Mi Ho pov:

Darkness.

I floated in this endless darkness. I cant believe I actually did that to myself.....how did I get that courage at that moment?

It must have been a really stupid decision, huh? Not saying goodbye to anyone besides Madara, giving up my life like that. I didn't make sure that Lee Jae oppa was okay; if Madara had hurt him in his anger for what I did to myself, what do I do then? I couldn't because I was dead.

At first I thought that perhaps with this, I would return to my real world, to Seoul in South Korea. Perhaps everything was just a torturous dream....a dream that really hurt and by doing something as impractical as this, I would end up going back to reality. But I guess that didn't work either because this darkness didn't seem to go away.

I couldn't even open my eyes. It was like they were glued together.

A sigh escaped my lips, though I doubt anyone heard it. In this space where no one existed, who could hear a sigh or any words I said? Forget about it all, I couldn't speak anyway.

For the longest time, the darkness swirled around me. At some point though, I felt like I was actually looking at something with my eyes open. There was something or someplace in front of me and yet I couldn't see it. Some very familiar place but all hazy because of my jumbled up thoughts. I could feel a breeze, I could hear the rustling of leaves in the distance....why was I able to hear and feel things when I shouldn't even be aware of anything? I shouldn't even be aware of who I was because I was no longer alive, right?

"You're rather comfortable, aren't you?" I heard a voice that made me blink. Suddenly, I could see a backyard, the night sky studded with thousands of stars. My heart was pounding and I looked to the side at the source of the voice. My eyes went so wide, they hurt. There in the middle of the grass covered backyard stood Madara.

Long black hair, sharingan glowing.

I staggered on my feet breathing heavily. "Ma....M-madara?" I asked completely flabbergasted. He narrowed his eyes at me. "Who were you expecting? Tobirama perhaps? After all, you chose him over me." My jaw was completely slack as I watched him.

What....what was going on?

"You....y-you're really Madara, right? I'm not dreaming....or in some sort of genjutsu, am I?" I stuttered out. He frowned and walked closer to me. "Are you so in love with that pathetic Senju that you cant even tell the difference between reality and fantasy anymore?" He sneered out.

This Madara....he was the same person from the past. From the time I first came to this world. His way of talking, the way he commented about the Senju, his level of power....this wasn't the Madara with the Rinnegan I had met. This wasn't the Madara who was revived to fight the battle and get the whole world under his control. This was....was I back in the past?

There was a blanket on my shoulders and it dropped to a heap on the ground when I stepped back. I was kind of freaking out right now.

Madara narrowed his eyes, but I dashed out of the backyard to the front door of the house I was in. I opened the door, clumsily hitting my arm against the door in the process. I winced but staggered outside to the road. I looked around, able to sense all the Senjus, the Uchihas and few other clans scattered around the village. I looked up at the Hokage Mountain to see scaffolding. Hashirama's face. The first Hokage's face was still in its initial stages of being carved out.

I ran back inside my room looking around at the furniture, the things arranged on the table, everything. Madara was watching me like I had grown another head but I ignored him for the time being. I ran to one of the tables in the living room, opening the drawer and ransacking through the contents.....my hologram generator, my cell phone, my headphones, everything still in tack with 2/3rds of the power still available.

I moved away from the drawer really feeling lightheaded now. I was breathing heavily, unable to understand what was happening.

I shook my head and ran into the bedroom next. I opened the cupboard, throwing out all my clothes and reaching for my duffel bag. When I unzipped it, I found all my dance clothes – clothes I had brought with me from Seoul and clothes that I had stitched during my time in the Uchiha compound. I dropped that to the ground as well and pressed my temples.

"Okay, calm down Mi Ho. Calm down...." Madara had followed me into the room as well. "Mio, what are you doing? Stop avoiding my question." He growled out. But I ran into the bathroom next and stood in front of the mirror. Ignoring the fact that Madara had followed me there too, I lifted up my shirt to see my stomach and then got a look at the back of my neck. The Uchiha seal for my ability to hear people's thoughts....it was still intact.

I dropped my hands to my side, letting my shirt fall back in place. I pushed past Madara and headed back to the backyard. "This is crazy....what is.....how? What....?" I couldn't even for a coherent sentence in my confusion. "Mio!" I was roughly pulled by a grip on my wrist to face Madara. When I saw him, I noticed how young he looked....the same way he did when Konoha was first formed.

