Sylencia – I noticed that! :p But that's alright, I can have Madara all for myself! ;) I'm thinking whether Madara should do that, it would be funny as hell though… Hihi, I know how many fan arts you have, Sylencia. :p I'll stop cock-blocking Tobirama when I feel like it! :p Poor boy will be traumatized for the rest of his life. Seriously, your comment made me laugh but you already knew that. ;)

Sefrys – So adorable! Thank you for the nice review, really, I'm glad there are people out there who like my story. And, of course, Tobirama is a deliciously handsome beast! *.* Shisui wants the best for Konoha, can't blame her though. Thank you for the nice review, it made me blush and giggle. A lot! ^.^

SilverIcy – I just had to write that, of course, it wasn't funny for the couple but since I'm the writer… No complaining, Tobirama, Shisui! :p O-M-G! You just guessed it right, the Nibi is perfectly suited for her, wow, you're good with guessing. :p

treavellergirl Indeed, it will.

The Ice Sorceress – Thought so. About Mito's rare behavior, well, you'll see why she is like that. :p

So here are the ages for the ones that are confused, for this chapter only:

Uchiha Madara/Senju Hashirama=30 years to 31 years old

Uchiha Izuna/Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito/Sarutobi Sasuke=28 years to 29 years old

Uchiha Shisui=25 years to 26 years old

Senju-Uzumaki Akhiko=5 years to 6 years old


Era of the Warring States

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By Angelbloodlover

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~ You are talking about reincarnation and you did not think that there are repercussions?

Senju Tobirama ('The Origins' from )

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Chapter 30: Pennilis Immortalis

"What can I do to make you consider summoning Enma again, Sasuke-kun?" Shisui asked sweetly, leaning her hands on her knees as she smiled gently at him, eyes locked with his.

Sasuke looked at her, his cheeks taking a different change of colour, more leaning towards the red and pink. She was confused as to why he would be like that. "Don't move, Shisui-chan."

"Err…," Shisui started, her confusion increasing dramatically, "is everything alright, Sasuke-kun?"

"Peachy!" He exclaimed happily, his eyes shining lecherously.

Shisui raised her eye brows, wondering what was making him happy like that and followed his gaze. When she noticed what he was looking at, a vein or two popped up her head, "Sa-su-ke…" She grinded through her teeth, straightening her back as she looked down on the cross-legged monkey summoner.

Said pervert smiled sheepishly, waving his hands in defence, "No, Shisui-chan, I wasn't looking at your boobies, I was staring into your heart!" He explained quickly, hoping that she wouldn't hit him upside the head, like always.

"I will crush you and pulverize you until you're nothing more than ashes. I will walk over your dead corpse." She threatened darkly, cracking her knuckles as she eyed him ominously.

He stood up quickly, waving his arms frantically. "Wait! I'll summon Enma! I'll summon him!"

"You will?" She asked him sweetly, all traces of anger gone.

He sweat dropped at that and nodded, eying her warily as he bit on thumb, calling out, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" When the smoke receded down, a giant figure was towering over Shisui, eyes narrowed as he observed the pig-headed woman, known as Uchiha Shisui.

"Woman, why can't you leave me alone?" Turning around to face his summoner, he glared at him, "What did I say about summoning me in the presence of this ridiculous, dream-y girl?"

Shisui's lips twitched upwards in annoyance at the way he spoke about her. "I'm standing here, you know…"

The Monkey King ignored her for favour of glaring at the sheepish-looking Sasuke with crossed arms, "Sasuke, how many times do I have to tell you not to summon me in the presence of this obnoxious woman?"

