#izuna externally: you have to go to dinner with me. or else i give up my main bargaining chip in ensuring the uchiha's future.

[doveywovy]

For the whumptober thing: Left for dead and/or nowhere else to go :)

Left for dead: hunting gear/blackmail/"because i want you to know what it feels like to be haunted"

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Izuna melts out from shadows and slithers his way beside Tobirama's desk, which would be more impressive to someone who wasn't also a shinobi. Tobirama, personally, has little time for his theatrics.

"What do you want?"

Izuna's smile is the sharp glint he used to offer right before managing to land a hit in battle. his fingers tap across the desk to fiddle with the scattered papers. "It's about what you want, actually." He says.

Tobirama sighs, sets aside the correspondence from their spy in the capital, and gives Izuna his full attention. "I highly doubt you're here to offer me a fresh ink pot."

Izuna, contrary bastard, pulls a vial out of his pocket and drops it on the desk. "You can use that to amend the provisions to the second rendition of the school charter, based on my suggestions. Moving forward, Tobirama, what you want is what's best for the Uchiha."

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Izuna's blackmail scheme is that he's been digging through Tobirama's lab and discovered all his little jutsu projects- including the Edo Tensei, which he can use as blackmail over if any of the non-senju clans find out about it they could try to leave the village or demand tobirama exiled....and he also found out about Tobirama's jutsu designed specifically to defeat him/the sharingan, which would make hashirama very sad to know he not only invented but has continued to expirement on after peace was established.

what starts as a blackmail scheme by Izuna turns into begrudging respect on both ends. because tobirama respects a good manipulative scheme, and izuna respects an industrious bitter worker. not to mention izuna trying to blackmail tobirama into doing a bunch of stuff for the uchiha's sake in the village means him being extremely up to date on everything involving how the village works- which basically means he's just a secondary planner willing to argue with tobirama over every single detail to make sure it's perfect. this is the key to tobirama's heart.

and then izuna blackmails him into a relationship too because he doesn't consider that he could make that happen without the blackmail.