Madara stared upon the fourth division and started walking until it turned into a quick sprint. The fourth division gritted their teeth, clenched their knuckles, and even prayed to any god that would listen.
When Madara clashed with the fourth division she killed almost anyone with a single blow, she only had her Sharingan active as there was no need for anything else. She would use her gunbai to deflect swords, kunai, and even ninjutsu.
Anyone stupid enough to get in her way died before Madara saw the nine tails' jinchuriki, "All too easy," she thought. Even with the vast amount of enemies, it was still nothing compared to her power. She was hit by a gust of wind from a Suna kunoichi.
"Don't underestimate me!" She said. Madara merely brushed the sand off of her shoulder, "Impressive wind Jutsu, but you should already know wind amplifies fire." she began weaving hand signs and took in a deep breath, "Fire style: Majestic destroyer flames!"
The whole fourth division was almost engulfed, but twenty water-style users projected a wall of water. The battlefield was obscured by steam, and Madara rushed in and continued the slaughter.
Madara was exhilarated by battle, she felt the pounding of her heart, the feel of others' blood dripping down her hands It gave her some semblance of normality, that of which was through the danger of death.
She was hit by a wave of sand that almost suffocated her into a pyramid, but her Susanoo was able to break her free from the sand pyramid. Madara remembered that Obito described the one tails' jinchuriki as a young adult with red hair who could control sand, "You are the one that killed Deidara, yes?" Madara asked.
"I killed the blonde Akatsuki that attacked Sunagakure if that's what you're asking." He answered. Madara was blindsided by the nine tails jinchuriki as he attacked with a spinning blue ball, she simply blocked it with her gunbai.
Madara smirked, "Uchiha reflection!" The boy was merely a shadow clone and the real one wasn't within five kilometers, she could tell he was a shadow clone but decided to give him his medicine anyways.
Madara heard a high-pitched sound and quickly dodged a beam of light that cut a rock behind her, Madara recognized the caster of said jutsu from her trip to the hidden stone village with Hashirama.
He had the particle style which nullified almost every jutsu and could disintegrate a person if need be, "I'll stop you here and now, Lady Uchiha!" Ohnoki said.
"You have grown old, Ohnoki. But you cannot touch me, you are not Hashirama," Madara said.
Ohnoki created a stone golem, and Madara destroyed it with her Susanoo's Yasaka beads. "Oh please, your stone golem is nothing more than a cheap imitation of Hashirama's wood golem."
Ohnoki looked at Madara like she wasa deity, Gaara snapped him back to his senses. Madara was growing bored of these weaklings and jumped atop a rock pillar, "Well then, I will show you the power gap between a Kage and a Goddess." Madara activated her Susanoo and formed hand signs that her Susanoo copied.
The fourth company looked around confused until a shadow formed over the barren wasteland, Madara enjoyed the sight of despair on their faces. A giant meteor fell through the clouds slowly and burned through the atmosphere, the only thing Madara heard was, "Is this the power of a god?"
She smirked to herself, how she enjoyed superiority. Ohnoki flew up and attempted to stop it, he strained his body with the weight of the meteor. Gaara used his sand to stop it as well, they barely managed to stop it before it hit the ground.
The whole fourth division cheered in unison, but Madara only laughed, "Very good Ohnoki, you managed to stop it. But what will you do about the second one?"
A second meteor came into view and smashed into the first, Ohnoki screamed in pain and Madara manifested her Susanoo to protect her from the devastation.
There was so much dust and sand in the air that the daylight was hidden by the sand and dust, Madara admired the sight and noticed the sand user and the Suna kunoichi survived along with Ohnoki.
The reanimated Tsuchikage stood next to Madara, "I see you've had your fun, Miss Uchiha." Orochimaru's voice could be heard through the reanimation.
"Fun is not something one does when solving world peace, but battle... Is truly a marvel to partake in." Madara said without looking at him.
The Edo Tsuchikage attempted to use particle style on Madara, but she absorbed the attack with the preta path and turned around to show her Rinnegan.
