14 Properly Handling Criminals

It was a lovely first day of work for Madara, he spent his whole day sitting under the shade drinking expensive cold drinks and watching grown men beating the shit out of one another until sunset.

The only disappointment was that he couldn't tie people upside down on the columns as he wanted, Mr. Beifong intervened and prevented it from happening, 'what a party pooper' so he just tied them regularly with his wires without any issue, they were out cold after all.

But Madara was actually shocked by Lei's endurance and strength, it was like he was fighting against the world on his own and outlasted everyone even though he could barely walk back home. 'It seems I underestimated you Jackie, you just earned my respect today.'

He could feel a cold breeze passing through him as he walked towards a secluded location right outside the Beifong estate, the warm setting sun illuminated the roofs of Gao Ling like jewels, it was a beautiful city.

Walking furter from the estate he saw a huge hollow mountain. 'This wasn't here when I arrived… it seems Lao called some earthbenders to build me a training area, what a thoughtful bastard.'

He walked through huge metal gates and pulled a lever nearby that closed them, taking his robes until he was only left with his pants on, he found some shelves and made good use of them, walking towards the main area he found a place very similar to the Beifong estate training area, a large arena that looked a lot like the ones in Dragon Ball tournaments.

"It seems that everything a Beifong does needs to be grand… is he compensating for something?" snorting he swaggered his way to the center and sat down.

"My chi pool stopped increasing after I became 10, it seems that in this world there's only a very tight timeframe in which someone's chi pool keeps expanding naturally, that explains a lot about a lot of things…" he took a deep breath.

"My sharingan only activated that night because I can assume that was the moment that my chii pool stopped increasing, it was 15 days ago… which means that I turned 10 exactly 15 days ago, I now know my biological birthday, although I don't know which day is today because I never cared but I can ask for information after this training."

Focusing on his hands in front of one another ahead of his chest, he willed it and a flame appeared, he narrowed his eyes and increased his concentration "Now c'mon, lets try to achieve that beautiful blue fire…"

Minutes became hours and he failed and failed in achieving the blue fire, his first theory was that Azula spent twice or thrice the amount of chi to intensify her flames and he tried just that, but that only made the flame go bigger, he was lacking something. Even the best firebending method he got didn't teach him the fire because the amount of chi required for the blue flames was absurd, he wonders how many before Azula could do it, he never heard of any Avatar doing it so it must be a very rare trait to have a huge chi pool.

"I will work around that, my plan is to spend my next year coming here every day after work to master firebending entirely, then go back to the Southern Air Temple to fetch my gunbai and once I'm back here… heh." he grinned "It will be lightning time baby..."

From that day on he kept the same regime, he woke up at dawn he trained the soldiers until they could barely walk before sending them back home, many decided to quit but most of them stayed, which shocked Madara a bit, his training was borderline torture but those blokes endured it without crying, well at least in front of him.

During this time, he also spent quite some time with little Toph, who's already displaying her rebel personality when alone with Madara.

"This place sucks!" a childish female shout echoed through the little gazebo in the middle of a huge koi pond.

"It's not that bad little midget, I had to live on fruits and birds for a whole year… and after that I had to survive in the wilds for half a year, hiding in the Foggy Swamp eating things you don't want to know to satisfy my hunger." Said a less childish male voice in a soothing tone.

Yes, these were Toph and Madara having one of their 'Secret Meetings' during the evenings, it needs quotes because Madara was upfront with Lao, who was actually very open and receptive about the idea, and even went a step further and prevented his wife from discovering, after spending quite some time with Madara he was already regretting certain choices in life, well at least now he might not end up like a whipped simp.

"It's not fair! They treat me like I'm a porcelain doll just because I'm blind!" complained little Toph.

"Well, you indeed are blind but I do disagree with how they treat you, well at least how your mother treats you." Said Madara, he was trying to make Toph not hate her father like in canon, he might be a pretentious bastard but he was lovable pretentious bastard.

"Only you understand me Madara, I don't know how I would've endured this without you around" she said sulking.

That triggered a red alarm inside his brain, if he stays around for too long Toph might not try to run away, and if she doesn't…. she won't be able to learn earthbending from the badgermoles… 'luckily my trip towards the Potala Mountains will give her the push to run away from home, if 2 weeks is not enough, I can only rush to the desert and take my two leaves back-to-back so she can follow her canon route.'

"It's not hard to understand you, or do you think I can't see your smirk when I make grown men cry" he asked while chuckling.

