"Good, you are getting better" said Hashirama when he finished a combat with his brother, where the younger Senju finally used the Bushouku Haki. They have stopped a bit to train, as they did every day in their trip to Uzushiogakure. Tobirama was on the floor, completely depleted and hurt after his haki blocked a punch from his brother, enhanced with the same thing. "Sorry about your arm, by the way"

"No problem" answered the albino, breathing deep. The brunette offered him a hand and lifted his sibling from the ground. The white haired Senju drank a bit of water, then started walking again by the other´s side. "Are you sure you should be the one talking? I mean… the Uzumakis were the one that hunted you out of the country…"

"I don´t really blame them, it was… our current clan head´s fault" he looked down, not wanting to call that man a father. "And we decided to go away on our own, for us it was better than staying in a continent where war was still brewing."

"You have always hated war"

"Of course I did! It took away our mother and brothers"

"Yes, it did" Tobirama was about to apologize again for not having helped him, but his brother stopped him by turning around and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Don´t apologize, you were just a child. I shouldn´t have expected that from you" he smiled and the other felt better. "Besides… this was your place. Even if I don´t want to admit it, Butsuma raised you well, better than I could have expected from him. And I´m glad for that, you turned out like a reasonable young man with more brain than him."

"Thank you" smiled the younger brother, beginning to walk again. "But you shouldn´t call him by his name. You already recovered your name and everything… at least in the eyes of everyone, we just need to do some paperwork. You should call him father again."

"A man like him could never be my father" answered Hashirama, frowning. Even with his personality and all the time apart, he was never able to forgive the current clan head for sending his children to war being just six or seven. That was completely insane, their brothers has to be terrified when they died, the poor things. "My true father is Shirohige"

"You surely think the man that adopted you is the best" replied the albino, changing his tone to one of curiosity. "How is him?"

"He is… great is the only word that could be used to describe him" Hashirama´s eyes started shinning. "He doesn´t care where you come from, he takes care of you and accepts you as his child. When me and Madara arrived to the Moby Dick… well, he gave us exactly what we needed: a father, a lot of brothers… and they all took care of us! He never told us to go to battle when we were children, just the contrary, he protected us and shielded us from the bloodbath even if we have already witnessed that."

"That sounded great"

"Yes… for him the love of a father is not preparing his children and sent them to battle, but to protect them and shield them from that, loving them and showing them the good things of live. I liked growing up in the ship, it was the best. All the time I hoped I could share that with you, I bet you would have liked that too"

"Me? Maybe, being raised here prepared me for this world…"

"I learned to fight too! And I still can beat you in combat!"

"Cheating, you learnt to use hakki while I only can use chakra, but this is about to change" said Tobirama. "Once this situation is over I´m going to spar with you and win."

"And if you don´t?"

"I´m going to try again! Just like that!" he looked ahead, a big blue ocean ahead of him. The young pirate wasn´t afraid of that, he has seen many oceans in his life, the New World was full of them… but this one was full of whirlpools. In the center there was a big island with a forest that hid a big and ancient city. "We have arrived"

"Yes, the home of the Uzumaki clan, the land of Whirlpools. The Village Hidden in the Eddies has to be in that place" the albino suddenly turned around. "We have company"

"Just in time" a red haired young woman and a very attractive blond appeared out of the woods in the coast. She was very serious, dressed in the garbs of a noble and wearing a tiara that signaled her status. "I was expecting you, Mito-hime"

"That should be my line… exiled" she mocked him. "It was very brave of you to contact me to escort you inside and get you an interview with my father"

"Last time, you said that you owed me a favor for disappearing and breaking our engagement. I´m just making use of that" he smiled at her, but she didn´t show any emotion. "The fate of all the shinobi is in danger, even the ones of the Uzumaki clan, and we need to form allies to protect it."

"How can I trust your words? You were exiled for making deals with a member of your enemy clan. You could be deceiving me for all I know"

"Believe me, when this ends you are not going to regret having heard me"

"Mito…"

"I´m alright, Raizen, let´s go home and bring this two… but keep your eyes on them and don´t let them get apart. If you noticed the smallest sign of deception you are allowed to terminate both of them"

"Alright"

"Should we be worried?" asked Tobirama to his brother. The shinobi in front of them didn´t seen anything spectacular, but the stronger ninja tend to hide their true power until it was needed… but hakki could make you see some things sensor skills can´t. He wasn´t trusty enough of his own, so he asked an expert.

