founders era
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Madara closes his eyes on the battlefield with the world's kage and the remnants of his dead dream around him and wakes up nearly ninety years before just after Konoha was founded. Unlike some, he doesn't see this as a second chance to fix his wrongs- just as a torture keeping him from the death and rest he wanted. His path is hopeless, he realizes, and the best thing he can do is remove himself out of the way and let Hashirama continue like he had the first time.
To Hashirama, it quickly becomes apparent that there is something very, very wrong with his best friend, and he doesn't know if he can find out what in time to help- if Madara even wants to be helped.
It could be his second chance, to rebuild his family and find happiness, if Madara would allow himself to have it.
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- Part 1 of founders era
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He doesn't know where he is. It stalks him through the woods, waiting for him to slip up, waiting for him to hit the edge.
He goes back and tries to fix things, and somehow every time he attempts to make things better they splinter and fracture beyond his control.
He goes back and he doesn't know what's real. He hopes that Hashirama is real. God, he hopes Hashirama is real.Second chances don't always make things better. Madara learns this as he tries to keep his brothers alive and his relationships from fracturing. And Hashirama is there, again, but it's different this time, and there are so many things Madara didn't notice the first time.
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- Part 2 of founders era
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Hashirama has considered, at the end of his life, how many opportunities he had to change things, how much better he could have done- how he regrets letting go of his closest friend who could have been more.
Dying on the battlefield, he sees a familiar face.
It may not be an opportunity, or a second chance, but he has to hold onto it, whatever it is.
If he can, in this cave, alone, with only Madara, their pain, and manipulation in the background for company.Series
- Part 3 of founders era
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Lab Entries from the Northsoutheastwestern Ornithological Society of Konoha by xx_bittersweet_merlin
Fandoms: Naruto
04 Aug 2018
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Madara runs into a strange woman in the woods who "saves" him from a bandit (and won't shut up about it after). But the friendship he makes with her- and the people she drags along for the ride- does end up saving him, in more ways than one. He never would have seen himself a few months ago sitting in a treehouse surrounded by women yammering on about which songbirds sounded the prettiest and obsessing over his feather and moth collections. It's nice to have people on his side- although sometimes his side is "Senju Hashirama is absolutely not allowed to have hair that pretty."
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- Part 4 of founders era
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Madara is sent to Suna to deliver a treaty offer to the budding village. The Kazekage, he finds, is an agreeable person- someone he could call friend, in good circumstances. Reto, similarly, thinks he's a good man and doesn't deserve the distrust of his village. He comes up with the most harebrained idea that might actually work: pulling a prank on the whole of Konoha and claiming they're to be married.
Even if it doesn't work, though, he thinks it's going to be hilarious, and that's worth the trouble."He proposed, so I said yes,” Madara said with a wave of his hand, gazing out of the window as if it all made sense and he didn’t notice their incredulity. “In two weeks I’ll be moving to Suna permanently.”
Hashirama’s mouth moved a few times. It reminded Madara of the time he’d found Ryota trying desperately to stab a fish he’d caught and brought onto the rocks by a river, missing every time it floundered about with bulging eyes and a wiggling mouth. “Moving to…Suna?”Series
- Part 5 of founders era
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"It's just a drawing, Tobirama."
"Of Madara," he noted, feeling a little ornery. "In a heart."
"It's nothing! It's no big deal."
"Mhm-hmm. Maybe,” he began, holding it up in the light, “if it’s no big deal, I should show it to him.”
Hashirama froze. His eyes went wide as he stared at him, bleak with a growing amount of terror. “Tobirama, don’t you dare.”(for a "hashi and tobs acting their age" request, or, Hashirama and Tobirama's sibling rivalry gets Hashirama a husband)
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- Part 6 of founders era
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Madara's gotten into a mood again. It's been a long time since he felt as off as he does, like he's pulled a muscle without being able to feel it, and he starts to notice some...oddities.
He tries to rationalize it, but they all begin to point to the unsettling notion that he may not be entirely... human.
(Hashirama isn't, either.)
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- Part 7 of founders era
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a dumb modern au parody that spawned from a late night conversation with byelawliet. i apologize for this and i have no excuse don't judge me
(Madara is a photographer helping his brother through college, Mito is his Very Done newlywed friend, Izuna keeps stalking an aquarium worker, and Hashirama is the friend he hasn't seen in ten years, plus mysterious gardens keep popping up in the city.)
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- Part 8 of founders era
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(for mermay, just barely in time. a oneshot, but may or may not be added to)
in which madara's a betta fish merman and hashirama is...hashirama. no one knows what he is, but he is highly skilled at slicing through ships that prey on mer in his neighborhood. madara, as usual, is just along for a good time and some teasing.
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- Part 9 of founders era
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(done for a greek monster au: siren and hamadryad. oneshot, but may have a few snippets added in the future)
Madara, a siren, spends his days wandering the skies and occasionally dropping in near his favorite forest to see if the hamadryad who lives there appreciates his gifts. Of course, he's too much of a disaster to actually speak to him, but he ends up being lured in anyway.
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- Part 10 of founders era
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Naori often has free time at the end of her shifts. It isn't hard to slip out of camp and into small towns no one really notices. Quiet music, lazy smoke curls in the air, an easy way to relax, but tonight seems more hectic. The bar has a few more unfamiliar faces and one in particular that's been eyeing her all night. (And how long the night seems to be stretching, considering that they accidentally start a hotel fire and go off in search of a supposed werewolf, but she'll appreciate the friends she makes, even if they can't be permanent. Also, why are there pigeon feathers on the bar?)
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- Part 1 of naruto wlw fics
- Part 11 of founders era