Toph grinned "That's how it needs to be done, you beat the shit out of them and one day I will do the same!"

Madara patted her head gently "Yes, make me proud little midget".

But she slapped his hand "Don't pat my head I'm not a deer dog!" she pouted and crossed her arms.

"Aye, Aye, whatever you say" he said softly while patting her head once again, this time she didn't stop him.

After that night Madara kept his part of the bargain, he trained soldiers daily, took no day offs and trained on his own, during his stay in the Beifong estate he stopped two abduction operations against little Toph and one assassination attempt on Lao Beifong's life, which earned him the full trust of the Patriarch of the Beifong family, well except the big head, she still disliked him very much.

After a year of work Madara was walking towards the gates, his crew was waiting for him, and even Lao himself showed up to see him off with Little Toph, who was doing her hardest to not cry at this point, tough earthbender or not, Madara became her big brother and she didn't want him gone, she would feel lonely and trapped again.

"Be safe Madara" said Lao, since the assassination attempt, he became way more casual with Madara and started calling him by his first name like friends "And come back soon, little Toph will miss you dearly"

Madara chuckled "yeah I will miss this little midget too" he looked at her for a bit, seeing her pouting but doing her best to keep her princess persona, before turning to Lao "As for you Mr. Beifong, take care of your health."

Lao shook his head "You know you can call me Lao at this point, don't you?"

Ponting to the servants nearby, Madara replied "Yes but the word would spread and a certain someone would hate me even more."

"hahahaha" Lao let out an awkward laugh.

Toph walked forward like a princess and gave him a signal, to which he understood and lowered his head, they had their own signal language at this point, every time Toph wanted to say something to him, something that would break her princess persona in public, she would use certain signals.

"If you don't come back, I will beat the crap out of you the next time I see you!" she whispered in a way that only he could hear, after that she elegantly walked back to her position by Lao.

Madara grinned and stood up "Very well, it shouldn't take long, two weeks give or take, don't go dying on me Mr. Beifong, you still have 4 years of Gold Taels to pay me."

Lao just grinned back.

And like that they parted temporarily, well that was until a shout came from behind.

"WAIT! MR. UCHIHA WAIT!"

Everyone turned back to see a man in elegant clothes running towards them.

"Jackie? What the hell are you doing here?" Asked Madara confused.

"I'm going with you sir! I'm your assistant, its my job to help you!" He said firmly.

Looking at Lao and seeing him smiling and nodding Madara could only sigh.

"You better not slow me down, come… you will be carrying my luggage" he tossed his backpack to Lei.

"Yes Sir!" Lei caught it and walked towards the rest of the crew, he changed since he started his daily exercise with the guards under Madara's cruel torture, at first, he hated it, he barely could enjoy his wife and was in constant pain, but after the first six months? His body became tough and his six-pack was at full display, his body became so well defined that his wife attacked him at nights and displayed many new kinks that he never knew! From that day forward he vowed to always follow Madara with all his heart.

After travelling for half week towards the nearest port-city, they all entered the Beifong owned boat, a huge flying boar on the sails that scared people away, no one wanted to fuck with the Beifongs, one word, one bounty, and they would be hunted for life, even by their close relatives! Money had THAT much power.

The trip was actually very comfortable, even the ship was like a small palace stocked to the brim with luxury food and drinks, damn he is being spoiled rotten here.

"PIRATE SHIP AHEAD!"

That interrupted Madara's meditation, his eyes slowly opened displaying his blood red sharingan, he stood up and walked out of his cabin with slow steps and a neutral expression on his face.

Everyone that saw him made way for him, those eyes were scary!

"S-sir they are coming for us! These pirates don't care about the Beifong Family! We should prepare for battle or for escape, give us the order, Sir."

Pirates were different from the mainland bandits, there's no way to escape through the water, even for a waterbender since they were quite far from the mainland, and they can just erase all the witnesses, the Beifongs would be furious but they wouldn't have anyone to target, storms were very common on the open seas afterall.

Madara reached bow of the ship and stood on top of the railings, his black robes and long spiky black hair moving with the wind. "Keep current course, I will handle this."

Gulp.

Madara watched the pirate ship getting closer and closer with a demonic grin forming on his lips 'I always wanted to do this…'

He formed the Horse hand sign with both hands in front his chest, took a deep breath and said out loud.

"Katon: Gouka Mekkyaku!"

And just like that the world was set aflame.