Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but i do own this story.
After a few correspondences between them and Ryuutaro Koji, Hashirama and Madara finally arranged a meeting at the Merchant Village. They arrived pretty early in the morning and tried to dodge everybody's attention so they could caught the kunoichi off guard.
The meeting was until noon and they could luckily settle everything: the whole town was going to move to the new Village and they will arrive the morning of the day the inauguration, the leaders just had to tell them the date with three days of anticipation, so they could pack everything and go. It was roughly a 6 hours trip on foot.
When they finished, they tried to find the girls but they realized that Sakura was working at the hospital and they didn't want to disturb her. They felt Hikari's chakra on the woods and decided to visit her first.
Megumi was punching her sensei palms, practicing her aim and movement. She seemed very adept to taijutsu, and she was starting to feel the Chakra on her, but she couldn't do anything else yet. The Takishima felt two familiar charkas approaching and decided to wait to see what they were up to.
"Good morning Takishima-san!" Hashirama said cheerfully as he appeared from the woods. Megumi was caught of guard, missed one of her sensei's palms and stumbled. The girl looked at them and went behind her sensei again just like she did when she first met Izuna and Toka. She was a cutie with her blushing face, the Senju thought.
"Good morning to both of you too!" the kunoichi smiled looking at them and then at her apprentice that was hiding behind her. "Call me by my name please. It's good to see you, how's the construction?"
"Then call me Hashirama" he grinned very Naruto-alike. "It's going very well indeed. We believe than in one week it's going to be ready. Maybe sooner!" he added clapping his hands and looking to Madara with joy. The mentioned sweat-dropped.
"Good morning Hikari-san" the Uchiha said "I don't know if Takato told you in his letters, but we have only some buildings left to create. Today there are groups of our clansmen working the fields; we wanted to have some farms settled to gain some time. Ryuutaro-san sent us the plans and they are following them"
"Wow that's so cool, Uchiha and Senju working together like that" she said, trying to avoid the mention of the Uchiha sibling, because she felt she had blushed a little. Madara noticed that and smirked, but luckily it seemed he was smirking about the 'Uchiha-Senju working together' idea.
"Yes, we're very glad that our people are being united little by little. Hopefully, we'll get to smooth things completely" he answered proud.
"I'm pleased to hear that" Hikari said. "What brings you here today? I didn't know you were coming."
"We came to speak with Ryuutaro-san so we could settle the moving. We asked him not to say anything to avoid alerting enemies" The Senju said this time.
"That's good. By the way, this young lady behind me is Ryuutaro-san's grand daughter." She said pointing her back with her thumb. "Megu-chan why don't you introduce yourself?" the kunoichi smiled at her apprentice. The little girl moved aside pinker than ever, looked at the men in front of her and bowed.
"I'm Koji Megumi, Hikari sensei's apprentice. Nice to meet you" she said to them. The shinobi smiled at her and returned the bow.
"Uchiha Madara, and Senju Hashirama at your service little one" Uchiha said charmingly but serious. Hikari was taken aback by that, he seemed to like children but his face was still stoic Uchiha-like. But Megumi was an odd child, and she smiled broadly to him. Hashirama eyed him and hid a snort which Madara decided to ignore.
"So, the new Village's inauguration might be in a week or so" the Senju said trying to make conversation so they could ask what they really wanted to.
"We look forward to that, does it have a name yet?" the Takishima asked
"I had an Idea but Hashirama said it's not eloquent enough." The Uchiha said rolling his eyes.
"Why's that?" she asked again. He was about to answer but the Senju interrupted him.
"Oh, Please Madara 'Konohagure no Sato' is a very obvious name for a village hidden in a forest full of leaves" he said mockingly. Hikari didn't know that Madara had come with the village's name, was it like that in their time too? Maybe she had studied that at the academy, but frankly she couldn't remember.
"Shut up, it's better and cooler than 'Hokage' for the leader's charge" Madara retorted.
"That is a cool name indeed" Hashirama crossed his arms and looked away. Megumi was looking at the pair in awe and started to laugh.
"You're so funny!" she said "you are really good friends". Both adults were a little embarrassed about the perceptive kid's comment and decided to change the subject.
"We're really sorry to bother you Hikari-san, but we need to talk with you and Haruno San privately if possible" the Senju said seriously.
"What do you need to talk about?" now she was really curious.
