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The noise of the customers in the newly build Konoha casino wasn’t loud enough for him to not hear the conversation at the poker table before him. Two women and a man were playing together. A Nara, an Inuzuka and an Uchiha. Hashirama couldn’t help himself listening to them, their friendly banter was warming his heart.

“Dammit, you win again! How did you do it?” Shout the Inuzuka man, his card flying in the air.

“You are just really easy to read you know.” The Nara woman said while pocketing her win.

“How, even I had a hard time reading him?” Said the Uchiha woman, unlike her friend she was still calm despite losing too, for the fourth time in a row. It might be because she did not lose as much as him. Maybe he will ask her later her strategy to minimize her loss.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Accused the Inuzuka man.

“Well, since we now complete missions with nin from others clans, I have been able to observe and learn different behavior and secret language. “Explains the Nara woman.

“You have learned others clans secret language?” The Inuzuka was dumbfounded.

“Yes, I was bored.” She said like it was the most normal thing to do when someone is bored.

“Mika, how many have you learned?”Asks the Uchiha.

“A lot. I'm just missing the Uzumaki and your clan.” She said to the Uchiha.

“But the Uchiha don’t seem to have one. I’ve never seen them do something that could be considered as a secret language.” The Inuzuka said.

At that remark Hashirama start to listen more attentively to their conversation. His ambition to win the game now forgotten. He may be able to impress Madara with what he will learn.

“We have one, but it can only be fully used with the sharingan, and communicating with a non sharingan user can be perceived as really invasive or it’s too fast for them to catch the message. So we don’t really use it outside of our clan compound.” The Uchiha woman responds.

«The Uchiha can have secret conversations with the sharingan?» Mika ask. She looks quite surprised that she didn’t think of that possibility. And to be fair neither did he.

“Yes.” She simply answers her friend.

“How really invasive are we talking? Yamanaka invasive or Aburame invasive?” Her questions were now more precise. It seems that her interest have been piqued, observed Hashirama.

“Yamanaka invasive.” She answers.

“Really? How?” Mika asks.

“Well, with another sharingan user, we basically just push an image that we associate with an emotion in the front of our mind and the other is able to pick it up and then answer in the same way. We just have to lock our eye when our sharingan is alive and that it. But with a non sharingan user it’s more complicate. We have to craft something similar to a genjutsu, lock eyes, put it in the mind of the other and then have a conversation.” Explain the woman.

“It don’t seem to complicate.” Say the Inuzuka.

“No it isn’t. The problem is the time spent doing it. With another sharingan wielder, it take less than a second to have a full conversation. But with a non wielder it can take up to a full minute.”

“Is crafting the genjutsu that take the most time?” The Nara demand

“Yep.”

“There no way to shorten the time?” Inquire the man.

“One minute is the shortest we can do. But there is a faster method to communicate with a non sharingan wielder.”

“Really?” Exclaim the Inuzuka.

“Yep. The sharingan can spin differently to communicate, mostly emotion but there also some word we have associated with a particular spin.”

“Oh, show us.”

“Okay, so one of the easiest are happy and sad. When we feel happy or want to express a positive feeling in general we spin both sharingan once to the left. And for sad or negative feeling, we spin to the right.”

“It’s quite simple” Remark the Inuzuka.

“Yes it is, with a basic and slow pattern we can easily communicate with a non sharingan user. So if someone know the basic pattern, we can communicate faster than with the genjutsu method.”

“Do you have a pattern for everything?” Mika asks her.

“Yep”

“So you can flirt via sharingan?”

The silence following her question was quite a revealing answer.

“Oh no way! Show us!” He exclaims.

“Don’t be shy Haru, show us how the Uchiha flirt.” Taunt Mika.

“I hate the both of you.” Haru shriek.

“Liar, you love us. You just don’t want us to know when you are as sappy as the Hokage when he is with your clan head.” Tease the Inuzuka.

He did have a great idea of using a henge and chakra seal to escape Tobirama nagging about paperwork, because he could feel his face was turning to an alarming shade of red at the Inuzuka’s words. There no way he could have hidden it from the Uchiha woman in face of him.

