The Ice Sorceress – Like I said many times, I'm the Speedy Demon. :p Nah, my Shisui-chan isn't going to stay single forever, Tobirama will start to view her differently and then BAM! He gets Shisui's heart! ;D Just let it go slowly, no need to rush that. :p No, I didn't finish writing my story but I have all the ideas written so I just have to type it out. We'll see if Shisui will reach that age, for now enjoy the read and thank you for reviewing, I appreciate your support! n.n
SilverIcy – Oh yeah I did! I'm so sneaky and intelligent, this way Tobirama and Shisui will slowly on grow closer. I'm not going to rush it since that way it won't be fun. Shisui isn't Uchiha Shisui anymore but Shisui, the beautiful and strong kunoichi. Tobirama is going to have some rough moments with Shisui. Madara is one awesome shinobi, I love him! He is all mine! ^.^ I'm glad you enjoyed that chapter, I loved to write it, especially the interactions between Tobirama and Shisui. Thank you for your kind review, I appreciate your support! :D
intricatesimplicity92 – I loved that scene too, and of course, Madara and Izuna had to interpret it in a perverted way. Poor Tobirama, must be having nightmares. :p Thank you, it's true, going over the course of a character's life gives more depth, thank you for the compliment! :D Hihi, I love Mito and Akhiko too, and of course, Hashirama will start to show some love towards his family. Thank you for the nice review, I'm glad this one was your favorite chapters, as always, I appreciate your support! ^.^
Sylencia – Hihi, like I promised you, that was a very cute and fluffy scene! You're welcome! ;D Meh, don't need to apologize, just go with the flow, Akhiko is a fluent speaking one-year old. :p Oh yeah, more blushing Tobirama's will come soon! Aww, too bad, I'll the grass continue to grow until you can get off that chair. :) Thank you for the kind review, I appreciate you support! (Does that start to sound boring..? I'm wondering…)
treavellergirl – It's a fluff chapter, meh, very cute to read. Hihi, date service, imagine Madara and Shisui sitting on a table and approving or dismissing the many suitors from Shisui. That would be fun to write. :p And yeah, that massage idea seemed just perfect to get Tobirama and Shisui together. :p Thank you for the review, I appreciate it! ^.^
VKlover13 – I'm glad you love it! It makes me very happy! ;D
Darkcush – Who said I'm human? I'm the Speedy Demon! :p
Kasai no Oni – I love fluffy and cute scenes, sooo adorable to write and to re-read! :p Thank you for the review, I appreciate it! ;D
Geminine – Thank you, I find it very good too, I'm having fun writing about them, it's awesome! And yeah, it is sad that they aren't together but I did mention in one of my author's notes that I would be writing some random drabble scenes between Hashirama/Shisui and Tobirama/Shisui or hell even Sasuke/Shisui! But after I finished my story, not now, too busy with updating and other stuff. ;p Thank you for the kind review, I appreciate it a lot, my newest biggest fan! n.n
PS. Did you already corrected your SI-story, if so, I'm going to read it again! :p
Hikari (guest) – Hihi, I'm glad you like my story, that makes me very happy. As for more fluff, don't worry, it will come. ;) Thank you for reviewing, I appreciate it a lot. ^.^
Guest – Akhiko is just a really smart boy, at first I thought about using that reincarnated idea but that was so much hassle, I'm just going to be a bit lazy. :p Thank you for taking the time to review, I appreciate it! :)
So here are the ages for the ones that are confused, for this chapter only:
Uchiha Madara/Senju Hashirama=26 years to 27 years old
Uchiha Izuna/Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito=24 years to 25 years old
Uchiha Shisui=21 years to 22 years old
Senju-Uzumaki Akhiko=1 year to 2 years old
Era of the Warring States
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By Angelbloodlover
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~ A ninja waits until the time is right. When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard. When his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike.
