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“Would you just leave it alone, Anija? It’s really isn’t as big of a deal as you’re making it seem.”

Tobirama wondered, if he rolled his eyes any harder, if they might just spontaneously fall out of his head. Sometimes his elder brother could be just a little bit more ridiculous than usual in his habit of overreacting to things. 

Following the younger man down the hall, Hashirama choked on several awkward noises and curled his fingers in front of himself like claws as he searched for the words which would properly express how he felt right then. None came to mind so he ended up snarling under his breath like a wild beast.

“You have a stalker,” he exclaimed. “How does that not worry you?” His frustration only increased when Tobirama did nothing but shrug. 

“It’s not as though they’ve done any true to harm me. And if they ever get up the courage to do more than send their pathetic little notes then I’m sure that I would be able to handle it. You really do worry too much brother.” 

“And you don’t worry enough!”

“Just drop it, will you?” Tobirama huffed and lengthened his stride, trying to get away without making it obvious that he was hurrying. Running was beneath the mighty Tobirama’s dignity, apparently. “If anything truly bad happens then you have my full permission to say you told me so, does that satisfy you?”

Hashirama narrowed his eyes and fell behind without answering, allowing the other man to escape but by no means dropping the subject. If Tobirama wasn’t going to take this seriously then someone else would have to and Hashirama was more than willing to step up as the older sibling. His baby brother might not always appreciate it when other people tried to take care of him but Hashirama had never let that stop him in following what he saw as his duty, his familial right.

Turning around, he set off in the opposite direction of his sibling, leaving the tower and heading back towards the home that he himself had built for Tobirama. Refusing to think about how many times he had been asked to stop barging in here uninvited, Hashirama picked the lock easily by growing a key of wood from the tip of his finger and slipped inside. He found the letters fairly quickly, several of them dumped uncaringly in the trash just as Tobirama said they had been.

When he left he carried two of them in his pocket, making sure the door locked behind himself as he headed towards the next stop on his journey.

Stories of what happened later that day would spread rapidly throughout the village and beyond, yet Hashirama never for one second regretted the way people suddenly seemed to treat him with a little more caution, a little more fear. If that was the price to pay for having others respect his baby brother’s personal space than so be it.

Hashirama had no regrets about bringing the letter to the Inuzuka and asking them to help track the one who had written it. He rather enjoyed the fear in that idiot’s eyes when they opened their door and he settled the full oppressive weight of his chakra on to them. The screams which punctuation their conversation were like music to his ears.

When he left he did so with a smile on his face and flecks of blood in his hair. People he passed on the street seemed faintly worried for him but Hashirama greeted them all with cheer and a great lack of concern for his current state. He felt much better now that he knew no one would be bothering his precious Tobirama anymore – especially once word got around what would happen to anyone else who dared to try. 

Tobirama expressed a great deal of annoyance with him when it suddenly because much harder for him to procure a date; evidently his prospects were all incredibly frightened of what their Hokage might do to them. Yet Hashirama couldn’t bring himself to feel even remotely sorry for his actions. 

If they were that frightened of how he would treat them then obviously they didn’t have any good intentions for they would treat his little Tobirama. 

History books would paint Hashirama as a good and gentle man but the people who were there to watch Konoha grow knew better. There would never be anything more frightening than the anger of a good man.