"It's about your origins, you know. I mean about where you come from" he said. Hikari looked at him confused, so he elaborated "You know, about the supposedly joke Toka-san said…"
"You're the worst in getting to the point, you know" Madara interrupted him with a plain face. The Takishima's eyes opened widely. Her apprentice was there for kami's sake! How could they be so blunt?
"I believe it's not the moment or the place to talk about that…" she said a bit nervous eyeing the little girl.
"Oh!" the Senju realized what she was talking about "don't worry, we won't do an interrogation…" he said trying to sound carefree.
"So it is true, isn't it?" Madara interrupted again looking at her straight to the eye. He was good at reading people and what she just said and her attitude was a huge statement.
"Come on, five minutes ago you were rambling about me being the worse in going straight to the point, and now you ask it like that!" Hashirama said outraged. The shinobi duo argued a little, and that gave the kunoichi time to think. She knew the time of the truth was coming; they had talked about that with Hamura. 'Speaking of the devil' she thought, and saw Hamura appear behind them, she was the only one that could see him this time.
"Be sincere Imouto, if you don't it will be more difficult later". He said while nodding and disappearing again.
"Yes" she said shyly out loud. The men were still arguing so they didn't hear her. "I said YES" she raised her voice. Both shinobi stopped their fight and looked at her widely surprised. "B-but…" she started and suddenly the earth shook and a loud noise came from inside the forest some kilometers away.
"What the hell!?" Madara exclaimed. It seemed like an earthquake. Megumi hugged her sensei and Hikari felt Ryuji's Chakra approaching quickly. She had a bad feeling about what was going on.
"HIKARI-SAN! HIKARI-SAN!" the teenage shouted as he arrived, he stopped in front of the group as he regained composure.
"Where is she? What happened?" the men heard Hikari ask that to the youngling and they didn't understand what was going on.
"She's in the west side of the forest, we lost one" Ryuji said catching some air with tears in his eyes "A woman and her unborn child, they arrived too late from a town nearby and we couldn't do anything" he added suppressing a sob "I-I didn't know what to do"
"Be calm Ryuji, and stay with your sister" She said grabbing him from one shoulder "I'll take care of her" she smiled weakly. "Megumi-chan you stay and finish training with your brother. I'll see you tomorrow as always" she commanded the little girl.
"Hai Sensei" she said serious. She realized that something big was going on, and her Oni-chan was feeling bad so she wanted to look strong. Hikari nodded and turned to the duo.
"I'm sorry I need to find Sakura before it's too late" she said and jumped to the trees following Ryuji's directions.
"Sakura?" Madara asked looking at her as she disappeared in the branches "We'll go too" he said to Hashirama who nodded and both jumped not fully understanding what was going on.
"SHANNAROOOO!" the shout filled the air and then a huge tree was teared apart in thousands of pieces. The pink haired medic was feeling angry. She hadn't felt this bad since war and she had a strong need to destroy things, some of her Shishou bad habits had rubbed on her too. She was so unfocused that she didn't feel the three chakra approaching. Hashirama and Madara were quick shinobi so they had reached Hikari soon but said anything. When they arrived they watched the destruction the petit kunoichi had done with the place, rocks and trees smashed and scattered everywhere. When the pinkette's rage exploded again she prepared to charge to a mountain wall with her fist full of chakra.
"Wait" Hikari whispered to the men as she took a marked shurinken. They were about to do something but her word felt more like a command, and they didn't want to meddle. They saw her throwing the weapon to the rock and it got nailed in it, then she did some quick hand signs and suddenly appeared where the shurinken used to be.
"That's Tobi's technique! I knew it was familiar when we saw it in the Battlefield!" Hashirama whispered surprised.
"Shut up you moron!" Madara whispered lower and the Senju pouted. "Be ready if something bad happens" he had a bad feeling about this.
"STOP NOW" Hikari shouted from her spot with her arms open looking straight at the medic. At that moment Sakura was charging at the mountain and had little time to see her friend in front of her, she couldn't stop on her tracks because of the momentum, but cut the chakra infusion and moved finally hitting the rock a few inches away from Hikari's head.
"ARE YOU MENTAL!?" She shouted to the brunette as she jumped some feet back. "I'VE COULD JUST SMASED YOUR HEAD YOU IDIOT!" she was enraged.
