Hinata made her way around the Uzumaki compound, it was absolutely gorgeous. The entire space looked like a huge garden and she loved it. There were even large whirlpool lakes and everything. She was admiring another of the exotic flower gardens when Mito ran upon her grinning. She knew they were going somewhere now, Mito always grinned like that whenever they got to go somewhere; it didn't matter what time period they had been in.

Over the past few weeks of her staying with the Uzumaki clan, she had learned so much. For one, the Uzumaki were pretty much the keepers of the slug scroll in this time. Which in turn meant that they all knew about her and her past endeavors, even the fact she had saved the shinobi world from utter destruction before Madara could be decieved. They had told her that if she hadn't settled things when she had, something far worse than Madara himself would return to wreak havoc.

Now, Hinata hadn't believed that in the slightest, but she wasn't going to tell the Uzumaki that. She didn't want to be rude in saying she couldn't believe Madara would cause something like that, because she knew him and it was hard for her to believe he could fall for a trick like that. She had also learned that while the Uzumaki knew a lot about her endeavors, they didn't know the exact details of the second attempt; nor did they completely understand what she had done in the first attempt, but then again neither did she. She sighed mentally and focused her attentions back on Mito. "We are allowed to go outside the walls for more than a shopping trip today, it's very important that we stay hidden, or just in disguise." She said and Hinata nodded.

Mito ran around behind Hinata with a comb, catching her off guard. "I prefer our masks, because it gives us a sense of mysteriousness." She said and Hinata pouted as she felt a tugging on her hair. "What are you doing?" she asked and Mito laughed. "Putting your hair in an elegant bun, only one though... because I'm going to allow a few tresses to fall loose to frame your mask and I'm going to allow a few to hang gently off the top side of the bun, give you an exquisite and gorgeous look." She said and Hinata smiled.

"Alright, now that your hair is lovely we can slap on our masks and go!" she said and Hinata smiled. "Alright, one second then." She said and vanished from in front of Mito, only to appear in her given room. She grabbed her mask, her kunai pouch, and her replacement katana. She was dressed in a hauntingly familiar style to that of the outfit she wore when she was titled Okami, but the Uzumaki thought it would be best because everyone knew the legend of Okami, and they thought that a legend was all she was. The Uzumaki thought it best to strike fear into the hearts of the enemies by proving just how true the legend was.

The outer kimono was thin, but styled in a similar manner to that of Obito in the war. It was sleeveless and reached her ankles, but instead of the lower part opening in the front, it opened up in the sides starting at the thighs and going straight down. In her mind it was basically a combination of Obito's from the war, and Sakura's genin outfit. However instead of being red, it was a navy blue, black, and had grey trimming on it. And instead of having the Uchiha clan symbol, over her heart and on her back, the kanji for Okami was there in a white, while the yin-yang symbol was placed over her heart.

She didn't, however, much to her slight embarrassment wear any legging of any sort under it, only a pair of white shorts. Mito refused to allow her to wear the leggings, saying they would only trip her up and things of the sort. She sighed and pulled her mask on as well as tied her pouches to her thighs. She vanished from her home and landed gracefully by the gates of the Uzumaki compound. "You have to teach me that." Mito said as she panted from having to run over to the gates.

Amused spinning Sharingan eyes peered at her from behind the mask. "I'm afraid I can't teach you this one..." she said and Mito's eyes clashed with hers and her expression made the 'oh' look. "That is cool though. I've never seen an Uchiha do that." Mito said as they walked away from the gates, both of their masks firmly in place. "Well there was one, he was a friend of a friend of mine... as odd as that sounds, he was pretty much family. His name was Shisui, and not only could he 'blink' from place to place, he could make someone do something, whatever he wanted them to do." She said and Mito listened intently.

"He refused to use that ability for just anything because it has a large length of recuperation. He was going to use it on his family, because they were going to end up killing a lot of people. The basics of it are that when he used it on someone, they would have no idea that they were being controlled. They would just do whatever he wanted them to do, seemingly of their own free will but it wasn't. He was going to save his family and the entire village from a fate worse than death, but a man named Danzo stole one of his eyes. He couldn't use it on the entire clan with just one eye, so he gave the other to Itachi, the only other member of his clan that didn't want the war between his clan and village." Hinata explained and Mito frowned.