"I have been backstabbed before, it will not work a second time," Madara said.
"I can't have you around interfering with my ascension to ultimate power." He replied.
Madara was aggravated by the snake man, "Do you think it wise, serpent? Only a Senju can match an Uchiha."
Madara said as she used a wood-style technique to bind the Edo, she walked up to the bound Edo and ripped his soul out with the human path.
"You're not the only one with a Rinnegan, Goddess of Shinobi," Orochimaru said before the Edo Tsuchikage crumpled into paper and the human sacrifice. She balled her hand into a fist as she was infuriated at the thought of another being having a Rinnegan, but she calmed herself as new Shinobi joined the battlefield.
It was the Fourth Raikage, the fourth Kazekage, and a blonde medical ninja. The Kazekage hugged the red-haired boy and the Suna kunoichi "His children," Madara surmised. The medical-nin stared at Madara with a burning hatred in her eyes, "Madara, you will pay for what you did to my granduncle and grandfather."
"Oh? And who might you be?" Madara asked curiously.
"I am Tsunade Senju, the granddaughter of the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju!"
"Ha, that is impossible. The albino prick could not love anything but the hate he has for the Uchiha."
"After my granduncle was reanimated, he told me that he'd only married my grandmother but didn't have children with her," Tsunade explained.
"Lies! Hashirama is nothing but a liar, he promised for me to be the Hokage. He probably fucked that Uzumaki whore until she could not feel her legs anymore!" Madara said, her anger showing.
Tsunade was taken aback by Madara's words, she could tell Madara had some underlying feelings for her granduncle. Possibly even betrayal from Hashirama's marriage to Mito.
The Kage felt out of place because of the family feud, Rasa whispered to his children and they fled the battlefield. Ay began losing his patience and started yelling at Madara, "Damn Uchiha, you killed my brother prepare to feel the wrath of the Raikage!"
It was a joke to Madara as not a single Kage could compare to Hashirama, "If that is what you want then by all means, come and show me this wrath." She mocked.
Ay rushed forward with Tsunade and Ohnoki on his back, she considered Ay fast but not fast enough. She activated her Susanoo and swatted away the Raikage and Ohnoki, Tsunade was able to punch her Susanoo.
Madara was irritated, she had never seen such a weak Senju since she was a child. She swatted away Tsunade as well, "There are two things I despise, weaklings and a weak Senju. You cannot be related to Hashirama, his mere cells are strength itself."
"I am anything but weak, I guess I'll show you my grandmother's special technique. The Hyakugou seal." Tsunade countered as she unsealed the marking on her forehead, lines went all throughout her body and face.
"You think that Uzumaki whore had a technique that could beat me? Unlikely, as she could not harm a fly." Madara said before the four rushed her with a flurry of attacks, she dodged Rasa's gold dust and a speed-amped Ay. Tsunade punched the ground beneath Madara and caused the ground to shake, causing Madara to be off-balance. Rasa covered Madara in a gold dust cube, it grew smaller until there was no cube at all.
Tsunade was then stabbed by a Susanoo sword in her chest, the Madara they attacked was a wood clone and the real Madara hid behind Tsunade. Everyone was shocked to see as Tsunade cut the sword in half and pushed it out of her body, she regenerated the hole it made and stared down at Madara more determinedly.
She laughed at the poor excuse of a healing jutsu, "Your jutsu is nowhere near that of Hashirama's healing jutsu, he could heal without even casting a hand sign. So what makes you think you can beat me, medical-nin?"
"Cause we have hope for a better tomorrow, something you and my granduncle believed in," Tsunade said before Ohnoki used a particle style on Madara she used her Rinnegan to absorb it but her hand started shaking as she absorbed it, it wasn't the shake of fear or exhaustion, it was the shake of emotional turmoil. Rasa noticed this and paid attention to the words Tsunade used.
Madara was growing irritated and conflicted with this battle, "Enough! I have no more time to play games, I will use the same Jutsu that defeated me several times. Wood style: Deep forest bloom." She summoned a giant forest with flowers that emitted a narcoleptic mist.
