𝔉𝔦𝔯𝔢 & ωαтєя

Years Ago, A Lost Child In The Woods

Tobirama walks down the forest, looking around the trees and bushes. "They have to be somewhere..." the six-year-old Senju thought. Dressed as a short-haired boy, the middle child looks around the forest for her brothers. The hide-and-seek game was fun until the white-haired Senju got lost. "There, maybe in that cave!" she thought as she rushed to the cave, using her chakra to run across the lake. "I know you're here!" she shouts; it's dark in the cave, but up ahead, there is light. She rushes to the chamber forward of her, looking around for her brothers. "A girl?" "A young girl?" "In my cave?" "What brings you here, child?" "Do you want power?" "Do you want your wish granted?" "Let us eat her!" "Yes! A virgin sacrifice!" Tobirama turns around, shaking like a scared lamb. Seven pairs of eyes stare at her, all eight heads grinning, showing their large fangs. "Your heart wishes for power." "You wish to be strong?" "Stronger than any being in this earthly plane?" Tobirama is backed into a wall as one of the serpent's heads is nose to chest with the young girl. "Speak, girl, do you want your wish to come true?"

Tobirama can't speak; the fear makes her throat clam up. She doesn't want to become a meal for this creature, but she also doesn't know what will happen if she says yes! Tobirama is still shaking, but she nods; a second head reaches down, nose to shoulder, "Such pure innocents." the second head chuckled, "We will grant you power, on one condition." "Free me from this wretched prison!" Scared to say no to the dark beast, she nods. The eight-headed serpent laughs, grabbing Tobirama by the back of her shirt and tossing her up; as she's almost about to hit the cave ceiling, a deep searing pain strikes her back like an irezumi needle going bone deep into her flesh. She can't scream, but it's so painful; she doesn't know how long she's been floating, but she's gently placed down onto her feet by a strange force; the pain was gone instantly as if it never happened. She walks out of the cave, over the water of the vast lake, and into the forest again. "Tobi!" cried her brothers. "Where have you been!?" "Are you okay?!" Tobirama looks at her brothers and nods with a small smile. "I've been looking everywhere for you two!" Hashirama and Itama were shocked, "Tobi, you've been gone for two hours!" Itama shouts as Tobirama blinks, "Two hours?" she spoke in confusion. How long was she in there?! "Tobirama!" Butsuma shouts as he and his wife rush to their children. "Where have you been!?" their mother cried as she knelt, her hands on her daughter's shoulders. "I got lost," Tobirama admitted.