Chapter 1 (one short)
(The timeline begins the day Mito Uzumaki married Hashirama Senju and came to the Hidden Leaf as its future First Lady.)
She did not come alone.
Her younger sister, Hina Uzumaki, arrived with her quiet, observant, and entirely unaware that her life would become a turning point in history.
Hina was the same age as Tobirama Senju, Hashirama’s younger brother.
The first time Tobirama saw her, he did not understand what he felt.
It was not love not yet.
It was something simpler and heavier at the same time. A certainty.
He only knew that he wanted to protect her from the world, even if he could not explain why.
That same day, as Hina was introduced to her brother-in-law’s closest companions, her eyes landed on someone she could not look away from.
“This,” Hashirama said easily, smiling, “is Madara Uchiha. My best friend.”
Madara had faced countless enemies and survived endless battlefields but nothing prepared him for her.
He had never seen anyone more beautiful.
Or maybe he had, but the moment he saw Hina, every other face he had ever known faded into nothing. He could feel his own heartbeat, loud and unfamiliar, and for the first time in his life he could not look away.
Madara knew the word for it. "Love."
Days passed.
Then weeks. Madara still trying to understand if he was even allowed to feel what he's feeling
Madara gathered the courage to speak to her, and they began meeting quietly first as friends, then as something deeper. When he finally asked her to be more, Hina accepted without hesitation. By then, her heart had already learned his name.
Tobirama realized his own feelings too late, as people often do.
But he was prepared to sacrifice them.
For Hina’s happiness, he told himself, he could endure silence.
Years passed, and the girl who had arrived in the village became a young woman admired by many but loved by only one.
When Hina went to Mito, her sister, she did so with hope. She spoke of Madara, of their bond, of love that had grown quietly and sincerely.
Mito did not listen.
“You cannot marry an Uchiha,” she said firmly.
“They cannot love. They have no heart.”
Hina cried. She begged. She swore that Madara loved her and that she loved him back.
Mito refused to hear it.
Tobirama happened to pass by and heard only those words.
An Uchiha cannot love.
Without context.
Without explanation.
And so his mind filled the gaps with fear instead of truth.
He believed Madara had rejected her.
He believed Hina’s heart had been broken by an Uchiha.
That belief would never leave him.
Despite Hina’s protests, she was married off to a foreign village for political peace while Madara was away on a mission.
When Madara returned and learned what had happened, rage consumed him. He would have fought the village itself for allowing it.
But his hatred reached its peak when he heard the final news.
Hina Uzumaki had taken her own life three weeks after her marriage.
The village had taken his love.
And then it had erased her.
Madara’s hatred for the village was sealed that day.
Tobirama, unwilling to question what he thought he knew, blamed the Uchiha blamed Madara for abandoning the woman he himself had loved in silence.
And so the lie survived.
Two men, bound by the same woman, walked separate paths of hatred never knowing the truth. And never will the hatred will only grow.
Ps- I'll soon make 3 parts of this (this was just my sitting thought but don't worry you'll get 3 chapters of this soon enough I'm working on it plus there will be turn of events in this story but don't worry I want them to end up like canon)
