"Hashirama!" a silky voice reached his ears. He turned and looked at his beautiful wife. Uzumaki Mito. She had her red hair in two twin buns on her head and she wore her usual robes. But something was different. Her stomach was rounded. She was expecting a child -his child. She smiled softly at him and walked toward him. "I missed you dearly," she stated with longing. "So did I, Mito."

She was about to open her mouth when the scene around him changed. He was no longer in a yard with a beautiful woman next to him. No. He was in front of a hospital door. He heard yelling and panicked voices."Hashirama!" a voice yelled out. "Mito?!" Hashirama questioned as his heart. He was about to enter the room when a doctor came out of it.

"Senju-sama, your wife is having complications in delivering your child. If this continues the seal on the Kyuubi might break. We need you to calm her down." Hashirama nodded and went in to see his wife. She looked beautiful even in childbirth.

"Mito, you need to be strong. If anyone can do this it's you. You are a wonderful woman and you need to calm down or the seal may break. Do you understand?" Mito nodded and began to push. After almost 30 minutes a high pitched cry was heard. "Hashirama, I love you." Mito said faintly.

Hashirama smiled and leaned down to kiss his wife's forehead, but he felt pain. He opened his eyes and saw that he was bleeding from his midsection. He looked up and saw Madara in front of him. "Hashirama!" Mito's desperate voice was heard. Madara turned to look at her direction and narrowed his eyes. "You!" Madara seethed at her. "You shall pay..." he said in a low, dangerous voice.

He went to attack her and Hashirama rushed to his lover's side. Mito closed her eyes and waited for the pain, but it never came. What she did feel was a warm liquid. She opened her eyes and saw Hashirama.

"Hashirama!"she yelled in agony. "Mito, I-I love you d-dearly. You are my w-wife and my friend. Thank y-you for making my life worth living..." Mito clung to his dying body and cried. "I love you too, Hashirama! Please don't leave me!" "I will see you soon, Senju Mito..."

He wished he could reassure her that he will be back, but he knew he couldn't. No matter how hard he wished he couldn't go back to his wife and child. Before he could completely leave the world he heard the anguished cries of his wife as she called his name. He forced a small smile and let himself succumb to darkness.

Hashirama opened his eyes to the clear blue sky. He got up and looked around and saw that he was in a field of golden grass. He was alone. That is until he heard a silky voice say, "Hey!" "Mito?" Hashirama questioned. "Are you okay?" The same voice asked. He looked around once more. He heard her voice once more, and he decided to follow the voice. He could hear her soft giggles and full out laughter. He also heard the soothing sound of her humming. "Mito?!" Hashirama cried out.

He kept running until he found a white, bright light. He was hesitant to go toward it. He just kept staring. "I'll help you out..." the voice said. That was when he ran full speed toward the light with one thought, "Mito..."

"I do not look like that woman!" yelled an aggravated Tenten. "You do and you know it," replied a stoic Neji. "Hyuuga-san, just because we look like the first hokage and his wife does not mean we will be married!" Tenten seethed. "We shall see about that, Tenten-san..." "You will eat your words, Hyuuga Neji!" Tenten narrowed her eyes as she left to their training grounds.

"Huh! Me and Neji! Please, as if! He's a cold-hearted, no good bastard!" Tenten ranted. She heaved a deep sigh and continued to walk forward. She looked around and noticed that the forest was eerily quiet. There was no birds that twittered their beautiful songs. There was no wind blowing either. She knew something was wrong. "Hey! Is anyone out there!" Tenten held her scroll tightly. She surveyed the area around her once more and dropped her guard.

She giggled lightly and shook her head. "I must be going crazy!" Tenten spoke aloud. "Stupid Neji. He's made me paranoid. Him and his talk about fate and stuff. I thought he gave up on it the moment Naruto beat him," she mumbled under her breath.

"Mito..."

Tenten felt the hairs on the back of her neck rise. She looked around. The voice it sounded so full of hope. She was terrified. What if it was a rogue ninja? No. They couldn't have gotten in to far in the village. Maybe it was someone who was injured. She walked deeper than she planned to.

"Are you okay?" She called out. She closed her eyes and let out a few giggles that turned into a full laugh. "I must be going crazy!" Tenten mumbled to herself. She was going to turn around when the same chilling voice called out again.

"Mito?!"

