Red String of Fate

Chapter 16 - The battle begins

Madara slowly walked over to the younger Uchiha and placed his hands on his shoulders.

"Just. Don't. Talk." Madara warned, intimidating the boy enough so that he finally stopped talking.

Hino covered his mouth in shock and stared at Madara dumbly, you two really aren't dating yet?!

Madara glared back at Hino, yes so shut the hell up!

"Kazuki-san, I have to tell you everything that happened. It's urgent." Tadashi suddenly jumped down from the roofs and walked through the door, Madara walked over and saw how serious his attendant's face was. What a shame, I wanted to stay longer this time...

"Hashirama, I have to go now." Madara told the Hokage with a small smile.

Hashirama was upset but nodded nevertheless and threw him a blinding smile, Madara saw this and left the room with a smile.

"Let's go to the meeting place first, it's by the forest. We'll start talking once Gento comes back." Tadashi explained, he looked over at the quiet man beside him and noticed the surprised expression on his face.

"What's wrong, Madara-sama?" He asked with concern laced in his voice, Madara placed a hand over his heart and looked back at Tadashi with shining eyes.

"I think I'm in love." Tadashi almost tripped as they jumped to the next rooftop and gave Madara an accusing glare.

"What?" Madara sensed the accusing stare and frowned in confusion.

"You just realized?" Tadashi asked with helplessness, on the verge of face-palming.

"Well, I am not sure though..." Madara admitted pitifully. Tadashi was untouched by the pitifullness exuding from Madara and let out a weary sigh.

"Do you always think about him?" Tadashi interrogated, listening as Madara answered instantly.

"Yes."

"Do you care about him?"

"Yes."

"Do you find him attractive?"

"What kind of ques-"

"Do you?"

"Well... He is pretty handsome." Madara admitted, trying to seem as casual as he could about it.

"Hey, but isn't this just what you feel towards a good friend? How do people know it's love?" Madara asked in frustration, watching as Tadashi looked at him blankly.

"Have you ever wanted to kiss him before?" Tadashi asked, watching in amazement as his master's ears grew red at a blinding speed. To think that the most feared Uchiha could make an expression like this was quite scary really.

"Yeah..." Madara admitted, he's even had wet dreams about him before too-

Wait. Does this mean that he liked him then?

As if hearing Madara's thoughts aloud, Tadashi gave him a knowing nod.

"Yes, that means you are in love with him." His trusty attendant answered.

"You keep saying 'him', you know who I speak of?" Madara asked with suspicion, Tadashi remained silent for a minute as he considered whether to play dumb or not. If he played dumb and get found out later Madara would probably kill me...

"Well, it's pretty obvious it's Hashirama-sama..." Tadashi admitted, watching as Madara's expression twitched ominously.

Before they could continue the conversation, they arrived by the forest.