"He gave Itachi his other eye and then he killed himself so Itachi could activate the second form of the Sharingan." Hinata said and Mito jumped around in front of her and stared intently into her eyes. "So... which form are your eyes?" she asked and Hinata frowned as she thought it over for a moment. "My eyes have changed three times, once because of Butsuma, then because of the eye transplant, and the last because I absorbed a part of Madara's soul, thus granting me the second form of the Sharingan, but the third change in my eyes." She said and Mito nodded as she jumped backwards and landed on a tree branch.

"So where are we going today?" Hinata asked and Mito shrugged lightly. "Not quite sure, but when I feel the presence I will know." She said and Hinata frowned beneath her mask. "I hope you know what you're doing." She said and Mito nodded. "It'll be alright, I promise." She said, but Hinata didn't feel quite right, now she was no sensor, but it felt wrong in her gut. Her ranged vision was still way out there, and as horrifying her eyes were in seeing range and the ability to cast genjutsu on anyone in her range, she couldn't spot anyone.

But she could feel something, and it set her on guard.

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Madara sat cross legged on the ground, his mother, father, and younger brother all awaiting his response. "We may have a relaxing day today, just as we had hoped." He said and they nodded. "Good, that's good. So no one within your range of our home?" Aurora asked and he shook his head. She nodded and allowed a relieved smile to cross her lips. "Good, that's good." She sighed and looked around the property. She then looked down to her eldest son, who had a crease to his brow that made her frown.

"Who are you attempting to track?" she asked and his eyes snapped open and he glanced up at her. "No one." He said and stood, but she grabbed his arm and glared up at him. "Don't you lie to me, I know when you're tracking someone, brat." She said and he frowned down at her. "Forgive me, but I cannot say." He said and she glared at her eldest son. "It's that woman isn't it? She's soiled your mind!" she snapped and he frowned at her. "She has not soiled my mind, she just... opened doors and revealed something that you have kept hidden from me." he said and she glared sharply at him.

"How dare you, you're taking up for that whore?" she sneered and he glared back at her. "How do you know she is a whore? How do you know anything about her? You're only corrupting your mind with the lies Butsuma has spread as of late." He snapped and Izuna looked at his older brother in shock. "Aniki... why would you choose some woman over mother?" he asked and Madara sent him a look. "Have you seen her eyes?" he asked and Izuna shook his head. "You will believe me when you see her eyes." He said and he turned to his father, who had been silent all this time.

"You've seen her, haven't you father?" Madara asked and he nodded. "Yeah, I've seen her. She's been hanging around the Uzumaki as of late, trying to stay off our radar." Tajima said and Aurora gave him a glare. "Can none of you listen?! Did I not say stay away from her?" she asked and they frowned at her. "If she is truly the jumper like Butsuma said, then she would have father's eyes. If the legend of Okami we hear from the Uzumaki is actually true, then she would have the eyes mirroring those of the Uchiha patriarch." Madara said and Aurora's eyes went wide.

"That proves that she's trouble then!" she snapped and he shook his head. "In the legend of Okami, she was protecting the clan from the Senju and there were casualties." Tajima interjected and Aurora had this fire in her eyes, she couldn't believe that her eldest and husband would believe this fable. Izuna wasn't sure whose side to take because he hadn't seen the woman or really ever paid attention to the legend of Okami. He sighed and his mother glared at him as well, he supposed his safest bet would be to stick with his mother.

"Where is she then? If she has his eyes, I want to see for myself." Aurora said stubbornly and he nodded. "Follow me then." Madara said and jumped up into the trees surrounding the Uchiha compound. His mother and younger brother were on one side, while he and his father were on the other. He could tell his mother was furious at him. "How long?" she asked suddenly and he glanced at her. He knew exactly what his mother was wanting to know, but he didn't particularly feel like explaining to her his reasoning.

