Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 58

A bit too calmly, for one who had all but lost all his men…

Wait, all his men?

There were fifteen jounin level chakra signatures, and three Kage level…

Which meant…

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Tobirama had no time to even let out a warning shout before he jumped aside while ignoring his wound that screamed agony to him, only for a large broadsword with a strange design coupled with a talisman of sorts at it's end to strike down his last position.

He breathed a little easily when he saw Sasuke too had dodged cleanly from his supposed attacker too. At least within his own field of vision that is.

Both Leaf shinobi skid backwards and looked on at their attackers critically.

Sasuke though was praising his luck at barely dodging that fist that had all but cleaved his head off with that strange glowing thing wrapped around his attacker's arm.

Had it not been for the head that Tobirama had cleaved cleanly and threw in front of him, and seeing the shadow of the attacker's reflection within his headband, that attack would have surely been lethal. But he had gotten out with merely a scratch grazing his cheek.

"Ginkaku, do it!" Sasuke's supposed attacker shouted out loud, and the one that had tried to attack Tobirama now identified as Ginkaku rushed Sasuke quickly at blinding speeds.

Sasuke merely watched on in amusement as the man brought his over-sized sword above his head to try and get a hit on Sasuke. As if he would let him be hit with that slow of an attack…

"What the-?" he clenched his neck when suddenly a blue translucent cloud forced it's way out of his throat and lips, hovering in front of him like a kindred spirit of sorts.

Ginkaku brought his sword down, while Sasuke jumped back but only saw Ginkaku slashing down that strange blue cloud from his lips while it was absorbed straight into his blade.

"Shichiseiken Curse!" Ginkaku laughed at catching him off guard, and much to Sasuke's confusion he felt almost nothing at all wrong with his body.

He saw both identical looking men, apart from their golden and silver contrasting hair that is, laugh humorously as if he were already dead and he narrowed his eyes on these new latecomers in their battle.

"What hell dd you do- umph!" Sasuke's voice became muffled when a hand roughly clasped his mouth shut.

He pressed down the tip of his kunai to the point where his abductor's liver would be to make a fatal blow, only to hear an all too familiar voice whisper something within his ear that made him stop his silent attack.

"Don't speak…" Tobirama whispered in his ear, now understanding the gravity of the situation they were in with these two new fighters joining their enemy. Sasuke nodded curtly, and Tobirama let his mouth free while stepping by his side.

"You are cursed Sasuke, they put it on you just now…" his silent questioning glance was answered by Tobirama almost instantly while he eyed the two laughing men warily.

"Do exactly as I say and you'll be fine…" he whispered, and Sasuke nodded silently. Tobirama meanwhile was wracking his mind violently.

He had knowledge of their weapons, the tools belonging to the Sage of the Six Paths himself were revered enough to attract his attention and probe him to garner as much knowledge as he could about them.

But he had only scoured out so much before hitting a reef of mystery.

Myths in ancient texts said that those tools could only be used to their fullest potential by someone of it's master's pure bloodline only, which meant these two idiots were in someway related to the father of all chakra.

He had heard rumors of Kumo possessing the Amber Exorcism Bottle that they had used to capture the once rampant Hachibi, after failing pathetically to capture the Kyuubi once before. This solidified those rumors completely, they possessed not one but five of the six tools from the Sage.

With four of them now in action, right in front of him.

Not much was known of their abilities, but as far as he could tell from the strange thing he had cleaved off from Sasuke's lips before absorbing it into his blade, he could make some vague assumptions.

Each tool used some sort of a sealing technique, and from this it was most logically a cursed sealing technique.

So it probably had something to do with his voice, or words…

But that was only an assumption, based on no evidences or proofs whatsoever. Still, Sasuke had spoken a few words before and nothing at all was wrong with him so…

"Sasuke, say my surname. And only my surname. Nothing less, nothing more." Tobirama ordered him curtly, and Sasuke nodded, feeling Tobirama's nervousness in an instant and knew it was only logical to do as he said for now.

The man was a walking scroll of forbidden techniques, and if anyone could discern that curse quickly enough in the heat of battle at the present moment...

It was Tobirama Senju.

"Senju." Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief when nothing happened to him once more and Tobirama nodded curtly, filing away this new development quite intently.

The slight stiffening and seriousness of his opponents seeing his actions was enough to warrant his fears that he was walking on the correct path.

This strange curse had something to do with either his voice, or his words.

That much was certain.

"What did you do to him?" he asked out loud, he had to gather as much information and buy as much time as he could to understand the curse placed on Sasuke.

Both Ginkaku and Kinkaku laughed maniacally, crying tears of joy.

"Now that would be telling…" Ginkaku held his sides in laughter at seeing the ever stoic Tobirama look so guarded and stiff. He had no idea what he had gotten himself into.

"Yeah, after all 'Silence is Golden'!" Kinkaku pointed to his brother and Ginkaku's laughs increased at his brother's pointed joke even further.

"Yeah after all 'Words can be so eloquent'…" Ginkaku felt like his insides would explode, oh how he would love to see their shocked faces when they realized how they had been done for without even a simple fight.

"You damn idiots, stay serious for once. I want this bastard dead. Do not let that damn Senju out of here alive!" Ei roared angrily, and jumped down by the brother's side to make their laughter's cease.

"Yeah boss don't worry, these two are dead men already…" Ginkaku waved his hand dismissively and Ei had almost half a mind to attack his own companions right now.

But they were right, with the tools and the strength of his secret weapons there was no way that those two could leave here alive any further.

Tobirama though did narrow his eyes on the silver haired one, especially his pointed joke that had made the golden one laugh even harder.

The two had no sense of duty whatsoever, and only seemed to be here for fun.

"Silence is golden, silence is golden, silence is…." a bulb went off in his head at their implication of words.

Now he understood what had peeked his interest in that joke.

It wasn't the words, but the implied sarcasm in their tone which meant it had something to do with the curse, since the silver haired idiot had glanced at Sasuke for a split second when he had put out his joke while Ginkaku had laughed harder.

They were implying Sasuke to stay silent to stay alive, which meant his secondary assumptions were correct as well.

It had something to do with silence.

"Words can be so eloquent. What did he mean by that?" Tobirama racked his brain for an answer, quite glad that the Raikage was quite interested suddenly to let them have their time to make the first move and further solidifying his previous assumptions.

"Eloquent, that idiot was being cryptic. Which meant choose your words wisely while staying silent…" Tobirama was running down a number of assumptions, to see which held the most true in this case and then hope that he was right lest Sasuke was done for.

"Wait that's it…!" he blinked and then blinked again upon deciphering those two cryptic jokes in an instant.

"Silence is the key, but words must be chosen carefully." he stated flatly, and smirked when the brother's eyes went wide at his words.

They had given everything away without ever meaning do so in the first place.

But such was the keen mind of Tobirama Senju, never one to be trifled with.

"Sasuke…" the Sarutobi clan head looked on curiously at his only source for hope and sighed in relief when Tobirama's smirking face was within his vision.

That thrice damned Senju had figured it out already...

Both parties thought simultaneously, although the feelings towards him were the polar opposites in every sense of the 'word'...

Oh the irony...

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