A.N.
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"With that the two once warring clans joined forces, becoming the strongest union of ninja that the world had known." Hashirama grinned. "At that point it came time for us to make our village but no one could agree on where to build the settlement. That was until my brother and Madara had unexpectedly joined forces."
Decision
"I knew that even though Hinode and her clan had never been involved in our wars, she had seen their aftermath…and I knew that she had been disgusted by it all." He glanced over at Yūkan and smiled. "Yours was a neutral clan for a reason."
Yūkan smiled and gave the First a firm nod of the head.
"Our people at the time were getting restless. They did not like the idea of moving from place to place. We needed a settlement and fast."
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"The people want a village…" Madara said as he entered the makeshift tent of the two Senju brothers.
"We need land first." Tobirama sighed. "Not to mention we need founding."
"Don't worry, we'll figure something out." Hashirama smiled trying to appease the two men. "Something will come to us soon."
"You're not forceful enough!" Madara exclaimed. "We need something fast. We can't just build temporary homes for our clans only to move to another place like we've done before."
"I understand, but we must wait." Hashirama said firmly leaving no room for discussion.
Madara grumbled as he glared at his best friend before leaving the tent.
"I have to agree with him brother." Tobirama stood and walked towards the entrance of the tent. "We need some land for a village soon." He said before leaving Hashirama to sit at his desk and ponder over their next move.
Tobirama walked past the temporary wooden homes of their colony. The people waved at him in recognition as he nodded at them as he passed by. He looked over their land, although healthy and fertile, it was not large enough to accommodate them all and soon tension will rise pitying them against one another for resources. He stopped as he spotted Madara quietly talking with two men one from the Senju clan the other from the Uchiha. Tobirama frowned; it wasn't often that you saw two men from opposite clans working together.
The silver haired ninja approached the group of men as they suddenly grew quiet and turned to him. Tobirama raised a brow at their unusual behavior and turned to Madara for an explanation.
"There seems to be some strange activity in the forest." Madara spoke.
"Strange?" Tobirama echoed. "How so?"
"We saw some people on horses lurking through the forest…" The young Senju ninja spoke from behind Madara.
Tobirama rubbed his chin in thought. "That's strange. When we came here I didn't sense anybody else in the immediate area." Tobirama narrowed his eyes at the darkening forest in concentration but could sense no one. "How long ago did you encounter them?"
"Not too long, about five minutes ago." Answered a young Uchiha.
"We should investigate." Madara said to Tobirama. "We don't know if they mean us harm."
XXX
"The two took off without telling me." Hashirama chuckled shaking his head at the memory. "When they arrived was when the real trouble began."
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An arrow shot past Tobirama missing his nose by a hair length. Both Uchiha and Senju turned to their right, just in time to see several arrows flying towards them.
"Fire style: Fire ball jutsu!"
The ball of fire quickly wiped the arrows as the two ninja stopped a top two tree branches. The bushes bellow them rustled as something or someone quickly moved past it. The ninja turned around in time to see four figures dressed in black aim a kick at their heads.
Madara swung down to the ground and blocked a kick aimed at his neck and another aimed at his abdomen. Tobirama had moved to higher branch and side stepped all hits towards him until one landed and sent him crashing down to the ground. Madara soon joined him as one of his opponents swept his legs from under him and kicked his chin. The two grunted and pushed themselves up only to notice that they were completely surrounded by people on horses and on foot.
Feeling cornered Tobirama attacked. "Water style: Water Vortex!"
"Earth style: Earth Wall!" shouted several of the men and suddenly a wall of earth shot up between them and the ninja.
"Fire Style: Coil of fire!" Madara exclaimed as he waved his fan around him and Tobirama, effectively taking down the wall.
The two quickly moved into action attacking and taking down several of the men. They fell around them like flies, nothing that they did could stop the two ninja. Some managed to deliver a hit but were quickly brushed aside. They were quickly clearing the area until they felt someone rush at them from behind. They turned in time to see a figure in red rush at them before they were soon pushed back by a series of kicks. They soon realized that it wasn't one person they saw, it was two of them.
Madara back flipped and raised a hand in time to catch the kick aimed at his head, he grunted from the force of the kick as it pushed him back a bit. Suddenly the person twisted in the air aiming a punch at his head. The move took him by surprise so much that he was unable to block it in time and he was quickly sent flying backwards until he crashed into a tree.
