The storm raged on, and as did the battle. The battle between the Uchiha and the Senju. Everyone fought, as a battle usually consists of. They fought in a clearing filled with lushes green grass. Also not too far from a cliff that led to a forest.

On the plains, there stood the two most powerful clans. The two had been raging war for longer than any could remember, but that didn't matter. The only thing that did, was avenging their fallen comrades and family.

It was the cycle that none could escape, the thoughts of vengeance glued in their minds, just as it was for a certain Uchiha..

This raven haired male happened to be the leader of the Uchiha's. It suited him, his dark attitude, his plain face, the mans features, they all added up to his title.

Madara Uchiha, leader of the Uchiha clan.

He, like everyone else on the field, was face to face with his opponent. That happened to be the leader of the Senju clan, and his ex-best friend.

Hashirama Senju, leader of the Senju clan.

There they stood, katanas in hand, before they were suddenly clashed together, with the intent to kill, or at least injure.

Focused, considerate, brown eyes of the Senju briefly met with the harsh, hateful, red eyes of the Uchiha. Though it was only a brief second since the Senju knew of the genjutsu that could be placed upon himself by the raven that stood in front of him.

Suddenly, both leaders made a jump back, for distance purposes, before the brown haired male could try and jump forward once more, the Uchiha's hands were off his blade and now making signs. In turn causing the Senju to keep the distance. He recognized those signs, having fought with the other many, many times before. Soon, making signs of his own, to counter the on coming jutsu.

As if right on cue, a huge fire ball came hurling towards him. The counter ended up being countered by a familiar water jutsu, used by the brother of the Senju leader.

Tobirama Senju, younger brother to Hashirama. Though that is debatable, since, although Hashirama was older, he acted to be more immature. As for Tobirama, he was the complete opposite, he was far more mature than the older Senju, everyone knew that though..

Soon his younger brother was taken back into his own battle with another Uchiha. Whom he had earlier trapped, but before he could do anything to the Uchiha his focus had been drawn to his elder brother. To which is probably why he lended the brunette a helping hand.

The older Senju made a mental note to himself, to thank his brother after their battles, as for now. His signs that he had made early were still in action as pillars of wood sprung from the ground heading straight for his opponent. Mostly there to attempt capture, though his planes were foiled as the long haired raven dodged his assault. Though he did fail to dodge one that hit into his chest, probably cracking a rib. Though Madara made no intentions on letting himself be caught, in so jumping back even further, bringing himself closer to the near by cliff.

Soon enough the long brown haired Senju made more hand signs, before more pillars sprung from the ground.

Without either noticing, the ground around the pillars cracked more than expected..

Just as the Uchiha was catching his breath so he could attempt another fire attack, they heard a scream, "Brother! Move!" The voice had come from the older Uchiha's own younger brother. That happened to be in battle with the Senju's younger brother.

Izuna Uchiha, Madara's younger brother.

Both the younger, Senju and Uchiha seemed to have their katanas clashed but they were both staring in the direction of both older brothers.

Before the elder Uchiha brother could even attempt to move he heard the cracking of rock below his feet. His gaze snapped to the ground,  only to have the rock suddenly give out on him, causing it to crumble beneath him.

With wide eyes the brown haired Senju only watched as the raven desperately tried to escape by jumping on to falling rubble, only to be hit by a rock, that happened to be his cracked rip from earlier.

Madara Uchiha has just fallen off the cliff, and from their long drawn out battle he didn't seem to have been able to save himself.

Both younger and older Senju  only watched as Izuna, brother of the Uchiha that had fallen, ran towards the cliff. There seemed to be tears in his eyes, though it was hard to tell from the distance that was suddenly made. Before he had made it to the cliffs edge a different Uchiha stopped the younger brother, saying something to him, before calling for a retreat. The newly appeared Uchiha half dragged half carried Izuna as they made their get away.

The cheers of the Senju clan were heard as the Uchiha's made their get away, most not knowing what had happened, only that the opposite side had ordered for a retreat. In turn leaving most of the Senju clueless, they hadn't had a clue to what had just happened except that they won this battle.

As for the leader, he still stood in utter shock. His old friend had just fallen.. to what seemed to be his death.

Without thinking the male started moving towards to cliff. He wanted to see if his friend was still alive.

He only stopped as a hand was placed in front of him, stopping him from moving any further. "Let us go elder brother.." that was the voice of his brother. Though that didn't keep his eyes from staring at the cliffs edge.

Darkness had just started to take over the land. As it would seem, it should be a fine time to get much needed rest. But no, these Shinobi are too ecstatic for sleep, as can be said from the old shouts coming from several men.

The sound of men cheering and hollering was could be heard from the Senju's as they had traveled back to their base like set up.

The victory had given them a motivation, even more so that the apparent war god Madara Uchiha was finally defeated in battle.

Unfortunately for the Uchiha's, they had lost a great leader, and said leadership would probably be given to Izuna Uchiha. Though it hadn't seemed that Izuna wanted to become leader yet, and instead wanting to spend time searching for his brother. Which is what is said to be happening from Senju look out scouts, they had been keeping an eye on the other clan since their great loss.

