The beta city was incredible. The air was hot and humid, and the buildings were all white to compensate for the hot and humid air, so different from where we came from, and the doors were bright blue or yellow or turquoise. Izuna held my hand, his coat in his hand, clad in only T-shirt and jeans, and had to redo his usually low ponytail into a high one to free his neck of sweat. He was looking in awe at the pink flowers, the unusual birds and the beautiful cobblestone and picturesque lanterns.

"Tobirama", he whispered.

"I know", I smiled back.

"We know about your situation, Mr Senju, Mr. Uchiha", the lady who'd welcomed us, whose name was Lana, said. "We know you're a couple. That you've bonded. We've made it so that you will have your own villa. So you can gather energy after the long days. It's now lunch", she said, opening a door for us. "There's food in the fridge. We hope it will be to your satisfaction. Take a shower if you wan to, and meet us at one-thirty."

"Take good care of mum", I said, clasping mum's hand, and she smiled warmly at me. My heart ached for her.

We walked in to the most cosy home I'd ever been to. The floor was dark wood and worn down, the walls white with wooden and copper decorations. The hallway was open and connected to a little kitchen in the corner, with a wooden countertop and a green fridge and freezer. Izuna opened the fridge hungrily, and made large eyes. He took out a jar I recognised as honey with beeswax still in it.

"What's that?" he whispered.

Sometimes it struck me how little the boy had seen.

"Honey. From bees."

Izuna opened the jar, put two fingers in and licked. I swallowed. He obviously had no idea how sexual that gesture was. He dipped his fingers again and reached them out to me. "Wanna taste?" He was still clearly oblivious. Well, I will change that. I took two steps to him, and pressed my body close to his, causing him to gasp. I took his fingers in my mouth, twirled my tongue around them. He gaped at me. I took his hand and pulled him with me to a door that lead to a surprisingly modern bathroom made of cream-coloured stone with a giant shower with glass doors. Izuna still held on to the honey jar as I undressed him, then myself, and turned the shower on until it was scolding hot. I pulled him in with me, and took some of the honey in my hand before starting to massage him with it all over, starting with his jawline, then his collarbones, shoulders, his waist, his nipples. Izuna closed his eyes and moaned. He took some honey in his hand, using it as lubricant to start beating my length. I sighed his name.

We ended up on the tiled floor, him on all four, me on my knees. I would have bruises on my knees for days that I didn't even try to hide as I did my boyfriend from behind in the shower, pouring the rest of the honey save for the wax over his back, licking it up. As he was close, I turned him over so he was on his back, and I cam on his belly, and he came over himself, too, so there was a mix of us on him. I turned the shower off, wanting our seeds to remain. I took the wax and dipped it, taking a bite.

"You're sick", Izuna said.

"Want a bite?"

"Yes."

I gave it to him.

"I love you", he said. "I love you."

"Izuna, I love you too", I whispered.

We showered then. For real. We couldn't figure out which one of the twelve jewel-coloured bottles on the floor was what, so we used a bit of everything; a purple bottle for Izuna's hair, a ruby-red one for mine, something yellow and creamy in Izuna's hair as conditioner, a forest green, transparent liquid for our bodies. In the end, we were so clean we could barely speak. We cuddled up in two fresh, crisp towels and went to the kitchen. We feasted on fresh rye bread, three different cheeses, fig marmalade, strawberry jam, clotted cream, tomatoes, olives and orange juice. Pleasantly full, we got dressed in summer clothes and went to the meeting.

The meeting was held in a modern glass building with good air conditioning, thank God, in a sort of lecture theatre, and I guessed the number attending was about two hundred. Lana and mum was on the podium, and me and Izuna were asked to sit in first row.

"Welcome", Lana began. "Welcome. We are pleased to announce that finally, Dr Senju, her son, and the Uchiha family has joined us! Welcome especially to you." There was a warm round of applause. Izuna looked down, but I could see he was smiling. My heart beamed for him. "Our first non-beta rebellions! We hope this will cause a chain reaction of more omegas and alphas joining us. Our top priority is to spread information. We have the military force on our side; luckily for us, most trained militaries are betas, and some of them have joined us, and those who haven't are not attacking those who are, seeing their leaders are betas, and not the alpha government. However, the few alphas who are in the military are joining forces, so we have limited time. We need good hackers. We have three already, and they're working on accessing the internet.Reaching the alphas will be easy. The hardest part will be reaching the omegas, who have no access to the Internet, or TVs. We will do our best to hack whatever devices are available at omega work places, and hope word travels mouth-to-mouth."

Izuna raised his hand.

"Yes, Mr Uchiha", Izuna said warmly.

"There is one good hacker you're missing. His name is Henry. He was taken by the government a couple of days ago."

Izuna...

"I heard about Henry from Dr Senju only today. Freeing Henry is our top priority. He's important."

I sensed Izuna stiffen up next to me, and I understood exactly why. Henry is not a tool. He's a person, who's the victim of the horrible conditions of the world. Yet, I knew that in order to win not only each battle, but the entire war, the rebellion needed to be smart about it. I hated to admit it, but getting Henry out was important to the rebellion, and if it wasn't, maybe it would be unfavorable to risk people's lives to get him out, lives that could be used to change the lives of alphas, betas and omegas all over the world together. Of course, that didn't prevennt me to feel exactly what Izuna felt.

"We will send a troop of five tomorrow to try to get him back. When we have him, we will start discussing the hacking in more detail. For now, we will work on keeping our military force ready to fight the pending attack from the alpha military, and to play on what to broadcast one the systems are hacked."

Helen held a short speech presenting herself, as well as us. She presented her research in as much detail as she'd presented to us, using a digital presentation this time. With that, the meeting was over, and me and Izuna walked hand in hand to our villa. The city was small, and we decided to take a longer way back. That's when we realised exactly how well-guarded the city was; there was a thick wall around it all, and guard posts with militaries holding machine guns. Izuna took my hand.

"I'm scared", he whispered.

"They're on our side", I said. "They're here to keep us safe."

We came to a beach, and Izuna breathed in awe. "Tobirama..."

I had seen the sea before, but Izuna hadn't. I lead him to it, and he immediately undressed to his underwear and ran into it from the beach and dove in, without hesitation, laughing as he resurfaced. I couldn't help but join him as well. We swam, teased, kissed and played until we were exhausted, then decided to go up. I bought us a pizza each from the sweetest little bakery, and we ate in amicable silence. We found an orange tree and picked oranges that we ate sitting on a low roof, the tartness being incredible after an oily dinner. It was all an incredible little slice of life, a moment that could be looked back upon in coming years while contemplating how little we enjoyed the moment in comparison to its magnitude, how we had once been present in that moment, exactly like we were present in the moment we were experiencing precisely now while remembering that slice of life.

We went back home.

Izuna immediately stiffened up.

"Something's wrong."

I didn't even have time to react until a masked man had grabbed Izuna's mouth from behind and injected something in his neck. He screamed, but after only half a second, he slumped down.

I manage to scream his name before I felt a sharp stab in my neck, then an excruciating coldness as the liquid in the syringe got into my blood.

Then, everything around me disappeared.