Chapter 11: Because I am…

Madara was sitting inside of his tent when he felt that there was something wrong. A shiver in the air… A disturbance of the peaceful end of the day…

Only a second later an Uchiha appeared in front of his desk, kneeling on the ground with his head bowed. "Lord Madara, the Senju have attacked our camp!" Just a moment later he heard the sound of weapon clashing, jutsus being shout, yells and screams, the crackling of flames.

Madara stood up. Luckily he was already dressed in his armor; he didn't take it off since he had returned from the last battlefield. Izuna's blood as well as the blood from his enemies was still on his battle gear. Madara's red eyes were now hard and a thick frightening aura that screamed bloody murder was surrounding him, making his subordinate look up with widened eyes.

"L-Lord Madara?" he said unsure.

"If they attack what are you still doing in here then? Go out there and kill them."

"Y-Yes!" The man disappeared and Madara stepped out of his tent. The battle was already in the middle of progress. Uchiha and Senju fought in between the tents which weren't burnt to the ground yet, bodies lay around, blood stained the ground red, kunai and shuriken flew across him, the air smelled after death…

Madara though only looked around, searching for two particular men. Where were these cowards? He couldn't detect their presence.

He walked through the battlefield, killing the Senju who dared to cross his way or threatened to kill one of his men. They would all pay. He wouldn't let any one of them get away alive.

He saw a Senju kneeling on the ground a couple of feet in front of him, hunkering over a body, and a kunai in his hand. But before he could do the finishing blow his throat was pierced by one of Madara's own kunai.

When he reached the spot of where the Senju had been he looked down to see who that coward just had wanted to kill. His red eyes widened. The Senju bitch was laying there, a deep wound in her stomach. Blood poured out even though she had a hand pressed against it and her dirty face was pale and covered in sweat. She choked up more blood and looked up at him with eyes that would soon be dull and dead.

Madara's lips turned into s smirk. "Well look at that… killed by her own clansmen, what a surprise."

"Shut up you bastard, I'm not dead yet" she managed to say with such a weak voice Madara had to lean down closer to understand her over the sound of the battle.

With a chuckle he bent down and picked her weak thin form up.

"What are you doing?" she growled. She wasn't the obeying emotionless doll anymore, why should she be? She was about to die anyway so she used her last breaths of air to curse at him and to show him what she really thought about him.

Without saying a word Madara turned and went back to his tent that was one of the rare ones which were still standing. He lay her down on the bed; the bed sheet immediately soaked in her red blood. "The hard ground of a battlefield is an inappropriate place for a weak defenseless woman to die, even if you're only a Senju" he said. Of course it was an insult, seeing as the woman actually was a ninja and should have died on a battlefield like every other warrior too.

"Shut up Uchiha" she said in a snort and pierced him with a hated glare. "Why are you wasting your time here? Don't you have to… kill Senju?" she asked, grimacing when the long speaking caused her pain.

"I'm only interested in your clan leader and his goddamn brother. Also my men are pretty capable of wiping them out on their own."

"Fuck you" she growled. "You'll never… win." He smirked coldly down at her.

"Why shouldn't I? But now that you die anyway I let you in a little secret" he said, sat down on the edge of the bed and leaned closely to her ear. "You think you won because you never opened the scroll for me… But you know what; it was Izuna who recognized the seal to be one of the Uzumaki clan so I sent a group of Uchiha to their base to make them spill out how to undo the seal. The day you tried to throw yourself onto the sword the group returned and we were able to open the scroll. I actually wanted to kill you at the end of that day, after you would have obeyed me during the last hours of your life. But then this little incident happened and I decided to play with you for a little longer, to show you your place as a low Senju whore, and to break you…"

"You didn't break me" she whispered back and she actually smiled. Yes, she was right, Madara thought. He saw it in her eyes. They were still proud, confident, and unafraid. "I knew… knew something was wrong after you missed… several opportunities to force me… breaking the seal. I…I thought you forgot or stopped caring about it. In the end… it wasn't about the seal anymore. It was about whether you could break me or… or not. And this game… you lost it. Because I am Nami Senju a proud shinobi of the Senju clan."

She smiled up at him. The hatred from a few seconds ago was gone. There was only pride visible in her soft eyes and an unbroken spirit.

"It's sad" Madara said, pulling out a kunai "that you are a Senju and a woman or you would have been an excellent shinobi." She chuckled. Her eyes didn't show any trace of fear when she looked at the kunai in his hand.

"Like I once said… I'm the one who would kill you" Madara said and then rammed the blade into her chest while holding her small form still. Her eyes widened and then closed. Her breath lessened. Her body relaxed. She died in his arms, with a smile on her face.

Sighing Madara stood up. After that fight he really had to take a bath he thought looking down at his blood covered armor. He took one last glance at her corpse before he turned around and left the tent.

The surviving Senju already were about to retreat as they tried to escape through the woods. The Uchiha of course followed them with Madara at top. The Senju lead them to the end of the forest and they broke through the trees into a large field.

They had awaited them.

Hashirama and Tobirama Senju were leading the rest of their army while the small group of Senju who should have baited the Uchiha out of the forest ran back into their ranks. For the last time in history Senju and Uchiha were facing each other.

"He died from that wound" Madara said, looking at the brothers coldly. "My little brother is dead now. And you will pay for that." He released his power, the power Izuna had given him shortly before his death.

It was a fierce and long battle but in the end Madara lost. He was beaten despite of his power. But he didn't forget the promise he had given Izuna, the promise that he would lead the Uchiha to peace and so he accepted Hashirama's naïve senseless peace offering and they united their clans. The rain washed away the blood, the fire burnt all the corpses and a new era had begun. A new era that in the end led to the Uchiha's downfall and the Senju's victory. Madara, their powerful and proud clan leader, died.

Madara gritted his teeth in anger, looking down at the Kage with hate. In the end he couldn't have kept his promise.

I'm sorry, Izuna, he thought. I'm sorry I disappointed you. But with the power you have given me I will defeat these little wimps. I will crash them all. I will take back the world.

Because I am Madara Uchiha.

THE END

So, that's officially the end… I still can't believe that this story was so popular and that so many of you awesome people have read it, reviewed, followed and favored! Thank you so very much! You always made me jump up and down in joy. It's always nice to see that somebody likes the stuff I'm writing.

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