"Too many times to count." Clearing his throat, he became serious, "Enma, I don't understand why you can't tell her about this legend. What could go wrong-" "Everything! Everything could go wrong, you imbecile! This'll be the last time you summon me in front of that girl. Sasuke, I'm serious with this, don't make me regret my actions…"

Before he could disperse himself and return to his realm, a hand stopped him, more precisely, Shisui's hand, "P-please," She begged softly, her bangs covering her eyes but the way her voice shook, told him that she was on the verge of crying, "I'm not asking for you to do the impossible, I just want some explanation whether this legend is right or not, gauging from your reaction, it must be…"

"Woman, don't you understand the meaning of 'no'?"

Shisui shook her head, "No, if this could help out many sick ones…," Itachi. "Then no, I don't understand the meaning of that word."

Enma shook his head, glaring at Sasuke and then moving his eyes towards Shisui, "This isn't a mere flower, Uchiha, this is a sacred flower that no human ever touched. You think you would be able to touch it, and even get that flower?" He asked incredulous, not even believing the words he was saying.

It sounded utterly absurd and laughable.

To his sheer surprise and disbelief the Uchiha nodded stubbornly, looking up at him, "And what if I said yes?"

"Oh," He raised his eye brow, "So you don't understand the meaning of no but you do understand its counterpart?"

She smirked cockily, "What can I say? I'm just that difficult."

"Wait a moment…" Sasuke interrupted them, looking at Enma and then Shisui, "Enma… are you actually flirting?"

Said monkey closed his eyes in irritation, his eye brows twitching violently. Shisui glared at him, gnashing her teeth together, "You…you…you are so stupid at times! I have a boyfriend! Why should I bloody flirt with your summoner, who is a monkey for Kami's sake!" Taking a deep breath, she continued, "You're a sick person, Sarutobi Sasuke, a disgusting pervert with a distasteful mind."

Instead of looking down in shame, Sasuke stood up, smiling widely, "Thank y-" "Get out of my face!" Surprisingly, it was Enma who punched his summoner, sending him flying while Shisui stood there, regarding the talking monkey with an amused glance.

"Well, thank you for doing that."

Enma straightened his back, looking at her with an emotionless façade, "It was inevitable with the way he was acting…"

She hummed in agreement, sighing in relief, "So…?"

"So what?" Enma started, "You really want to hear about it? Even if I tell you about the legend, you won't get anything close to it."

She only looked at him with a serious look. That woman was so strong-headed, he couldn't even believe it. He was trying to persuade her into not getting interested in this flower but she just kept stubborn. "Seriously?"

"What?" Shisui asked in confusion while inwardly she was wondering when he would start talking about this flower.

Sighing deeply, Enma started reciting about the legend of the pennilis immortalis, "There was a time where no ninja wandered the earth, when the Rikudou Sennin discovered a sacred flower, one that granted eternal youth to the one who consumed it. During his time of travel he had collected a lot of knowledge about humans in general and one thing he was sure of was their greedy nature. So, after deciding what to do with this magical herb, he stashed the flower in a place where no sane person, be it ninja or civilian, would dare to search and misuse the blood orchid. Knowing that the flower would need more protection, he surrendered the flower to a pack of animals, making them vow to never let this plant be misused. Said animals have accepted these conditions and ever since then the flower had stayed hidden from the greedy eyes of human kind." When he finished, he looked at her, wondering if she discovered the link within the legend itself.

"Hmm…so this flower has been given to some animals?" Shisui repeated, rubbing her chin. Her eyes narrowed and she looked at the giant monkey, "How long can a summon survive?" She asked interestedly, eying the monkey intently.

His reply was, "Long enough to know you, your children, your grand-children, you grand-grand-grand-children and so on."

Musing over those thoughts, she smirked smugly, "So, hypothetically, say that this flower would be somehow in the Summon Island-" "Hypothetically." "Yes, and the animals who over time protected the flower, received longevity over life, and grew enormously, in contrary to the normal animals who grew up without that factor, would this be believable?"

"Maybe." He stated in amusement, "That's all I can say. Good luck with this ludicrous chase after this flower." Smirking smugly, he added, "You'll need all the good luck from the world to get even remotely close to it." With that he dispersed, back to his monkey realm.