"No" answered Hashirama and started walking towards the entryway to the Hidden Eddies. "Let´s go, we have a lot of discussions to make and very few time."

-In other part-

"Nii-san, why are we going to the Shirohebis first? They are a really small clan and won´t make the difference in battle, apart from being sneaky as hell and professional backstabbers" Izuna asked his brother, who was walking with a very adamant look. "And they tried to…"

"I know what they tried to do to me, Izuna, thank you for reminding me that" replied Madara, a bit cutting. "If you have that much time to think about the past, then use it to practice your hakki, because without armament you are going to be an easy prey in the war against the Marines."

"Anyone from the clan knows how to use it…"

"That´s why I asked my… adoptive older brothers to teach them. Our new allies will join them soon and learn too. Combining hakki with our ninja skill we can achieve victory."

"Can? Wouldn´t they be easy preys?"

"Don´t underestimate the Marines, they are as sneaky as the Shirohebi clan and have heavy armament" the older Uchiha put his hands on his hips. "Believe me, they are going to hit us with all they have and that won´t be pretty."

"Have you ever been in a full out war with them, nii-san?"

"Yes, once… because Ace got stupidly captured and we had to rescue him before they publically killed the idiot"

"That wasn´t a very good move for a commander"

"It wasn´t… Pops condemned him to stay in the Moby Dick for months after that, cleaning the ship. You should have seen his face, it was hilarious!" both siblings started laughing like loons, making a lot of scandal. It was something unusual for ninjas, more from ones of their caliber, but they were allowed to reunite after a long term away and still had things to talk about. "But the war wasn´t. I lost so many dear brothers that day."

"They were like family" the younger raven looked away.

"Otouto" he put his hands on the youngster´s shoulder, making him look at him. "You are my dear little brother, I won´t change you for all in the world. It´s just that… I have a very special place for my adopted brothers too, they practically raised me and Spi… Hashirama" he sighed "But they could never take your place, and want you to know that. For me you will always be the most important person."

"Really?"

"Really! And because of that I don´t want to lose you, I would go insane" he smiled and soon his brother joined. They started travelling again, reaching a very dark place, the home of the Shirohebi clan. Hissing could be heard everywhere.

"Hum… nii-san, we can still…" Izuna doubted for a bit and sighed. "I just want to make sure you are not making this to lose you fear to them or get over what they could have done to you."

"You yourself said it, could. They never did anything to me and I don´t have a reason to be afraid of them anymore"

"Who are you?" a voice was heard, very low. The person that emerged from darkness was very pale and his eyes looked like the ones of a snake, golden with a slit for a pupil. "This is our territory, get away if you don´t want to be killed"

"Apparently you are still underestimating your enemies, you stupid reptiles" commented Madara, activating his Sharingan. His brother made the same, getting into battle stance. "But we are not here to fight or to kill you all, even if I wanted to" a silence was made. "I want to see your clan head, now"

"Uchiha…" hissed the man, then reveling a very long tongue. This made the younger raven want to puke. "You are not going to get an alliance if you don´t give us a child, an experimental subject for us to learn…" a hand was on his neck, throating him. "Traitors…"

"First of all, you cold blooded parasite, I´m not going to let any kid of our clan to share the fate you stored for me when I was little, so forget about it. Do I make myself clear?" he applied a bit more pressure. The Shirohebi nodded. "Second, I asked you something simple, to take me to your clan leader. Can you even do that?"

