With Kishimoto I'm really not sure if Fugaku having his eyes closed means he doesn't want to listen to Hiruzen's opening entrance speech or he just fell asleep during Sasuke's (current) most important moment in life like a deadbeat he is
Something something, Hashirama making Tobirama perform Madaraās autopsy as a punishment.
And some word vomit on that:
Maybe it starts like this: tired of the war, Hashirama makes Izunaā¦ slip. Right as Tobirama goes and attacks him with his Hirashin. Turning what should have been a painful but ultimately harmless strike into a debilitating and, in the end, deadly injury.
Izuna is, after all, the biggest hurdle to peace, and the biggest danger to his brotherās safety.
What are a few sacrifices for peace? Madara should have just listened to him.
But he has his village! His brother is safe, and his best friend is there too! Everything is perfect!
Meanwhile, Tobiramaā¦ knows something happened. He never meant to kill Izuna, he wasnāt even aiming to kill, just to injure him. He expects Madara to confront him, and he accepts it when it happens. They both relive that moment, together, from all three sides. It isnāt a kindness on Madaraās end, butā¦ while they donāt know how, Izuna did slip. Moving as fast as he was, Tobirama couldnāt have pulled his strike. It isnāt forgiveness, but itās close to it.
They donāt mean to fall in love, but theyāre both so isolated from those around them that theyāre drawn to each other. Madara isnāt stupid enough to not realize his own role in Izunaās death, and selfish though he is, he wonāt let himself destroy another person he loves. And so he subtly encourages Tobirama to take on students, work on his jutsus, anything to separate him from Madaraās side.
While all of this is happening, Madaraās hate of Konoha is still festering, of course, but heās beenā¦ replaying Izunaās death. Obsessively. And he sees it. That little bump of a root. It isnāt Konoha he hates, itās Hashirama.
This isnāt something he can keep from Tobirama. So he tells Tobirama, then tells him heās leaving Konoha. Tobirama begs to come with him, but Madara canāt have that. Tobirama must stay here. Because once Madara kills HashiramaāhopefullyāKonoha is going to need Tobirama.
It isnāt until their final battle that Madara reveals everything to Hashirama. Because he never expected to lose. Tells Hashirama how he knows about how he made Izuna trip, costing Madara his last brother, and his clanās loyalty. In the end though, Madara got something more valuable, at least to HashiramaāTobiramaās loyalty and love.
He doesnāt see the strike coming until Hashiramaās sword is through his chest. Ohā¦
Tobirama isnāt sure what to think when his brother calls him to the hospital. It isnātā¦ Madaraās corpse. In an operating theatre. With people everywhere. Having to cut open the man he loves while everyone watches is torture, treat him like a test subject instead of like a person. How he gets through it without crying or vomiting he doesnāt know.
As Hokage, Hashirama has access to all of the clanās scrolls. Tobirama will be much happier if simply never remembered he cared for Madara at all. The Yamanaka scrolls say the jutsu shouldnāt be used long term, but heās sure it will be fine. Shaky and weak from his ordeal, Tobirama is barely aware of whatās happening, much less resist the jutsu. Itās fine, though. His anija has him.
When Madara wakesā¦ well. Zetsu had been a useful ally before. Thereās no harm in listening to the thing still, right? It isnāt like he has anything important he needs to think about.
Headcannon that the shadow clone Madara left behind in his place in the tomb/stone coffin in Tobirama's underground secret lab number 203b could only last SO LONG.
It eventually had to pop! And any all all memories the clone incurred would rebound back to the original Madara upon its dissolution. AND! Madara would have no awareness of the clones experiences until then.
Imagine (brainworms now/fic territory) he miscalculated and Tobirama did consider a time delay jutsu which is why he kept the corpse in the first place. Well, that and to prevent organ thieving.
Imagine Tobirama periodically checking in on the corpse. Trying new jutsu, new seals, anything!! To crack to the truth that Madara would never simply die! Imagine he pushes it a little too hard one day until 'pop!' And somewhere in the Mountain Graveyard Madara who was sitting connected to the gedou statue is brutally hit with a solid year of INTENSE physical memories that were not intended for living bodies to survive, let alone feel. All at once.
Now Madara is LIVID. Tobirama is equally furious at being fooled with his own damn technique. And Madara is clearly alive and in hiding somewhere and he cannot tell elder brother because look at what happened last time!
The hunt between them is on! And Madara cannot really move from the statue, so he prepares quite the trap that not even a hirashin could escape.
Excerpts of importance: Madara violently vomiting and shaking and having chills as the worst torture he could have ever imagined is physically being relayed to his body like a bad medicine reaction and all he can do is fucking ride it out. He also has lots memories of being spoken to openly and honestly by his tormentor in a way he never had experienced in their tumultuous relationship before.
Tobirama feeling 80 levels of shame as he knows the clone will transfer all memories of his doings to the original. Determined to end this on his own, the ugly merciless ways: no rules, no Morals, poisons, explosives and jutsu.
They clash messily and Madara barely wins. They are now Both stuck in the cave and have to Talk About The Autopsies yes that is plural.
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