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Uchiha Sasuke
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Chapter 21: Konoha's Annual Ball
Shisui looked at herself through the mirror and twirled her long, chiffon, black dress that revealed her long smooth legs along with her black high-heels. This dress was a present from Izuna on her twentieth birthday but she had never the opportunity to wear it until now, of course he had requested to knit the Uchiha symbol on her dress. Mito had pinned up her hair with her soft curls framing her heart-shaped face. Her ruby-red necklace was another present from Tobirama this time, he had gifted her with the beautiful necklace on the day that she became nineteen. Shisui wasn't a girl who spend times with buying clothes and jewelry, that was more Mito's job, although at times she was dragged along, much to her horror. Mito didn't know when to stop, she always carried more than twenty bags filled with different things from clothes, to jewelry to weapons and so on.
Of course, as a kunoichi, she had strapped her kunai pouch on her left thigh where her special three-pronged kunai were stored neatly. She wasn't going to be totally defenseless.
"Shisui-chan, are you ready?" Madara's soft voice came from behind her door.
She nodded then face-palmed herself when he couldn't see her, "I'm almost done!" She looked one last time at herself from the mirror, fixed her dress and walked away with a bright smile. This ball was very important since the very first Mizukage and Kazekage had joined them for peace requests. She had warned Madara and Hashirama that it may be some plot to get their guards down, just like the Hyuuga Affair, and they had taken her warnings close to their heart. This room was filled with the best shinobi's and kunoichi's from Konoha, along with the high security seals around Konoha and their important buildings. Of course, they had stationed ninja's around Konoha who were patrolling suspiciously for anything that seemed wrong. With each group there was a Yamanaka with them, in case they needed to contact the two Hokages.
For the rest, she was going to enjoy herself and her chaperone was going to be none other than, "Tobirama-kun!" She waved happily at the silver-haired Senju who was wearing a dark blue kimono, showing off his muscles, and the Senju symbol embroidered on his back. "You look good!" She complimented him, giggling softly when she hear Izuna gag in disgust.
"Thank you, as do you." He half smiled at her and she had to blink her eyes at that, the opportunities where she had seen Tobirama's half-smile or real smile could be counted on her one hand. It was a shame really, his smile was really pretty. "Shall we?" He offered her his arms and she took the gentlemanly offer with a curtly bow.
Her eyes shifted to Izuna who was escorting a pretty-looking Uchiha girl, Uchiha Natsuki, and then Madara appeared, Uchiha Merumi, hanging on his arm. She could see how much this bothered him but Izuna and her had forced him to ask one of the eager-looking Uchiha girls since the head clan had to have a girl on his arms. Izuna though was happy with the attention he received from Natsuki, one of her medic-nins who worked at Konoha's Hospital.
"Ready?" Shisui chirped happily, winking at Merumi to cheer the girl up, "Don't worry, Merumi-chan, Madara-nii, needs the right girl to warm up his freezing heart."
Her big brother scowled at her, "One more poetic word and I'll hang you up with your own intestines."
"You won't do that aniki! You love me too much!" Shisui replied confidently, ignoring Tobirama's warning glances. "Beside who would make you dango if I died? Izuna…?" All the eyes moved to Izuna who pouted when they shivered in disgust and horror, scooting away from him. The entire village knew about Izuna's disgusting cooking skills since he had to deliver his own home-made dango to the entire population of Konoha. Ever since then no one took something from Izuna.
"It wasn't that bad." He protested firmly.
Everyone just kept staring at him, "Fine…it was! Stop belittling my cooking skills! Natsuki-chan, let's go away from these mean people!" He flickered away towards the Senju compound, along with a giggling Natsuki, while the four of them were laughing at his predicament. Poor Izuna, his cooking skills were so bad, it could be used for poison.
It was that bad.
Shisui looked in awe at how many people were present and even spotted Sasuke with a pretty Senju girl and another pretty Uchiha girl… She sweat dropped at his flirting behavior. How many girls did he have behind his ass?
He was such a flirt, a funny flirt though.