Tobirama took out his kunai and blocked all attempts by his opponents to slash his head off. With each block he was being pushed back until the person rushed at him, suddenly disappearing into thin air and reappearing behind him. His assailant hit him on the side of the head with the hilt of the katana with so much force that it sent him flying and hitting the tree beside Madara.
Before the two could react, their hands were tied down to their sides and their bodies restrained by roots that suddenly sprouted out of the ground.
Madara and Tobirama looked up and saw that some of the men had begun to pull themselves up. Their attackers stepped forward, arms crossed over their chests. They wore identical red kimono and donned a tiger mask that looked eerily familiar to both ninja.
The sound of a horse neighing as he came to stop took their attention from their attacker and to the newcomer. The one on the horse wore a purple kimono and tilted his dog masked head at the two men.
"You two are trespassing on our land. Give us a good reason for us not to kill you where you are." Asked the man on the horse.
Both Madara and Tobirama glared at the man and began to struggle, it wasn't until their two assailants' chakra spiked that the two looked behind the man on the horse.
"Lightning Style: Lightning rope!" The two attackers turned shooting lighting out of their hands like it was nothing.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" a familiar voice to them both exclaimed.
Hashirama stood a few feet away from the circle of people. They all tensed for a fight until Hashirama put his hand up in a pacifying gesture.
"I'm not here to fight." He said calmly. "I just came here to check up on my brother and my friend."
"Who are you?!" asked the dog masked man on the horse.
"My name is Hashirama Senju…please, release my friends."
"Hashirama?" the two tiger masked attackers exclaimed in unison. Suddenly one of them disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving only one behind.
"They both…were the same person…" Tobirama muttered slowly as he stared at the back of their attacker.
The tiger masked attacker stepped forward but their path was quickly blocked by the man on the horse.
"No." he said in a low tone but their attacker pushed past him. Hashirama stepped back thinking it was another attack but froze when their hand reached to pull their mask off.
Black hair tumbled down the person's back once the mask was removed. Sapphire blue eyes stared at his own black ones, a small look of wonder on their face. Those eyes…he knew those eyes.
"Hino…" Madara spoke from behind them. The woman looked over her shoulder, her sapphire blue meeting his ruby red.
She smiled. "Dara?" she asked to which the Uchiha gave a firm nod.
"Hino!" Hashirama exclaimed joyously. "What are you doing here?!"
"I—"
"She is Lady Hinode to you and you will show her respect!" the man on the horse exclaimed. Hinode turned to him and narrowed her eyes.
"Yoshiro!" She scolded. "Stand down."
"But sister, these men were trespassing, they injured our men and—" he tried to counter but quieted as the girl raised a hand.
"If it's any consolation, we didn't mean to trespass…did we guys?" He turned to the men still on the ground, both who shook their heads. "See. Now could you please let them go?"
"Hashirama…" she began. "You and your people have been trespassing on our land for some time now. Normally we wouldn't say anything but the feudal lords are at war once again. We have tried to keep out of it, but with two ninja clans on our land…"She sighed. "…We can no longer ignore it. I ask you to please leave."
"We can't do that." Tobirama interjected. "We have too many people. Some are sick and this is the only place we could find that could provide some protection for our people. We can't just get up and leave."
"I'm afraid you will have to find a way." Hinode responded, her demeanor turning into a more serious one. "We have had to fend off attacks from other feudal lords who think that we hired you ninja to fight for us. At first I didn't understand their accusations but now I do." She sighed and turned to Hashirama. "My clan cannot afford another attack, please leave our land or I will be forced to remove you by force."
"But, Hino…" Hashirama began but was ignored as the woman settled herself on a horse, the roots that restrained Madara and Tobirama disappeared as she did so.
Just as she was about to leave Madara suddenly appeared in front of the horse, startling it. The frightened animal stood on its hind legs and neighed. Hinode pulled on the reigns and hushed the animal, patting its head until it settled down. Annoyed she turned her blue orbs to Madara.
"What are you thinking!?" she demanded.
"A compromise." He replied.
Hinode frowned not following. "What are you talking about?"
Madara placed a hand on her horse's head and stroked it until the animal seemed to warm up to him. "What if there was a way for your clan and our clans to live together and make the village we dreamt about as children?"
Hinode scoffed. "That was just a dream created by mere children that had no idea of how the real world worked.''