"YOU NEED TO STOP NOW, YOU'RE DESTROYING EVERYTHING" Hikari matched her voice level looking scornfully at her.
"YOU DON'T GET TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO, I'M NOT YOUR SUBORDINATE" she continued screaming.
"No you're not. You're my friend" the Takishima decided to low down her voice. "And I'm worried about you".
"YOU…" Sakura breathed to calm down. Her voice was hoarse from shouting. "You are not worried, you always felt sorry for me. For 'poor bad tempered Sakura' that destroys everything" she mocked.
"That's not…" Hikari started but was interrupted.
"I'm sick of it, of the protection, of being underestimated, of being incapable" the pinkette spat.
"Stop right there or you'll feel sorry of what you might say" the brunette warned and was starting to feel annoyed "I know you're not being yourself right now"
"You know nothing; you're perfect with your stupid sharingan eyes and all." Her friend said "You're like all of them, you pity me"
"What the hell are you talking about?" the Takishima was mad right now "You're the queen of your own pity party. You're the one that underestimates yourself the most"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Sakura screamed and a huge dark aura surrounded her
"I said that you underestimate yourself the most. You always think about the others but not about you. That's why you were left behind. The only time you wanted to achieve something was when you started your medical training and then it was only for others sake, or because you wanted to catch up with Naruto and Sasuke, It was not even for you" Hikari breathed hard as she finished and prepared. She knew that the pinkette was about to explode, so she added "If you want to let your anger go, you fight me. Don't destroy the whole forest"
"You sure have a suicide wish today" Sakura spat harshly to her friend as she cracked her knuckles and put on guard.
"You know me, I have nothing to lose" the Takishima teased her with her sharingan activated and launched at her.
The kunoichi engaged on an almost all taijutsu fight. Sakura's enhanced chakra fist aimed at Hikari without any guilt, she was lost in her anger. The Takishima dodged them using her Sharingan as she used to do in her spars with Neji; she knew that her punches wouldn't really hurt Sakura though because she was used to endure Tsunade's hits. They blocked and punched each other for like ten minutes.
"I hate everything that's happening" the pinkette screamed while aiming to her friends ribs "I hate being the weak one, I hate not being able to help, and I fucking hate being stuck here!" she added, and the Takishima could dodge the hit and grabbed her by her arm. Hikari was using al her might, because Sakura had monstrous strength, while she was having her trapped she tried to reason to her.
"I know it sucks but there's nothing we can do, so suck it up" she said. That didn't calm Sakura at all it actually enraged her more, so she connected a kick on the kunoichi's other side and freed herself. She jumped some feet back and grabbed a kunai as she waited for Hikari to recover.
"I'm mad, I'm not going to suck it up, so shut up" the pinkette charged again to her friend who had stood up a bit beaten. "If I could kill that idiot that sent us here I would do it" The Kunai clashed soundly and repeatedly "I was finally feeling alright and he forced us to leave everything behind". Hashirama and Madara were looking from the trees in awe. They couldn't believe they were fighting like that, nor what they were hearing. Someone had sent them here without their consent.
"You know they kind of remember me of us" Madara said a bit amused. Hashirama snorted loudly, and then froze in place because Sakura turned and looked at them, first to the Senju and then to Madara. Her eyes were full of emotion the Uchiha could tell, and he could identify some of them. Mostly it was Anger, but he could see sorrow, hurt, pain, loss, and a bit of embarrassment. The pinkette lose the concentration for a moment and finally Hikari could connect a kick that launched her some feet away. Sakura stood up and looked at the brunette full of anger
"YOU BROUGHT THEM HERE!?" she screamed again "YOU LET ME TALK WITH THEM BEING HERE?" the pinkette couldn't believe it.
"They know, Sakura…" The pinkette's eyes widened "Hamura told me to tell them" Hikari tried to reason with again
"YOU COULD HAVE CONSULTED ME!" Sakura shouted "OH WAIT! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? I'M USELESS!" she said with sarcasm and hatred obvious in her voice as she started to walk back and forth mumbling with rage.
"Stop calling yourself useless! And stop having a mental break down every time you lose a patient! You're not Kami, you're just a plain human like me" it seemed that they were not finishing this fight soon enough. Hikari thought a strategy, but it would be risky. She breathed and then shouted "I'M TIRED OF YOUR 'OH I'M USELESS, PLEASE NOTICE ME' SPEECH. YOU REALLY ARE ANNOYING". Sakura's eyes widen up as she froze in place and tears formed in her eyes.
