Sairai 再来

Chapter 14 - Cherry Blossom Pink and Secrets

First POV

Hell was a baby compared to what was going on now, for me at least. I blamed it on Shisui's annoying need to socialize. A bit over two months have passed since my graduation, and that meant that this week it was Sasuke's birthday. As always, Shisui felt the need to celebrate it whether he wanted it or not. Well, he did that with all our birthdays. 

I was glad that Sasuke was finally 13, so I wouldn't have to listen to his and Naruto's teasing about me being an old lady, even though I was only 9 months older than Naruto, physically at least. How old am I mentally? I died at 21, so I guess I am an old lady.

For the past months, all that my team and I did was train our asses off. Kakashi was not as gentle as my cousin when it came to beating us to a pulp. I think I have been in the hospital at least five times. Naruto was making the biggest progress out of the three of us. For some reason, this infernal training really worked on him. Sasuke on the other hand was struggling a bit. He was getting better, but he was also getting gradually frustrated. I would always hear him train in our back garden in the middle of the night. After a couple of days, his dark circles were giving mine a competition. Thankfully Shisui stepped in before me and gave him an earful. 

Shisui still trained with me, and I was happy to hear that he wanted to start retraining my Byakugan too. After the Uchiha massacre, he stopped helping me with my dojutsu, because he thought it was too dangerous, although I would 'train' with both of them behind his back. I still haven't told him about my Sharingan, and that made me feel awful. I would spend hours a day thinking of a way to tell him. I couldn't keep lying to him for much longer, Shisui was the most important person in my life, and keeping things from him felt like stabbing myself. I already felt bad that I couldn't tell him that: 'hey, I already know what s going to happen because I was reborn'. I would be sick whenever I would think too much about even opening this conversation with him.

Maybe I will tell him about that on my death bed, or when I will be close to dying. Yeah, I will tell him then, like a coward.

And that was what got me in this hell today. Well, Sasuke's birthday party was an unavoidable hell by itself, but telling Shisui about my Sharingan tonight, before going to bed when he will come to check up on me. Until then I will have to suffer from whatever this party was supposed to be.

I spent all day preparing this party with Shisui as Naruto was out with Sasuke. Not that Sasuke didn't know what was going to happen. My cousin invited Kakashi, as well as his own team, saying something that we should start getting to know each other better.

From what I gathered from him, he really liked team 4. They weren't powerhouses, but Shisui said that they didn't need to be since his team specializes in genjutsu. I asked about how the Nori twins were, but the older male just shrugged and said that they were quiet at first, but Sakura did a wonderful job at annoying them to the point that they started talking more.

Sakura Haruno, I wondered how much she improved, and that is why I was sitting next to her on the ground in our garden. Sasuke and Naruto were play-fighting with the Nori twins, Hiroto and Yuuma while Shisui was just talking, probably gossiping us, with Kakashi. My sensei actually seemed interested in their conversation as he wasn't reading his porn book. Sakura was sitting alone which made me go sit next to her. Even though we weren't friends, I didn't mind starting one with her, plus I felt bad that she was alone, the pink-haired girl didn't seem to like being on her own.

"Hey," I pathetically saluted her after a few minutes of us sitting in complete awkward silence. Apart from a few weird conversations I had with her about Sasuke that would always end up with Ino interrupting us and starting to fight with Sakura about the Uchiha boy, we never really talked about stuff in general.