Mi Ho pov:

The rest of the evening at the restaurant wad torture. Oppa and I looked totally okay and pumping and lively on the outside, but that was far from the truth. I was stuck with a mix of confusion, hurt and anger, while oppa was stuck with a mix of anger and fear.

Eonni had made out rather easily that something hand happened between us and she had asked oppa if everything was alright. Oppa didn't want her to worry so he just told her that he had something to discuss with all of us once the party at the restaurant was over. She was still wary of the way we were acting, but not wanting to cause an uproar here in the restaurant, she didn't push the topic further.

It was finally time to go home. After saying goodbye to all the people who worked at the restaurant with convincing fake smiles, we headed back to Ryoshi's house. We were all tired, but when we reached his house, oppa stopped us in the living room.

"Ryoshi, I'd like it if Mi Ho stayed with us in the inn tonight. Its been a really long time since we've spent time together so I'd like her to come with us tonight." Oppa said with a smile. It was the most convincing and believable reason that anyone could come up with in this situation. And obviously, Ryoshi didn't object one bit.

"Of course, Lee Jae nii sama. She is your sister and you have every right to take her with you wherever you want to." He smiled. I was so not in a mood to smile or even say anything nicely but I did my best, clenching my jaw as I returned his smile.

I walked to my room and got a set of clothes for the night. I packed it in a bag and also packed a few other stuff I needed like moisturizer and body splash perfume. I was literally stuffing/throwing the things into my bag in my irritation but I paused and looked behind me when I heard Ryoshi enter. I managed another smile at him and turned around fully.

"Hey Ryoshi. Is there something you need?" He got slightly flustered when I asked him that and he averted his eyes from me. "A-ah, no....n-nothing really....I just....well...." I gave a soft laugh at his awkwardness. I shook my head and zipped up my bag. "You cant say what you want to say, Ryoshi." I coaxed.

He watched me for a moment as I stood in front of him with my bag on my shoulders and then he stepped forward. "I just wanted to say I'm going to miss you." He leaned down kissing my forehead gently and my eyes went wide. He pulled away quickly and flustered and scurried out of the room. I was left frozen but I gathered my thoughts together and walked out of the room to join oppa and eonni.

I just hope Madara wasn't around to have seen this. If he was, it was definitely the end for Ryoshi.

When we walked back to the living room, eonni was carrying Jin Hae; he had fallen asleep sometime during the wait to leave Ryoshi's house. We said our goodbyes to Ryoshi and headed to the inn where we would be staying for the night.

The walk to the inn was the most difficult I had ever faced before. No one spoke and I could make out oppa's obvious anger. When we got to the small apartment type of place we were given in the inn, eonni put Jin Hae to sleep in a room and closed the door so he wouldn't be disturbed during our discussion. As for me, I was like a ticking time bomb. I was restless and pretty much ready to explode. Depending on what oppa asked me, I wasn't sure if I'd end up yelling or simply walking out of the inn without talking to him at all.

"Mi Ho. What have you been thinking? When did all of this start?" He started. I clenched my jaw refusing to look at him and refusing to talk. I was afraid that I would really end up yelling, saying something rude to him and then regretting it later. He turned to me and stepped closer to me. "I asked you a question Mi Ho. Do you even know who he is? What kind of history he has? What kind of bad things the world talks about him? How can you...?"

"I know! I know everything, okay?!" I finally snapped. "I know him, I know his past and I know what he's trying to do now! I know better than everyone else in this place what kind of person he is! The world is ignorant! Every person out there is stupid! They don't know anything about him, just spreading mindless rumors that they heard from some random unknown source! They've never seen anything that really happened so how can anyone say its actually true?"

"Rumors?! You call something like a massacre a rumor?" Oppa yelled back at me. "Massacre? I've never heard about a massacre besides the one of the Uchihas. And that wasn't by Madara. I know that he tried to attack Konoha but I know why je did that. You've heard some pretty crazy stuff too, oppa!" I retorted back. It not that I didn't want to support oppa but I love Madara and I had known what kind of person he was. So it was wrong to blame him for rumors that weren't true. Besides, he had gone through a rough time in his past so you cant just blindly blame him for the personality and plans he has now. He was really crude to begun with and after all this mayhem, he'd obviously try something extreme like this. This was just the kind of person Madara is!

"How can you even think of liking some person like him?! You don't even know him! You're crazy! He's a monster!" "He's not a monster!" What oppa said actually hurt this time. How could he call Madara a monster? Despite what he had done befor, he was giving a chance for all the people to gather strngth and fight back now. He was giving them a chance to understand that they couldn't fight him and that they should just give in to his rule. How could oppa say such a thing?! That was so rude!

