Naruto God of The Shinobi

CHAPTER 7

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Chapter Seven

Hashirama leapt through the trees of the forest at an alarming pace, his feet only touching each branch for a second before the Senju was already leaping to the next. The speed at which Hashirama was travelling at would make most people double-take, his body a blur to only the most skilled of shinobi, but the Senju heir didn't care about that, he was more concerned about what was about to happen.

'How could Tobirama have followed me without me knowing? I know I'm bad at sensing people but he would have made soft noises or other sounds that would have alerted me or Madara to his presence.' The Senju thought furiously, he continued on this line of thought, his body automatically jumping from tree to tree, before he tried to look at the brighter side of the situation. 'Well, at least they don't know about sensei, thank Kami that yesterday was our day to train on our own.' Nearly missing a branch made the Senju inwardly curse himself for nearly missing the branch, he then focused on jumping towards the river, maybe sensei would have an idea? If not, he didn't want to think about what would happen.

The two years of training that both Madara and himself had under Naruto had created a bond between the three, though with Hashirama connected more with Madara than his sensei. The days of training by themselves had made the two clan heirs gain a bond similar to one between two brothers.

Their sensei had become a kind of uncle to the two, the one they went to problems with when they couldn't get the answers from their family or fellow clan members.

Hashirama's thoughts came to a stop when he saw that he was nearing the river, the sound of water running giving away the location. He quickly leapt to the shore of the river that was in Senju territory, noticing that Madara was in the Uchiha side. 'Sensei isn't here.' Hashirama noticed. Their teacher would usually stand in the centre of the river, on top of the water, waiting for the two of them to arrive, or he would hide and watch to see what they would do when he wasn't there to guide them. 'Not the best time to be absent sensei.' Hashirama thought with mild irritation, out of all the times to see what they would do, now was not the best of times.

"From now on," Madara said grabbing Hashirama's attention. "Well skip rocks as a formal way of greeting one another." That was strange, why would Madara want to skip rocks to each other? They had been meeting like this for over two years, why would Madara want to change that? Hashirama put those thoughts out of his head, he need to get Madara the message he had on the rock they had skipped yesterday.

"Okay." Hashirama replied as he reached into his clothes to pull out the stone with message on it, while the Uchiha heir got out his own rock. On the count of three both skipped the stones at the same time across the river, both catching the rock that was skipped with one hand. Looking down at the rock in his hand, Hashirama froze as he read (AN: It's not red, it's read. Same spelling, different meaning) the small message on the rock.

Run

"My bad Hashirama, I just remembered I gotta run an errand today." Madara called, forcing Hashirama to look up to the Uchiha already walking away. Hashirama put on a fake smile to make his brother and father, behind some trees, seem like nothing was wrong.

"I see," Hashirama called back to his friend, sticking an arm up in wave. "Well then I won't keep you, catch up with you later." He said before glancing down at the rock in his hand one last time before turning and bolting back into the forest. He was about to enter the tree line when he heard a splash from the river, turning back, he was confronted by the worst possible situation. His father, Butsuma Senju and his brother, Tobirama, was facing off against what appeared to be Madara's father, Tajima Uchiha, and brother, Izuna.