Bloody bastard.

But Shisui had heard enough, finally after pestering the monkey for days straight, she forced that answer out of him. Now, the question remained the same; how by the sage would she find this Island?


Shisui halted and heard a quiet sniffing sound. Frowning, she tried to find the source of that voice. She was, once again, in the cemetery, having visited her loved ones and now she was in the normal cemetery, the clan-less ones or the civilians. She found a crying boy who was weeping in front of three graves.

She sighed softly- they must have been orphans…

Deciding whether to intervene or not, she waved that away and walked up to the crying boy who was bawling his eyes out. The scene was making her very self-conscious of herself whenever she talked to her dead loved ones- did she also look like that?

She embraced herself for the painstakingly long talk about life and death, this was never a topic she liked to talk about but it was necessary. It seemed that the boy was an orphan too, judging from the simple clothes… How come she had never seen him in the orphanage? Was it because he was already living in his own apartment- Genin who had graduated were permitted to live on their own since they were viewed as adults. It could be…

She was almost to him, a few metres but to her surprise a white blur appeared out of thin air and stared at her with a slight frown on his face. Didn't he know that she was here? She was sure that she had left him a not since he was back at the office, promoting new Jounin to ANBU, a hard task since this required for him to watch the ninja closely as he showed his entire arsenal. Being in ANBU was a hard, tedious task and could probably crush your entire sanity, which was why Tobirama was choosing the promoting Jounin carefully. He didn't want any ninja of Konoha snapping from the stress and become batshit, trying to kill everyone in their path.

Nope, not a good idea, at all.

Shisui shook her head and decided that she wasn't needed here, though she wondered how Tobirama knew that boy. As Tobirama talked to the boy, she just leaned against a tree, watching him handle the boy who was leaking liquids from his eyes, nose, hands… everywhere.

The boy –who for some weird reason looked familiar to her, was wiping his tears, and took the tissue that Tobirama gave him to clean his snot from his worn face. When he noticed Shisui looking at him, she smiled softly at him, sighing softly when he looked down, as if he couldn't bear the idea of smiling back. This made her curious- What happened to that boy?

Instead of going towards them, she stayed rooted in her place, watching how Tobirama crouched down, placing a comforting hand on the Genin's shoulder, his eyes closed as he spoke. She could hear his rich, smooth voice, laced with a tinge of sadness and tiredness that no Genin would be able to notice, only a veteran of the bloody war would. "Listen Kosuke,-" Shisui's entire body froze when she heard that name. It couldn't be Maruboshi Kosuke, Konoha's Eternal Genin, could it? "-Death will never be easy, not for an experienced veteran like me, neither for a newly Genin like you. Each and one of us will try to cope it differently but you can never let it get the better of you. You see, Death is a sneaky and treacherous beast, sucking everything greedily in its path. You can never, ever, let it get the better of you. Your comrades knew what it meant to be a ninja from Konoha, they knew what would happen, they were prepared for it. You can't keep punishing yourself for their deaths, on the contrary, you should honour them-" The boy sniffed softly and looked with wide eyes at the Senju, whom was feared by every enemy. "Don't. Simply stand up, smooth out your clothes and keep going on with Life. Simply weeping for the deceased ones and neglecting your skills is shameful towards them instead continue honing your skills and make sure it never happens again. Use that knowledge you have now to protect your comrades, become stronger, keep training and improving yourself. Life is all struggle, Kosuke, and not made to sugar coat you, do you understand the importance of struggling and fighting to get up?"

Said boy nodded meekly, eyes shimmering with unshed tears, "Hai, Tobirama-sensei…" Again, Shisui wondered how she could miss something like this..?

"Good. What will you do now?"

Kosuke struggled to get up, his fists clenched, "I will continue increasing my skill, I'll make sure that no comrade of mine would meet the same fate as them. I'll become stronger, I will never let my comrades die again. Never." Shisui could see the promise within those brown eyes, the amount of emotions swirling within made her shiver a bit. Such a look in a child's eyes, no matter what their rank was, was pretty disturbing to her.