Madara used her Susanoo as protection from the mist, she couldn't help but remember Tsunade's words and why it was bothering her. "Was she being honest about Hashirama not having a sexual relationship with Mito?"
"No!" She blocked the thought from her mind and watched as the three Kage and Tsunade fell asleep.
Just as Madara closed her eyes a beam of light cut through the deep forest bloom and grazed her shoulder and left breast, she gritted her teeth as she held her left breast and shoulder.
Ohnoki was able to cut the top of the forest bloom and managed to graze Madara, everyone came to and realized what Ohnoki had done. They all looked at Madara who turned her back to them, Madara realized what had happened and decided it was better to show them how she was able to use wood style.
She turned and revealed Hashirama's face above her left breast, Tsunade was in shock to see her uncle's face on Madara's body. Ohnoki and Rasa had gotten nosebleeds at the sight of Madara's exposed breast while Ay was disgusted by such an act of indecency.
"What?! But how is that possible?!" Tsunade asked with panic in her voice.
"It is simple, my dear. During my fight with Hashirama I bit him and stole some of his skin. After I reawoke from a timed Izanagi, I smeared his DNA onto the wound he caused. That is how I can utilize his wood style, it also unlocked my Rinnegan as you can see." Madara explained with an undertone of arrogance.
Ohnoki was in awe that this was the same woman he met as a boy, he first saw her with the first Hokage when they visited the stone village for peace negotiations. She wore the same armor then but had a Konohagakure headband.
The day was August eleventh, The first Tsuchikage was waiting at the gate to the hidden stone village. Along with his student Mū and his grandson Ohnoki.
"Grandfather, why are we waiting for foreigners?" The young Ohnoki asked.
"Because Ohnoki, we are going to greet our most revered guests," Ishikawa said.
"But why are they so important, you're the most important person in the village," Ohnoki said.
Ishikawa sighed, "There are other places outside of the village, and these are the most important people in the Shinobi world."
The young boy looked defeated, "But that still doesn't answer my question."
Mū decided to interrupt, "The Hokage of the hidden leaf, Hashirama Senju, and his bodyguard, Madara Uchiha."
"Senju and Uchiha? How did that happen?" Ohnoki asked curiously.
"To be honest Lord Tsuchikage the boy's got a point, how did that happen? They were rival clans." Mū said.
Ishikawa rubbed his beard, "Some say there is a Senju and Uchiha baby from one of the main families, my bet is on the leader Madara for knocking up a Senju woman. Those Uchiha have been known to value family more than anything." The old man laughed.
"What are you talking about grandfather?" Ohnoki asked curiously.
Both men were apprehensive about the question and were lucky when two figures came into view as to not answer the twelve-year-old. The figures both had long hair and the ever-growing popular, Shinobi headband with the symbol of a leaf. One was a brunette wearing red armor with the Senju crest on the collar of his armor, while the ravenette did not have armor on their collar and from what he could tell was unarmored on the back.
The brunette walked up to Ishikawa and shook his hand, "Thank you for agreeing to house our negotiations, Mr. Tsuchikage. I am Hashirama Senju and this is my best friend Madara Uchiha," he said as he motioned towards the ravenette.
Ishikawa greeted them, "The pleasure is all mine Lord Hokage, but I take it you've had a long journey from Konoha. We'll escort you to your room, we've given you the best room we have in my estate."
Hashirama laughed nervously, "Room, as in singular? I was under the impression we'd have separate rooms, but if it's okay with Madara then..."
Ishikawa understood that he probably wanted some privacy from his traveling companion, "My apologies, we thought there would be no issue for two men to sleep in the same room. Especially war comrades, as I'm told since I haven't fought in a long time. But if you would like some privacy then, by all means, we'll have a second room set up." Ishikawa said.
The ravenette was slightly annoyed but did not show it but responded for the Hokage, "It is alright, as long as there are two distinct beds, after all, I would not want an assassination attempt on my Hokage." The ravenette said with a low and calm feminine voice.
