Ready Hands and Steady Feet

Tobirama ran. It was what he did best. He ran from the family farm at sixteen, he ran from the cruelty of the world at his father's hand, he ran from loss. He isolated, he worked, and he kept moving.

When threats calling for his life start arriving at his office in the form of letters, he runs. He runs home, back to his brother, back to the farm, back to the life he'd left behind. It wasn't his idea, but he'd still followed the orders he was given to the letter.

What he hadn't accounted for in his plan was Madara, the Uchiha heir that had inherited the neighboring ranch and mended broken bridges with Hashirama in his absence. After being volunteered by his brother to help on the ranch, he wasn't really in a position to dig his heels in when he wanted to run again. This time, he was running from a renovated house and an alcholic brother that carried too many memories, instead embracing the ranching lifestyle that he'd always despised with Madara Uchiha as his boss.

He was beginning to learn the definition of helplessness.

Welcome to the Hallmark-Coded Cowboy AU TobiMada fic that no one asked for but I spent a month writing anyway.