“Please don’t remind me, those two are the most obvious to the lovey-dovey aura they create when they are together. I swear working with Madara-sama had become a punishment. The tiniest allusion of the Hokage and you can see him go all dreamy. I swear, you literally can see little heart flying around his head.” She complain to her friends.

He heard muffled laughter but Hashirama brain couldn’t seem to be able to process correctly what she had just said. Did she just imply that Madara is in love with him? That he loves him back with the same intensity as he. No she is just joking. It has to be. There no way. She is just exaggerating. If Madara is in love with him and everybody can tell, he would have seen it. He loves him so much, if is feeling were reciprocate he would have taken his chance. Despite what Tobirama say, he is no that stupid and obvious. It is just how Madara show his affection to a friend.

The dealer telling him he lost again, making him refocused again on his game. Before him, the conversation was still continuing.

“So how do you say “you have pretty eyes.” Asks Maki.

“Oh I have better, how do you say “Hey sexy wanna hop in my bed for the hottest night of your life.” He said while accompanying his word with finger gun and a sly smile.

“Really Aki?” She nudges him.

“Okay okay, I’m sorry”

“But at least you can tell us how you say “I love you”.” The both of them were looking at Haru with hope in their eye.

She sight at her friends antic, but she comply to humor them. “Okay, so to say it you have three steps. First you move your tomoe of the right eye once to the right. At the same time as the first step, you spin four times to the left, the sharingan of the left eye. And then you spin the sharingan of the right eye six times to the left.”

The pattern feels oddly familiar to Hashirama. But he decides he had enough emotion for the night. So he stops his game, excuse himself and stand up to exit the table. But by doing so, he have now, a plain view of the face of Uchiha woman.

“Okay now show us.”

And she did. And then comes the illumination in Hashirama’s brain.

-

Across the village, Madara was sleeping. Was, because suddenly he is brutally awoken by non other than Hashirama. Hashirama that had jumped on him like he weighs nothing. If his friend is drunk again, he is gonna burn his hair. His position as hokage be damned, nothing will stop him from burning his hair.

But his plan of revenge on his friend was cut short by what he just said.“Madara I love you too. I’m sorry, I have been stupid. I didn’t realize sooner you love me too.”

Clearly, the man is drunk and on the “I love you” phase. But he was way too tired to deal with Hashirama “friendly” love confession and the pain they always gave him.

“Yes Hashirama, I know you love me. I love you too my friend.”

“No, not like that! I love you but not as a friend!”

“Oh yes, you love me as a brother. Sorry, my mistake. Can I go back to sleep?”

“No, not like that either!”

“Uhg Hashirama, I’m way too tired and you too drunk for this conversation to make sense.”

“No I’m not! I didn’t touch a drop of alcohol! I swear!”

“Okay, for a minute I’m going to believe that you are not drunk. What are you talking about?”

“When we fight you always tell me that you love me with your sharingan.”

“No I don’t. I will have know if I was doing it.”

“Yes you do. And I can prove it. Tomoe of the right eye once to the right. At the same time the sharingan of the left eye spin four times to the left. And then the sharingan of the right eye spin six times to the left. All those years yours sharingans had always made that particular pattern when we were fighting.”

“Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I am screwed.” He think. But he didn’t had the time to explain himself because Hashirama was talking again.

“Madara, I love you. You love me. Can we be together?”

Madara was quite overwhelm but his brain manage to answer a simple yes.

And then, Hashirama slip into his bed, kiss him and then, the man had the audacity to fall asleep. Astonished by his behavior, Madara think. “He is lucky I love him, I will wait tomorrow to burn my man hairs.” And when he fell asleep, his smile didn’t fade.

Chapter Text

The noise of the customers in the newly build Konoha casino wasn’t loud enough for him to not hear the conversation at the poker table before him. Two women and a man were playing together. A Nara, an Inuzuka and an Uchiha. Hashirama couldn’t help himself listening to them, their friendly banter was warming his heart. (the author: no crying this time?)

“Dammit, you win again! How did you do it?” Shout the Inuzuka man, his card flying in the air.