Hashirama was a blushing mess when the ravenette specifically said My Hokage, but the two stone-nin and young Ohnoki were shocked as they were under the impression Madara was a man, "My apologies, Lady Uchiha! Your reputation spoke of a proud and powerful warrior, we didn't-""Did not what? Think that a woman could be such? Because to me it does not matter if you are man or woman, I do not care about such things." Madara said as if she wasn't insulted.
The two stone nin and Ohnoki were terrified of the Uchiha, her reputation was that she was scary but add on top of it a woman. How unfortunate for them.
Hashirama was now even more nervous as he laughed, "How about that room, huh?"
The trip to the Tsuchikage's estate was fairly quiet except for Hashirama conversing with Ishikawa, "So how did you manage to get the Uchiha to agree to a treaty?" Ishikawa asked.
"Well, it all started when I met Madara during my youth, we dreamed of a village where everyone no matter what clan, could live together. Our father's found out about our meeting and forced us to fight, luckily nothing bad happened, but we were no longer friends and fought each other for many years. It wasn't until she asked me to kill myself and stopped me, that she agreed to a peace treaty."
The Tsuchikage was a little overwhelmed by the whole story but thought it was interesting that such a pair did not get married yet, "Forgive me for prying but have you considered marriage, Lord Hokage?"
Hashirama laughed, "No, I'm waiting for the right girl. And besides, I want to enjoy being single, you lose a lot of freedoms when you get married."
Ishikawa laughed as well, "Too true, sometimes I miss being your age."
Madara was listening ever intently but was caught off guard by the young Ohnoki, "What about you Miss Uchiha, have you considered marriage?"
Madara blushed like a tomato, "Well I... No! Not since my father arranged my marriage to a Hyuga prince, he thought me some object in a trade. My Father's disappointment when I killed the Hyuga prince was the second time I had seen him so angry." Madara smiled to herself.
"I see... Well, it's never too late to think about love, it is the oldest and strongest thing we have. I'd hate to see a young handsome man and a young beautiful woman waste their lives on nothing but work." Ishikawa said with a tentative smile.
Both Hashirama and Madara were flustered by the Tsuchikage's words, Ishikawa saw the fear in Hashirama's eyes as he looked away from Madara. It was the fear of rejection, an old man like Ishikawa could tell that the young Senju was in love with his best friend.
Mū spoke up to interrupt the awkward silence, "Lord Hokage-sama and Uchiha-hime, can you tell us about your favorite battles you've partaken in?"
Madara was quick to respond even at being called a princess, "I have partaken in many battles since my youth, but the only battles that I have truly enjoyed were when Hashirama pushed me to my limit." She was a bit too blunt.
"Uhh... Madara, you do know how that sounds right?" Hashirama asked embarrassed.
"Whatever do you mean?" Madara asked curiously.
Hashirama was even more embarrassed while the Tsuchikage and Mū were very much enjoying the banter, "I uhh... Nothing, forget I said anything, Madara." Hashirama said while in a depressive tone.
"We're here," Ishikawa said as they stood in front of a large extravagant stone building.
"Wow!? It's much bigger than the Hokage estate in Konoha." Hashirama said hiding his jealousy.
"Of course, Lord Hokage. It was my estate, we just made a few touch-ups for future Tsuchikages." Ishikawa said proudly.
"Look at that, Hashirama. That is being smart and not forgetting that the Hokage estate is important," Madara said in a condescending tone.
"But I thought it was good at the time, to build a Hokage estate in the center of the village." Hashirama defended.
"Sometimes I question if your ears work or you just do not listen to me or your prick of a brother," Madara said as she walked past him.
Ishikawa and Mū followed her while Ohnoki stayed and asked, "Mr. Senju, why is she so mean?"
Hashirama looked at the boy lightening up a little, "Well she's a girl, and girls will always have it harder in the ninja world. But she carries great pain with her every day and sometimes the only thing I can do now is cheer her up, even if only a little."
"So you play the fool on purpose?" Ohnoki said half understanding the point.
"Hey! I'm only partly a fool, give me some credit kid." Hashirama said playfully. He knew that he was a fool when it came to certain things, but the one thing above all else was when it came to Madara.
