The meeting.
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"This is madness!" Izuna muttered, voicing his displeasure frequently, which only annoyed Madara.
Yuki looked at her brothers, still finding it hard to comprehend why she was here...in the middle of the forest with them.
"ANIKI! I STILL DON'T GET IT!! WHY IN THE WORLD IS SHE HERE?" Izuna shouted. He was angry. Now that Madara knew of how he hadn't informed him about Yuki's secret outings, he couldn't deny his order... Which is why he agreed with this stupid meeting. But dragging Yuki into this was beyond what he had predicted.
Madara looked at Yuki while she just avoided his eyes. Even though she has already slept with him, she still found it hard to come to terms with her jumbled feelings.
"Soon, you will see. " Madara mumbled, eyes still fixed on her.
It's been two weeks since Madara became the Leader of the Uchiha clan. Now that he was the leader, he didn't have to report his every single action to Tajima or the elders. The same day he succeeded as the leader on his birthday, he received a truce letter from Hashirama. Though he didn't believe in Hashirama's phony dreams, he still gave it a shot since he had some motives behind this. One of them involved controlling the elders. So he requested a secret meeting with Hashirama.
It took a while to make Izuna agree to this. He didn't agree to this at all, and in the end, Madara questioned him about his incompetence in reporting Yuki's outing to the Riverside. That finally got him to agree. He had different plans for Yuki though, he wanted to 'enlighten' her with some bitter truth.
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After a few minutes of waiting, she felt someone approach them. Yuki looked at her brothers who were both looking in a certain direction, their Sharingan activated in alert. Suddenly Izuna stepped in front of her, his back turned towards her.
"That's a surprise. No ambush?" A sleek voice was heard, which Yuki instantly recognized.
'The white head!'
Her heart started to beat frantically. She felt like she was about to realize something she didn't want to. She stopped thinking.
"Long time no see...Madara." A deep voice boomed in her ears. Izuna's body slightly shifted to the side, giving her the view in front of her.
"Long time no see, Hashirama 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙪. " Madara replied, his tone changing at the last word. As if asserting the word for her to hear more clearly.
She stared at the man...at Hashi...the man she considered as a friend and gave her heart to.
'No. It's Hashirama…Senju.'
"Who's that behind you?" Tobirama called out, glancing at Izuna.
"Shut up Tobirama!" Izuna growled. For the first time Yuki noticed such fierce hatred in her brother. She knew Izuna only held this much hate for one man...
'Senju Tobirama! '
The Senju who killed her brother, her sweet innocent brother, Taka.
'They killed my brother!'
"Izuna." Madara warned. He didn't come here to fight. "Move away from her."
"Aniki!" Izuna glared at Madara.
"Don't make me repeat myself." Madara warned.
After some moments of hesitation, Izuna moved aside.
Yuki didn't move or look up, her gaze was fixed on the ground. Her eyes and mind were burning.
"Yuki. Why don't you greet them?"
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"Yuki?" Hashirama mumbled in confusion as he looked at her. 'Don't tell me...' His eyes widened when she looked up at him.
"Greetings. 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙪. "
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'She's...an Uchiha?'
Hashirama stared at the girl in front of him, but he couldn't find the beautiful grey eyes of hers, instead they were red. Blood red.
Tobirama just glared at her. The girl they met by the riverside was her. He felt annoyed. Not just because she's an Uchiha, but also at the fact that he found an Uchiha female attractive!
'Bloody Uchiha! '
The way she stared at them with her demonic eyes, Tobirama felt like digging her eyes out.
Madara smirked, "Hashirama, I believe you didn't just come here to stare at my sister."
"No! I... " Hashirama trailed off. 'Kami sure likes to play tricks on me.' His first meeting at the riverside was with Uchiha Madara, while his second meeting turned out to be with his sister.
Tobirama clenched his teeth. As if being an Uchiha wasn't bad enough, this girl that his Aniki saved turned out to be that crazy Uchiha's sister.
'But why would they bring her here?' He couldn't understand why Madara would risk bringing her along when she isn't even strong like them? She seemed to have no purpose other than to stand there and glare at him or Hashirama. For a fleeting second, he doubted if this meeting had some hidden intention.
'This doesn't make sense.'
'But then again, when did these people ever made sense?' He thought, repressing as much of his snark as he could.
"Here. The document of agreement terms and plans for a truce." Tobirama threw the scroll, putting an end to the drama.
Izuna grabbed the scroll.
Madara turned around, "Hn. I can't ensure you of the silly 'peace' that you dream of Hashirama. But I will look into the truce terms." Madara replied before taking off.
Hashirama felt a little warm inside. But he still couldn't smile. There was a guilty feeling eating him from inside.
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Almost ten minutes of them traveling back towards the direction of their Uchiha estate, Izuna spoke "Aniki, I don't trust them."
"I know." Madara replied, frowning slightly as he felt a presence.
"Izuna. Guard up."
"wh-"
Izuna's words were cut off when a strange energy sphere landed right in front of him that he barely dodged.
"Look out!" Izuna alerted.
Madara instantly took a defensive stance, scanning the area.
"There are around 14... No, around 20 men scattered in all directions," Madara called out. From their chakra signature, he could tell most were water type, with a few being wind and fire.
'They aren't even hiding their chakras.'
Either they were quite confident and strong or they were plain stupid and underestimating the Uchiha's.
"Yuki. Run." Madara ordered. It was better if not to get her involved in this because he knew she won't last. He was sure the battle would be fierce. They could still facilitate her escape by keeping them engaged. He planned on first capturing the sensory ones in a Genjutsu.
"Izuna. Get ready to 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲."
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