"Madara....something isn't right....I just...." I started but paused, frowning slightly. Wait a minute.....what if this wasn't a dream. The last time I saw Madara was when he looked freakish with that third eye and casted the Infinite Tsukiyomi on every single person in the world. But....my travelling to the future, then to the past where Madara was just a kid, back to the future and then back to now.....did it all have some hidden meaning that I wasn't able to understand?

I had to think.

I made Madara let go of me and I walked a little away thinking things properly. There was no way I was in the eternal genjutsu that Madara had casted. Oppa and I were the only ones who weren't affected besides the reanimated ones. I was sure it wasn't because Madara didn't want it to happen. If that was the case, then even the reanimated ones would have ended up in his jutsu.

All of the things that I had seen, was it to show me what would happen if I didn't take things into my hands? Its true I had thought that I shouldn't intervene with how this world was functioning now but if it was for the good of the future, to prevent Madara from becoming so monstrous and to prevent him from killing thousands of people.....it was okay to change the past a little, right?

The real goal that Madara had spoken about when he and Hashirama were kids, how he had lost his way when he lost Izuna and became insecure of his clan members had resulted in the messed up future. I was a reason too, wasn't I? I had pushed him away. I was afraid of what Tobirama would say so I had kept our love a secret. I had been selfish, forgetting how lonely Madara truly was and I had ignored the pain I saw in his eyes when he looked at me smiling with Tobirama.

"Kimakyo....[unbelievable]" I looked at Madara who was still watching me suspiciously. I smiled then broke out into laughter. "I cannot believe all this happened! Literally, seeing you like this and then all crazy, being left to float more than a hundred feet in the air....darn! I thought I was really going to fall then, you know that? And all the crazy fighting....."

"Do you know how freaked out I was that time? Seriously, the way to treat people.....what guts I had to have to do something like that and end up here all over again. You and Hashirama and Tobirama and everything....the whole craziness of the situation! Can you believe how messed up this all is?" I was grinning like an idiot now looking at Madara and explaining things that he probably didn't understand at all.

"What the hell are you blabbering about, woman?" He asked finally pissed off at how I was going on talking crap. I laughed again shaking my head. "What I'm trying to say is.....you're an idiot, Madara." "What?!" He snarled out this time, activating his sharingan at me and giving me a death glare. I chuckled softly again and walked to him so I was barely a foot from him.

"You're an idiot....and I love you. So shut up and kiss me." I didn't wait for him to respond. I lifted my arms, putting them around his neck and kissed him with my eyes closed. He stiffened, surprised by my sudden gesture, but he soon fell into the kiss as he wrapped his arms tightly around me. He tilted his head to deepen the kiss and I parted my lips to give him access when he rubbed his tongue over my lips.

I brought one hand into his hair, grabbing it at the roots with my fist as I parted my lips to deepen the kiss even further. I held the back of his shirt in my other hand and he groaned into the kiss. He tilted his head to the other side and his hair tickled my neck and face. I shivered but returned the kiss with as much passion as I could muster.

I felt him reach for my thighs and I wrapped my legs around his waist as he lifted me off the ground. He was walking around and I didn't really care where to. I felt him fumbled around with something with one hand but that didn't seem to make him stop from kissing me. Finally, his legs hit something and we parted from the kiss when my back met the bed with him hovering over me.

I was out of breath and flushed, suddenly feeling embarrassed at how bold I had been in kissing Madara. Our noses were barely touching, his body weight was obvious over mine.....close to squishing me actually.

My arms were still around his neck and I averted my eyes shyly. "What's with the sudden shy act, Mio?" I could hear the smirk in Madara's voice and I looked back into his eyes. I just stared silently for a moment then smiled. "Because its you." His eyes went a little wide at my answer. "I love you Madara.....and I'm not going to make the mistake of letting you go....ever again."

I used him as support to pull myself off the bed a little and meet his lips again. He responded quicker than last time putting an arm above my head like a cage. We parted our lips letting our tongues dance together in out passion. His other hand slowly lifted my shirt and I shivered as his hand came in contact with my bare waist. He parted from my lips and went to treat my ear with teasing soft kisses.

I giggled, tilting my head to prevent him from kissing me there again. He pulled away hovering over my face with a slightly annoyed glare.....almost a pout and I couldn't help but giggle at how funny it looked on him. "I'm ticklish there...." I whined out and he smirked next. He came down to kiss my neck and shoulder after pulling the shirt out of the way. I held the back of his head and closed my eyes, enjoying the gentleness of his passionate gestures.

