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Hour 9: Short Cut

Summary: The Senju Clan is used to Tobirama leaving Obon festivities a little early. Not so much what he gets up to in his lab, these days.

Author: Dawen

Rating: General

Fandom: Naruto

Relationship: Ambiguous Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna

Other Tags: Obon, Edo Tensei, Implied Human Sacrifice, (it IS Edo Tensei), Dead Uchiha Izuna, Ambiguous Relationship (OTP? BroTP? your choice), Canonical Death, Noncanonical Resurrection

Word Count: 200 (double drabble)

Read on AO3 or under the cut.

For once, Tobirama’s antisocial tendencies work in his favor. No one bothers him when he leaves early, setting lanterns out for his little brothers and slipping some senbon to Tadako-chan for her vegetable horses. He doesn’t stay long on Obon; after years he had finally accepted that his grief is a private thing, not easily shown to other people.

It isn’t grief driving him away from his clan’s festivities this year, though it makes a good excuse.

He retrieves a prisoner from the little jail he built underneath his lab - a bloodline thief whose unit he busted last week. It seems appropriate. It’s easy to ready his other materials: chakra ink and seal paper, a seal already sketched on a large scroll. Easier still to make the sacrifice.

Tobirama can feel a presence, lingering in his lab. Heavier than his last attempt.

A body coalesces. His chakra is not depleted, not as much as previous attempts.

Pale eyelids blink open; the eyes beneath look pure black, iris and sclera blending together. A smile stretches across a bone-white, cracked face. “I told you it would work better today.”

Tobirama rolls his eyes, but cannot repress a fond smile. “Hello again, Izuna.”