His wife had died when she had given birth to Hiruzen, ever since then Sasuke had been reduced to cope his mourning with flirting and sleeping with other women. He had enough respect for her and didn't play with her feelings, only shameless flirting, but she found it sad to see one of her closest friends acting like that. He should find one woman and stay with her. The way he lived wasn't healthy, although she had told him this many times, he didn't listen to her.
She didn't know what to do with him…
Sighing softly, she changed her attention on Mito who was cradling little Akhiko in her arms. The small toddler looked so cute in his mini-kimono that she had given him. Tugging on Tobirama's sleeve, she pointed at Akhiko and smiled softly when Tobirama's eyes looked with adoration at his little nephew. She knew how much the silver-haired Senju loved him.
"He is wearing you kimono." He stated and looked at her with a crooked smirk.
She nodded happily, "He is, it seems he didn't like your kimono."
Tobirama's eye brows twitched slightly and glared at her, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I mean, you have bad fashion taste, just like your brother." This was another fact about the Senju brothers, they had horrible fashion taste, although Tobirama was better than Hashirama, he still sucked, which was also the reason that she had bought him that kimono that was snuggled nicely against his firm abs and muscled arms. She knew many women were very grateful that they could ogle Tobirama's body even better, she was one of them.
"I'm not giving you any more massages." He stated with a final tone in his air.
Shisui's eyes widened in horror, "No, Tobi-kun, you can't do that to me, I won't be able to live…"
"Stop being so overdramatic."
She brightened up, "Does that mean you're going to give me a massage?"
His eye brows twitched, "No." She pouted, her big black doe eyes aimed at him, "Stop looking at me like that."
"Then release that massage prohibition." She answered stubbornly, her onyx black eyes locked with his ruby-red. His eyes flickered to the necklace that he had given to her and he had to admit, it suited her perfectly. For some weird reason, he was happy that she chose to wear his necklace from her entire arsenal of jewelries since she kept getting gifts from many head clans and merchants to win over her heart. All she did was throw them in her treasure chest and exchange it for money, which she then proceed to donate to Konoha's Orphanage.
Tobirama rolled his eyes, she was not going to stop bugging him until he did what she asked. Silently, he wondered when he got this whipped towards Shisui… "Fine."
She squealed in delight, and he tried his damned best to ignore her soft, busty mounds that was rubbing against his arms. Didn't that woman know what effect she had on the opposite gender? Coughing softly, he walked towards his brother whom eyes flickered to Shisui and then back at him. He knew about his deep love for Shisui but he had granted him permission to court Shisui if he ever had feelings for her. He couldn't help but wonder how much it would hurt to see the woman you love every single day with another man and vice versa.
"Hashi-kun, Mito-chan!" Shisui squealed, hugging the two and then picked up Akhiko whose eyes were big as he viewed his beautiful aunt, "Aunt Shi you're so beautiful!"
Shisui giggled and took a seat next to Tobirama as they watched many people dance elegantly, her eyes flickered towards the Kazekage and Mizukage. In her original timeline this had never happened but now she wondered how much things had changed. They noticed her staring and smirked at her but then they glanced at each other and glared. Oh boy…
It seems they were after something else, she just hoped they weren't here for a political marriage, although she would do it for Konoha if it really was necessary.
It was a shame that the Tsuchikage and Raikage didn't come. These new villagers had been created after Konoha's model, of course Konoha's ideas were much peaceful than the rest, they had the best security seals what with the Uzumaki's, the strongest clans ranging from the Senju's to the Hatake clan and the best infrastructure thank to Hashirama's wood release. It was a piece of cake for him to create a house for a homeless family and they their eyes would shine so beautifully when they had received their home was so worth it.
Akhiko cupped her cheeks and placed a tender kiss on her lips, which made her laugh softly, "Akhiko-kun, you're making many people jealous."
"Jealous?" He giggled softly, "I don't care." He wrapped his arms around her torso and leaned his head against her cleavage, "Aunt Shi, you got very nice pillows."
Mito and Shisui choked on their spit when Akhiko said that, both their faces red from anger to embarrassment, "What's wrong with mine?!" Mito glared at her son who smirked slyly at her, "Kaa-chan, yours are so little." To emphasize it even further, he looked through the small hole between his index finger and thumb.