"I… I do…"

"Good" he released the pale man, who coughed before lifting his face again. "Now do it before I really strangle you"

"I would obey him if I were you" joined in Izuna. "He has been waiting years to kill one of your kind and I wouldn´t like to be the first one. My brother here can be pretty creative when it came to torture someone… in reality or with a genjutsu"

"You heard him, so…"

"Of course" their practically prisoner advanced towards the place his clan was reuniting on that moment. Many of them were hissing and talking in low, secretive voices. The women and the men could not be tell apart, they were equally pale and had long hairs. The first one brought them to a little house in the middle of their camp. "Here we are"

"Nii-san…"

"Don´t worry, I can do this" Madara advanced and entered the little building. Soon he found out it was just the entrance to an underground facility. The Uchihas got downstairs and found a lot of jars and dissected bodies stored in big stores, (Just think that this are like the ancestors of Orochimaru) which made Izuna shudder. "Scared?"

"I wouldn´t want to end like this"

"Yes, me neither" both ravens keep advancing until they were in front of a group of people that was operating a body, putting it´s organs of interest in jars filled with some kind of liquid. He coughed to catch their attention. "We need to talk"

"We are finishing a very difficult procedure, please wait. Yamata-sama is going to be there with you as soon as this end" answered a woman with long purple hair and went back to tear the body apart. And true to her word, as soon as there was nothing more of interest to extract from the person, they all took off their gloves and walked away… except for one. This one wore a long white lab robe and, before walking towards them, untied his long hair. "Here are the visitors, my dear"

"I´m Shirohebi Yamata and this is my wife, Yukiko" presented them the man. "She is going to stay as a witness and bodyguard while our… negotiations are going" he sat down in front of them. "I see that you are from the Uchiha clan, has your clan leader finally decided to send me the young child that I was asking for and signing an alliance?"

"Listen to me, you disgusting vermin, no child of the Uchiha is going to be used as a test subject for any of your sick experiments" spat Madara, remembering when his father gave him to those reptils.

"Really?" Yamata just lifted an eyebrow. "Then there is nothing else for us to talk about"

"Unfortunately, there is. And it is something of great importance that might change the shinobi world and our vision of it forever" this caught the attention of the snake leader, making him seat down again. "Are you interested? It doesn´t really matter, because if you don´t help us to fight the enemy then your people is going to die too."

"And what enemy is this?"

"Something that came from far away, from outside our continent: The World Government"

"It surely sounds interesting, but… what will my clan gain if we help you all with this? Because we are well hidden and if they come searching for us…"

"Don´t underestimate their army, that would be a great mistake" Madara and the pale man exchanged a cold gaze. "But if you want something like that to make an alliance… what about investigating a true mystery? It´s not a kekkei genkai or something even the World Government best scientist can explain, even if he has dealt with it for a long time."

"Continue" Yamata was surely interested now.

"Have you heard this past years of Devil Fruits?"

-In a terrain near the Senju and Uchiha camps-

"You have to sense it, as if your will is covering you flesh and making it harder than iron" Ace showed the shinobi his own hakki. "Let´s try this again" they all got into battle stance and prepared to fight the member of the Shirohige crew that had been assigned to each. "One, two, three… now!" he sighed when many of the ninja felt, as they were not used to fight without jutsus. "This is going to take forever"

"They are trying yoi" Marco got closer, putting an arm around his waist. "They are just not used to this. Be proud that at least some of them managed to learn kenbonshouko and bushouko…"

"It´s worse than that, Marco, we have to teach this people, who had been fighting all their lives in their own way, how to combat Devil Fruit and hakki users, really strong ones. For this they have to combine their own techniques with hakki and that is not easy… I´m not sure if we are going to make it out of this one."

"Come on yoi, stop been so grim. Where is my overconfident flame? Being the one that cheers you up is not my thing, return me my Ace" he started kissing his boyfriend´s neck, which made the other struggle in a playful way.

"Don´t do that in public!"

"Okay yoi, but you owe me" the Phoenix retired and see the ninja that were still trying to fight the Devil Fruit users from the crew. Some of them were standing their ground, others were resisting more. "See? We are going to be fine, they are fast learners yoi"

"I see… but we are still too little"

"Hello?" a group of redheaded people appeared, all of them carrying sealing instruments and weapons. "We are the Uzumaki clan and came to help"

"Were you saying yoi?" Ace smiled and welcomed the newcomers. This war was about to get interesting , maybe even turn into the first time the World Government fail in conquering a territory.

Hello! I´m opening this fiction again, sorry for my block. Next time the war is goning to start, who is going to fall first? Will the village ever be created?