"Madara, how long?" Tajima asked and he stared at his father. "Three days after the flash of light, is when I found her. I have been communicating with her for the past few months." He began and his father looked at him in shock. "You were searching for the source of the flash... And once you found it, you continued to meet with her?" his father said and Izuna stared at Madara with wide eyes. "Why would you search for that light? Why would you continue to meet with her after you found her, Madara? You know the crow Karui said it would lead to the death of an Uchiha..." Izuna said with wide eyes and Madara stared at him with sharp eyes. "An Uchiha, not the Uchiha; she didn't say what Uchiha. But if you hadn't forgotten, Karui also said that the light would bring salvation... an end to our war. An end to our pain and suffering! Did you not want to figure out who could help us?" he snapped and his father frowned.

"Madara... you know that we would love to have this all end, but we do not sacrifice our family members..." Tajima said and Madara nodded. "I would never allow any of you to die just for the sake of this feud ending." Madara said and turned to search the trees ahead of him as he made his way through once more, but he noticed that the footfalls that had been almost in sync with his had all ceased. He landed on the branch in front of him and he turned to look behind him and saw they had all stopped on the branches of a tree about fifteen feet back. He turned to partially face them and he saw the look in all of their eyes.

"Who would you let die?" Aurora asked, but he was silent and he turned to face forwards once more. "Madara, who would you let die?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly. She was on edge especially since he wasn't answering her. "Madara..." Izuna called out to him and Madara flashed a smile at them. "How dare you!" his mother screamed at him, but his smile didn't fade. "How could you just smile at us at a time like this! You just said you wouldn't let any of us die, but how do you think we would feel if you died?" she snarled at him and he turned to face them.

"I won't let any of you get hurt, that's just all there is to it. if I die, I will make sure you all will be left alone for as long as you live before I stop fighting the inevitable." He said and his mother glared at him angrily, Izuna's eyes were burning with rage as well and he laughed lightly. Which in turn, made them even angrier with him; but he wasn't worried because he knew they would all realize that he was right in the end. He always was it seemed.

He then turned and was about to take off once more, but his mother called out to him with one more question. "Madara... is she worth it?" he fully turned to face her this time. "She told me herself that..." he began and they watched him intently. "She would lay down her life for me, just to keep me safe. So the better question is... how is she NOT worth it?" he asked, but the rage never left his mother's eyes. Her ruby red orbs just burned into his back, along with the angry eyes of his younger brother.

He knew they would continue to be angry with him until they met her, well they would probably still be angry with him even after that... he just continued forth, but he felt concerned eyes boring into the back of his head. He supposed his father was trying to figure out what he was going to do exactly, which he didn't exactly know yet but he wasn't going to just sit by an allow this all to happen. He refused to let his family suffer any longer. If he could end these wars with the sacrifice of one life alone, then he would. He had already decided upon this because he figured there was no other way.

"How far away is she now Madara?" Tajima asked and Madara looked ahead searching for the familiarly bright chakra that he could always find. "Not too far now, but we are no longer searching for her alone." Madara said with a laugh and the three behind him looked at him curiously, although two of them were still burning with anger. "What do you mean?" his father asked and Madara motioned for them to keep moving. "Tobirama is scanning over us as we speak, Hinata already knows we are here as well." He said and he noticed his mother's angered landing on the tree branch nearest him, her feet crunched into the tree bark and sent a huge chunk of it flying.

He continued to ignore his mother's rage for the time being, she would realize soon enough how special Hinata was. "Father, she's teleported straight to the Senju, let's pick up the pace now before it gets hectic up there." he said and his father nodded. "If she truly has my eyes, I will protect her with my life." He said and Madara nodded, his father was the easiest person to reason with in his family. He glanced over at his mother, who had angry tears in her eyes. He understood the truth was painful for her, but he also thought it had something to do with the fact she wasn't ready to let him do what needed to be done.

