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"No kid, stay away from my hair!" Tobirama yelled helplessly as Kagami waved a pink paintbrush carelessly and tried to 'colour' his hair. It had been a mere 10 minutes, 10 minutes and this kid was already testing his temper. In short, Tobirama would be perfectly content to carry the boy and throw him out of his room, or window. Didn't matter really.
"But you said you would play with me!"
"No I—"
"Hi there brother!" Hashirama came in the room just in time. Madara had been taken back to his house by a bunch of errand running Chuunins, who clandestinely rejoiced the fact that they were temporary discharged from helping their "Hokage-sama" write his political marriage letters, which were delivered all across the elemental nations. Yes, Hashirama's obsession with matchmaking was already stretching beyond the boundaries of Konoha.
Mito resumed her cleaning, occasionally wrinkling her nose in disgust at Hashirama's smelly, unkempt cloths that were scattered all across the house and Naori decided she'd take a breath of fresh air outside the house.
Really, Tobirama had never been more grateful for his brother's presence.
Hashirama glanced down at the little half-pint swarming his brother's ankles. "Who's this kid?"
"Tobi's going to play with me today!"
"No…" his brother muttered and gazed the kid sternly.
"Come on Tobirama, quit being a sour plum!"
Great, just great, splendid. Now Hashirama's going to intervene…
"No. Hashirama. I'm leaving. You can play with him."
"Alright!" Hashirama rushed to Kagami's side. "Just ignore that guy over there, Hashi-nii will play with you!" he offered joyously.
"But… But… I want Tobi!" the kid yelled in protest, clearly dissatisfied.
"But you've got Hashi!"
"I want Tobi!"
"Hashi is much more fun!"
"No, Tobi is!"
Tobirama could almost die of laughter if it weren't for the stoically tempered reputation he needed to uphold. Hashirama, right now, with all his pouting, resembled a boy with a mental age less than a third of his actual one.
Shaking his head, he tried to leave the room.
Tried.
The moment Tobirama's hands reached to door handle both Hashirama and Kagami protested. ("Don't leave brother/ Tobi!" They shouted concurrently.)
"What? Brother, you're acting like a five-year-old and you, Kagami, stop whining. You're annoying. I see no need to be in the company of idiots. Hashirama, grow up." Tobirama regretted his words instantly after they escaped his mouth. Now Hashirama was crying in typical Hashirama-style with gallons and gallons of tears streaming down his face while his expression contorted in pain.
"Brother, stop being so mean, this kid is just bored! I mean… I mean… he has no one else to play with him! Be nice, Tobirama, just this once," Hashirama pleaded him in a ridiculously dramatized manner.
"Just this once Tobi?" Kagami smiled innocently, while attempting his "cutesy" expression, having his big onyx eyes bulging out of their sockets.
Tobirama's eyebrow twitched.
"Fine. Just this once," he relented spiritlessly.
Oh the woes he'd have to bear!
A/N: Poor Tobirama, I'm really torturing him now am I? ;)