…just like Itachi's eyes.

Unfortunately, they lived in a ninja world were war and death was inevitable but that didn't mean that Shisui longed for a world were peace was conceding as the winner. She, along with Itachi, had the same ideology, they both loved peace above all else, pacifists at heart. But Shisui could kill of her heart for the sake of Konoha, she would do everything for her village, everything.

Even if that meant killing; it was kind of contradicting her ideals but there was no way she would let Konoha suffer because of it. Sure, she loved peace but above all else, she loved Konoha more and if that meant killing to achieve a peaceful Konoha, then so be it.

Tobirama sighed softly, a tiny smile on his face, "Good, I'll expect you to start training soon."

Kosuke nodded, eyes burning with new determination, "I will," Softer, "Thank you, Tobirama-sensei."

"Don't mention it, kid." Ruffling his hair, he stood up, stretching his hand out for the boy to take it. With a small smile, Kosuke grabbed the hand and stood up, rubbing his red, puffy eyes with his other hand.

Somehow, Shisui activated her Sharingan to memorize that scene- it was beautiful and her mind swapped the boy with someone else- someone who had spiky black hair and a youthful face, long lashes, round cheeks and ruby-red eyes. She blinked her eyes as she thought about that image. It made her smile softly, it made her long for something like that. She straightened her back and waited for the two to catch up to her, smile still plastered on her face.

"Shisui, where you?" Tobirama asked in confusion.

Shisui arched an eye brow, "Didn't I leave a note on the table?"

He shook his head, a troubled look on his face. "I didn't find anything…"

"Weird.." Shisui muttered under her breath, "Maybe it fell or something…?" She shrugged her shoulders, smiling sheepishly when he stared flatly at her, not liking that answer at all. It couldn't be that bad, right? She locked her eyes with the small boy, "Hello, you must be Kosuke-kun, right?" How could she have failed to noticed the resemblance with the Genin whom she worked with back in her Genin days.

The Genin blushed slightly, looking down in shyness, "I'm doing fine, Lady Shisui."

"Kosuke-kun, no need to be so formal, call me Shisui-onee-chan!" She chirped happily, grabbing Tobirama's hand fondly, squeezing his hand. He didn't protest and smirked at her when she smiled widely at him.

"Alright," Kosuke started softly, "I'll call you Shisui-onee-chan."

She beamed at him, he really looked so cute and young. It was weird to see him younger since she had only known him when he was old. She turned to look at Tobirama, "I miss my Genin, Tobi-kun, maybe we could invite them again for dinner? I'll cook!" She suggested, her eyes didn't miss Kosuke's reaction, who hunched his shoulders down, eyes looking away as if in shame, unshed tears shimmering in his eyes. "This time," She smiled softly at the small boy who was killing himself with guilt, "Kosuke, why don't you join us? I'm sure our Chunin would love to meet a new face."

Tobirama titled his head, gauging the Genin's reaction.

The boy, who was still in slight awe looked down at the nice invitation but shook his head slowly, "I-I can't, Lady Shisui…" No matter how bad he wanted to accept it, he couldn't. He should invest his time in training, becoming stronger.

"Kosuke." Shisui spoke with narrowed eyes, "No need to beat yourself for something that was out of your hand." She shook her head, "I'm insisting that you come over tonight, be at the Senju compound at six o'clock sharply and wear something nice."

Kosuke didn't know how to react, desperately looking at his teacher, who shook his head at his girlfriend's antics, "Kosuke, it's better that you just come."

He chewed on his lips, still unsure of it until Shisui spoke again, "Kosuke-kun, don't obsess over training only. You do know you have to live your life fully, no, more so, you have to live on with happiness, for the ones who couldn't live further, don't forget you live for them too."