"But we can make it a reality!" Hashirama exclaimed. "We can do it! All we need is your help."Hinode remained silent as she watched her two childhood friends.
"No." She said slowly as if speaking to children. "I'm the head of my clan, I have to worry about my people and I can't afford to take on some dead end pipe dream." Hinode pulled on the horses reins to make him step away from Madara. "I give you two days to leave my land."
"When did you become so negative?" Madara asked as Hinode turned away from them. "The Hino I knew was always positive and eager to try something new."
"Well the Hino you knew died, after her father was murdered right before her eyes as a consequence of your wars!" She snapped. "Let's go!" she ordered and rode her horse further into the forest followed closely by her clansmen.
XXX
"We couldn't leave. We had nowhere to go and she was our last hope. So the very next day we showed up at her doorstep."
XXX
"Stop right there!" Ordered a guard and pointed his sword at the three men. They stood before a large wooden gate with guards on all sides.
Hashirama raised his hands and smiled. "Calm down we only wish to speak to Lady Hinode."
"She's not taking visitors…" the guard eyed them up and down and scrunched up his nose in disgust. "…Especially not from ninja."
"Listen," Madara began. "All we need is to speak with her."
"You three just don't seem to take rejection well…do you?" A light female voice from behind the guard caught their attention. Beside her stood her brother who openly glared at the three all the while his hand remained on the hilt of his katana.
"Hinode if you would please listen to us—" Hashirama rushed forward but stopped as spikes suddenly shot out from the ground.
"My answer is still no. What don't you understand!? This isn't a game anymore. This is real life, Hashirama, if this fails people's lives could be at stake! Wake up!"
"But that's just it!" Madara intervened. "We really believe this can work. Our clans would work to protect you, you would provide us with money and resources. No one would want to get into a fight with a feudal clan that has the greatest ninja clans at their beck and call!"
Hinode glanced up at the bright blue sky.
"Sister, you can't possibly be considering this!" Yoshiro said as he glared at the two men. "Need I remind you, that it was because of their clans warring with each other that we saw so much death!? It was because of them so many war victims in!"
"We can provide protection." Tobirama restated. "We are two powerful ninja clans, with us you won't have to worry about another attack. We can protect you."
"You have done enough damage!" Yoshiro growled. "You men and your clans are nothing but trouble!"
"Is land and resources really all you want in return?" Hinode asked turning to the silver haired ninja.
"Hinode!" Her brother exclaimed but quieted as she sent him one look.
Tobirama stepped forward to address the girl. "It's all we need."
"Hino, please…" Hashirama kneeled down on the ground. "Our people need a settlement. We will not last much longer without it."
Hinode turned to the men around her. All were wary of the ninja, but at the same time curious of what they could do for them. Her clan would not be able to stand another attack against them again. They were all too tired and worn from fighting ninja sent by the other lords. They had lost many men and some women in the struggle so much so that their numbers were now dwindling. The only reason why they were here now was because they could not bring themselves to leave their leader alone. She knew that they would follow her anywhere even if it meant certain death. Hinode sighed. She couldn't…wouldn't, let her people go through one more attack.
"Meet me at our river and with your clans tomorrow morning. We will make a treaty there."
XXX
"So we met up at the river one last time. Her clan and ours. We agreed to fight for the Marihasha, they agreed to give us land and supplies. They were named the official feudal clan of the fire country, we were named their official ninja army. Together we built the village, little by little several others began to join us. They made the same pact our clans had done. One by one they all professed their alliance to the Marihasha clan and so our settlement grew." Hashirama looked up at the stone ceiling as he remembered the past.
"Madara named the village…you know." He chuckled. "It was Hinode who sided with him, I was on the fence about it." He hummed and closed his eyes. "Madara followed Hinode around like a puppy. He made sure to know where she was and named himself her personal body guard…not like she needed it.
"Eventually another clan joined our village. The Hyuga…Those were a couple of people I would not like to mess with. They quickly assimilated to our way of life, one of their members even offered himself to help Madara in his mission to guard Hinode.
"His name was Hideki…" he laughed. "Everyone could tell that the Hyuga had a crush on Hino and it wasn't until her clan announced that they were giving their role as feudal clan to another smaller clan that we realized what was going on between those two."
"And what exactly would that be?" Asked Sasuke, beside him Sayuri crossed her arms and tilted her head to the side.