He sounded so eager. Like if this woman he called out for was his life force. Or like if she was the reason he lived and died for. She turned to the path she was previously traveled through and called out, "I'll help you out..." After she called that out there was a shining light that blinded her. She covered her eyes and the light quickly disappeared.

She adjusted her eyesight and saw a man before her. He was handsome, she had to admit. But he looked so familiar. He looked like an exact replica of Neji! If it wasn't for his dark brown eyes she would think that he actually was Neji. He looked at her like if he had seen a ghost. His lips were parted and his eyes were widened in shock.

"Mito..." the strange man asked in a low voice. Tenten exhaled sharply. She had heard that name before. Mito? Mito? Where had she heard that blasted name before. It was at the tip of her tongue. "Uzumaki Mito...?" the man asked again this time inching toward the konuchi. Then as if lightning struck her she widened her eyes.

Mito! Uzumaki Mito! The man was looking for his wife! So this strange...man was Senju Hashirama! The first Hokage and the one who first established Konoha. He thought that she was his wife, Mito. Her of all people! If this was a cruel joke she swore that the person behind it was a dead one.

"Mito, my beloved wife!" Hashirama said in a breathless whisper as he hugged her. Tenten froze. She didn't want to break the poor man's heart, but she didn't want to deceive him into thinking she was Mito.

"Mito. My beloved, Mito. Oh how I missed your warmth, your eyes, your laughter, your light, and your kisses!" Hashirama exclaimed as he leaned down to kiss Tenten. Her eyes widened a fraction more, if possible, and she tried to lean back as much as she could. His lips were mere millimeters away, that is until a cold voice interrupted the moment.

"If you were wise, you would unhand my fiancee," Neji stated.

Hashirama backed away from Tenten and pushed her behind him. "Who are you and why do you speak lies of my wife!" he yelled out in anger. Neji narrowed his eyes at Hashirama and turned to look at Tenten. "I speak no lie. It is you who has her confused to another," Neji replied calmly, but Tenten could hear a hint of anger.

She saw Hashirama get in a battle stance and soon Neji followed activating his Byakugan. "My beloved,please get as far from here as you can. I will look for you when I am finished with him," Hashirama said over his shoulder. She looked at him then Neji. Neji was getting agitated and she could see anger flare up in his white, pearly eyes.

"No." Tenten stated firmly. Hashirama stood and looked at her. "I am not going anywhere. My name is not Mito. My name is Tenten. The Weapon Mistress of Konoha."

Hashirama looked at her with disbelief and denial. "No, you are Mito! My wife! The mother of our child!" he said as he reached out for Tenten and grabbed her shoulders firmly.

She looked at him with sorrow and answered back, "No. I am Tenten. I have no husband. And I definitely don't have a child. I think I would have remembered."

Hashirama looked at her and then Neji. "You!" Hashirama said in a cold voice as he continued, "What did you do yo her! You took her from me!"

"Senju-sama!" Tenten called out as Hashirama attacked Neji. "Stop! Senju-sama!"

He wasn't listening to her. He was blinded by jealousy, hate, and hurt. He really thought that Tenten was his beloved, Mito. She could see that Neji was struggling a little to keep up with the former Hokage. "Please! He's my friend Senju-sama!" That sentence somehow made Hashirama even angrier than he was before.

"He's trying to take you from me, my beloved! And I shall not allow that!" Hashirama said as rage coated each syllable.

She saw the external struggle that Neji was in. "Neji!" She called. She was about to unroll one of her scrolls until Neji stopped her. "Don't you dare unroll that scroll, Tenten," he said in a commanding voice. She furrowed her eyebrows and stammered a "But,"

"But nothing, Tenten," Neji said as he used his kaiten. She looked at him and then at Hashirama. He looked as if he was going to do his most powerful jutsu on Neji. Her eyes widened and she ran to Hashirama.

"Hashirama!"

She hugged him from behind and closed her eyes in pain. Hashirama's power was hurting her. "Please stop, Hashirama. I don't want anything to happen to any of you. Please, let's just go to the Hokage tower to explain everything to you. Please, just stop."

Hashirama stopped his jutsu and reached for Tenten's hands that were resting in his abdomen. he bowed his head and whispered a soft, "Okay."

Neji deactivated his Byakugan and stared at the scene before him. He couldn't help but feel a bitter sensation that tugged at his heart. He also couldn't figure out why he wanted to hurt the first Hokage and why he wanted to be inn Tenten's arms instead. Fate really had a terrible way of letting him know about his destiny.