They knew they were close when the spike of her chakra hit their senses, not long after they heard a man choking for air it seemed. They dove through the trees and landed right behind the red haired woman with the fox mask wearing the red and white fighting kimono similar to the blue, Gray, and black one Hinata was wearing. Kitsune was written on the back of the red head's while Okami was written on the back of Hinata's. Aurora wasn't going to let this chance to attack her get away, so she lunged which made Izuna lunge as well. His father lunged down after them, but not with the same intent to kill they had. He wanted to see her eyes.

Before they had even gotten within five feet of her, that menacing white chakra shot up around her and three of the six arms grabbed Tajima, Izuna, and Aurora. The ribs that had formed had drug Mito within the creature as swiftly as it had formed. Hinata turned within the white beast and he could feel her chakra embracing his family as well as himself. Izuna's eyes showed his fear as they trembled in their sockets. His mother's eyes glowed with rage as Hinata's Susanoo, as she had called it, had set his family down.

Hinata's mask slid up and her smile flashed at them, which incited more anger from his mother. His father, however was staring right at her eyes, those reddened orbs that so hauntingly seemed to mirror his own. He couldn't quite tell though, because he wasn't close enough to her to clearly see the pattern. Hinata and his mother began arguing, but he paid their argument little mind. His mind was still swimming with pride from when Hinata had told him that he would always be stronger than her.

When the chakra of the Susanoo dropped, it seemed as if everyone was trying to get a hold of her at once. To his amusement, she had vanished from sight, taking the red head with her. His mother and brother seemed immediately irate with him, but he held up one hand to stop them from running on ahead. Once he had heard where Tobirama thought she was, they vanished; completely ignoring the Senju clan. It had taken about an hour, but they had found the women once more. It had been surprising in fact, because their chakra had vanished completely for a while but soon enough it had appeared again and not too far from where they had been.

Madara and his family weren't going to let this chance to speak with her go to waste.

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The white haired man was crouched on the ground floor, two fingers pressed against the dirt, and his eyes shut lightly. He sighed then stood up to face the men before him. "This should be simple this time, the Uchiha are following the woman from before, she has another young woman with her but while her chakra system isn't as advanced as the other woman's, I would still command you take every precaution not to get caught off guard by either of these women. They are armed and dangerous; the dark haired one has jutsu that were only supposed to be handled by Hashirama." He said and the men began to murmur.

"So she can heal herself?" one man asked and he nodded. "Almost instantaneously as well, but she does have a limit. We found that limit when we fought her the first time, but we still have to be careful because the last time we fought her she had someone else with her." He said and looked over to his older brother for an agreement. He nodded, but didn't seem to quite believe it himself. "Alright, so what we are going to do is proceed with caution. We know she is what once was called a Hyuuga. Their eyes are a deformity caused by a rare genetic defect, so depending on if there were people born outside of that clan whose parents were once Hyuuga, they could activate it at some point once more. Judging by the woman who we met before, there are people like that out there, they have a limited range of sight, even if they do have 360 degree vision they can be duped." Tobirama said and they nodded.

"Their range had been calculated up to a hundred to two hundred meters, which isn't all that far compared to what the old Hyuuga were recorded being able to see." Hashirama said and the group nodded. "But what about her?" one man asked and they frowned. "We have no idea what her range is, being as why we have to keep our distance at first and keep Tobirama on watch." Hashirama said and motioned for Tobirama to scan for the women once more.

"The Uchiha are quite a ways back, perhaps we can use them to gauge her visual distance." Tobirama said and the men around him made noises of approval. Chills ran down Tobirama's spine and his breath hitched in his throat as goose bumps rose up on his arms. Hashirama noticed this and crouched next to his brother, only to look into his widened eyes and see a reflection of red. He jumped to his feet after his brother slumped over with a thump. "Do not make eye contact with her, she has spotted us!" Hashirama ordered and the men nodded.

They all stared in fear as Hashirama neared his younger brother only for Tobirama to mutter something that made his eyes go wide. "She's still two miles out! That's her range!" he yelled and the men all broke their circular formation in fear. "She got him from that far away?" one man whispered in shock and the other men began muttering things fearfully. "I'm not two miles out, not anymore anyways. Also... not my range." She said and Hashirama dropped into a defensive stance. "I'm not going to fight you." She said and he could hear the frown in her voice.