"I knew him, okay?! I was with him a hundred years ago when Izuna died and when he signed the peace treaty! He didn't kill Izuna for power....Izuna died from a wound that he got from Tobirama. Madara was so angry and broken that time and I'm the only one who knows that! Besides, what do you take me for?! Did you think that I'm the sort of person to fall in love with a guy just for looks?! When he popped out of some random rabbit hole? I was with him for a whole year....."

My voice softened. "I saw many faces of his that the world does not know. He may be very powerful and now he may be doing something bad, but he's human too, oppa. He has a heart that hasn't healed. He's been shunned away for as long as I remember and no likes to be ignored. The only person he showed his real side to, his personal life to....was me. I know him better than any other person in this world."

"That is no reason to have to start a war and kill thousands of innocent people." Oppa glared at me and I rolled my eyes gritting my teeth together. "Why wont you understand what I'm saying! We can talk to him, try and get him to not start the war....every problem has a solution. We just to find it and deal with how things work here!"

"You're and idiot, Mi Ho. To think that some mindless beast like him will listen to reason." "Stop insulting him!" I screamed having enough of these constant bad words sent at Madara. He wasn't so bad! True he was starting a war that may end up killing so many people but if I could get some knowledge through his thick 99% impenetrable skull, maybe things would work out for the better. For rhw past that he had been though, I doubt I could call his current behavior surprising, even though it was pretty sadistic.

"Your verbal battle is rather noisy....its not a very appealing sight to see." We stopped arguing and looked to the side. I was breathing slightly heavily because of the heated conversation we were having and I hadn't noticed that Madara was leaning against the wall next to the window watching us rather skeptically.

"Madara? When did you get here?" I asked, straightening my posture. I hadn't realized that I was so caught up in proving my point that my posture was slightly offensive, like I was ready to attack someone. I should really learn to control my snap back anger and arguing.....

"I'm rather surprised. Even you can drop you're guard Mio." He didn't answer my question and I glared at him as he smirked at me. "Well hello, we are talking about you, porcupine head." Madara lost his smirk and glared at me for the name I had called him by. Hey, his hair was kinda spiky so I used the closest weakest insult I could think of.

"Listen here buster, I'm in no mood to deal with another person's sarcastic remarks right now, alright? This is between me and Mi Ho, so butt out." Oppa didn't look the slightest afraid right now as he lectured Madara. It was a little surprising after all the worried scolding he had given me back at the restaurant. Besides, I could tell Madara was so not amused by him talking this way. No one had ever dared to talk back to him except me and I doubt he would let things go if oppa said anything that offended him.

So I tried to change the topic before Madara got a chance to snap back at what oppa had said.

"Oppa, what is it that you have against this? What is it that you wont accept? I want a proper reason." I asked him ignoring the slightly rising chakra I felt from Madara.

"The whole idea is ridiculous! You cant like someone like him! I won't allow it!" I rolled my eyes and scoffed. "Well, I'm sorry. Its not like I fell in love with him because I wanted to! These things just happen! How was I supposed to know he would turn out to be some war-starting guy now? I just wanted to help him as a friend but it ended up like this so stop blaming me!" I tried to reason out with oppa but he seemed defiant.

"So now you're saying you love him and not just like him?! Mi Ho, cant you see that everything that you did is probably the reason why this world is in this state now? Cant you see that the war and this person coming back to life is possibly a result of the past that you shouldn't have changed?" My jaw went slack at what he said. "Oppa! Seriously?! How does me loving him have anything to do with this stupid war?! As far as I remember, he's just as ambitious now as he was in the past! I highly doubt anything would be any different. Besides, how can you say that anything would have been different if I hadn't fallen in love with him or appeared in this world? For all you know, this war might have happened anyway!"

"You having feelings for him is still a reason!" Oppa yelled again. "Oh, then what about you, eonni and Jin Hae now? Isn't it possible that you guys existing here too is causing a drastic change in the future of this world? Why am I the only one to be blamed here?!"

He was being so unfair! It's not like I came to this world because I wanted to. Heck! I didn't know this world existed until I got my butt dragged here because of some unknown reason! So why was I the only one being criticized here?

"Oh jeez! That's enough, both of you!" Eonni finally stepped in, breaking our conversation. "Honestly, you two sound like cats fighting over the last piece of edible mouse in a trash can!" She was frowning at both of us. I hesitated from speaking but oppa did seem a little bothered by the interruption. "Honey, cant you understand what she's saying? How is that even rational?"