"She's pretty y'know, someday I want to marry a girl like her," Ohnoki said with a smile.
Hashirama muttered to himself, "Me too kid, me too."
Madara's voice could be heard as she yelled for Hashirama, "Hashirama! Get your ass up here, I do not want you lollygagging all day!"
Hashirama ran quickly to catch up with her as to not incur Madara's wrath, Ohnoki wasn't the one being yelled at and he was scared shitless.
The next day Ohnoki was to escort the Hokage and the Uchiha leader with Mū, the negotiations were short between Iwa and Konoha, and they went well and without a hitch.
After both Hashirama and Madara returned to their guest room to change into more casual clothes, Hashirama was dressed in a brown shirt and blue pants, while Madara was wearing a short-sleeved red shirt, a blue skirt, and black leggings. They wanted to do some tourism and shopping, Hashirama was like a little puppy that Madara was leading around the village.
"Hashirama, we cannot stay at the same stall all day. I have some things I would like to see as well." Madara said pulling Hashirama's shirt collar away from the shop.
"But Mara, they have antiques!" Hashirama said almost whining.
"You have been looking at the same vase for the past ten minutes, now stop being a child and move on." She said as she continued to drag Hashirama, he slumped into a depressive state and followed Madara of his own volition with Ohnoki and Mū following behind, "I could have used that vase for a bonsai tree in my office."
Mū recommended a Dango shop for lunch, Hashirama never liked sweets but knew Madara did and agreed. It was the small things that made spending time with Madara all week worth it for him.
When lunch was over Madara wanted to visit the landmarks of Iwa, the first stop was a stone monument with a little pond. Madara had brought a camera and handed it to Ohnoki, "Can you please take a picture of me and Hashirama, child?" Madara asked very tenderly.
Ohnoki couldn't help but blush at the Uchiha, "Yes Lady Uchiha." He watched as Madara walked up to Hashirama and posed for the picture, Hashirama smiled and had his left hand on his hip and his right on Madara's right shoulder, Madara had a faint smile with her arms crossed.
Ohnoki snapped the picture and it printed out, Madara grabbed it and put it in a scrapbook she put in her satchel. As they visited the other landmarks Hashirama began doing more goofy poses, Madara allowed it because she enjoyed his antics.
As the night came to a close Madara asked Ohnoki to buy the vase, "Child, can you please buy the vase Hashirama was interested in early?"
"My name is Ohnoki not child, but yes Lady Uchiha, I will," Ohnoki said before he tried leaving.
Madara grabbed his collar before he could move, "Not just yet, I will need you to mail it back to my home in Konoha after you purchase it."
Ohnoki looked up at the beautiful woman, he was almost mesmerized by her onyx eyes and dark hair. "But why don't you want to carry it back to your village?" He asked.
Madara was uncomfortable with the question but answered anyway, "Because I do not want it to break on our way back tomorrow, it is... Important."
Ohnoki nodded and ran to the stall before it closed, what he didn't know was that the vase was his entire allowance. He walked to the postal office and told them it was to be sent to Madara Uchiha's home in Konoha, they luckily didn't charge him for the postage for it being for a village founder.
He hurried back to the Tsuchikage's estate, he didn't want to miss dinner with his family and their guests. He walked into the dining room where a long rectangular table for eight people lay with many assortments of food, everyone had sat down before he arrived. His parents sat on the far left side with his grandfather and grandmother, the Hokage and Lady Uchiha sat across from each other, and there were two empty seats in the middle for himself and another guest.
Hashirama was making small talk with Ohnoki's parents, Madara was minding her business and ate her food politely. But she couldn't for very long as Ohnoki's grandmother asked her, "Have you any children?"
Madara was drinking a glass of water and spat out her drink onto Hashirama, he laughed playfully as he wiped himself with a napkin.
"Tsubaki! You can't go around saying things like that to our guests." The Tsuchikage said to his elderly wife.
"What, it was just a question. Look at her, a beautiful girl like her should have children by now." Tsubaki replied.