"Why are you tracking me again? I wanted nothing to do with you. Consequently I wanted nothing to do with this feud in the very beginning." Hinata said softly and the men began backing away from her. Mito dropped down beside her and watched the Senju men tremble in fear of the Hyuuga woman, they knew how fearsome she could be without even trying. "We tried to be civil you know... but your feud has gone on long enough." Mito said and Hashirama looked over at her. Hinata's eyes flickered to Tobirama and they spun once, releasing him from his genjutsu. He began violently coughing and grasping his torso.

The Uchiha brothers and their parents landed behind Hinata in the trees, only for Tajima, Aurora, and Izuna to lunge at her and Mito. "Forgive me." Hinata said as the white Susanoo formed around her swiftly, pulling Mito into it as well, much to the other woman's shock. Three arms reached out behind her and grabbed the attacking Uchiha. "She should be falling soon." Tobirama muttered and Hinata looked at him and frowned. "How would you know, you attacked an injured woman down on her luck." Mito said with a laugh.

"I know my limits, but you do not know mine, so please learn your own limits." She said and set the Uchiha down on the ground. She turned around within the Susanoo and smiled. She couldn't help the smile either, it just felt natural. "One day, Izuna, Madara, you will also be able to create a being like this. I can guarantee both of yours will be so much stronger than my own." She said and shoved her mask up to show them her smile. "You're a liar!" Aurora yelled at her and her smile became a frown. "I'm not the liar... Butsuma is... he is not the one from this time!" Hinata said with a shake of her head. "And who should we blame for that if it wasn't the Butsuma from this time?" Tajima asked and Hinata looked down in shame.

"Me, I'm the one to blame... I left a time paradox open and he found it. I will find it and I will close it. Then I will leave your time, but I will not leave until this stupid feud is dealt with." Hinata said and they watched her intently. "I will not fail you." She said softly and Madara's eyes went wide as he realized she was staring right at him. She turned swiftly in her Susanoo and looked at Mito. "Grab my hand and close your eyes." She said and Mito did as told. The moment the Susanoo dropped both the Uchiha and the Senju prepared to attack her, but both her and Mito were gone the instant the ominous chakra faded from sight.

She landed right in front of katsuyu falls and the two of them ran right inside. "Lady Katsuyu!" Mito called and the slug showed herself. "We did as you asked, we brought Hinata back." She said and the slug nodded. "Of course. You're a bright one, Hinata. All these times of speaking with you, perhaps this version is the most determined to save the shinobi world. However I'm afraid that your ability to keep coming back to this time to attempt to save it over and over again are running out. The gods believe in you, but they have come up with a different strategy, one that will keep you safe." She said and Hinata frowned. "But what about the Senju and the Uchiha?" Hinata asked and katsuyu looked at her for a moment then slid her way across the cave to circle Hinata.

"I'm afraid a lot will change this time around. However Madara and Izuna will still live, as will Tajima and Aurora. This I can promise you. But it is not your place to protect them, you're just going to delay the inevitable until the stars align. Then things will change and lives will be saved, but it will not be by your hand alone. There is a man that will assist you, take his help and use it wisely." Katsuyu said and Hinata nodded. "Can you explain any more of this?" she asked and the slug shook her head. "No... I can however tell you that your abilities are only going to become stronger. But I cannot go into detail because the Gods want no one trying to stop this from happening." She said and slipped back into the back of the cave.

"Goodbye for now young one."

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The moment Hinata and Mito had vanished Tobirama had slammed his hand to the ground to attempt to track them down, and as he did so Senju surrounded him to protect him from the Uchiha. "She's about three miles ahead, she might be keeping an eye on us so we must be more careful." Tobirama said and Hashirama sent him a look. "Don't stare into her eyes Tobirama, we don't neednanother repeat." He said and Tobirama nodded. The Uchiha circled the Senju and as soon as her location had been announced, they vanished off into that direction.

Madara didn't even stop to look back at the startled Senju, who had been completely ignored by the Uchiha. However in his mind, he thought over everything Hinata had been saying; and he believed her. Her eyes tugged at his soul, even if they were the same as his own, they pulled at him to believe her. He glanced at his parents and younger brother, all to gauge their reactions. His mother was enraged, but he wasn't surprised in the slightest.