I turned my head, kissing the side of his head softly as well. Between soft kisses and caresses, he managed to get my top completely out of the way. His smooth warm tongue glided just above my chest and I had to bite my lip to hold in my voice. He pulled off the strap of my innerwear with my teeth and bit my shoulder. I winced but he sucked on the spot most definitely leaving a mark in its wake.

He ran his hand down my sides, resting it on my stomach and making me squirm. He brought the hand that was around my head below me and pulled me up with him into sitting position. My legs were wrapped around his torso and I sat in his lap as he continued to caress my neck, jaw and collar bone with his lips and tongue.

I took fistfuls of his hair in both my hands and pulled him up to kiss his lips again. He parted his lips to let me caress him this time. He let me take control a little, enjoying the increasing passion between us. I pulled away for a moment and saw his heated gaze. "Madara.....what did you want to say....earlier in the backyard?" I asked and he gave me a scowl. "Doesn't matter now...." He pushed his lips up hard against mine once again and I smiled into the kiss.

I had effectively made him forget his 'send-Mio-to-the-future' plan....at least temporarily. And he was too much into the mood now to think of anything or anyone else.

I wrapped my arms around his strong shoulders, feeling the muscles flex every time he caressed my back and waist. It made me lose focus on any sort of rational thoughts....increasing the heat of the room two fold. He pulled away from my lips to kiss my neck again. I too took the chance to kiss and nibble his ear and come to his neck. "I love you, Madara...." I mumbled against his skin as I kissed his shoulder.

He paused momentarily when I said that but I continued to caress his skin with my lips. He pulled away from my neck and pushed me onto my back on the bed again. He watched me with those deep charcoal eyes that seemed to shimmer in the dim light of the room. I was holding his arms and I reached up to cup his cheek gently with one hand.

I smiled, rubbing my thumb across his cheek. "What you said....there's no taking it back, you know?" He smirked slightly making me chuckle. His own prideful way of saying he loved me too....it made warmth bubble in my chest. "I know.....I wont take it back." "And no more running away from me to be with that fool Tobirama." I smiled wider and nodded, moving some of his hair out of his face.

"On one condition." I said making him frown. He had his hands on either side of my head, most of his hair falling on one side of him. He looked gorgeous with the shadows accentuating his muscular physique. Gosh, I wanted to fee his skin and muscles against mine right now. But I had to be just a little patient before indulging myself in his embrace again.

"Condition?" He asked with a hint of distaste. Hey, I was back here and I was getting the chance to be with Madara. There's no way I was going to let him stray away from me again. So even if he did get a little annoyed now, its okay. I was going to make sure that he was going to give up crazy ideas right now if he had any. After all, I had seen his past and his future. I knew what he really wanted and I knew where his uncertainty led him to. I wasn't going to let him lose his way this time.

"Yes, one condition. And nothing more." He narrowed his eyes silently. "Its time you gave up on the tough guy act....its time you rebuilt your friendship with Hashirama." This time he glared. He got off my completely and for a moment, I was afraid that I had ruined the good mood he was in. I sat up as well, running my hand once through my slightly messy hair.

I was just in my inner wear now, the straps that were supposed to be on my shoulder now hanging limply on my arms. Madara was shirtless as well, his toned chest welcoming and making me want to run my fingers over the chiseled out muscles.

"Rebuild my friendship? Don't even....!" "Madara...." My voice was soft and he stopped talking, stiffening as I went closer to him and hugged him gently. "You wanted to build a village of peace, didn't you? Your wish has come true....and I'm sure Izuna is happy to see that you were able to bring peace and happiness to the clan. Everyone in the Uchiha compound is happy, aren't they? With no more fighting and killing....all you need to do is take the initiative and start opening up to people more." I pulled away from him and cupped both his cheeks.

"Besides, I'm not going to let you get away from me. I love you.....and I'm going to let everyone in this village know about it, including Tobirama." When I said that, I saw some sort of pride appear in Madara's eyes. "You don't really hate Hashirama, do you?" He clenched his jaw looking away from me annoyed. Nope, he didn't hate him. It was just that little ego at the back of his head that wasn't allowing him to patch up with his old friend. But that is what I was going to help him with.

I smiled, turning his face back to me and kissing his nose. "That's enough of this topic for today....I want to be with you now." I kissed his lips and I was once again pushed back on the bed. Madara pulled away for a moment and glared. "Don't interrupt me again." He reached behind me and I chuckled as it tickled. He unclipped my innerwear before coming down to kiss me deeply again.

I held his shoulders sighing against his lips. That's right, tonight there was going to be no interruptions. Madara was here with me and that's all that I wanted.

Madara and I. That's all.

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