Izuna and Tobirama managed to get out of the compounds and reach together the port where they could take a tiny ship to travel away from the Elemental Nations. They brought no other things than food, water and weapons, which proved to be a big mistake. Soon after they left their land they were lost in a sea with an unpredictable weather. Both shinobi managed to survive the storms and waves, but ended up fighting all the times.
"WE just passed an island, we should have landed and searched for them there!" yelled the Uchiha, Sharingan activated and a kunai in hand.
"Tokka said search a ship!" answered Tobirama, screaming too. "A big ship with the shape of a whale! A whale! Do you see any whale in that island?!"
"No, but we need more water and food… oh shit!" behind them was another of the really huge waves of Nuevo Mundo, that hit them with al it´s strength. It was so bad that they lost consciousness while trying to keep themselves in the boat. Finally they ended up near a were known ship with the form of a white whale…
"Marco, don´t you have a feeling of déjà vu?" asked Tatch after the Phoenix rescued the two survivors from the sea. Both of them were half drowned and breathing shallowly, but the second they hit the deck they got on their feet and positioned themselves to attack, just like their two little brothers when they first met them.
"Yes, yoi" said the blue bird bored. "Put your weapons down, we don´t want to hurt you, but we will if we need to…"
"Who are you? You have a ship with the form of a whale… was Tokka here?" asked the albino, but someone got in the way before he got an answer.
"What´s going on here?" asked Spirit. When Tobirama saw his brother again standing in that deck, he felt a lot of emotions that were hard to contain. Oh, how he missed his older brother, his tales before bed, his tender fraternal love, his songs when he was little, his kissing his injuries and healing his battle ones… being with his father without his brother´s love was hell, just the memory of his tender affection made him go on. Seeing him again and well made him cry, running towards him to hug the man with all his strength.
"Hashirama aniya!" he screamed, tightening his hold on the man as if he would disappear if he let lose. The mentioned pirate put his arms around the man, feeling his little brother for the first time in years.
"Tobirama…"
"I missed you so much!" he continued his crying festival. Spirit was very impressed, his brother wasn´t an emotional person, his absence have to had hurt him very much for him to act this way. He tried to calm the younger man down, whispering soothing words like he did when the man was six and had just taken a live for the first time.
"It´s okay, I´m here, everything is going to be okay now…" he tried to continue but another yell interrupted his reunion.
"Madara ni-san!" cried Izuna, having the same reaction that Tobirama when he saw his brother again, nearly knocking Raven to the ground, practically screaming apologizes and saying how much he had missed him. The older Uchiha, even if he was pretty angry with his family, couldn´t hate the younger brother he practically raised. He put his arms around the kid and tried to calm him down, singing softly like when the teen was a baby.
"Eh… Spirit, Raven…" asked Ace, not really understanding what was going on there. "Who are they?"
"Our little brothers… well, the last" answered the brunette before continuing working, but the two didn´t seem to be done for some time. "I can explain…"
"Sure you can, but why don´t we eat first. They have to be starving" the second commander offered. Tobirama and Izuna calmed down a little bit after they were served food, the truth was that they were really hungry after their trip. Ace only smiled when he saw the two eating. "Works all the time with Luffy. So, what´s going on here?"
"Well…" after a little explanation all the commanders were astonished. "You aren´t angry, no?"
"No, after all you are not the only ones that has little brothers that visited us yoi" said Marco, putting his arms around Ace. "What really surprises me is that someone is that bad of a parent as to send his six years old kid into the war"
"It´s common in the shinobi clans" answered Raven, eyeing Izuna wearily. "It´s a miracle two teens of different clans… specially of this two clans managed to plan something together... and to search two banished ninja"
"Wait a minute… Tobirama!" Spririt yelled, catching his brother´s attention for a minute. "Did.. father know you are here?"
"Are you crazy? Of course not!" answered the albino, pinching another sausage with his fork. "He would have killed me… or worst. He didn´t even know I left home, I had to escape through the back door"
"And you Izuna?" asked Raven.
"Likewise, I just had to wait until he was drunk enough to leave"
"Is this something all little brothers do? Because I can see Luffy making some idiotic thing like this" commented Ace.
"And he used to say that I was the stupid one" the brunette said and all just nodded.
-some time after dinner-
Tobirama and Izuna were more calmed down and better than in weeks, but they didn´t get the courage to talk to their brothers again. They were feeling bad for abandoning them in their worst time, something they have never done even. The older ones even stood up for them to their fathers, for Rikudo´s sake!
"Is something the matter?" asked Ace, walking towards them. He was watching them along with Marco and the other commanders when he noticed something was wrong and, like the experienced older brother he was, wanted to help. After all the younger ones helped him when his little brother threw himself into danger in the war.
"No, we just…" Tobirama managed to spat, but when he noticed he wasn´t cheating the commander, he changed the theme. "You have brothers, no?"
"Yes, two younger ones, Sabo and Luffy" answered the dark haired man, remembering both of them. "Sabo and I are close in age, but Lu is much younger and our grandfather was never home, so we had to raise him… sometimes I wonder where did we screwed up, because the kid is the most idiotic person in the world"
"But he never abandoned you when you needed him the most, no?" continued Izuna.