"Well…they were going to marry." Hashirama shrugged. "Being the head of a feudal clan, you could only marry another from a clan of similar rank, ninja clans were considered 'beneath' them, since we basically did all the grunt work it was an understandable union. As it turned out Hinode had also fallen in love with Hideki in order to marry him she had to give up her title as clan head. Naturally her brother would assume the role she left behind, but as it turned out Yoshiro rejected it. He believed that it was his sister's birth right and that as long as she lived he would not take the title.
"No other member of the clan would take the title so they decided to name another clan a feudal one and they themselves became ninja. It wasn't like they weren't already acting like ninja themselves. The Marihasha had fought alongside us when our settlement was attacked by invaders, they offered their help, so much so that we forgot that they were essentially our superiors. Instead we thought of them as equals."
"So what happened after that?" Sayuri asked.
Hashirama smiled. "They got engaged."
XXX
"You're what!?" Hashirama asked as he stared at Hinode who took a sip of her tea. Beside him, Madara looked ashen.
"You heard me." She replied as she gingerly placed her cup down. "I am to marry Hideki in six months."
"But…you barely know each other!" Hashirama exclaimed with over acted dismay. "What has it been? Two months? Three?"
"Try three years." Hinode smiled.
"But that's not enough time!" Hashirama wailed as he threw his hands in the air.
Hinode rolled her eyes. "I love him and he loves me. Quit being so dramatic!" she sighed.
The sound of broken porcelain made them turn to Madara who stared at his hand. "Excuse me." He said abruptly as he strode out of the room ignoring Hinode's calls.
"Don't worry. It's just shock." Hashirama patted the girls shoulder before he excused himself and rushed after his best friend.
The Senju found the Uchiha at the top of the cliff that overlooked the entire village. "Mind telling me what that was about?"
Madara glared at the setting sun. "It's nothing. Leave me alone Hashirama."
"Madara…" Hashirama sighed but stopped short as the Uchiha turned to him, his Sharingan activated.
"Not now Hashirama." And with that he leapt off into the Konoha's forest.
XXX
"She announced her engagement that night. That same night her clan stepped down and became regular ninja, naming another in their place. She was happier than I have ever seen her before. But of course so much happiness never comes without a price."
"Madara…" Sayuri whispered to which Hashirama nodded.
XXX
"He's not in the village." Tobirama announced as he landed next to his brother. Hinode turned to Hashirama who shook his head.
"We have to look for him!" Hinode announced as she turned to the village gates but stopped short as Hideki held her back.
"We can look, you have to stay here where it's safer." Said the tall Hyuga.
"No!" the Marihasha shook her head, black stands of hair swept side to side as she did so. "I will come."
The three men looked down at the girl who looked up at them with determination.
"Fine." Hashirama sighed and the four leapt off.
They ran through the forest, the fall leaves brushing against their skin. Hinode had ripped her kimono in several places but she didn't seem to mind. Her brow was furrowed, sapphire blue eyes focused straight ahead. Hashirama, Tobirama, and Hideki all followed closely behind her.
"He's not here." Tobirama announced after fifteen minutes of searching, yet the Marihasha head kept running. The white haired ninja came to a stop. His elder brother did the same after noticing that he was no longer following them. "Hinode, stop!" Hideki slid to a stop and turned to the youngest of the Hashirama brothers.
The konoichi leapt unto a tree branch and turned to the men below her. "What?"
"He's not anywhere near here. We should head back. We've already strayed too far from the village what if—"
"No!" she clenched her fists at her sides. "Madara is out here somewhere and we need to bring him back. It's not safe for him to be out there by himself!"
"And what about us!?" Tobirama replied. "We're not completely safe out here either, you know."
"Tobirama!" Hashirama hissed.
"If you want to head back, you go on ahead. I'm going to keep looking!" Hinode turned around only to suddenly have the wind knocked out of her. There was a searing pain in her abdomen as she fell back on to the ground below.
"Hinode!" Hideki rushed forward but just as he was about to catch her something shoved him onto the ground.
"Hyuga!" Tobirama exclaimed rushing to the man's aid.
"Brother!" Hashirama yelled out blocking an incoming swarm of shuriken.
Tobirama looked over his shoulder and leapt away just as a ninja came towards him with a katana on hand. The man cursed under his breath as he dodged his enemy's swipes. Behind him Hideki cried out in pain and sent his assailant flying back into a tree.