"I do not have children, because I am in no need of a suitor as I am too busy with helping Hashirama run our village," Madara said calmly. Ohnoki watched as the atmosphere became awkward at her words, Hashirama tried making the atmosphere less awkward. "You know, when I was eleven I stole one of my father's private books. But the thing was just hollow because it had a girly magazine inside." He chuckled nervously.
The old woman narrowed her eyes on the Uchiha, "When I was a girl your age, I was happily married and had four children before I was twenty."
"I am not a weakling whose only purpose is to birth children, I am a warrior without question. And the day I have children is the day hell freezes over." Madara said before getting up to leave, Hashirama apologized for her and quickly followed her.
Once Ohnoki finished his meal he was tasked to check on the Uchiha and the Senju, he heard a woman crying and then Hashirama's voice coming from the guest room. "It's alright, you don't have to fret over what others say."
"You would not understand, you have never had to fight to prove that there is more to you than what you were born with," Madara said in-between sobs.
"You're right, I don't know what it's like but I do know that you have proven yourself time and time again that you aren't just an object to birth children. But a powerful warrior who leads the strongest clan throughout the five great nations, and the bestest friend anyone could ever have." Hashirama said thoughtfully, Madara's sobbing stopped and she gave a response. "Hashirama, you are too good to be true. Are you sure you are not a deity?"
"Well, you and I are called the God and Goddess of Shinobi. There has to be some meaning for it." He chuckled, and Madara laughed at his cheesy answer. It was the first time Ohnoki heard the Uchiha Matriarch laugh, it was nice.
Ohnoki decided that they didn't need to be disturbed and went to his bedroom for the night, he wondered if those two were in love but how was he to know, he was just a kid.
The next morning the Hokage and the Uchiha were just about ready to leave for Konoha, "Are you sure? You can stay one more day." Ishikawa said.
"I'm positive, Lord Tsuchikage. Thank you for letting us stay and I hope our villages can prosper with this treaty." Hashirama said as he put his pack on his back.
"Me too, may you have a safe journey." He responded and bowed, Hashirama and Madara did the same as she put her armor plates on her outfit. Ohnoki walked up to Madara and hugged her, the ravenette was unprepared but returned the hug anyway.
"Goodbye, Lady Uchiha," Ohnoki said as he backed out of the hug.
"Goodbye Ohnoki, but please call me Madara." She said as she pat his head, Hashirama laughed at the sight.
"And who said Madara Uchiha wasn't good with children." Hashirama joked.
Madara's face contorted into an irritated angry expression, "Hashirama, I will give you five seconds before I pound you into the ground," Madara said as she spun her Sharingan. Ohnoki had never seen a man run so fast as Hashirama rushed down the dirt road away from Iwa, Madara quickly chased after him with the same speed.
"Grandfather, what did the Hokage do to make her mad?" Ohnoki asked.
"That is the mystery of women. We men don't understand an ounce of their being. Ohnoki, don't be a fence-sitter like the Hokage." Ishikawa said as he watched the two leaf-nin run down the road.
"You cannot compare to my power, none of you are Hashirama." Madara's voice snapped Ohnoki back to reality, Ay tried speed blitzing Madara but hit her Susanoo ribcage and was swatted away by a skeletal arm... again.
Tsunade rushed Madara with Rasa's gold dust blocking Madara's Susanoo arm, Tsunade managed to hit Madara's Susanoo enough to the point it cracked and exposed Madara. Madara used Shinra Tensei to knock Tsunade back, "Playing dirty are we?" Madara asked.
"You cannot blame us, you are the great Madara Uchiha. Four against one, it's only fair." Ay said with anger in his voice at such a question, Madara hummed in response. She began creating hand signs, "Wood style: Multi-wooden clone jutsu."
Twenty clones began to sprout from Madara's back, "There, now it is four to one. Do not call this unfair, you are Kage-level fighters after all." Madara's wood clones surrounded the Kage and Tsunade, "Now tell me, do you want these clones to use Susanoo or not?"