Hashirama and Tobirama tried their damn best to keep their faces neutral but it was hard when those two women were looking as red as a tomato. How they loved their little son/nephew.
"Akhiko-kun, that's not a nice thing to say to your mother." Shisui frowned, her face still beet red. "Who told you that?" She had a nagging feeling that Sasuke had to do something with that. "Was it Sasuke-kun?"
The little boy nodded eagerly, "Uncle Sasuke told me that your pillows are much nicer than kaa-chan's."
When those words left Akhiko's lips, Mito and Shisui turned their attention on Sasuke, both standing up. "Excuse us, we need to be somewhere." They gritted through their teeth, their anger ready to explode. "Tobirama-kun, hold Akhiko-kun for me."
Hashirama smirked slyly, stretching his hands out, "I told you they would beat him up. Now give me the money."
"Aniki…" The silver-haired Senju grumbled in annoyance, taking out his money. How could he know those two evil vixens would go and punch Sasuke in the middle of the ball. He thought women had some sense of logic but it seemed he was wrong.
When Hashirama got the stacks of money, his face split up in a huge grin, ignoring Madara's irritated scowl, "Are you still obsessed with gambling?"
"Of course! It's fun, something you don't know the meaning about." Hashirama replied, stacking the money neatly under his kimono. Madara and Merumi just came back from dancing but Izuna and Natsuki were still dancing lovely. He had a suspicious feeling those two were getting pretty close to each other. His eyes flickered towards Merumi and he had to admit, she wasn't as annoying as he had interpreted her to be. Still, he had better things to do than run after some girl, Konoha needed him. Besides, he would wait till his little sister and brother found their right partner before he would start chasing women.
Madara glared at him, ignoring Tobirama's amused smirk at their antics as he busied himself with Akhiko, "And you don't know the meaning of work instead you slack off and drink sake in the middle of the morning! I mean who does that?!"
"I, Senju-Uzumaki Hashirama, Shodai Hokage from Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves." He answered proudly, reaching for Akhiko as the little boy wanted to be on his father's lap. "Beside you shouldn't be the one talking, when are you going to start a family. You have all those candidates from the Hatake clan, Namikaze clan, Uchiha clan, Senju-" "I get it, Hashirama." Madara cut his off, his eyes locked with Hashirama, "But I'm not going to marry anyone until my little brother and sister have settled."
This seemed to attract the Mizukage's attention, "Excuse me for joining the conversation, Hokage-dono's, but I was wondering when you would discuss about marriage." Madara's fingers twitched slightly at that tone, he didn't like it one bit.
"Ahn, Mizukage-dono, no need to apologize, you're welcome to join our conversation anytime, same goes for Kazekage-dono." The Kazekage simply nodded in acknowledgement for now keeping his ears open as his eyes flickered to the ball, more exactly a certain black-haired Uchiha. That woman interested him to no end.
Shisui noticed Sasuke with girls flocking him from left to right. The moment she stomped towards them, vicious, dirty glares were sent her way, she gladly glared back at them with her Sharingan spinning eerily fast. "Sasuke, we need to talk."
"Hmm…oh, Shisui-chan, did I mention how beautiful you look tonight, you're absolutely the star of the ball with your gorgeous dress." His eyes flickered down to her cleavage and then to her legs. She tapped his chin upwards, her Sharingan still glaring viciously, "What did you say about Mito and I?"
He looked confused until Shisui motioned towards Akhiko who was playing with Tobirama's hair. "About the so-called soft pillows?" Mito spat out, her face red and ready to erupt. "You have three seconds to explain yourself, pervert."
"Maa, maa, Mito-chan, Shisui-chan, no need to become violent." Sasuke tried to soothe them, ignoring the loud ruckus from the girl behind him. "I didn't mean anything bad about that, I just stated a simple fact." His grin turned lecherous as he locked eyes with Shisui's cleavage, "They do look softer than Mit- Itai, Shisui-chan!"
