This is a nice feeling.

Can I?

'Okay. Izuna you can do this... Yeah.... Yeah.' Sigh 'Who am I even trying to fool. Well apparently myself.' He thought sarcastically.

Looking around his surroundings, he is sure that he is nowhere near the Uchiha territory. Heck. He is not even sure if he is anywhere near Fire Country. He grimaces or more like po- No. No, he is NOT pouting. He is an Uchiha. Uchihas don't pout. Never. Nope. He tries to move again and Amaterasu it hurts, his injuries have been reopened by the movement. He has just hastily bandaged the wound to stop the bleeding before settling down in this clearing. Checking to make sure and yes it has been reopened. He frowned. 'Looks like I have to spend the night here after all.' So he did just that. Even though he is not a sensor, he still tries to spread his chakra for any threats. He finds none. So resting his back against the tree which is not as tall or broad like the ones in his Country, and muse over what happened so far.

His Nii-sama had sent him on a mission to The Land of Lightning. A simple reconnaissance mission. Especially for someone of his calibre. This mission was his speciality. Go and collect intel on the Country's happening. Not like the intel are of any use for shinobis like himself but given that the client is of a high standing Noble family. Well. It doesn't interest him in any way. But that's it. Isn't it. He got too cocky about the mission that he failed to notice the shinobis tailing after him until it was too late. The ambush completely took him by surprise.

Not that they were per se his equals but the number of shinobis who attacked him was a lot. He may be strong then again he was just returning from completing a mission, however easy it was and hungry and oh so tired, so fighting six shinobis at the same time was tiring even for someone like him. Bless the Amaterasu for the Sharingan because of it he had managed to kill everyone but not without endangering his own life. And now here he was hungry, tired, bleeding and a tree as the only support.

He opens his eyes; he doesn't even remember closing them when he hears the sounds of footsteps just in front of him. And what he saw made him freeze because no way what he is seeing is true, closes his eyes, and just inhales deeply. In and out, in and out. Oh and that too he did slowly because... because. Opens them, seen the same, and closes them again, maybe he lost more blood than he thought. Yeah. That's it. That has to be it. Right? Right. He is hallucinating, and that's it because no way was there Senju fucking Hashirama in front of him looking concerned and wary. Wariness he can understand, but the concern is not something you associate that same thought with the likes of an enemy. Especially from the Senjus. But when he opened them again he could not deny that yes he was not hallucinating, there in all of his battle glory was Senju Hashirama. Not knowing what to do, he grits his teeth and snarls,

"Senju!" He practically spat and curled his lips deeper than the snarl.

The Senju was still standing a few feet in front of him tentatively and watching him like a cornered animal, also not to mention the concern. 'I mean what the Fuck!!'

"Izuna..." He said it in a carefully low voice so as not to startle him, making him want to throttle him. Badly.

"Don't you Izuna me, and finish what you came here for already." With enough bite to freeze the whole of Fire Country.

But he just stood there like it just made no sense at all and shifted his stance to a more relaxed one. Even his expression was laxer. What The Fuck indeed. And the fucking oaf have the gut to sigh.

"I....." He trailed off and sigh again. Look to his side with a frown, expression as if he was contemplating something and reached for his weapon pouch. Izuna braced himself, he may be weakened and even in better condition he is no way near the level of this man, he won't go down without a fight. He thinks about how his Nii-sama, who will no doubt mourn for him then also for leaving him all alone in this mad world and reaches for his katana.