This made the boy think. She was saying the truth, he was living for those who had died soon. Hesitation lacing his voice, he spoke up, "A-alright, I'll be there, Shisui-onee-chan," Averting his attention, "Tobirama-sensei."

His teacher grunted in reply, his eyes shimmering with mirth. "It was unavoidable, Kosuke."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Shisui asked in outrage, wondering if her boyfriend was mocking her or not.

"Nothing."

She glared at him, huffing in annoyance, "You always do that."

Raising an eye brow, "Do what?"

She narrowed her eyes, pointing at him, "That!"

"I don't know what you're talking about. Please elaborate further in this matter."

Unbeknownst to the couple, Kosuke was leaving quietly, not wanting to disrupt their fight, a small smile etched on his face. Maybe things would go different?

Stomping her feet on the ground, Shisui glared at him, "You can be so unbelievably annoying." Shisui looked around and found no sign of Kosuke, "Huh? Where did Kosuke-kun go?"

Tobirama smirked, "I think you chased him away."

She sighed in defeat, "I give."

Her boyfriend chuckled warmly and pulled the sulking girl towards him, flickering back to the compound.


After sending message birds to the entire crew, Shisui started cooking a giant feast since it was such a long time ago since she saw her ex-Genin students. Stirring the rice, she smiled softly when she felt two arms embrace her from her behind. "Tobi-kun, I'm still mad at you…"

He nuzzled her neck, inhaling her sweet peachy smell, "You are?"

She grunted in annoyance, pushing him away with her butt but instead of staggering backwards, he gripped her waist tightly. She sulked at the unfairness of this all. "Still mad."

"What can I do to make you happy again?" He mused out loud, kissing her throat softly as she tried to concentrate on cooking, she was almost done, only rolling the rice up with onigiri and stuffing it with tuna. She just hoped he wouldn't distract her too much. She shivered when he trailed his fingers up and down her spine, biting her lips as to prevent herself from moaning softly.

Narrowing her eyes, she forced herself to lift the pan and pour the water out, annoyed that Tobirama still didn't release her. As if she would acknowledge him. Afterwards, she took a bowl and filled it with water, mixing it with salt, to make sure her hands wouldn't stick to the cooked rice. Skilful hands pushed the rice together into a round form, which she then proceed to push inwards gently, stuffing it with the tune and then closed it. She repeated this process numerous times and covered the rice balls with seaweed, baking it with sunflower oil.

She didn't even notice that Tobirama was leaning against her head, watching her work expertly with the rice balls until he praised her, "You're very good at cooking."

Taking a deep breath, she decided to stop brooding and hum softly, "My mother taught me." Both of them, was left unsaid since this would be weird to hear.

When she was done, she placed them neatly on a giant plate, decorating it with more seaweed, which she draped on the side of the plate, making it look more luxurious. What could she say? She loved to make it fancier than usual, especially since this was another one of their big dinner!

Ding!

Her eyes moved to the oven, and, shaking Tobirama off her, she padded bare-footed towards it, grabbing the oven mitts, she opened it. Immediately after it, the smell of fresh, baked dango filled the entire house, even Tobirama sniffed it, eyes closed and arms folded as he leaned against the table, clearly enjoying the smell alone.

Puffing her chest out in pride for making the Tobirama react like that, she took the baking sheet out and placed it on the oven, prodding the dango with her wooden spoon carefully and watched with a satisfied smile as the sweetness oozed out of the dango. "Perfect," she said softly, praising herself for her culinary skills.

Sachiko be praised for the special instructions on how to make the perfect dango.

After setting the table, with the aid of her considerate boyfriend, and filling it with many dishes, especially the ones that her family and friends would enjoy immensely, she hurried upstairs quickly, pulling him with her. "Quickly, they'll be coming soon."

Tobirama just sighed in annoyance, knowing that it was futile to struggle and just let himself be pulled towards his room, where Shisui had placed their clothes on his bed. He couldn't even enjoy the bath together with since she was so damn fretting about not wanting to be late.