Shisui had enough of him and pulled his ear, locking eyes with him, she whispered ominously, "You and the two of us are going to have a nice conversation somewhere private." She smirked, motioning the demonic-looking Mito to follow her. To her annoyance, the flocking girls glared at her, "Get out of my way." Shisui snapped violently, her eyes turning into the Mangekyou Sharingan. Really, she was fed up with these stupid girls.
They squealed and fluttered away, mumbling about demonic-stealing women.
"Now, let's continue." She grinned nefariously towards Sasuke who was begging for forgiveness, anime tears rolling down. But Mito and Shisui were not going to be merciful, this time they were going to hurt him painfully.
Mito and Shisui came back with a satisfied, extremely happy expression while Sasuke was sporting two black eyes and was limping back to the ball room, occasionally glaring at the two evil women. She blinked when her brother, Izuna, stretched his hand towards her, "May I have this dance, oh magnificent Shunshin no Shisui?"
Giggling, she accepted the hand and squealed when Izuna twirled her, "Nii-san, did you know that your dancing skills are absolutely amazing?"
"Of course, the amazing Izuna is great at everything." He smiled softly when he noticed her flustered, happy expression. "How long did you beat up Sasuke?"
Shisui was once again twirled, "More than a half hour."
"Too cruel…" Izuna whispered with a satisfied smile, "You should have done it another half hour. That's what he gets for talking about you in a degrading way."
She nodded, "Don't worry, Mito punched him between his legs, three times."
"Ouch." Izuna winced just thinking about that, Mito's punches were nasty, especially when she was angry, her temper was bad, very bad.
"He got what he deserved."
He nodded in agreement, "True." He looked behind him when Madara appeared there, "Mind if I take over?"
"Of course not, aniki." Izuna placed Shisui's hand on top of Madara's and bowed in courtesy for the giggling Shisui, "Have fun you two, I'm going to eat some sweets."
Madara and Shisui rolled their eyes at that, Izuna was a sweet tooth, he loved every kind of sweets but his favorite was Shisui's home-made dango that Sachiko had taught Shisui when she was little. Madara gently pulled Shisui towards him, "You look beautiful, imouto."
"Arigatou, aniki, you look sexy too!" She chirped happily, squealing when Madara twirled her. She really loved being twirled like a princess, dancing was really fun when you had a good partner.
He smirked smugly, "Of course I am, just look at me." He wriggled his eye brows and chuckled softly when Shisui burst into a fit of laughter.
"We're so brother and sister."
"You mean the fact that we complement each other or the fact that we're dead gorgeous?" He raised one of his eye brows and Shisui had to wonder how he could look so serious when he was asking something like that. It was weird…
Chuckling, she answered, "Both."
His eyes flickered towards the Kazekage and Mizukage, "Did you notice anything suspicious?"
She shook her head, moving simultaneously with him, "Negative. I've made three clones to check the ball room while being cloaked with my strongest invisible Genjutsu, if they found something amiss, they would let me know."
"I don't like it." He murmured softly, eyes narrowed, "It's too quiet."
She nodded in agreement, "I know what you mean but let's not take hasty decision, if they are here for an alliance then nothing bad will happen, if not… well, we're prepared."
"If you say so- No, go away." He growled in annoyance when Sasuke appeared behind them, "You're not going to dance with her."
Shisui rolled her eyes and turned her smirk towards Sasuke, "Back for some more spanking?"
Madara choked loudly, glaring at Shisui with a blush on his cheeks, "Imouto! Such vulgar language!"
"Aniki, it's a joke…take a chill pill, will you." She ducked under Madara's arm, placed a soft kiss on his cheek and grabbed Sasuke's hands, leading him away from him.
Sasuke smiled down at her, his black eyes already healed neatly thanks to his amazing medical skills. He had taken lessons under her wing and she was amazed at his fast progress. "You really do look beautiful, Shisui-chan."
"Sasuke, don't start." She narrowed her eyes at him when his hands moved too low for her liking, "I'm going to knee your balls again."
