[NARUTO][Pillar Madara] His Country

Under the name of the family, the darkness is hidden densely, leaving only the seemingly bright surface and the silent and patient inside.Yes, ninjas are like this, always sacrifice something to protect something, and always give up something to achieve something-in this era full of wars, it is not only ninjas who can endure?

But the child is still so young.

"Tell me." Quan Nai begged again, "Now my brother has...I can't go on like this..."

"This is a by-product of the blood succession limit." The old man motioned him not to continue talking—even these two short sentences had already made his breathing heavy again, "In order for the blood succession limit to continue, Uchiha strictly controlled blood, because the stronger the blood, the stronger the pupil power; but it also brings serious problems, some children cannot grow up healthily, and some die at birth, even those who are lucky enough to grow up Those who grow up will suddenly appear this disease at a certain moment..."

Senna closed her eyes.The hoarse voice of the old man passed him like a river, and he seemed to be just drifting with the current and couldn't understand the meaning of those words: after all, he was worried about his brother's eyes just a moment ago, but the situation changed suddenly, and he had already There is no room to worry about others.

His hands clenched into fists and loosened.Then he heard his own voice—so strange, it hardly seemed to come from his throat:

"How long can I live?"

The time Quanna and Madara spent together as brothers when they were young was actually very limited.Ninjas have no childhood. Once they learn to walk, they must use shuriken and kunai as toys. As long as they can be "useful", they must learn to stab each other's throat with a sword, and have the same awareness of being killed by others.However, due to Quanna's poor health, his childhood was forced to be prolonged.

Quanna always stayed with her mother while her older brothers practiced ninjutsu and taijutsu and made noise in the courtyard of the mansion.Mother would hold him, test the temperature of his forehead with a soft hand, and teach him to sleep when he started to have a fever.Those memories have become extremely blurred with the passage of time. He still vaguely remembered that he once put his ear on his mother's swollen belly and asked her "is he a younger brother or a younger sister?" The image disappeared from his memory.

He would not realize until much later that this absence was a forever farewell.

After that he recovered and began to fulfill all the obligations of being a Uchiha boy: practicing ninjutsu, mastering weapons, and after being able to wield a sword proficiently, he began to perform missions as a spy.But after his first assignment, Madara had an argument with his father - they argued so much that it was inevitable that Quanna heard the content of the argument.After Madara said that, Tajima stopped talking.

Madara said: Are you going to take away my last brother too?

The next day Quanna found Madara in the woods on the edge of the family land.The boy who was temporarily grounded repeatedly swung his sword in the clearing, and stopped when he heard Quanna's footsteps, and put the sword back into its sheath.

"What's wrong?"

Madara asked, there was still no smile on his face, but Quanna did not mistake the gentle look in his brother's eyes.

"I will also protect my brother." Quan Nai said, this is the conclusion he came up with after thinking about it all night, "I will become stronger, stay by my brother's side, and stay with you all the time."

Madara looked at him, then frowned slightly.

"Ah, then it's settled."

Quanna closed the scroll in her hand.

There was still a dark flame lurking in his chest: the heat could not be extinguished.But fortunately, he still has some time, allowing him to complete the last thing that can help his brother.

"I don't want to miss the appointment..."

He murmured, and hid the scroll that recorded the matter about the Eternal Kaleidoscope back in the depths of Madara's bookshelf.Maybe Madara didn't know that Quanna already knew, and he would hide everything that he wanted to hide from Quanna in this place.

He slipped out of the study lightly.The daylight was shining brightly, and he stood on the porch looking at the blue sky in the distance.

"Master Quanna? Why are you standing here?"

Fire Core, who was passing by with a few scrolls in his arms, saw him and shouted.

"Is it an official document again?"

"Yeah, I want to show Madara-sama." Huo He said with a bitter face, "The Senshou family sent documents again. It seems that they still don't give up on the matter of forming an alliance."

"What do the people in the clan think?"

"It's too difficult." Fire Core sighed, "After all, we have too much resentment with Senshou, who doesn't have children who died on the battlefield... Maybe it's a good thing that the last negotiation collapsed. Even if Madara-sama Insist on an alliance...I think also..."

Quanna's heart skipped a beat.He stretched out his hand towards the fire core.

