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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Fandoms: Naruto
20 Apr 2020
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It's raining when Mito meets Senju Toka, covered in mud with red strands of hair unraveled from her bun and plastered to her forehead, the scent of death deep in her lungs as they crash together like projectiles on different plots on the course of fate that just so happened to collide. Toka is strong, beautiful, sharp, covered in thorns that Mito can sink through without being cut just the same way Toka can easily slither past all her carefully-constructed walls.
Toka wants to be sure; Mito needs to be sure. And she needs Toka, even if it means splitting her country down the middle and everything comes crashing down.
But she is made of steel, and her head was made for a crown.
"I just wish she felt the same way," Mito says, morosely, staring despondently out the window as rain slides down the glass.
"...Yes." Madara sits there, a ring made of wood and crystal worth more than a mountain full of gold mines on his finger, looking pointedly pained. "That's...rough."Series
- Part 2 of founders era
- Part 6 of naruto wlw fics
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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 3 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 4 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 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 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 7 of founders era