Though no Senju really thought about that. No, most were celebrating their victory, but there was one Senju that simply watched the night sky debating on what move he should make. The man happened to be leader of the Senju's, Hashirama Senju.

Said man was plopped down on a rock that looked good enough to lay on. His eyes were cast to the now almost fully darkened sky. But the sky was not on his mind. This recent victory was.

Not that it was a bad thing but, it wasn't good either. With Madara gone, there was a lot of things to come of it. Izuna's rage for having taken his brother down, and that's bound to have lots of casualties. Tobirama being put through more work since he'd probably go off and do something to get things off his mind. There were many more reasons but Hashirama hadn't wanted to think about them.

The troubled Senju gave out a distressed sigh as he closed his eyes. Only to get flicked in the nose, to which made them fling open. Hashirama was now found siting up and covering his poor nose, while looking around for the cause of his new problem.

His chocolate colored eyes soon landed on his brother, as he went to speak, Hashirama cut him off. "What was that for?!" He whined. This seemed to make Tobirama sigh, "you're too distracted to even notice my presence, that's why." Tobirama answered before continuing, "I know this whole, Madara's dead thing has been bothering you." He paused. "But you need to be yourself. Worrying about what the war is going to be like now, is not your normal way of thinking. Not that I don't like this attitude more, but it's simply not you." The younger Senju tried to explain only to make the other more confused.

"Just..Be yourself. Do what you do best and don't worry about the repercussions of your actions tonight." The younger brother finally said. Hashirama suddenly smiled as he gave his brother a nod, "thanks Tobi, I think I know what I'm going to do." He stats proudly before standing. "Just please.." Tobirama hadn't been able to finish his sentence before his elder brother was gone, "do anything stupid.." he mumbled to no one in particular. Giving out one last sigh, Tobirama mad his way back to his mini office, probably to do work.

Meanwhile, that left a certain elder brother of his to do something completely stupid.

As Senju traveled towards his destination he had found many other Uchiha's looking for the same thing. Though they were more spread out and there were more of them compared to just himself.

With a helpless sigh, he continued his search, narrowing it down to where they hadn't looked yet.

After what seemed like hours of looking through piles and piles of ruble he had eventually found a huge pile of rock and ruble.

This time he could feel that gut feeling of when you're about to find something. After a bit of digging around he had found nothing but ruble and a little cave that was behind the pile.

Just as he was about to move on to the next area, his nose catches the familiar sent of blood. This makes makes him stop and look around, his only light was that of the full moon that watched him, so he hadn't really seen this before now. There was a patch of pebbles that seemed to be soaked with blood.

Hashirama carefully got in a little closer before starting to dig at the patch, to suddenly have his fingers brush against something warm and wet. In a quick movement he withdrew his hand.

The feeling was familiar to senju, but just to make sure, his eyes wondered till they gazed at his hand. There, where he had felt the all too familiar feeling, was blood. Fresh blood.

Now feeling a little more rushed than before he began digging around that central area, he had eventually dug up an arm.

The skin color being a pale tone, though now that the Senju stared for a little, he started to notice it had been paler than usual. After more examinations he noted that the arm was badly scraped and needed tending to.

Soon his gaze shifted to where the body part ends, on the semi exposed forearm Hashirama spots a incredibly ripped up black sleeve.

Fortunately it was still attached to the body, thanks to more digging he had found that out, as while as the identity of this injured man. The man he had been looking for as while.

Madara.

Soon the thought occurred to him, is he still alive? There was a sudden sense of panic before he placed two fingers on the underside of the others wrist, and applying pressure. After waiting for a moment, there was a small pulse against his fingers.

He's.. alive..

He's alive.

The relief that had hit was almost completely unreal to the Senju, though now it was on to the problem of how weak the pulse was. Even if the pulse was there, it doesn't change the fact that the beat of the Uchiha's heart beat was too weak. If Hashirama didn't do something soon then the Uchiha could very well lose his life. 

After a little bit more careful digging he was finally able to safely extract the quite seriously injured Uchiha. Then proceeded to lay said male on his back, where there looked to be not as much damage.

From the one look, Hashirama could tell that he'd need days quite a few days to completely heal the other, but he was willing to take the challenge. So if caring for Madara for a couple days would prevent his death then he'd do it.

Madara's battle armor was almost completely useless in this situation. The armor was cracked, some parts even shattered, but that wasn't his worry at all. The worry was the wound that was at his collarbone, it seemed extremely painful. Not even a few seconds later he placed his hands over the Uchiha's wound before they started to give off a green glow.

As he gave most his concentration to healing Madara, the rest of his brain power was debating his next plan of action. He couldn't just stay there and heal the Uchiha in one go, the other Uchiha's would find this place eventually. So he'd just have to try and close some of the wounds as much as possible, before trying to relocate to another area.

Suddenly there was voices in the distance, they didn't seem to be that far. "Check over there, I'll check here." A voice said, probably belonging to a Uchiha. Soon Hashirama's concentration was back on the man below him.

He still needed some time to close the biggest wound, but he did close the others a bit so he should be good to move. With that said, he ceased his healing jutsu and carefully scooped the raven haired male into his arms. Then took off, being extra careful with his new injured party member.

Hashirama could only hope nothing bad happened when he reached his new destination. Hopefully he will except this decision..