"CHAAAAAA!" she screamed in pain and chakra started to burn on her fist. Hikari activated the Mangekyo Sharingan. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?" the pinkette was outraged; Hikari had crossed a limit, so she charged for one last time with killing intent to her best friend. The Takishima prepared herself and gathered the chakra she had assumed she would need. If her calculations were right, she'll need a big amount of it. She charged to the pinkette too with some chakra on her right fist, it was her only chance.
"SHANNAROOO" Sakura screamed again and connected a punch on Hikari's right jaw, as the latter did the same. Both girls had the other's fist on her face and were thrown back. Sakura's monstrous force threw Hikari several feet away through some trees that broke in half, and the pinkette fell just a few feet back with a huge bump on her cheek. The brunette didn't have enough strength to harm her more but that hit was more to clean her head up than to hurt her. The second the fight was over Hashirama jumped to the trees where Hikari had landed to help her as Madara jumped in front of Sakura to check on her.
"Remind me not to piss you off in the future" His deep voice sent shivers down Sakura's spine. She felt weak and ashamed, he was standing in front of her and she was kneeling down with her fist on the ground and her head low. Madara suddenly heard a sob and realized that she was crying. 'Did I do something wrong?' he asked himself in thought. "Why are you crying?" he managed to ask.
"I'm tired" she said, tears falling to the grass. "I couldn't save her, I couldn't do anything she arrived late. If we just could have the medicines or means to work fine maybe..." she made a pause but quickly continued "I'm useless, and destroyed everything. I beat down my best friend and was mean to her. I am really annoying" and she sobbed hard. Madara was taken aback by her words. So all this destruction was because she had lost a patient, but he could tell there was a lot more to it. He remained silent so Sakura raised her head and looked at him in the eye. She was ashamed she was crying in front to the mighty Madara Uchiha, but there was nothing she could do. "You pity me…" She said.
"How long have you been here?" He simply asked with a serious face. Sakura looked at him surprised of his question.
"Almost two weeks" she managed to answer. He seemed… angry? No, it was more like he was offended by her words.
"How many people have you saved in only two weeks?" he asked again without showing emotion.
"I-I…" the pinkette couldn't really answer "I don't know I don't keep track of that" she finally said.
"I believe you have saved almost 20 people" he answered for her. She was utterly surprised about his statement, she wasn't expecting that. He continued "Only in our battle you saved like 10 shinobi. Here Ryuutaro-san told me you saved his son on your first day at work, and you've been helping a lot of people with very few resources. You're not useless, you just couldn't save one person and her unborn child" He kneeled down at her level and reached for one of her shoulders, trying to ignore the cute little blush that appeared on her cheeks that were soaked by the tears right at that moment. "I know how you feel. I know the responsibility of having someone else's life on your hands and failing to keep them alive. I've been living with that burden most of my life, and I can't even heal as you do. The only thing I can do is protect them. You have a gift, but that doesn't mean you can save everybody. As I grew up, I realized that it was not that I was failing, I did my best and helped a lot of my clansmen, but just couldn't help some." His expression softened as he looked at her with eyes full of emotion "So… How can I pity you?"
Sakura was at loss of words. She couldn't take her eyes from his, he was comforting her and it was working.
"I have no doubt that you'll keep saving more lives" Madara continued "but sometimes you won't be able to. If you ever feel like this again, come and find me. I will tell you the same again until you get it." He smiled softly at her and she felt her heart skip a beat. He knew this was all a bit awkward so he added "We're just finishing the new village, so please stop destroying scenery" and now he smirked mockingly releasing her shoulder. She became red as a tomato, and suddenly burst in laughter losing her balance and falling on her butt on the grass. Madara sat down too and snorted and that's how Hikari and Hashirama found them.
The Senju had found Hikari on the grass beaten up. She seemed to have no serious injuries from that last impact because she had used her that Mangekyo technique to cover her body with an armor, he had seen Madara use it once. But she was bruised and seemed to have a broken rib from before the last punch. He put her right arm around his neck and helped her walk back to the field where Sakura and Madara were.
"Well that seems very out of character of him" the kunoichi commented while blinking in surprise.
