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"Izuna", Tobirama said as their swords clashed again and their arms strained for the smallest leverage. Izuna didn't listen, disengaged, just to slam their sword together again.

"Izuna", tried Tobirama again. And again Izuna choose to ignore him. They whirled away, throwing kunai and jutsu at each other, before meeting in the middle again.

A known dance for both of them. But this time, Tobirama broke the rhythm. Boldly he grabbed Izunas neck, and forced eyecontact.

That alone made Izuna pause. That the Senju Demon didn't shy away from the sharingan. Moreover their Foreheads met. Eyes, red on red, staring at each other without fear.

"Izuna", Tobirama said for a third time. Their bodies locked, muscles like stone, not giving an inch, "there is a force on its way to your compound. Its big. 5 minutes away. And I can't sense any of your warriors there. Izuna, go to your brother and the Senju will call a retreat. Go and save your people."

With that Tobirama distanced himself abruptly, bounding over to his own brother. And the next second Hashiramas voice was heard and the Senju retreated in admitted defeat.

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The day Hashirama took the blade and wanted to strike himself down, was the same day that something irreversible inside Tobirama broke. Not his words stopped his own brother. Not his voice or his very self standing there. But Madara.

Back at the compound Tobirama went straight to his room and started to pack his things. Hashirama had followed him and just watched him silently until he couldn't.

"What are you doing, Tobirama?"

"I'm going"

"You.. leave our house?"

Tobirama stopped for a short moment. His back turned to Hashirama, his brother couldn't see is face.

"I'm leaving the Senju"

Hashirama stopped breathing.

"What?! Why! Tobirama, you can't!", with wide steps he reached his brother and tried to stop his doing, "Tobirama stop!"

The both struggled, Hashirama trying to take the clothes or scrolls back and Tobirama putting them back. In the end Hashirama grabbed Tobiramas wrist and shoved him away.

"You want to leave me?!"

Like an explosion, Tobirama was in his face. "YOU LEFT!! YOU ALREADY LEFT ME", he screamed and Hashirama was just shocked. With his mouth hanging open he watched how Tobiramas face contorted into an angry mask.

"You wanted to leave me today, Anija. You wanted to leave me alone.", Tobirama said, his breath coming fast and hard.

"But I'm wrong, right Anija? It was not today. You have left me a long time ago. So, what right do you have to ask me to stay?! Stay in an empty room, an empty house, an empty compound and clan. Why. SHOULD. I?!"

Tobirama ripped is wrist free, shoved his brother away. His eyes full of emotion, to fast changing for Hashirama read them in time.

They watched each other in silence, just their breathing breaking it appart in a fast rhythm. And then Tobirama just left. Took all of his possession and left.

Leaving a room, a house, a clan empty.

(Triggerwarning: major character death, but nothing explicitly explained or shown) (this was inspired by very good discord talk.)

"Would you sacrifice everything for you Dream of Peace, Hashirama?"

A cursed question, said to Hashirama in the middle of their latest fight. And now he stood there in front of the place designated as the gates for the future village, and his brothers casked was lowered down to the ground. His final resting place would be here. In front of the future village, not in it, never to be a part of it.

And his death a signal to the Uchiha, that the Senju were ready and willing to sacrifice anything for peace.

(Tobirama had smiled. "Give me one day, Anija. Let me say goodbye to my students."

And in his last minutes, his Tobirama had smiled again. "Don't worry Anija. I will always be by your side")

(And he was, as enemies attacked and Hashiramas blood coated the front gates, a seal burned itself to the ground and Tobirama arouse. Skin ashen and broken. Eyes black and red. On his neck a seal inked and his body fought. Fought like a feral animal until every enemy was gone. Never slowing down. Never showing fatigue.

And after that it went to his starting point and sunk down. Back to the earth where he belonged. Waiting for the next time his brothers blood called him forth.)

Because I want today to be a good day. A new prompt idea for you all.

(Jutsu gone wrong)

Hashirama, never learning from his mistakes and his brother extensive explanations about lab safety, triggers an untested seal in said lab, transforming him into a little Samoyed Puppy. Tobirama now has the job to help Hashirama in his new form, lead the Senju clan and look out for the Uchiha, so the peace talks can continue as smoothly as possible in the 'absence' of his brother.

In the time Hashirma is in his dog form, he sees how other people react to his brother. How others badtalk him, or are just hostile. Especially Uchiha. (And to his own shame, even his best friend Madara and his brother Izunna are part of that problem.)

Hashirama feels guilty, seeing his brother suffer and being blind to tue problems his brother faced. He knew getting along with bis brother was not easy, but that didnt mean others has to mock, harass or even hurt him.

Tobirama ignores children, for their safety. Everyone thinks he hates them.

In this idea, Butsuma would literally send children out on missions, to young and weak, knowing they would die. Just because they had a connection with his son, Tobirama. If he saw Tobi with a child, that child would end up dead.

He wanted Tobirama only to focus on his brother Hashirama. The heir and holder of the mokuton. He even let his children, Kawarama and Itama, die.