Everyone was petrified at the vast number of clones and not a single one of them answered, "No answer? Very well then, I will decide for you." Madara's wood clones manifested full-body Susanoos.
The fight... If one could call it such, was very much in Madara's favor. Her clones pummeled Rasa and Ohnoki, put Ay in a genjutsu, and put a sword through Tsunade. But to her credit she managed to keep fighting with half a sword in her body, it reminded Madara of how Hashirama healed constantly during their battles.
Madara felt something inside her turn ablaze and she decided to stop the clones from killing Tsunade and wanted to fight Tsunade herself, "Whether Hashirama is your grandfather or not, you are still Senju and Uzumaki. And for that, I will grace you with the pinnacle of Uchiha power, The perfect Susanoo." Madara enveloped herself with her skeletal Susanoo and manifested armor around it, Ohnoki mistook the armored Susanoo for the perfect Susanoo.
"Not quite," the Susanoo began growing in size, it was larger than the mountains that surrounded them.
"Behold, the perfect Susanoo!" She said as the samurai made of chakra towered over them.
The despair on the Shinobi alliance's strongest fighters was priceless, "You've been holding back this whole time?!" Ohnoki shouted.
"Of course, what adult goes all out when playing with children," Madara said as it was obvious.
Madara's perfect Susanoo began pulling out a sword and swung it at the Kage and Tsunade, they began flying into a mountain and the shockwave from the slash was enough to shatter three mountains far in the distance.
"Well the map will only need to be redrawn a little," Madara said playfully.
Madara felt the Gedo statue being summoned far away, "The serpent." Madara thought to herself as he mentioned having a Rinnegan, "We will have to finish this another time Kage... and Senju, as I have more important matters to attend to." She said as her Susanoo began to fly with its wings.
The beaten and battered Kage were left to their own devices as they watched the strongest woman in the Shinobi world fly away with barely a scratch on her, "Is everyone alright?" Tsunade asked.
Rasa was still alive with a barely breathing Ohnoki, "The Tsuchikage is barely alive, I fear we can do nothing now for the rest of the alliance."
Unfortunately, unruly Ay was not as lucky as Ohnoki, he died during the impact of Madara's Susanoo blade.
"The only thing now is to hope for a miracle," Tsunade said as she looked at the distant sight of the Susanoo.
Madara stopped a great distance from her battleground with the Kage and called for Zetsu with a scroll with a replacement pair of armor and clothes, Madara changed quickly and asked her will, "What is the snake planning on doing with the Gedo Mazo?"
"Sealing the nine tails and becoming the jūbi jinchuriki, Obito told him about your plan. You have to stop him before he becomes too powerful for even the likes of you." The black side said.
"He will not be a problem, a snake is nothing before a hawk," Madara said as she enveloped herself with her Susanoo, she set off to achieve her goal once and for all.
Black Zetsu began laughing maniacally, "It doesn't matter who becomes the jūbi jinchuriki, mother will take over their body nonetheless." The plant creature muttered to itself and morphed into the ground.
Two days prior and far away a red-haired teenage girl was staying in Amegakure, she is currently staying at the former Akatsuki headquarters. Nobody was allowed in the building since the Akatsuki disbanded, but some stayed, being Konan and Kakuzu.
Tayuya was playing her flute in her room, she was playing a calm and somber melody. She thought that everyone had a melody and that was Madara's, her's was a little upbeat and had a higher tempo than Madara's melody.
Tayuya was startled when her bedroom door opened, it was Konan. "Tayuya? What are you still doing here? The tower is vacant."
"Madara told me to stay here until she's victorious, but why are you here?"
The blue-haired kunoichi chuckled but obliged, "I'm getting supplies to save a man's life, you're welcome to join me."
Tayuya was confused but she had nothing better to do, "Sure, though who're you planning on saving?"
Konan stepped out into the hallway, "That's for you to find out and me to help him." Konan said walking away, Tayuya followed her until they were outside of the Akatsuki stronghold.