"It is rational! What you're saying is over the top!" I grumbled and I got a hard stare from oppa.

"Oh for heaven's sake! Both of you are going to shut your mouths and stay quiet until I say you can talk again!" "But....!?" Oppa tried to object but eonni sent him a warning glare and he stopped from saying anything. "None of you are going to say a word until I give you permission. I'll get all of us some tea and then we'll sit at the table and talk this over like civilized people. Honestly, with the volume you two are using, you'll wake up the whole street, let along Jin Hae!"

"At least one of you seems to have some common sense." Madara scoffed. "Shut up Madara! Don't you dare try to talk so easily about my family!" I sent him a glare which he returned two fold.

"That's enough, Mi Ho. Madara san, please take a seat. I'll get you some tea as well." Eonni walked to the kitchen leaving all of us in an awkward silence.

Once eonni had got us tea, we were all sitting at the table silently. I was staring at my steaming tea in the cup I held in my hands. I glanced up to see the expressions on the faces if the others around me. Oppa was glaring at his tea, Madara was drinking it calmly with one arm resting on one upright knee, and eonni was drinking calmly as well.

I think we needed a small break in the conversation so I decided to ask Madara something that I had found strange since I met him in the forest. "Say Madara? I've been wondering....how come your complexion is darker than I remember? And why do you have cracks on your skin?" He opened his eyes to look at me as he stopped drinking his tea. He put down the cup on the table as everyone's attention went to him.

"I'm an edo tensei. I have been revived by a special jutsu so I'm neither alive or dead. Even if my body is damaged from any sort of attack, it will reform within minutes. Its just a matter of time before I use the complete revival jutsu to fully bring myself back to life." "Oh..." I said simply as I looked down at my tea again. I felt suddenly awkward. When I had heard Madara speak, his deep voice, seen his confident authoritative posture, it reminded me of his scent and his strong tight embrace. I so badly wanted to sit next to him and cuddle into his side despite the hard armor he was wearing right now.

I felt goosebumps erupt on my body as a chilly breeze passed in the room. Cuddling with Madara would definitely be warm not only for my body but also for my heart. I shivered once but I shook my head to stop from dwelling on what I wanted to do instead of what I should be doing now.

I sighed. "Alright....so are we even going to come to a decision for this situation?" I asked resting my chin in one of my hands on the table. Oppa sighed as well as he looked at me. "Mi Ho....I....I don't know what to say anymore. You're not agreeing to anything I'm saying." I rolled my eyes slightly. "C'mon oppa, just think of it from my perspective once. You'll understand that what I'm saying isn't wrong either."

"So what do you want me to say, Mi Ho? Do you just want me to accept whatever you say?" "Yobo, chimchak haeyo....[honey, calm down....]" Eonni stopped him and she looked at me. "Mi Ho, are you sure of your feelings?" She asked me next abd I nodded slowly, not meeting her eyes. "Madara san, do you love Mi Ho as well? I'm expecting it to be pure and not for selfish reasons. If you just say that you love her for the strange abilities she has, then even I wont accept this relationship to continue."

She was stern, surprising me and Madara quite a bit. But they way she put it was actually rational. I mean, the last time I asked Madara what I was to him, he spoke as if I was some object he possessed. I wasn't ready to be considered that way. If he really did love me, he was going to have to consider me as a person and respect my habits, my personality and the things that I care about too. Besides, he was going ro have say that he loves me to fully believe him. I'd never heard him say anything positive to me before besides his standard dialogue; "You belong to me."

That wasn't enough a reason for me to keep hoping that I would end up with Madara. Why should I be the only one to compromise?

Man....why were things concerning Madara always so complicated? He sure had talent for getting me tired from all the thinking and decision making. He did so fine in the past and it looks like this is one character that hadn't changed one bit even after all these years.

I closed my eyes with a sigh, lowering my head to rest my cheek against the cool table top. "Pighonae....[I'm tired]" I mumbled out. I didn't bother opening my dry tired eyes. They refused to open too.

I could hear eonni asking some questions to Madara but I could barely make out what it was. I was just lost in a daze and it was already past midnight. I knew that if I fell asleep now, eonni and oppa wouldn't wake me up. They knew I was tired too and they usually let me rest whenever I wanted to. Besides, it looked like this conversation wasn't going to end in just one night. It was way too complicated with too many things to consider....it would probably take a week to clear things up and come to a final decision. Either way, it was going to be very bugging.

I tried to stay awake in vain. I didn't have the energy to even move and I fell into deep slumber in an awkward position that I was sure would give me a sore neck and back when I woke up tomorrow.

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