“You are just really easy to read you know.” The Nara woman said while pocketing her win.

“How, even I had a hard time reading him?” Said the Uchiha woman, unlike her friend she was still calm despite losing too, for the fourth time in a row. It might be because she did not lose as much as him. Maybe he will ask her later her strategy to minimize her loss.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Accused the Inuzuka man.

“Well, since we now complete missions with nin from others clans, I have been able to observe and learn different behavior and secret language. “Explains the Nara woman.

“You have learned others clans secret language?” The Inuzuka was dumbfounded.

“Yes, I was bored.” She said like it was the most normal thing to do when someone is bored. (the author: it is for a Nara. Quite ironically due to boredom the smartest clan have invented the most stupid game just to escape it.)

“Mika, how many have you learned?”Asks the Uchiha.

“A lot. I'm just missing the Uzumaki and your clan.” She said to the Uchiha.

“But the Uchiha don’t seem to have one. I’ve never seen them do something that could be considered as a secret language.” The Inuzuka said.

At that remark Hashirama start to listen more attentively to their conversation. His ambition to win the game now forgotten. He may be able to impress Madara with what he will learn. (the author: or get smacked, who know with Madara.)

“We have one, but it can only be fully used with the sharingan, and communicating with a non sharingan user can be perceived as really invasive or it’s too fast for them to catch the message. So we don’t really use it outside of our clan compound.” The Uchiha woman responds.

«The Uchiha can have secret conversations with the sharingan?» Mika ask. She looks quite surprised that she didn’t think of that possibility. And to be fair neither did he.

“Yes.” She simply answers her friend.

“How really invasive are we talking? Yamanaka invasive or Aburame invasive?” Her questions were now more precise. It seems that her interest have been piqued, observed Hashirama.

“Yamanaka invasive.” She answers.

“Really? How?” Mika asks.

“Well, with another sharingan user, we basically just push an image that we associate with an emotion in the front of our mind and the other is able to pick it up and then answer in the same way. We just have to lock our eye when our sharingan is alive and that it. But with a non sharingan user it’s more complicate. We have to craft something similar to a genjutsu, lock eyes, put it in the mind of the other and then have a conversation.” Explain the woman.

“It don’t seem to complicate.” Say the Inuzuka.

“No it isn’t. The problem is the time spent doing it. With another sharingan wielder, it take less than a second to have a full conversation. But with a non wielder it can take up to a full minute.”

“Is crafting the genjutsu that take the most time?” The Nara demand

“Yep.”

“There no way to shorten the time?” Inquire the man.

“One minute is the shortest we can do. But there is a faster method to communicate with a non sharingan wielder.”

“Really?” Exclaim the Inuzuka.

“Yep. The sharingan can spin differently to communicate, mostly emotion but there also some word we have associated with a particular spin.”

“Oh, show us.”

“Okay, so one of the easiest are happy and sad. When we feel happy or want to express a positive feeling in general we spin both sharingan once to the left. And for sad or negative feeling, we spin to the right.”

“It’s quite simple” Remark the Inuzuka.

“Yes it is, with a basic and slow pattern we can easily communicate with a non sharingan user. So if someone know the basic pattern, we can communicate faster than with the genjutsu method.”

“Do you have a pattern for everything?” Mika asks her.

“Yep”

“So you can flirt via sharingan?”

The silence following her question was quite a revealing answer.

“Oh no way! Show us!” He exclaims.

“Don’t be shy Haru, show us how the Uchiha flirt.” Taunt Mika.

“I hate the both of you.” Haru shriek.

“Liar, you love us. You just don’t want us to know when you are as sappy as the Hokage when he is with your clan head.” Tease the Inuzuka.

He did have a great idea of using a henge and chakra seal to escape Tobirama nagging about paperwork, because he could feel his face was turning to an alarming shade of red at the Inuzuka’s words. There no way he could have hidden it from the Uchiha woman in face of him. (the author: true and it will had reach Tobirama’s ears faster than light speed.)

