Cannon Fodder

Roughly a week after his contract with the Beifongs were signed Madara could be seen walking towards the main residence of the estate, he was wearing the new robes that the Beifong's ordered for him.

At first Lao wanted him to keep the color scheme of the robes in touch with his family's, but all that took was Madara to say "well that wasn't part of the contract".

Madara was wearing robes very similar to his old Darth Maul inspired ones, the difference is that the inner layer of robes was red with silver embroidery details, the outer robes were still black but made of top-quality fabric, the Uchiha symbol on his back was professionally made this time, he also had shin guards similar to the Akatsuki's uniform, but instead of white it was made of black leather. Attached to his leather belt was a fancy red string which's other end was tied to a small token that carried the Beifong family sigil, that part Lao demanded and Madara shrugged, it didn't bother him.

During the past week Madara interacted with the Beifong family a lot, he met Poppy Beifong, Lao's wife, and also, he met the 4-year-old Toph, and considering her behavior he believed that she hasn't learned earthbending from the badgermoles yet.

"Hello there Mr. and Mrs. Beifong, you look lovely today, I think it's the new hairstyle" he lied through his teeth, that hairstyle was very traditional but just made her look like she had a big head, regardless who would say such things to the wife of their boss?

But then a childish voice came from bellow.

"Madawa!" said the young Toph trying to locate him.

He chuckled and walked towards her and patted her head "You look great too little midget"

Poppy Beifong's eyes twitched, she didn't like how Madara behaved informally with Toph, and she didn't like how Toph changed from her quiet and silent personality around him either, she tried to talk to her husband many times but Lao told her that it was good for Toph to have someone closer to her age to talk to, he hasn't been fully smitten by his control freak of a wife… yet.

Lao wanting to prevent any sort of conflict between parties coughed "Ahem, Mr. Uchiha today is the first day that you will be teaching the Beifong guards, although you are a master of your own right, you are still… well… a 10-year-old boy in their eyes, it may become rather tricky for you to control them, do you want me to send a missive and personally order them to behave?"

Madara grinned "Nah, that won't be necessary… If they behave badly, I will carve subordination in their bones" he let out a wicked chuckle that made the Beifong couple sweat a bit.

Toph on the other hand grinned behind her mother, and no one saw it.

"Sigh, I trust you, but at least let me send you an assistant, it won't be someone that will get in your way you have my word, you seemed to have acquainted yourself with Lei, he will be under your orders for the duration of the contract, how about that?"

"Oh? Well, if its Jackie then it's fine, he seems like a fun guy to be around, but let me tell you beforehand Mr. Beifong, I will train them for war, many will want to quit, but if only one out of ten endure, you will have the best guards available in the four nations, discounting the Fire Lord's and Earth King's, I can't do that much in such limited time I hope you understand."

Lao nodded "Do what you must, just don't kill them, I don't want the tales of a monster that is killing Beifong guards to appear, it would ruin our prestige."

Madara turned away and walked towards the training square "I can only promise to do my best in that regard, please send Jackie to the training grounds."

Lao could only sigh 'Since when i became an errand boy…' he chuckled 'this kid got balls'

Poppy wasn't amused "Are you going to let him talk to you like that? He is the servant not you! And look at how he behaves with little Toph, he is a hooligan that will teach her bad manners!"

'Damn you Madara…' was all that Lao could think at this moment.

Toph on the other hand, did her best to prevent a smirk from forming on her cute chubby face 'heh…'

Madara walked through the estate, all the servants that saw him bowed their heads a little, they didn't know who he was but to get a house inside the estate and being sponsored so much by Master Beifong means that he was special in some way.

As he arrived on the training grounds he did a quick scan, the place resembled the tournament square from the Dragon Ball series, and a bunch of young men were already talking to each other, today they heard that they will be training under a martial arts master and they were obviously curious about it.

Madara kept watching their behavior when he heard hasty footsteps behind him, when he turned, he saw good ol' Jackie… ahem... I mean Lei… arriving in a hurry.

"Mr. Uchiha, I came as soon as I was given the order, I shall be under your command from this day forth." He said bowing his head, but his voice was loud enough to attract attention, everyone turned to both of them and when they saw young Madara they raised their eyebrows 'What the hell? is that boy our instructor? It can't be right… he looks more like a noble.'