…he couldn't even kiss her for Kami's sake.

No, he was not pouting. Senju Tobirama did not pout.

"Stop pouting, Tobi-kun." Shisui contradicted his inner conflict.

Damn it. He wasn't that obvious, was he?

"Yes, you were."

He narrowed his eyes at her, wondering if she got a mind-reading skills…

Shisui smirked smugly, "I can't read your mind but right now I can read you like an open book."

Said girlfriend decided to wear something airy and picked out a simple baby blue summer dress with, of course, hidden kunai's and whatnot. Taking her high-heeled sandals, she jumped a couple of times as she put them on, strapping the kunai pouch on her thigh, which she covered with her knee-length dress. Averting her eyes from her shoes, she looked at Tobirama who was wearing a simple dark blue kimono with a light blue obi strapped around his waist, along with black pants.

Simple and yet so sexy.

Feeling a bit daring, she gripped the Senju's kimono, twisted it tightly and pulled the shocked and surprised man towards her, kissing him square on the lips and then released him, walking downstairs to the kitchen. She stopped at the rails of the stairs, winking at him, "Are you coming?"

He blinked his eyes a couple of times and nodded in a daze, following her as he shook his head softly.


One by one the rest trickled in…

Her brothers, Uchiha Madara and Izuna, both respectively escorting the lovely Uchiha Merumi and Natsuki. Hashirama came next, wearing a loose white and brown kimono with said pants, along with Uzumaki Mito and Senju-Uzumaki Akhiko.

"Aunt Shi!" The boy cried out in happiness, running towards his aunt and engulfed her in a tight embrace.

She chuckled softly, grinning widely as she looked down on her cute godchild, "Hello little rascal! How have you been doing?"

"Good! I can almost enrol in the Academy, aunt Shi!"

Mito rolled her eyes as her son started talking about the Academy, he was literally obsessed with it and couldn't talk about anything else than that subject. It was, to say it nicely, starting to annoy her deeply. Hashirama chuckled sheepishly as he glanced at his wife, she had such a temper lately, especially with the way she was reacting heavily to thing around her. They just came back from a family dinner and he had to endure his wife's rambling about everything…

Dear Kami, he just hoped she would get better soon…

"Akhiko, stop pestering your aunt, we aren't even inside the house and you're already talking about the Academy."

Shisui raised her eye brows, wondering what was up with Mito, "Mito-chan, everything al-" "Everything is fine, Shisui-chan! I'm hungry, let's go inside! Go, go, go!" She ushered everyone inside and Shisui had to cringe when Mito bumped harshly against the door.

Please don't kill the door, please don't kill the doo- "That stupid door tried to kill me!" Mito yelled out indignantly, glaring fiercely at the door.

Hashirama sweat dropped, stroking his wife's back, "Mito-chan, let's get you some food, that'll help the pain."

"Food! Where?" Mito forgot all about the door and literally ran inside the house at the mere mention of 'food'. The rest just sweat dropped at that and Shisui couldn't help but think how déjà vu like it felt. "Hashirama-kun, when did Mito show these strange habits…it's almost like she is-" "…pregnant." Tobirama mused out loud, eying Mito with narrowed eyes, he nodded, "Aniki, I'm sure that Mito-onee-san is pregnant." He turned his attention on Shisui, "Why don't you check up on her after dinner?"

The black-haired girl nodded, "I'm agreeing with Tobi-kun here." Turning her voice more casually, "Now, get inside, I have other guests to welcome!" She kissed them all welcome, moving her attention on the little rascals, who were by now full-fledged Chunin, their jacket donned proudly over their torso.

"Ahn, Team Tobirama and Team Izuna, a pleasure to see you guys again!" She ushered them inside, ruffling Hiruzen's hair as he passed her by. Noriko and Koharu glared fiercely at each other, bumping harshly against each other, typical… Silently, she was sad that Sasuke couldn't join them but unfortunately, he had an important mission to do.