“Please don’t remind me, those two are the most obvious to the lovey-dovey aura they create when they are together. I swear working with Madara-sama had become a punishment. The tiniest allusion of the Hokage and you can see him go all dreamy. I swear, you literally can see little heart flying around his head.” She complain to her friends.

He heard muffled laughter but Hashirama brain couldn’t seem to be able to process correctly what she had just said. Did she just imply that Madara is in love with him? (the author: yes.) That he loves him back with the same intensity as he (the author: also yes.). No she is just joking (the author: she isn’t). It has to be. There no way. She is just exaggerating (the author: like me, she would love to.). If Madara is in love with him and everybody can tell, he would have seen it. He loves him so much, if is feeling were reciprocate he would have taken his chance. Despite what Tobirama say, he is no that stupid and obvious (the author: well). It is just how Madara show his affection to a friend (the author:😐).

The dealer telling him he lost again (the author: what a surprise.), making him refocused again on his game. Before him, the conversation was still continuing.

“So how do you say “you have pretty eyes.” Asks Maki.

“Oh I have better, how do you say “Hey sexy wanna hop in my bed for the hottest night of your life.” He said while accompanying his word with finger gun and a sly smile.

“Really Aki?” She nudges him.

“Okay okay, I’m sorry”

“But at least you can tell us how you say “I love you”.” The both of them were looking at Haru with hope in their eye.

She sight at her friends antic, but she comply to humor them. “Okay, so to say it you have three steps. First you move your tomoe of the right eye once to the right. At the same time as the first step, you spin four times to the left, the sharingan of the left eye. And then you spin the sharingan of the right eye six times to the left.”

The pattern feels oddly familiar to Hashirama (the author: no way, where he could have seen this pattern. What a mystery.). But he decides he had enough emotion for the night. So he stops his game, excuse himself and stand up to exit the table. But by doing so, he have now, a plain view of the face of Uchiha woman.

“Okay now show us.”

And she did. And then comes the illumination in Hashirama’s brain (the author: thanks gods, finally).

-

Across the village, Madara was sleeping. Was, because suddenly he is brutally awoken by non other than Hashirama. Hashirama that had jumped on him like he weighs nothing. If his friend is drunk again, he is gonna burn his hair. His position as hokage be damned, nothing will stop him from burning his hair.

But his plan of revenge on his friend was cut short by what he just said.“Madara I love you too. I’m sorry, I have been stupid. I didn’t realize sooner you love me too.”

Clearly, the man is drunk (the author: he isn’t) and on the “I love you” phase (the author: meh, it’s not really a “phase” at the moment). But he was way too tired to deal with Hashirama “friendly” (the author snort:“friendly”) love confession and the pain they always gave him.

“Yes Hashirama, I know you love me. I love you too my friend.”

“No, not like that! I love you but not as a friend!”

“Oh yes, you love me as a brother. Sorry, my mistake. Can I go back to sleep?”

“No, not like that either!”

“Uhg Hashirama, I’m way too tired and you too drunk for this conversation to make sense.”

“No I’m not! I didn’t touch a drop of alcohol! I swear!”

“Okay, for a minute I’m going to believe that you are not drunk. What are you talking about?”

“When we fight you always tell me that you love me with your sharingan.”

“No I don’t. I will have know if I was doing it (the author: erh).”

“Yes you do. And I can prove it. Tomoe of the right eye once to the right. At the same time the sharingan of the left eye spin four times to the left. And then the sharingan of the right eye spin six times to the left. All those years yours sharingans had always made that particular pattern when we were fighting.”

“Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I am screwed (the author: not yet.).” He think. But he didn’t had the time to explain himself because Hashirama was talking again.

“Madara, I love you. You love me. Can we be together?” (the author: what a romantic man.)

Madara was quite overwhelm but his brain manage (the author: thanks gods) to answer a simple yes.

And then, Hashirama slip into his bed, kiss him and then, the man had the audacity to fall asleep.(the author: not the first, not the last) 

Astonished by his behavior, Madara think. “He is lucky I love him, I will wait tomorrow to burn my man hairs.” And when he fell asleep, his smile didn’t fade.