"You'll be surprised if I tell you that the one you're seeing is the real Uchiha Madara. He was like that when we met as kids, always irascible but with a great sense of humor. He used to smile in spite of his pain." The Senju told Hikari "It's the first time in a while that I've seen him like that. I'd rather not interrupt them but you need to be checked up by your friend, if you insist on not using my chakra".
"It's ok" Hikari said. She didn't want his chakra because it was Asura's and she didn't know if maybe that would cause something if it got mixed with her Otsutsuki's Chakra. "It's not that they won't have any more moments like this. They're gonna see each other at the Village every day, we can make this happen again" she smirked at Hashirama
"Ohh I see… You're right" he smirked too "I would love to see this pair interaction daily. It's good to know that I can count on you as my accomplice" Hikari sweat dropped, but it felt nice to talk like this to the future Shodaime. It was like having Naruto at her side again. Then he cleared his voice. "It's good to know you're fine Haruno-san, but I believe Hikari-san needs your help here"
Madara and the Pinkette stopped laughing a bit embarrassed, and the latter stood up abruptly and run to her friend's encounter. She looked at her all bruised and almost started to cry again.
"I'm so sorry" she said "let me run a check up on you please! Senju-san please keep her standing". She started to emanate healing chakra while scanning her friend for injuries.
"It's okay kid, I believe you've broken a rib. But there's nothing else worth the worry" Hikari smiled to the opposite side of her sore jaw.
"I can't believe how you survived that impact with no harm" Madara said this time. He had stood up to from his spot and walked to them. "That simple hit might have destroyed your jaw". Hikari smiled sheepishly.
"I sent chakra to my skull to protect it. I knew once I said that, Sakura would release all her anger" the mentioned lowered her sight at her comment "Hey don't feel down. Luckily my calculations were right. I sent chakra to my fist too, because it was the only way to stop you. You're insanely strong, you know?" She smiled trying to cheer her up but failed.
"That still doesn't explain how you survived breaking all those trees" the Uchiha continued, he felt the way Sakura's aura was moody again, but they had to talk about that to overcome it.
"That's because in the last minute I activated my Mangekyo and formed a small Susanoo armor to cover myself" she explained "I'm not very adept to that technique, I can only form the thorax, neck and helmet. So it all depended on the way I hit the trees." That's why her eyes were a bit bloody, because of the extreme use of the dojutsu.
"Ok, you only have a broken rib. I've healed everything else" Sakura said. "I'll fix that now. Senju-san hold her still again please".
"Of course! And its Hashirama, Haruno-san" he smiled at her.
"Thank you Hashirama-san, It's just Sakura, then" she nodded smiling weakly, and then looked at her friend "You'll hear a bang and it will hurt but that's only the bone aligning, then it's just weld it." The Takishima nodded too and took a deep breath. Then the bang came and Oh, Kami it hurt like hell! Once she was all healed she let go of Hashirama and thanked him.
"I'm Sorry Hikari-chan" Sakura Apologized. "I don't know what happened to me, I thought I had learnt to control my temper" she was ashamed.
"Come on Sakura! You needed to release that frustration. We both did. I'm not happy of being here either, but we must cope with it." The Takishima said "I'm sorry for not consulting with you first about telling them. They interpellated me, it all happened at the same time." She stopped because she had remembered something. "We shouldn't be speaking in the open. Let's go back to the town and eat some lunch. I'm starving!" She motioned everybody to go.
"Wait, we're good, aren't we?" Sakura asked her serious.
"Of course we are baka" the brunette said smiling broadly. "You're my best friend; I'll always be there to beat the hell out of you if you're in trouble!" They both laughed and Sakura's tears were now from joy and relief. "I'm sorry that I pulled out the annoying card, it was a lousy thing to do"
"Come on, you used it well. If that's the case, it helped me to relieve past frustrations" the pinkette said sarcastically.
"Wait, what's the 'annoying card'?" Hashirama said.
"You never call Sakura annoying unless you want to be beaten from here to the moon" Hikari explained simply. Sakura nodded. "Her childhood love used to call her that and that messed with her head." They both laughed ironically at that phrase.
"How could you be annoying?" Madara asked not understanding.
"I was pretty annoying when I was little" She simply said "Though it's very sweet of you to think that me being annoying is not possible" Madara almost choked with her praise.
"Come on, you were a twelve year old with a crush, of course you were annoying!" the brunette said "He was an idiot obsessed with killing his brother though"
"WHAT!?" the men asked at unison
"You say that, but Itachi-san really messed up with his head" she defended the unnamed boy.