"Hinode!" The Hyuga ran to the bleeding woman and kneeled beside her.
"Hideki…your eye…" She whispered as she raised a hand to wipe the blood from the now empty socket.
Hashirama took out a kunai and stabbed a ninja in the abdomen and turned around immediately to slash at another's neck. He blocked an attack with a kunai and knocked his attacker down cracking the man's skull. He didn't notice the barrage of shuriken until it was too late
"Hinode, Hideki watch out!" Tobirama exclaimed as he pushed another ninja away.
Hashirama turned around and watched how Hinode pushed herself up and threw herself over the bleeding Hyuga. Just then Madara burst through the opposite side of the forest, his Sharingan bright and spinning.
The rain of shuriken ceased, only a light choking cough disturbing the sudden silence.
"Hinode!" Madara cried out, running toward the woman. Below her laid a dead Hideki, one of the shuriken managing to strike him in the center of his forehead.
"Hi-Hideki…" Hinode cried as Madara pulled her away and brushed her hair back.
He quieted her sobs and cradled her to him. "It's going to be fine. We'll get you healed soon and—" Hinode coughed, blood trickling down her chin.
"He-he's gone…" she cried.
Hashirama ran up to the two and placed a hand on the Uchiha's shoulder. Taking one look at the girl, there really was no denying the obvious. "Madara she—"
"Let's go!" The Uchiha head snapped standing up with the woman in his arms. "We have to take her to the village and…"
"Dara…" a weak complaint drew then man's attention back to Hinode who smiled sadly up at him. She shook her head, tears rolling down the sides of her head. "I won't make it."
"No…no, you will just hold on I'm going to—"
"Dara…please." She pleaded the man. She was feeling herself grow tire as the image of her friend became blurry. "Just…let me see him…please."
Madara felt a pang in his chest but complied nonetheless. He carefully removed the shuriken on her back and laid her next to her fiancé. He watched with his Sharingan as she took the man's lifeless hand in hers and smiled. Hinode turned back to Madara and with a tired laugh managed to lift up a hand to him. He took it quickly and cupped her cheek as she kept her smile directed at him.
"It's going to be fine…Dara." She said. "You're going to make a fine Hokage." It was then that her eyes glazed over, her hand in his growing limp and gradually very cold.
"Hino?" he called urgently. "Hinode!" Madara gathered the girl into his arms and pulled her to him.
XXX
"They were rogue ninja. They were after the Byakugan and were killed for it when we caught them. Unfortunately the attack made a divide in the Hyuga clan and the branch family was formed to prevent further attempts to steal their most prized possession." Tobirama spoke from him spot on by the wall.
Hashirama said sadly. "It had been Hinode's wish to name him Hokage…a title she had come up with during a personal meeting. She had said that whoever held the title would be entrusted with the duty of protecting the village and its future." The man sighed. "Unfortunately he was not who the people wanted as a leader. When Madara had asked me to go after the ninja that had killed Hinode and I refused he began to withdraw into himself once again…much like when his brother died." He looked to the group of shinobi who listened to him eagerly.
"He later came to me speaking of a new dream of his, something that he would achieve and left the village…The place that we reached together. The place we desired. Soon the rest of the world praised and imitated our village system, created by an alliance of shinobi clans…Our dream came true.
"Children didn't have to fight any more, instead they learned and played. They were able to live long enough to know the taste of alcohol. But Madara kept attacking the village…as if trying to destroy his previous dream to make room for a new one. So we fought until I took him down, deciding that to watch over the present, I would have to endure."
"Well it doesn't seem like you killed him if he's spearheading the war against the ninja world." Muttered Suigetsu.
"I don't know how Madara could have come back to life, but I am sure that I killed my friend on that day for the sake of the village. The village Madara, Hinode, and I originally dreamt off…something that would connect clans, an important cornerstone to turn chaos into order and maintain it…something to protect children and avoid useless fights. A place ruled by peace."
"Peace that eventually fostered darkness…" Yūkan whispered gaining the First's attention.
"Protecting one's village would do that to someone…" Sayuri spoke thinking of Danzou.
"Maybe Madara was able to predict what would have happened…I am the person who created this situation and I'm also the one who thought it was fine that way. I think that shinobi are people who endure to achieve their goals…but depending on what they choose as their goal, they change. Like Madara, Hinode, and finally me."
