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Tobirama Senju [Part Four]
Then came the bad news, that Hashirama had been caught cheating on her. Tobirama didn't even really care at first that he had cheated with another male of all things, but just that he had cheated at all. It changed his opinions on love, on what falling in love was really like. He had seen his mother and father look so in love, and Hashirama and this woman were so happy together, but yet both men ended up straying. A long time ago, Tobirama's grandfather had told him that all Senju men and women were cursed in matters of the heart, but he had never really thought twice about it until now. Maybe they all were cursed, doomed to live an eternity of falling in love and breaking hearts. So Tobirama decided then that he would never fall in love. He would go out, get tonnes of women, show them a great time, then never call them back. If it was a curse, then might as well surrender to it because fighting it will get you nowhere.

So he did. All through college he attended university parties, losing his virginity to the head of the sorority house, and then to each of her friends. He had always been good at talking to strangers, always been someone who could strike up a conversation at the worst times. He found out that this skill could easily slide right into what they called charm, and though it went against how he believed women should be treated, he found out how to play them. This trend continued throughout his university years, even past graduation. Thankfully he had made the right contacts and was able to find work right away, working for the development team of a lead hardware manufacturing firm. He worked with other bright eyed fresh out of college students to improve processors, microchips, a whole bunch of boring tiny shit that makes the world work easier. And as he gathered quite a paycheck, he spent his spare time in clubs, casinos, gambling money and making lady friends. Who wouldn't have loved it? A job you loved, plenty of women, a nice paycheck...

And it would have been perfect, had it not made him entirely miserable. It was about the time his brother confessed that he'd fallen for someone again that Tobirama realized there was something very wrong going on in his own life. He'd spent so much time ignoring all possibilities to find love and playthings that he forgot about happiness. His brother had lost it all, his fiance, most of his paycheck... but now he sounded so happy, so content with where his life was going. That's when the one night stands stopped, the trips to the clubs ceased almost entirely. Was this what it was like to give into that curse? Wasn't the old saying that it was better to've loved and lost than to never loved at all? How many of those women from the past had fallen for him, really fallen? You could fall in love once and break one heart, but when you juggled so many, how many slipped and broke? It was sobering, the entire thing. Tobirama realized that he needed a change of pace, a change of scenery, a change of everything. He had set out to visit his brother finally, to talk to him about everything and get it off his chest, but he couldn't do it. Something made him hesitate, and he never got on the connecting flight to Reno.