Gone (Pt. 2)
Madara was gone in an instant. Stupid Senju! Always acting without thinking yet he is hailed a genius!
Hashirama was hot on his tail, Izuna following with Touka and Mito not far behind him. Tobirama knew Hashirama would take time to open the scroll, knew he would not want to break the seal in fear of it being more paperwork. Bastard Hiarshinned halfway across the continent by now at least. Seals everywhere making it easier to travel faster.
Wait.
The seals! How many times had he watched his boyfriend do the hand signs (or lack thereof if needed), felt the way his chakra swirled into the seals, man left the damn thing open in their office to tinker with if he needed a break from bureaucracy.
He stopped abruptly, Hashirama barely missing from crashing into him.
"Madara?"
"Talk to the trees! Where is he, where is his closest marker to that location?"
"What are you-"
"Just do it! Time is not on our side!" As he did this the others eventually caught up to them, worry and concern strewn about.
"Mito." He turned to the Uzumaki harpy who he was now thanking every Kami he could think of for her presence here right now.
"Madara? What is going on? What do you need?"
"You. Tobirama has shown you his Hirashin, correct?"
"Well of course but I don't have it memorized-"
"I do. If I write it, could you feed our chakra into it correctly?"
"Technically yes, but if it's all of us, we'd need a monstrous amount of chakra."
"Are you speaking of the white haired idiot going after the two assholes who I barfed up last year?" A larger than normal red-orange fox said from below them, a surprising amount of tails splayed around them.
"Barfed up? That would make you.. the Kyuubi! You're real!?" Izuna said, eyes wide. The fox huffed.
"Good to see someone remembers us. Even if it's a brainless fool on par with the one who dashed past here earlier. Brat awoke me from my sleep with those 'jumps' as he was calling them." It-they? huffed again and laid down.
"He went to try and kill them."
"Good."
"By himself."
"That is why I called him an idiot. He would not survive that alone."
"And you didn't stop him?"
"Why would I stop a human? You all die eventually." Madara tilted his head for a moment, considering the fox's body language. He jumped down and just barely felt the ghost of Izuna's fingertips on his sleeve in trying to stop him.
"You want them dead too. Not our idiot, the two brothers. They hurt you, if the rumors are to be believed, stole your power and have bastardized your abilities as their own."
"And what of it?"
"What is your name Kyuubi-sama?"
"After you deaf? How do you know my name isn't just Kyuubi?"
"Because that is what you are not who. Who are you?" The fox stared him down for 10 seconds that felt like years in Madara's eyes.
"A brave one then." They huffed once more. "Kurama."
"Help us get to him and their deaths will be guaranteed, painful ones too."
"Ah yes, help the humans who stole my sleeping grounds to build their puny village. What a marvelous idea."
"Your sleeping…? Wait- is that why the mountain top is barren? You sleep there?"
"Slept. And yes, until you two brats showed up while I was out hunting, cutting down trees and building things left and right."
"Kurama-sama, we had no idea that was your place. On behalf of Konoha, please accept our apologies. He bowed to the fox. Damn politics and niceties.
"Now, please help us get to them so we may help in your vengeance and save our idiot from those you want dead."
"On one condition, I go with you in that fancy seal. I want to see it for myself. And, to know if I need to destroy that damn village of yours for a promise broken." Something spiked in his own chakra at the same time the thunderous jump of Hashirama sounded. Knowing what was about to happen, Madara shoved his arm out in front of his friend, effectively knocking some wind out of him.
"Of course. Would now be fine? We don't have much time to spare." The last part being said through gritted teeth at his best friend who gave him a hard look that silently communicated 'fine'.
Madara instantly turned to the ground and grabbed the sealing scroll (ignore that it was the first present he gave you. Ignore the feelings. Focus.) andfrom it, a fresh empty scroll and an ink stick. He was not water natured per say but only a fool would think he didn't at least pick up a few suiton jutsus or how to mold the chakra for it from Tobirama at some point. The ink stick stained his hand slightly as he painstakingly made water slowly go through his hand to the stick and to the paper below. He sharingan spinning as he wrote the seal from memory hand swiping in precise strokes. Once done Madara turned to the group that now joined them on the ground. "I have been i formed where we should go and Hashirama can lead us there as I guide the rest of us with it. Kurama-sama, how will your chakra be given?"
"You will each grab one tail. If you tug on it I will bite you." They all nodded and grabbed one gently. The chakra was fed to them and it was Mito who flowed it into the correct channels. The chakra burned with a kind of anger Madara hadn't felt in years. Then the Hirashin shook their beings and moved them through time and space itself. The scroll followed them as they left nothing but a few drops of ink on the ground and one thought in Madara's head.
Anata, if you die, I swear I will go to the pure lands and drag you back here so I can strangle you myself!