"So ninja were meant to endure in order to achieve their goals." Sasuke repeated the first words as if trying to decide on how he felt about that statement.
"My goal was to build a village but Madara found something else. I don't really know what you meant by saying that Madara came back to life and is trying to erase shinobi from this world."
"It's called the Infinite Tsukuyomi…" Sasuke answered. "Village, shinobi, countries, people…it makes no difference, everything will be caught in his genjutsu and he will control it as he likes. What my brother, Madara's brother, and you tried to protect…everything will turn into nothing."
"It's a bit ironic…how in the end the ninja who understood the first Hokage the most, was and Uchiha." Sayuri whispered as she stared at the Uchiha clan symbol on the wall. "I mean…Itachi inherited the First's will, he protected the village by murdering his clan and infiltrating an organization whose aim was to destroy it, he then made his little brother hate him so much to the point that we was willing to kill him. Yet despite all of that he died proud of being a shinobi of Konoha." Sayuri looked to the Hokage and her father and shrugged. "I'm just pointing it out."
"You're wrong." Tobirama said with a slight smile. "Even among my subordinates there was a man like him, Kagami Uchiha."
"Second didn't you say that you disliked the Uchiha?" asked Sasuke with a frown.
"That is not true. I just thought that we should keep an eye on ninja that posed a threat to the village and let me tell you, the Uchiha were definitely worth mentioning. But I will give them credit…they were definitely devoted. There were also many like your brother and Kagami Uchiha who surpassed the boundaries of the clan and did a lot for the village.
He turned to his brother with narrowed eyes. "My brother thought that a village would demolish boundaries between clans but it isn't that simple. He was too soft…" Hashirama turned to Tobirama and pouted. "And Madara was too dangerous; I had to find a common ground in the middle."
"I inherited the will of fire from the first." Spoke the Third. "But perhaps I was too indulgent and didn't continue the Second's work…instead I let Danzou handle the darkness of the village."
Both Sasuke and Sayuri tensed in anger at the man's mention. It was his fault after all that both of their clans were nonexistent.
"I killed Danzou for revenge, but in the end he said that he'd use any means necessary to protect the village."
"He had it coming…" Sayuri mumbled loud enough for the Kages and her father to hear.
"Sayuri!" Her father scolded. "Show more respect for your seniors."
"I'm sorry father, but that man made our lives miserable forgive me for not being sorry!" she sneered to which her father glared.
"Young lady!"
"It's all right, Yūkan." The third interrupted. "It seems all I did as a Hokage was make mistakes, now everything has gone past my responsibility."
"No." The Fourth turned to the old man. "It's not your fault you did what you could. I died when the Kyubi attacked the village. You had high expectations for me as Hokage yet I fell short. If I had lived I could have stopped the Uchiha's coup in some other way."
"He even overlooked me to choose you. Everyone thought it was a pity."
"Believe me Orochimaru…" Yūkan crossed his arms. "No one thought it was a pity."
"Father, show some respect for your elders." Sayuri said sarcastically to which she receive another glare.
Yūkan shook his head. "In any case it's not all your fault. I was the head of the ANBU I should have seen Danzou's attack coming and I should have stopped it. If I had lived then Itachi would have never been ordered to kill his clan."
Sasuke stared at both the Fourth and the former Marihasha head in contemplation. Could they have really stopped it? If they had lived could he and Sayuri still have had their clans?
"So what is it going to be, Sasuke?" Orochimaru asked. "Will you destroy the village or…"
They all watched as Sasuke closed his eyes in thought. Sayuri slowly stepped away from him and stood by the entrance. If Sasuke decided to forgo everything and tried to destroy the village the kages and her father would be a problem. She wasn't much but she was sure she could buy enough time for the few ninja that remained inside the village walls to evacuate Konoha.
Sasuke on the other hand remembered everything he went through. The happy times with his brother, his family, their deaths, his own brother's death and Itachi's last words of affection. Itachi really did believe that he could have changed their family.
"I'm…" they all stilled waiting for Sasuke's response. "I'm going o the battlefield. I won't let this village and my brother be wasted!"
A.N.
I'm sorry this took forever to upload, but life does tend to sneak up on you. To make up for my absences I have uploaded two chapters for you! Hopefully they will make you happy, if not, then leave me a review please? They are very much appreciated :)