Her eyes lit up the moment she saw her team, "Kagami-kun! Danzo-kun! Torifu-kun!" She squealed loudly and ran towards them, pulling the three of them in a bone-crushing hug. Like always Danzo was enjoying the soft cushion, eyes closed in bliss, Kagami was blushing profusely, hands limp as he let her strangle them, he was already used by her eccentric behaviour by now and Torifu happily returned the hug.

When she released the, she looked at her three pipsqueaks, "You guys are growing so fast… I-It felt l-l-like yesterday when I had you three…" She turned her back on them, sniffing softly like a mother who was forced to release her children.

"Shisui-sensei…," Danzo sweat dropped, "We see each other daily." He wondered why she got so overly emotional with them. He didn't see Tobirama-sensei nor Izuna-sensei cry over their students. Maybe it was just a female thing…? He rolled his eyes when Kagami and Torifu fussed over their sensei, those two were so soft…

Shisui turned around and looked at Danzo with pain in her eyes, "D-Danzo-kun…you d-don't l-love me..?"

Said Shimura stiffened at that look, quickly, he shook his head, "N-No! Sensei! I love you!" He scurried towards her, hugging her, "See? I love you!" He repeated, hoping that she wouldn't look at him like that. It felt as if he had kicked a puppy and then spit on the poor animal.

…why was he comparing his sensei to a dog?

The four hugged their sensei again until a loud, growling stomach made them remember that delicious food was waiting for them. Of course, Torifu was the first one to break the comfortable silence, "Gomen sensei but I'm hungry…"

Shisui giggled softly and urged her students to go inside, they may not be her students anymore but that didn't mean she would view them differently.


She looked at the door again, wondering if he would come or not.

Tobirama sensing her distress, walked up to her, placing both his hands on her shoulder, "He'll come, Shisui."

"What if he doesn't?"

Shisui couldn't help but question that, she really wanted Kosuke to join them, he was such a great help to her when she was teamed with him, really. Now, she could repay him with some nice dinner and a warm atmosphere where he could enjoy being a child, pushing all the nasty images away from the darker parts of her mind.

As if Kami had heard her worry, a soft knock echoed on the door and she stood up quickly, smoothing out her dress and walked towards the door. When she opened it, she was met with shy brown eyes, "Kosuke-kun! You came!" She exclaimed happily, ushering him inside.

Once he was inside, he was welcomed by Tobirama who ruffled his hair but when all the rest turned to look at him, he swallowed heavily, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to agree on this?

Shisui smiled brightly, "Guys," She snaked an arms around Kosuke, rubbing her cheek with his, "This is Maruboshi Kosuke, Genin from Konoha."

She pointed at them and identified them with their names, he had heard about the Rookie Nine who had graduated on their first try, exceptional shinobi and kunoichi's alike, all talented and gifted with experienced teachers, important, higher-ups like Tobirama, Izuna and Shisui. Somehow he was jealous of them, if he had received such tutelage his comrades wouldn't have died by his reckless decision, he would still have his team...

They would still be alive and breathing.

Shisui, sensing that the boy was falling into another depression mood, lifted him by his chin, "Kosuke-kun, try to enjoy the day, ne?"

"H-Hai, Shisui-onee-chan..."

Akhiko, who had heard that stood up and ran towards them, all in a flash... "No! Aunt Shi is mine!"

She giggled softly, patting his god child's brown hair, "Now, now, Akhiko-kun, be nice to Kosuke-kun or no dango for you, young man."

Immediately after that, the boy closed his mouth, eying the new boy warily as he hugged his godmother possessively. She rolled her eyes at his antics and pushed the shy boy to his seat, next to Kagami and Danzo, she was sure her students would welcome him nicely. "Kagami-kun, Danzo-kun, be nice." She spoke softly, smiling brightly at the rest of her guests.

"Now, let's start the party!" She chirped loudly, ignoring Madara's roll of the eyes.