"That's true, but he was still an obnoxious and cocky brat even when everything was okay" Hikari retorted "I am relieved that you don't like him anymore". Sakura became quiet and Madara didn't know why he was feeling anxious about what her answer would be.
"Can't say that's not true. I'm also relieved of that" The pinkette said and snorted. "Would you two join us for lunch?" She asked the men who were still trying to process that little piece of information the girls leaked. "We can talk properly about what you wanted to know." Madara straightened up and looked at his friend.
"We'll be delighted to accompany you fair kunoichi" Hashirama said gallantly. Sakura smiled and walked back to the town chatting with Hikari about the fight. The shinobi followed them. Madara was pleased to hear that she was in good spirits again. She was telling the brunette how to improve her Taijutsu. He absentmindly smiled, and Hashirama elbowed on his ribs and mocked him. The Uchiha threw a dead glare to the Senju but resumed walking. Sometimes he hated that busy nose man.
The quartet arrived to the town and went to the Inn's small restaurant that was empty at that moment. The Inn keeper served them some Inarisushi and onigiri and left them alone when Hikari told him that they needed to speak in private. Once he was gone she did a silence jutsu, so nobody outside the room could hear, and they started to eat peacefully.
They talked about the food and the construction of the Village. It was a nice chat, Hashirama was very funny and Madara was more bad tempered but could be surprisingly funny when he wanted to. He seemed so different from the Madara of their time. That poor man might have suffered a lot the kunoichi thought in unison. Sakura felt for one moment the need to protect that man's laughter, the destiny he had had on their time was too cruel. And he didn't even deserve it. She immediately felt silly and blushed a little but excused herself to go and find some tea. She came back ten minutes later with a big teapot, four mugs, and some dango. She poured tea for the four of them and left the sweet treat in the middle of the table.
"Mm… Jasmine tea it's my favorite" Madara said pretty relaxed. It was odd for him to feel this way with people that were not his siblings. He tasted the dango and it was like he was eating the most delicious thing in the world, he became speechless. Hashirama, who knew him well started to laugh hard.
"You love that dango that much that you can't even talk!" the Senju mocked.
"Shut up and eat. You tell me then what you think" the Uchiha retorted not amused. The girls laughed at the interchange. Hashirama ate the dango and almost fell back of the chair. He was all teary with joy and exclaimed.
"This man has to establish a bakery shop in the village" the Senju said dramatically.
"Yes, and it is going to be on the Uchiha District of course" Madara said wisely.
"Hey! Why do you get to keep the dango?" his friend said offended.
"Because I ate it first and you mocked me." The Uchiha continued "Besides, the finest things must be on our District" he spoke cockily but joking. Hikari remembered that the Uchiha compound used to have the best Dango shop in the Village, and it was Itachi-kun's favorite.
"It's good you liked the Jasmine tea. It's my favorite too, you know?" Sakura intervened to stop the shinobi pair fight. Both men stopped the quarrel and nodded a bit ashamed.
"So, you wanted to know about our origins" Hikari said straight to the point like they had done earlier in the woods. "We can't tell you everything now. We must wait until the Village is settled. But we can tell you this. We are indeed from far ahead on time".
Madara and Hashirama expression was priceless. Even though they had been the ones with the theory and that had confronted them, finally hearing it from their mouth was astounding.
"We were sent here by some kind of divinity to stop some evil being that wants to destroy your world" Sakura said. "We'd love to tell you more, but we need to wait to the Village's creation. It's very important that it happens."
"Is it possible…" Madara thought out loud "I'm sorry, but is it possible that you come from our Village in the future? That would explain why you're son interested on it" Hikari nodded.
"As Sakura said, we can't say much right now. But you're not wrong" She explained.
"Anything we say may alter the course of your history line more" Sakura added.
"History line?" Hashirama asked.
"We can't explain that with exactitude, but it seems that the future from which we come it's not actually your future. Our arrival here has altered and created an alternate world." The pinkette continued. "So we want to maintain the most important thing you need to do. The creation of that Village."
"Does that have something to do with saving my siblings?" Madara said. Both kunoichi were surprised this time.
"Maybe… we actually don't know." Hikari said. "How did you come with that conclusion?"
"When you tell us your full story that will be explained to you, because it's not my right to explain it" he answered.
