Getting to the Other Side ✔

Chapter 5: Getting to the Other Side

Hashirama's P.O.V

Itama's in trouble!  I must get there in time.

I was running with two older Senju Shinobi to the battlefield.

I won't let him die!  He can't die.

Itama please wait for me!

But I was too late..

"Itama!!"

"ITAMA!!!!!" I held his corpse in my arms crying.

Yoshima's P.O.V

I leaned against a tree relaxing thinking about what my mother told me..

*FLASHBACK*

"You have been injured badly!  Don't even think about about leaving the house today!"  She yelled crossing her arms.

"But..."

"Yoshima you almost died!  You lost to Itama!  Give it up!"

I slummed back in bed, pulling my blanket over my head.

"Ok..." I muttered, pretending to sleep..

Once she was off, I put pillows under the blanket and escaped.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

I sighed leaning against the tree touching the bandage above my eye and wincing..

"Now how the heck am I gonna get up..." I said trying to get up, but the pain in my stomach was too much..

"Take it easy!" I felt arms trying to help me up.

I was up leaning into someone's chest...

"Madara..." I whispered.

"What happened to you?" He asked in a worried voice.

"I got beat up by my younger brother." I said blushing. I was too lazy to move from his chest.  He wrapped his arms around my waist.

"What the-"

"It was for who would be put on the battlefield.. I really angered my father."

"I got stabbed in the stomach, got kicked in my stomach, got kicked into the ground."

"You really want to become a Shinobi.."  He said softly.

"This is my first time witnessing the pain...  I'm pretty sure what my brother is facing is way worse..." I said and tears streamed down my face.

"I couldn't protect him.." I said as tears fell from my face.

"Don't cry..."  Madara said wiping my tears.

"When it comes to you, I feel like I can tell you everything..."  I said with a soft smile.

One of Madara's hand cupped my face.

My eyes widened as his hand caressed my cheek.

I felt warmness on my lips and I realized Madara was kissing me.

I kissed him back..

"Uh-  I'm-  I didn't- I'll just go." Madara said about to go.

I grabbed his arm, "You are going to leave without saying goodbye again?" I said with a vein on my forehead and a devious look on my face.

I walked towards Madara and touched his cheek and kissed him.

My arms went around his neck and his arms went around my waist.

We were both blushing, madly..

"Madara..." I said hugging him and closing my eyes.

"Yoshima...  I really should go...  I have duties to attend..  I'm sorry..."  Madara said and I had a light blush.

"Bye." Madara said and smirked.

He kissed me again and left.

"I should go back too..."  I whispered and walked back to the main household.

I blushed the whole way... 

"That was so sudden..."

Madara's P.O.V

I made my way towards the river..

I had finished my duties.

I started to think of Yoshima and a blush appeared on my face...

"Yoshima..." I whispered to myself.

Then I realized that kid was at the river..

He was just sitting in front of it.

"Hey..  It's been a long while.."

"..."

"Ehm.." I forgot his name...

"Hashirama."

"What, you're already depressed this time?" He seemed really quiet.

"...Did something happen?"

"I'd like to ask you..  I'm fine!" He said in a shaky voice.

"..You're lying..  You can talk to me about it."

"It's nothing.."

"It's ok..  Just say it.."

"No..  Really, it's nothing..."

"You're dragging it too much.. I said I'm gonna listen...."

"But it's true that it's nothing...."

"It's nothing..." Hashirama had tears streaming down his face.

A vein appeared on my forehead, "Just talk!!!" I said angrily.

"My younger brother died..." He said.

I started to think of Yoshima and her brother...  He was placed on the battlefield.

Him and his brother too...

Is he related to Yoshima?!  No...  I'm probably just over exaggerating...  This is how the world has become.

"The reason I came here is that.."

"..By looking at the river I feel like these vague feelings are carried away by the water..."  He said staring into the river and wiping his tears.

"Was your name Madara?  I thought maybe it was the same for you too."

I understood what he was saying.

"..Do you.. ..Have siblings?" He asked me.

"I have.. 4 brothers..." I said picking up a skipping stone.

"Well I had them..." I said holding the skipping stone.

His eyes widened.

"We're Shinobi.  We might die anytime."  I said walking towards the river.

"The only way not to die....Is to show what you really think to your enemy, without hiding anything....And become allies with them."

"But that's impossible....  Because it's not possible to see....what a person really thinks and feels deep inside." I said getting ready to throw the stone.

"You don't even know if they see that at all..." I said throwing the stone.

"....Is it....impossible to show each other our real thoughts?" Hashirama said, finally speaking as the stone made its way across the river.

"I don't know...  But I always come here for hope....That a way exists."  I said and the stone reached the other side.

"This time...  ..It finally looks like there is one.  At last not only you..  ..But I got to the other side too."