(Triggerwarning: implied past abuse)

A fanfic idea where the village happens and after some time Madara and Tobirama start a relationship. We ignore Hashiramas overprotective tendencies (and he has them) and jump straight to Mito.

Mito who takes Madaras ear (literally) and drags him to a cafe and starts with the serious talk about boundaries and consent. Because the Senju brothers are fucked up in that area. Not that they do anything to other people. It is more the other way around. They are so used to Butsuma and a life under a dictatorships, they would allow anything to happen to them in order to preserve the clan/the peace/the agreement/the relationship. Mito explained how she learned after their marriage, how bad it was. And she made mistakes. Mistakes that hurt Hashirama and her. She doesn't want that to happen to Madara and Tobirama.

And Madara deserved to know that. To avoid mistakes but maybe to let go of the relationship with Tobirama. Because it would be unfair to both of them. If he can't commit to this fully, or if Madara feels like he has to, the relationship would not be a happy one.

The peace came for both, Uchiha and Senju. After many shouting, many fights and many hidden messages, Hashiramas consistent nagging found his ending in form of a peace treaty.

And with that treaty came a different kind of torment for Senju Tobirama, who had to watch the killers of his brothers parade themselves in front of him.

There was a big celebration, at the construction side where the new Village would stand. Everyone in a happy mood, some of the Uchiha and Senju even intermingling. And in front of Tobirama and Hashirama were three Uchiha, holding their hand out, grinning innocently.

Hashirama, the foolhardy idiot took their hand, shaking them vigorously. Always smiling and talking in an animated way. But Tobiramas face was stoic, no, it was cold. Like a block of ice that would never melt.

He saw it in their eyes. They knew that Tobirama knew about their deed. About the blood on their hands.

(Triggerwarning: Butsuma A+ parenting. (Child) Abuse and Abandonment.)

Tobirama lived all his life outside.

Butsuma-sama never considered Tobirama as his son, even accused his mother of cheating. Right after his birth, before Tobirama could even feel the warm embrace of his mother, his father brought him outside, naked and bloody, and just left him there. It was Lady Senju, dragging herself with her arms over the floor to reach her child, crying and cursing Butsuma. Small little Hashirama, frightened, ran ahead and brought his little baby brother back to his mother. There, on the floor between two doors, felt Tobirama his mothers love, her warmth, and drank his first milk and went to sleep.

As Butsuma found them, he brutally wretched the child away, completely ignoring Hashiramas begging, and left the crying baby outside again. He forbid everyone to bring that cursed thing back inside.

Lady Senju didn't listen and tried hard to bring her child back, to bring him inside the warm home, to safety, but was always brutally beaten down. She still tried. Day after day. She sneaked out, fed him. Tried to hide him back in her rooms. But Butsuma always found him. And always threw him out, like trash.

Butsuma learned early that no beating would stop Lady Senju, until he focused his anger and the punishment on Tobirama. Every time his stubborn wife went outside to bring him back, other men would hold her down and force her to watch her husband beat his own child. In fear that Tobirama would die, she stopped her attempts to bring him inside. After that, it got even harder and harder for her to find a chance to feed her baby.

("Be happy that I even let him live, woman! That cursed monster! If you ever try that again I will beat him again and again!", screamed Butsuma as his crying wife was dragged away from that thing.)

Hearing the cries of baby Tobirama melted many hearts, but they were to afraid to go against Butsumas orders. Until Lady Senju, hidden away by the clouds shrouding the moons light, went from door to door. She visited every home that had a mother with a baby. And she begged, fell to her knees, bowed down until her face was pressed to earth and pleas left her lips, to help her save her child in any way they could.

And the Mothers did. The ones that had enough milk to feed a second child, would feed Tobirama. Others would bring clothes, clean him up and do other things to help him survive the outside temperatures. The attempt to build a shelter for Tobirama was always thwarted. The husbands looked the other way, their own way of help their Lady. What you didn't see, couldn't be reported to Senju-sama.

And Tobirama survived. He slowly grew up, never really knowing what a family was. Never really learning to talk, or any other social norm. He just knew that he existed here on the streets in the Senju compound with no purpose. Ignored by one half, helped by the other. And if he had a bad day, he was visited by the bad ones who hurt him.

He had no father, no siblings, but many mothers. Some smiled at him. Some gave him food. Some sneaked a blanket out for him, when his old one got to worn out or was stolen from him. He never saw the inside of a house. His home were the woods surrounding the compound. The Lady Senju died. Two out of three children from Butsuma-sama died. And Hashirama, the sole heir to the Clan, always talked to him.

And after the death of Butsuma, Hashirama tried to get him to his home. Tobirama refused. Touka, another person kind to him, was the next one. But again he refused. Many of his mothers opened their door for him, but Tobirama never entered.

He remember the pain that was cast upon him if he ever dared to enter a house. He would never repeat that mistake.

Then suddenly all his mothers packed their homes aways. All of them started to empty their houses and groups formed. Each day, more and more people went away. Many of his mothers tried to coax him to come with them.

But Tobirama was afraid. And he stayed. Until only Hashirama remained.