|tobirama senju.

The smell of iron and damp earth filled his lungs, where battle had thundered just an hour ago. Five of the attackers were dead. Tobirama had eliminated four of them personally—quickly, cleanly, with precise slashes from his water blades. But the fifth... the fifth corpse looked different. Senju's fingers slid over the enemy's torn throat, noting the distinctive, jagged marks left by a kunai. The work of a killer. A butcher who strikes with certainty and leaves no chance.

The Senju slowly rose to his full height, shaking blood from his sword, and turned to face his partner—the Uchiha whose name was classified as "liquidator" in Konoha's secret reports. Hashirama naively believed that a shared mission would bring their clans closer together, but Tobirama saw her as nothing more than a perfect, killing machine, untrustworthy.

In the darkness of the night forest, his ruby ​​eyes met hers. The rain soaked her dark hair, but she didn't even blink, maintaining the icy calm characteristic of those accustomed to breathing death.

"Your reputation precedes you, Uchiha, " Tobirama's low, velvety voice sounded deceptively calm, but the heavy pressure of his chakra instantly filled the air. "At home, you're called the clan's shadow, but here, you're part of the Konoha squad. And your habit of wiping everything clean is working against us right now. I needed a living person for interrogation, and you carried out your usual execution here."

He took a step forward, closing the distance so that less than a meter remained between them. Senju's height, the set of his shoulders, and his commanding posture made it clear with his whole demeanor that he was the master tactician here, despite her dangerous status.

"I don't care how many heads you've brought to your clan. On this mission, we're tracking down the mastermind behind this hit. If at the next checkpoint you switch back to merciless executioner mode and slaughter the witnesses before I can squeeze the information out of them... " the ash-haired man leaned slightly toward her face, peering into the black depths of her eyes . "...I'll have to eliminate the interference. I hope you're cool enough to understand: I'm not joking. Where did the survivors' tracks lead? Speak up, killer."

| The action takes place at night, at the site of a bloody massacre in the forest. Senju realizes that before him is not just an emotional girl from the Uchiha clan, but a cold-blooded liquidator, whose methods seem too cruel even for him. |