"Give me that scroll. Let me persuade elder brother not to be fooled by Qianshou's hypocrisy."

Fire Core did not suspect him, and handed the top scroll to Quan Nai.Quan Nai smiled and said thank you.

— Now, it is time to fulfill that promise.

No. [-]

Things in this world often don't follow people's expectations.This is the first thing any child who would become a ninja needs to realize when he takes up arms.

Instead of making too much meaningless expectations.Feijian always said.He was always the more down-to-earth of the brothers, and he was never practical enough to agree to an alliance for political reasons—setting norms, stopping disputes, working under treaties and agreements.He probably never tried to imagine the kind of "real alliance" that Hashirama dreamed of; if Hashirama really talked about these things to him, he would probably just frown and say - stop talking so childishly If so, stop having those unrealistic dreams like you did when you were a child.It is good enough to have an agreement.

And Uchiha wouldn't even offer that trust.

Their negotiations stalled after their first meeting.Tokaima and Quanna have met several times as representatives of both sides, but it is extremely difficult to take the first step.Hashirama clearly understands that what is needed to form an alliance is not just to sort out the pros and cons, but the key is the willingness of the two parties to get closer to each other - he once thought that it had been established, but now it seems that it is not.

He was vaguely aware of the reason behind Madara's change of attitude.And he hasn't seen Madara since then.As the leader of Senshou, he couldn't approach Uchiha's clan alone, it was almost the same as provocation.Sometimes he would come to the Nanhe River at night, the river that has been flowing for many years is the same as before, and the slow water flow will not tear the moon shadow.Standing by the river, he would occasionally pick up a stone and try to throw it over as he did when he was a child, but he could no longer cross the river bank as easily as when he was a child.

Do things that are easy when you are a child become more difficult when you grow up?

Senshou Zhuma is not someone who is willing to give up.The decision he made has never been retracted or changed, and if this path does not work, then find another path.And the daimyos who had been silent before seemed to have finally decided not to bear it any longer: the new mission required Senshou to destroy a fortress, which was already extremely close to the edge of the Fire Nation's forces, and the enemy hired Uchiha was sent to disrupt would-be saboteurs.

This is rather a hint from the daimyo, after all, no matter which daimyo has arranged enough spies so that they can intercept the enemy's movements.The fortress is not a problem, and the outcome of the war does not matter. All this is just a tool used by the daimyos to test the loyalty of the ninjas-has Senju and Uchiha secretly communicated with the song?Who is still loyal and who has betrayed?Who can be trusted and who must be abandoned?

For those dignitaries who stand high in the tower and overlook the blood and fire from a distance, sacrifices are nothing more than numbers, names are just a line of black and white characters, and no matter how powerful the ninja is, they are nothing but pawns that can be discarded at any time.

If you want to change all this...

However, there is no time for him to think on the battlefield.Hashirama threw away his untimely thoughts, and jumped to meet the Uchiha leader's merciless slash, and the branches spawned by the wooden escape poured out from behind him to support the blade of the sickle.Then the familiar fiery flames engulfed the space between them.

spot.

He read the other party's name in his heart, as if he could convey something in this way.However, Madara just watched him indifferently, and the sharing eyes that opened because of the fate of the fire escape were as bright as blood.

So Hashirama didn't have time to think about anything else.In the battle between them, because they are too familiar with each other, the selection and exchange of moves happened between them.Between the blades where life hangs by a thread, words become meaningless instead.

When they first met on the battlefield in armor, they were still not much taller than the swords in their hands.That encounter was different from what Hashirama imagined. He thought that he would be afraid of fighting with his friends on the battlefield. He might be soft-handed, and he might want to escape—this would undoubtedly be reprimanded by his father as A cowardly move, but when things came to an end, he discovered that he could swing a sword at Uchiha Madara, as long as there were Senju's clansmen standing behind him, as long as there were Uchiha warriors standing behind Madara, then he could Swinging the sword steadily: Even if the blade can easily cut into the skin, muscles and bones, cut off the blood and life, and even the last sliver of trust, even if he may kill Uchiha Madara, his heart is not shaken, just like the person opposite. Never met him in general.

This realization terrified Hashirama.

When he came down from the battlefield that day, Tomona once asked him