He eye-smiled at her, a sheepish grin on his face as his hands stayed on her low back, "Gomen, I just want to feel those soft, roun- Oof!" He groaned in pain, eyes closed shut when Shisui had knead him swiftly, without him noticing it. "Y-You're e-evil…" He breathed out, tears running down his face.
"And you're a dirty pervert! Stop corrupting Hiruzen-kun!" She didn't want that goofy, carefree boy to become a pervert, though she knew that in her future he used to read Icha Icha Paradise and spend his time talking with beautiful girls, she was one of those girls.
He shuddered another breath, "I love how you get so flustered, you look so cute." He eye-smiled at her again, twirling her, he had noticed how much she loved that. His lips tugged upwards when he noted her peaceful face. She really was a perfect example of the perfect woman, beautiful in every way, from the inside and outside.
Shisui yelped when Sasuke pulled her against his chest, "Sasuke-kun!"
"That's my name." He answered, a seductive smile on his lips. "Care to give me a magical kiss from your soft lips?" Till now Shisui had never kissed him on his cheeks, she was not a prude since she occasionally kissed Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, Akhiko but never him, not even Tobirama.
She shook her head, smiling, "Sasuke-kun, you're such an idiotic flirt."
"But you still love me?"
Giggling, she pushed on her toes and reached towards his cheek to kiss him but then the sneaky bastard turned his lips towards her and she kissed his lips instead. Her eyes widened in shock while Sasuke used that opportunity to take advantage of her, tasting her sweet peachy lips. When he was satisfied, he leaned backwards, grinning in satisfaction, "You taste like peaches, just like I thought." He ignored two loud angry screeches from Madara and Izuna, he would have to stay away from those two for three months, probably even longer.
"Y-You stole m-my first k-kiss…" Her eyes narrowed in fury and with her Mangekyou Sharingan spinning wildly, she glared daggers at him, "I'll make you sorry for that."
Sasuke shrugged, not really caring about the consequences, he just wanted to taste her rosy lips, "Do whatever you want, it was so worth it." But then he took those words back when Shisui mumbled out one of her strongest Genjutsu, "Seishin soujuu." He cursed, knowing he would be tortured until he could find a way to escape that damned jutsu of hers.
Angry at his bold move, Shisui let him crumple on the ground, stomping towards Hashirama and the rest. Men were so stupid and useless. She hate- "May I have this dance?" A man from the Shimura clan asked her politely. She turned to glare at him, growling, "No. Now scram."
The Shimura yelped at her enraged face and bolted away from her as fast as possible.
Shisui played with her hair, bored out of her mind. She had refused every guy that wanted to dance with her, Sasuke's bold move re-playing in her lips, that bastard. A cough caught her attention and looking up she found her eyes locked with the red-piercing eyes from Tobirama, his hand outstretched, "May I have this dance, Shisui-hime?"
All her anger seemed to vanish and giggling, she accepted his hand, "Of course, grumpy."
"Don't ruin the moment."
"Hai, hai!" She replied quickly, following Tobirama towards the middle of the ball, somehow she found it nice to have his hand around hers. "I got back problems again."
He rolled his eyes at her pathetic excuse of a lie, "You make it so painfully obvious that you're lying."
"I do?" She shuffled simultaneously with him. "Is that a good thing or bad?"
Chuckling softly, he twirled her, "For a kunoichi it's bad."
"As for the massage?"
His eye brows twitched at that word, he was starting to hate it, "What will make you shut up about that massage?"
It was a rhetorical question but Shisui answered it anyway, "Simple, a massage!" She leaned against his chest, listening to his steady heart. "If you promise to give me more massages I'll never speak of that word again."
"Hn."
Shisui closed her eyes peacefully, mumbling, "Is that a yes or a no?"
"Shut up and enjoy the moment." Tobirama grunted, leaning on her head.
She hummed in agreement and the two of the stayed like that, dancing in harmony together while everyone watched how the two were slowly on falling for each other.