"Well, there was a situation some time ago… at a war" the D. informed. "The World Government caught me and was about to kill me in public… I really wished for them just to do it and not let the others get into danger because of me…"
"But they didn´t…"
"Of course not, they weren´t going to abandon me even if I wanted to. Specially Luffy…" he smiled with happiness. "The kid went through hell just to save me… because he was my little brother and didn´t want me to die"
"So he was a better brother than us… if we even deserve that name" the albino commented and collapsed into the floor.
"What are you talking about?"
"We were there… we were there when they were banished and we did fucking nothing!" Izuna finally let out of his system for the two of them. "We were so scared that it didn´t matter if they raised us… if they were the only people in our damned family that really cared for us… that loved us… the only thing that matter was that… we didn´t want to…"
"I can understand, they will too. In fact, I don´t think they have any grudge against you anymore. I wouldn´t" he thought about Luffy… then about the bastard blond he found out was alive in the newspaper after the Dressrosa fiasco. "There are worst things"
"Like what"
"Like faking your death and making your loved ones believe you are death for ten years, then appear out of nowhere… like my bastard brother Sabo. He is lucky I haven´t seen him yet, because I would have burnt him, then ask questions…"
"Okay, that was worse, but we did something very shitty and…"
"They are the older ones, they will understand"
"Hope so…"
-The next day-
Tobirama finally got the guts to talk to his brother after breakfast and sat next to him when he was seeing the sun over the sea. After hearing what was happening, the former Senju was worried, but unsure if he should go. Maybe it would only get worse to have him and Butsuma in the same continent. The albino sighed and stared into the horizont.
"Look, I´m not telling you to involve your new family or something like that, but we really need your help against those guys" he said, pretty angry. "You saw what they wanted to do to Tokka, what they do to our clan brothers…"
"Your clan brothers, I´m banished, remember?"
"Yes, but still! They are family, we share blood!" the younger male breathed in and out to calm himself down before talking. "But you have a point, most of our warriors won´t accept to battle along with a banished shinobi. Hell, our father would probably just kill you when he saw you, I know he will"
"Yeah… it´s like him"
"I… can understand if you don´t want to help, after all the clan behaved so bad with you… but they are family and… soon I´m going to be clan leader and I want you to come back… if you want"
"Me… to go back to the Senju?"
"Yes, the clan leader can reinstall a member inside the clan, even if the former banished him. I want you to have everything that was taken from you back, even your name, Hashirama. Then you can… accomplish your dream"
"You mean bringing peace? You never believed in that" smiled Spirit, putting a hand on the white haired male´s head and revolving his hair.
"Well, traveling with an Uchiha and not getting killed change your view of them… Izuna is a nice company when he isn´t yelling and we kind of… made friends" confessed the younger Senju. "And to think that what got us together was the two idiots that made friends in a riverbank even if their parents told them not to talk to anyone outside the clan"
"Thank you" laughed the brunette, looking much like the easy going kid the albino had for a brother and less like the fearsome pirate he was. After seeing his wanted poster he started to wonder how the World Government could place such a high sum on his brother´s head. He was a naïve fool with a stupid dream!
"Well, I should be going, I need to go back before they attack again"
"I can… take you there… and Raven should be happy to know Izuna got home safely" he offered, getting up along with the younger male.
"Thank you"
-A few days later-
Once in the shinobi lands they said goodbye and the two younger brothers disappeared from sight. The Moby Dick was returning to deep water when Raven spotted something that made him terrifies. It was a fleet of Marine ships, commanded by the new Fleet Admiral in person.
"Turn the ship around!" they did and in less than an hour they were back in the Elemental Nations… just in time to see a huge fight start between the Senju and the Marines. Spirit started to feel worried after he saw Tobirama engaged into a battle against Akainu of all people. The boy was no threat to the admiral, that was about to kill him with a lava infused fist. The albino´s eyes widened when he saw the obvious end approach to him… before a wall made of wood was put between him and the killer blow.
"Akainu…" said the Whitebeard pirate, dragging the attention from all the warriors in the battleground. His hands were still united in a hand seal and his face showed a feral expression. He was angry beyond believe. "I will only tell you this once… STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY LITTLE BROTHER!"
"Hashirama…" whispered Tobirama, getting up.
"Hashirama…" started chatting the people around him, surprised by the rouge´s return. Butsuma was without words, had his oldest just returned to make his life difficult? He will kill that idiot as soon as…
"Spirit… or Senju Hashirama, a wanted criminal" smiled the man, preparing to fight. "You are just like Portgas, wanting to die first. Well, I can kill you now and skewer the brat later"
"Go, I can deal with him" Tobirama nodded and went away.
"Where is your crew, pirate? You can´t defeat me without them, not when I have all the power of the Marine"
"Right here" said a known voice. Raven was standing there with nearly all the people on board of the Moby Dick. "I´m not happy to have to save the Senju, but I don´t think they are of seeing me, so…"
"You sure?" asked the brunette.
"Absolutely"
"It´s that Madara Uchiha?" the whispers started again, surprised that the two boys stayed together even after the banishment.
"Come on brats, let´s show them why this is the most powerful crew in the World" said Whitebeard, raising his weapon.
"Roger, captain!"