He didn't think he had ever seen her quite this angry before, but he knew the first one to attack Hinata would either be his mother or Izuna. And this was judging just by the confused and angry look in Izuna's eyes as well. Perhaps it had been the way she had talked to them so lovingly, or maybe even the way she had responded like a scolded child when his mother had yelled at her. Maybe it was just the way her defensive grasped them so carefully, as if they would break. He had no idea what exactly had set his mother and brother off, but his father's hands were shaking and he knew exactly why. Those eyes that had been staring back at him... the ones that mirrored his own eyes.

The exact same pattern, the exact same shade of red, the exact same dull black when inactive, those were a mirror image of his eyes and he knew it. Madara had noticed as well when he had looked into her eyes that very first day. The only difference was the Mangekyo version, and her eyes were haunting to him when they had changed. When they jumped from the tree line and out into the open, they saw Hinata and Mito talking. The red haired woman standing up and chattering happily until the thumps of their arrival had been heard. She froze, and that was when Hinata had stood from her sitting position at the base of the tree.

Tajima took a few steps towards her and she didn't draw her blade, didn't even move to defend herself. She allowed him to rip her mask off and throw it to the side, allowing her eyes to mirror his own. "How do you have my eyes?" He ground out and she frowned and looked away. "Those memories had only come back to me recently." She said and he fisted his hands. "I am Okami, I am Hinata Hyuuga, and I was... Uchiha Hinata... this horrible fate of mine was wrought to save you." She said and he grit his teeth audibly, she wasn't saying it loud enough for the others to hear, this was just for him.

"You died protecting me for three different reasons." She said softly, just loud enough for him to hear. "What reasons did I have?" he asked softly, tossing a glance back at his family to let them know it was alright. "One, because I was in love with your eldest, which I still am; but I cannot allow him to know. The second, you told me I was the daughter you never had and you died protecting me from Butsuma. The third... when you died... you promised me that one day, I would be able to see again. You just never explained how." She whispered and she looked up at him with tears in her eyes.

"I would have preferred if you had lived... I didn't want you to die. I was blind, you should have let me die..." she whispered as she shook her head. She was about to begin sobbing but she choked it down the moment his hand landed on her head. She looked up at him in surprise. "It must have been so much torture, living through this all over again." He said and she nodded. "This is my last time... if I fail this time... I fail the entire shinobi world." She whispered and he smiled at her.

"You won't fail." He said and her eyes spun into the Sharingan, which caught him by surprise as she lunged at him. Aurora and Izuna lunged at her at that exact moment, but they didn't understand exactly what was going on... before they even had time to react she had shoved Tajima behind her back and fisted her hands, chakra engulfing both of them as she lunged forwards. She slammed her chakra engulfed fist into the rapidly approaching tree root, which would have impaled Tajima if she hadn't reacted as swiftly as she had.

It wasn't long after that Butsuma had dove through the trees at her. "Hello again, you pest." He said with a smirk and lunged for her, sending a barrage of punches at her; which she dodged just as swiftly. She grabbed his fist and swung herself around behind him, but he spun on his heel just as swiftly. "You can't defeat me as easily as you have in the past, my dear. If you haven't noticed, I have been fighting you for years now, all at different power levels. So I'm quite capable of killing you once more." He said and she flipped backwards out of his reach.

"How dare you attack him!" Aurora yelled and lunged at Butsuma, who grabbed her by the throat. He turned his eyes back to Hinata only to see she was right upon him now. He made a move to throw Aurora at Hinata, who feigned to the left. He reached that way with his other hand and she threw her katana, only to cut off his right hand he had been holding Aurora off her feet by. He yelled in pain and rushed to try and grab his dismembered hand, but Hinata kicked him away from it.