Konan carried a box of medical supplies to a small wooden house very far from Ame, it was run down and old. "No one knows about this place except for me and my Sensei, it was his house when he trained us as kids," Konan said as she opened the door, a blonde man was laying across the tatami mat. He was malnourished and had a long unshaven beard, Tayuya felt pity for the man.
"I am back with supplies, Mr. Namikaze," Konan said as she set the box next to the man.
"Thank you Lady Konan, but who's your friend?" The man asked.
"My name is Tayuya of the demon flute, Mr. Namikaze." Tayuya was concerned for this man's health, Konan began pulling out a syringe and a vial of medicine.
"You're pretty young to have a title like that, what village are you from?" Namikaze asked.
"I don't have a village, sir. But I have a master who I am loyal to." Tayuya said as Konan injected Namikaze with a nutritional serum, his body slowly reverted to normal.
"What did you do to him?" Tayuya asked.
"It was created by Orochimaru to make anyone have a healthy body in case his immortal jutsu were to fail, Minato is going to need his body back in shape if he wants to stop the war," Konan said before grabbing a pill bottle and giving two pills to Minato.
"Why do you want to stop the war?" Tayuya asked as it was insane.
"Madara's plan isn't going to work, and even if it did it wouldn't be real. That's not the world my friends fought and died for." Konan said as she gave Minato a drink of water, he was feeling better but didn't have much strength.
"And how do you plan to stop Madara-sensei?"
"This man is Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage. He just needs to turn Madara's pupil against her and help Hashirama Senju, it was Nagato's last wish for Madara to be stopped." Konan said with an expression of sadness.
"The fourth Hokage? But he died years ago, how is he alive still?" Tayuya asked as she watched the formerly tortured man, "I was defending my village from the nine tails and captured by a swirling jutsu that trapped me in an infinite void. I fought someone who I thought was Madara Uchiha, but three years ago the real Madara came down to my cell along with my former student Obito Uchiha." The blonde-haired man said with a very exhausted voice.
Tayuya thought about what Minato said, Madara called her Tobi and not Obito. So Madara wasn't exactly on good terms with her and Tayuya feared maybe she would fill the same void that Obito had and discarded like a tool as Madara put it. But she didn't want to betray Madara because she was still loyal to her but at the same time she felt that maybe Madara would perish in the war with Lord Orochimaru plotting her death, there were too many unknown variables that worried Tayuya.
"How do you plan to stop Madara, surely you can't just expect she will surrender and turn a new leaf."
"I'm going to try and reach Obito's sense of right, if she does what she did to me then it can be ended without any more bloodshed," Minato said.
Tayuya didn't trust any man as Madara told her not to, but she trusted Konan almost as much as she did Madara. "Alright I'll help if you promise to spare Madara's life, but I won't expect anything from a Hokage," Tayuya said as she narrowed her eyes at Minato.
Minato just smiled, "You won't have to worry, everyone deserves a second chance. Even for those who don't want it, and especially for people who lost everything they had."
Tayuya was skeptical of the man's answer, Konan helped Minato to his feet.
"You don't have to come with us, Tayuya." Konan said as she opened the door, "I don't want you to get hurt because of me."
"I want to help Madara and I can't do that from here, and you won't have to worry. I was trained by Madara, there's nothing that I can't handle." Tayuya announced.
Konan smiled as she walked with Minato holding her shoulder, Tayuya ran behind them as they set off towards the current battlegrounds of war.
Two days of traveling before they made it to the battlegrounds of the war, they searched for Obito on the moonlit battlefield "How exactly will we find Obito? None of us are exceptional at sensing." Konan asked.
Minato smiled, "Look for a white-haired man with one eye, Obito shouldn't be too far."
They parted through some trees to see a fight between three men and a teenage boy against a woman wearing a blue and orange robe. Minato knew exactly who some of them were, he used flying Raijin to teleport to Kakashi.
Kakashi, Naruto, Zabuza, and Guy we're shocked at his to presence, "Minato-sensei?! You were reanimated?" Kakashi asked as he was heavily winded after fighting Obito. "No, I'm still alive and ready to make up for lost time." Minato replied.