Chapter 1
Touka found him alone on the ground; terribly hurt, his long hair heavy with blood and mud when she lifted it to look at the wound (in the back? in the back? How could you fallen so far cousin?). Touka took him and nursed him back to health (only by the grace of the few healing techniques she learned from Tobirama); after all they were the only two people that could ever love Tobirama the way he ought to have been loved, enough to make the world burn for the lack of him. (she found a kindred soul in Madara, for all that is seemed unlikely, someone who also burned too hot and couldn’t live without a cooling presence to be a balm on their soul)
He awakens to pain. (this is nothing new, everything hurts all the time now, he doesn’t recommend love to Uchiha, it is very painful- but he can’t regret it) this pain is new though (it is not the wound that is the worst, it is the horrible knowledge that Hashirama, Hashirama-) and it takes him a minuet before his vison clears and he can see. But he knows the chakra signature of the person with him and it is strangely calming (it shouldn’t be, it wasn’t to many years ago that they were bitter enemies, Tobirama…) so he doesn’t push to hard. He lies (he can not sit with the wound on this back (his back- Hashirama) and looks at her, her strange eyes burning in the flickering light; what now, he asks, I don't know, she said all teeth, but let's go fuck shit up in the meantime. (they burn, but she tempers him somewhat- you cannot destroy what he created- but all the same there is too much pain in them to ever let it go, and there is no reason not to search the world)
It starts here- did you know there is man in the land of rain that nearly killed him? When he was far to young. Madara bared his teeth, why are we still here?