"You know better than anyone... that you don't deserve that hand any longer." She hissed and he looked at her angrily. "You're just an Uchiha's whore, just like you always have been!" he snapped and Hinata kicked his hand off out of sight... "That hand has my blood staining it, deep down so far beneath the ability to wash clean, my blood will forever stain your hands! You stole my eyes! Then you stole my life! You don't deserve that hand, but you do deserve what you're going to get!" she said as she lunged at him while he cradled his stump to his chest, his other hand holding his blade up to strike at her, but someone else's blade stopped her from connecting her blade with Butsuma's.

She looked up to see Tobirama and Hashirama there, so she flipped backwards out of their way and landed in a crouched position. Izuna had run to his mother and helped her up with the assistance of Mito. "We aren't your enemy!" Mito yelled at the two Senju brothers and Hashirama looked over at her. Tobirama lunged for Mito who had just released the Uchiha matriarch. She flipped backwards out of his reach then lunged forwards, golden chains forming in her hands as she lunged forwards and as if in an intricate dance, she jumped and spun around the white haired Senju. The chains wrapped tightly around him and she yanked hard sending him around in a semi-circle.

Roots shot up and circled Mito before her foot could connect with Tobirama's head. The sudden jolt of movement in the opposite direction sent her mask flying as well, but Hinata's chakra engulfed fist broke the roots that had captured Mito. "Do not touch her; we are the ones trying to solve this issue! You can't just blindly attack people!" Hinata yelled and Madara stepped in front of her. She stared at him with curious eyes, but he offered her a smirk from over his shoulder.

"Madara..." she began, and he shook his head to silence her. "You're the jumper; we are here to help you. Well, father and I are; this was the plan from the beginning, you see. If you really had his eyes like Karui said you would... we were going to help you. Mother wanted nothing to do with you because she was honestly scared of the way this would turn out." Madara said and Hinata blushed. "So you were testing me in the cave?!" she squealed and he released a laugh.

"What are you spouting?!" Tobirama snapped and Hinata looked over at him. "I'm here to fix what your father messed up." She said and he frowned at her. "What did he do exactly?" Hashirama asked and Hinata tilted her head back and showed the scar across her neck, which Butsuma couldn't hide his amusement at, much to his son's surprise. They lifted their father off his feet and they vanished, but not before Hashirama sent Mito a look, which she looked down and away from him for as if she were ashamed.

"Mito, let's go. Your mother would be terribly worried, especially since we never reached our original destination due to interference from the brothers once more." Hinata said and Mito nodded. They then proceeded to vanish off into the surrounding woods. Madara's mother made no move to chase the women, knowing that if Hinata hadn't removed Butsuma's hand there may have been a casualty in the bunch. She looked to her eldest son who was still staring off in the direction she had vanished.

"Madara..." she called out to him and he turned to face her. "What is it about her that draws you to her?" she asked softly and he scratched his cheek with a soft chuckle. Tajima sighed and rubbed his face with both of his hands, while Izuna cracked a smile which then turned into laughter focused at his older brother. "You're an idiot!" he laughed and Madara gave him a look, which froze him in place, his laughter silenced. "Oh really? I'm an idiot?" he asked and cracked a wicked smirk at his younger brother.

"Did you not even look at her? Better yet, have you not seen how strong she is? She's amazing, and even though I will never marry her... doesn't mean I can't admire her." He said and Izuna sighed. His mother began laughing, laughing until tears fell from her eyes and she hugged her son tightly laughing even harder as she did so. "I hope you know you're a fool." She said as she ran her hands over his cheeks, brushing his hair away from his face. "I know mother, I know." He said and she hugged him tightly.

"I want you to be safe alright, I cannot go on patrol with you tomorrow and neither can your father. But we will be at the compound if you need us for anything..." she said and turned to walk away, but not before she looked at her eldest son and shook her head. "Please my son, do not be angry when the jumper has to leave. She cannot stay forever and no one knows if she will ever come back, being as why the legend of Okami was so important." She said and smiled at him.

"I know mother, don't worry... I understand that fully. She has things to change and lives to save, I'm fully aware of this. That is why I will admire her strength, but nothing more." He said and she nodded. "Come, let's go home now..." she said and they all nodded in agreement, this was a bit too much excitement for one day.