Uchiha Kyodai

Money Grows on the Tree of Persistence

That Senju, Hashirama, has tried to make peace between his and Kyodai's clans many times. She hates him. She hates a lot of people now. Mostly Hashirama though. He is a persistent fool, a filthy Senju. Kyodai is choking on hate again. She doesn't care. The Senju are vile, and that is the truth. Izuna came back from one battle badly hurt. Kyodai doubted he would make it. Izuna doubted it too. Madara was stuck in his fantasy that his brother would survive. Izuna rips Madara out of delusion by extracting his eyes and placing them in Madara's hand. He dies soon after. He is buried with a smile on his face. As Kyodai clings to Kagami, staring at Izuna's casket, she remembers her mindset from eight years ago. To forgive. She distantly remembers her father. Kyodai had always wanted to be like him. She had so many regrets, and her pride was killing her and her family. She remembers begging any higher authority for forgiveness. Perhaps she was not forgiven  but punished because she had not truly repented. Perhaps the Uchiha were simply cursed. Kyodai thinks of the single truth she had consciously chosen to ignore, and she ignores it again. She thinks she has ruined Izuna and Madara with her own hate, and she is not ready to face it. Izuna's  death could have been her fault. She had been his main source of meaningful advice that he lived by. That he had died by. Kyodai thinks of the Senju and their persistence, denying that anything would come of it. Later, Kyodai would wonder when she started deluding herself.