Hope Deferred | Alternate Universe

He gave a wicked sneer and faced his friend who stood on the other side of the river.

"Madara, you are aware of what you've gotten yourself into. I always had a feeling you were one of those..." Tajima stood unblinking, his head angled, seemingly expectant of the ending of the boy's sentence.

"Uchiha". He spat the last word so venomously it made the raven haired boy flinch. Izuna responded by pointing his katana at the brunet, still maintaining his defensive stance.

"You smelled like them, everything about you screamed Uchiha. It's just proof that you're a failure of a ninja."

Madara frowned, seemingly angered by that statement. Yes, he was aware his friend was stronger than he, but nonetheless he was a worthy ninja. Not just in his own eyes, but in the eyes of everyone else around him.

"One of us will fall. So will it be you..." He trailed off and glanced at his brother and father behind him.

"Or will it be I?" He began to laugh maniacally, his father and his brother joining him before he suddenly stopped, they also shutting their mouths.

"But when that day comes, the day in which I will stain the Earth with your blood, YOU'LL WISH YOU NEVER MET ME..."

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Two men, like night and day slowly rose through the ranks and became the most powerful ninja to exist. But you can never see two sides of a coin, and one must rise above the other. But who will fall?

Started: February 2nd 2018