Madara turned towards the crowd and walked steady steps towards them, stopping ten feet away while crossing his arms.

His eyes narrowed and the air around the training ground got heavy.

"ATTENTION YOU USELESS BASTARDS!" he shouted. "FORMATION… NOW!!!"

Everyone hurriedly ran and stood five feet from one another with their backs straightened, all they could think is 'What the actual fuck…'

"I was hired by Mr. Lao Beifong to teach you all to fight properly…"

His gaze scanned every single one of them, once they felt their gaze on them a cold sweat ran down their spine.

"I will twist your insides until they bleed!"

"I will grind your muscles until they shatter!"

"And when I'm done with you… You will become fucking experts or die trying!"

GULP.

Madara walked towards one of the men in the front, this one had hazel eyes and messy light brown short hair. "What is your name scrub?"

"G-Gan, sir!"

"Gan?"

"Gan!" he said again.

"Tell me Gan, what is your profession?"

"We are guards of Beifon-"

TUD.

"BLERGH"

He was interrupted by a heavy blow to the gut, everyone looked towards him and saw Madara's elbow sunk on his gut and the poor guy fell on his knees, completely out of commission.

"You are no guard,. your current profession is cannon fodder!" said Madara as he retracted his arm and went back to his crossed arm position.

"And you will remain that way until this training is complete, I might be a 10-year-old but I killed more men than any of you met in your whole lives!" he was talking about Madara's past experienced added to his own "I trained girls that could beat all of you black and blue ALONE, and bend your bodies twisting you like pretzels!"

'What the hell is a pretzel?'

'Sounds scary…'

'Shut up, leave my thoughts you idiot' (???? Lol)

"Sir, I don't thi-"

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"Ugh!" the man caught his throat wrapped on metal wire.

"You didn't ask for permission to talk, you will learn how to behave or you will go back to your homes tonight with your arms replaced by your legs, AM I FUCKING CLEAR?"

"YES SIR!" A loud chorus of voices echoed through the Beifong Estate.

"Now you fucking useless dogs, before learning how to beat someone you first need to learn how to take a beating! Everyone in pairs NOW!" the guards quickly moved and found their pairs. "I want you exchanging punches, no need to defend, aim for the gut and USE YOUR FULL STRENGTH! The first five that falls down will accompany Mr. Gan tonight, being tied to those poles until dawn" he said while pointing towards the many carved stone columns that decorated the training area.

After that he walked back to his initial place.

"Very smart sir! That way they will train their pain endurance!" said Lei with a classical bootlicking tone.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Asked Madara.

"I-isn't that the goal of this exercise?"

"Of course not, I just want them to bleed for the day… if they can muster the proper will to come back tomorrow then I will train them for real, there's no point in training those who aren't cut for the job."

"I-I see…"

"By the way Jackie, what the fuck are you doing here?"

"I-I came under Master Beifong's orders to be your assistant Sir." Said Lei nervously.

Madara shook his head "No, that's not what I'm talking about… what are you doing HERE" he pointed to the precise location they were standing "Take those fancy ass robes off and go join the group."

"B-but S-Sir…"

"You are under my command Jackie, and I am telling you to go and join the damn group, this is an order and all I want to hear from you is 'Yes Sir!' are we clear?"

"Y-Yes S-Sir!" Lei was almost crying at this point, he took his fancy robes off and walked towards the group reluctantly.

"FASTER JACKIE!" Shouted Madara.

"Y-YES!" he started running, god dammit! His wife just got back from the spa and was so happy and glowing that she promised to give him the treat of his life tonight… if he is among the first five to fall down… at that thought a dangerous light glowed in Lei's narrowed eyes… not a chance!

Madara hummed as he watched the crowd of grown-up men beating the shit out of one another, obviously Jackie wasn't the only one that had plans for tonight and no one wanted to be tied up for a while night with blue balls as an extra adornment.

What no one saw was that in one of the cabins nearby a young Toph was playing with her toys, well at least that's what she told her parents while claiming that having some fresh air would make her day more comfortable.

Her parents didn't see any issue since she wouldn't be leaving the estate and sent maids to accompany her.

Right now, she was pretending to play with wooden toys while the maid's kept patrolling the perimeter of the cabin, but she could hear what was happening on the training grounds perfectly.

A sinister grin appeared on her cute chubby face as she started giggling, the maids just assumed she was very happy and entertained with her toys… of course…