"Sounds fair" the brunette replied. "Do you have any more questions?" she asked.
"Tons of them" Hashirama said "But I believe you would say 'It's not the moment to answer that' so we'll wait." He laughed freely and then became pretty serious. "The only thing we need to know is if we can trust you. Are you really friends or foes?"
"We are loyal shinobi to your unborn Village" Hikari said serious.
"No matter what timeline it is" Sakura added proudly.
"Wow, that was moving!" the Senju exclaimed. Madara just smirked. They weren't lying, and both men could tell that.
"Do you have any problem with us being from the 'future' as you say?" the Takishima asked.
"No we don't" Now the Uchiha spoke. "We're sorry that you're stuck here though" both girls blushed a little; they didn't want to offend them. But they suddenly realized that he wasn't offended, he was really concerned because he added "There's no way for you to come back to your time?"
"Sadly not. Because the future of this time is not ours as we said. So if even if we could go forward, it wouldn't be our time." The pinkette explained. "So we need to settle here"
Secretly Madara was happy to learn that Sakura couldn't leave his time, but also he felt sorry about them. They had left all their lives and precious people behind.
"Okay. Please feel free to have our Village as your own Village. We'll continue speaking once it's inaugurated" He said, and he changed the topic to lighten the mood "Sakura-san, would you please tell us the directions to build the hospital? We also need to know if you need any resources, so we can gather them". Sakura smiled with enthusiasm and took a scroll and a pen that the Uchiha offered her. They spent the rest of the afternoon talking about the Hospital, how to build it, the supplies, and all kind of stuff. The pinkette also gave them a list with all the herbs she needed, and even drew the plants that would look the same but one could be deadly and the other one not.
In the evening, the Inn was starting to fill again so they released the Jutsu and left the place. While walking through the main street Madara thought out loud: "I hope our Village has this life in the future."
"It sure will" Sakura answered and the Uchiha looked at her as if she was spilling the beans "Wait, I'm not spoiling anything! It's just mere logic. This Village will move to yours. The shops and the life will be moving too." She explained
"Well, that's true" the Uchiha said "I believe that it really won't take a week long to finishing the buildings. We thought the hospital was harder to make, but maybe in three days it might be finished. Tomorrow we will know. We can get the supplies once you're already there."
"Yes, that could be done" the pinkette said.
"We got to get going ladies" Hashirama said ending the nice evening. "Our siblings might want to kill us because we've been far from work long enough" he laughed nervously putting his hand behind his head, and thinking of Tobirama's scornful look.
"And you need some rest" Madara told both kunoichi "We do too. We'll see each other pretty soon." He nodded "I'm glad you trusted us enough to tell us something that important"
"Thank you for your trust, Madara-san, Hashirama-san" Sakura said politely.
"We promise we'll tell you everything once we're all settled there." Hikari added.
"Konohagure no sato will be waiting for you" Hashirama said. Madara looked at him annoyed.
"That's a lovely name" the pinkette commented.
"Thanks" Hashirama thanked charmingly.
"You thief, that name was my idea!" the Uchiha complained, "and you said it wasn't a good name"
"But the girls like it, so it might be a good one" the Senju defended himself
"Whatever" Madara rolled his eyes like a teenager and folded his arms on his chest. The Kunoichi looked at them a bit surprised and then grinned.
"We'll see you in some days then" The Takishima commented and bowed.
"Until next time" Sakura greeted.
Both shinobi bowed and thanked for the Hospitality. After one last look, they left the merchant Village to catch up with Takato and Tobirama in Konoha, their new Village.
*AUTHORS NOTES*
June, 8th was my birthday so I couldn't update earlier. Thanks for the new favs and follows. Please review if you like it.
I wanted to write the fight beetwen the gals like two chapters ago, I only had the idea in my mind. Love Madara and Hashirama interation, and definetly Madara is the best.
I forgot to tell you, I have some sketches on Deviant Art if you want to check out how the girls and the Uchiha look like on my fic. I'm still working on more styled designs. You can check on them here:
Uchiha Siblings: bellahikari/art/UCHIHA-SIBLINGS-798570612
Hikari: bellahikari/art/My-OC-Hikari-Takishima-sketch-Narutoverse-796066502
The girls arriving on the battefield: bellahikari/art/Battle-Poses-795811285
Read you soon!