(Hashimada) The Adventures of a Hedgehog and Some Idiots

14: Tobistalker?

(A/N I know the art is unrelated, it just made me laugh 😂 Poor Tobirama, rip his beautiful hair :'( At least his face is still pretty :D)

The day followed a pretty predictable pattern: Tobirama angrily woke them up at six in the morning, then slinked off to work on his "top secret jutsu"; after that, the two village leaders got to work establishing the village, discussing matters whenever they had a free moment. The two of them could sense it - there was noticeably less tension between them after they got all of the hard stuff out of the way last night. Hashirama felt relieved - as long as their relationship was good and they were communicating, he knew the village would thrive (and Madara wouldn't be a danger to it). Madara also felt somewhat relieved, having cleared up some things with the Senju the night before. He was glad to have him by his side, and his advice eased his worries about if he was being true to Izuna's wishes.

However, they didn't have much time to talk about personal things during the day; as it turned out, being Hokage was a lot of work, and they spent a lot of time sorting out their own specific duties alone. While Hashirama was busy in the Hokage's office signing paperwork, dealing with villagers in need, and working on setting everything up to run properly in the village, Madara was just as busy. He already got started on what would probably be his largest task - discreetly assessing and filing the skills of villagers who were capable of fighting. This would be highly useful and top-secret information, used to give those who were capable enough shinobi ranks. In return, this would determine potential ANBU (this was what they were calling the special forces/ assassination unit) members, which was what interested Madara the most, being the head of the ANBU. All of that was a large enough task on its own, but Madara had several other tasks he had to sort out: how the ANBU would be organized, the details of all of the other defensive forces of the village, detailed plans for how to deal with emergency situations, training and how it would be designed (for each force, and for each shinobi's nature type), along with so much more. He almost felt like he got the short end of the stick - he had to do all of the behind the scenes 'set up' for the village and still make some public appearances, since Hashirama just had to name him Co-Hokage.

Another unfortunate part of the job was somewhat expected. . . Tobirama. No matter what he did, Madara seemed to keep running into him. By the afternoon, he had run into the Senju about five times already and it was driving him insane.

"Would you leave me the hell alone?" Madara glared at the Senju.

Tobirama glared back. "You're the one that's following me."

"As if! I have much more important matters to tend to than babysitting the Hokage's brother." Madara added, "Not to mention, Hashirama is obviously trying to minimize our contact, since I would kill you if only I had the chance. . ."

Tobirama uncomfortably shifted a little. Still, he hid it - he didn't want the Uchiha to know that he felt guilty for what he did. At least, not until the jutsu was complete. He was in the stages of perfecting it now, so it wouldn't be long. . . In spite of that, he knew that Hashirama wasn't going to like the details. After all, the Reanimation jutsu - in its final form - would require a living sacrifice. . .

He shook his head a little, trying to clear his mind. He coldly replied, "You have given me several reasons to distrust you, already. Don't think that I'll be so willing to work with you."

Madara activated his Sharingan but just as quickly stopped himself - he didn't want to make any irrational moves. "You are very fortunate to be Hashirama's brother. . . I only stop myself from killing you for his sake." He turned away and headed in the direction opposite to where he was originally going.

Tobirama was left to face his guilt - despite everything, he still wasn't sure if he should have told Madara about the Reanimation jutsu. . . No. He had to discuss it with Hashirama first.

Damnit. . . I better deal with this as soon as possible. . . Tobirama made his way towards the Hokage's office.

Little did he know that Madara was already halfway there.

(A/N

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