what she could provide, but it was a very good development. His Mother would only need to wait a few more years…
-In another time-
"I hope you know what you are doing" said Kakashi, opening the cage his former ANBU subordinate Tenzou made.
"Of course I do, Bakakashi, I won´t do it if I don´t" answered Obito, about to enter the wood structure covered in seals that will be his transport. "I hope your student could really take care of Rin, because if my baby has one scratch when I´m back…"
"I got it, don´t worry" the Uchiha entered the cage and Tenzou closed the door. Asuma and Gai nodded and the little party left the village. Some other shinobi joined them, serious and less informed. They all believed that they were transporting a highly dangerous S-class missing nin, not setting a trap for Sasuke.
In another part, the last Uchiha was watching carefully with his Sharingan the road towards Hozukijo, the one that Konoha will use to transport Obito… Obito, his brother´s accomplice in crime, the killer of his clan… he didn´t know what else to say. Just saying his name made him feel sick. He remembered when he read the article in the newspaper, at first he couldn't believe it, he has only seen his brother that night… but it could explain a lot of things. And when he finally stopped throwing shuriken and kunai to the photo in the article, he started making up plans to snatch that shinobi from the hands of Konoha and made him spat Itachi´s secrets before killing him. In that moment he saw the Konoha patrol.
"Do you remember when sensei´s sensei made us peep on women in the bathhouse, Bakakashi?" Obito was bored and after so much time of being Tobi, it was the way he cope with boredom.
"Yes, I do, Obito"
"Don´t let him distract you, Kakashi-san" get into Izumo. "I understand he is in old friend of yours, but he isn´t the one you remember anymore. He is dangerous…"
"Yes, I read the report"
"Wait a minute, he is missing an eye!" finally noticed Kotetsu, approaching the cage. "Is he the Uchiha you got your Sharingan off, Kakashi-san?"
"Yes, he is…"
"And he is…"
"History" finished Sasuke, attacking with a genjutsu, the cage felt to the ground, making Obito grunt in pain. He looked up and saw the brat with a sword in his hand, pointing at him. "We have some things to talk about"
"I don´t think so" but anyway, he was on a cage that was not supposed to be open… until a little bit later. Now he act well. "I know what you want from me, you probably are all about… hum… were is my nii-sama?! Like a little baby, but I´m not going to tell you."
"Where is Itachi and his daughters?" Sasuke said, moving the cage and accidentally removing the special seal.
"I would answer you, but… I´m a time space travelling specialist so… ciao" he used kamui to disappear. Kakashi got up and lifted his headband, showing his Mangekyo Sharingan.
"You gave me your power, Obito" he said, loud enough for his former student to hear. Sasuke immediately got interested in the Hatake, moving to get closer. Kakashi activated the Kamui to follow his friend, swallowing himself and Sasuke in the technique. Once inside the Uchiha looked around with his Sharingan activated, searching for his clansmen. "Sasuke, haven´t I taught you anything?" spoke Kakashi. "You should know better than to enter an enemy´s territory without knowing it"
"He is just as rushed as me when I was his age" said Obito, appearing from behind. Sasuke didn´t have time to react, as both older ninja attacked different pressure points and knocked him out. "It never got me anywhere good"
"Good you learned" they appeared again at the clearing where the other shinobi were waking up. "We should go back before Akatsuki noticed what happened here."
-In Akatsuki lair-
"Why are we all here?" asked Tsubaki, taking her mother´s place in the Akatsuki reunion. The first few days of treatment against Itachi´s illness were the worst, he couldn´t get out of bed much, but now he was coughing less and if he did there was no blood.
"We learned that Obito is collaborating with Konoha and that he helped to capture Sasuke Uchiha. I think we should take another look… Kisame" Pein turned to see the older Hoshigaki. "Is Itachi better?"
"He still needs time to recover" answered the shark, his smirk not falling for a second. The girl has to admire her father´s ability to not show any emotion, it was something she hasn´t mastered yet
"That´s bad, then I will assign you…"
"With all due respect, Sir Leader" she got in. "I can take my mother´s place in this mission. I´m strong enough to defeat whoever that crossed my way"
"I know that, but wouldn´t you prefer to stay and take care of him?"
"Kazumi nee-san can do that while we are not here. I´m confident in her ability to keep someone alive on her own"
"Alright then. Kisame and Tsubaki Hoshigaki, I order you to go to Konoha and investigate"
"Hai!"
Hello! I apreciate all your reviews. Next chapter! Young Tsunade has had it with Mito and told Maki the truth... Maki goes searching for her real mother! What should I do? Will she be able to save everyone?