The Lost Otsutsuki part 2

Final battle 1

"Kosuke!" Mayumi ran screaming when she saw Kosuke by Yamanaka flower shop. He dropped a vase he was holding. "I got it!" Mayumi caught it before breaking.
"You're such a trouble!" He hissed. "I'm sorry I almost broke your vase, Ino." He smiled awkwardly.
"But you didn't." Ino smiled back. "Hi, Mayumi!"
"Hi, Ino! Sorry for that!"
"No worries."

Mayumi pushed Kosuke's shoulder.
"How are you doing?!"
"That hurt a lot..."
"How's your marriage?!" She giggled. "All lovey-dovey?"  He scratched his head.
"Stop embarrassing me."
"So? How is it?!" She wasn't giving up.
"It's really great!" He smiled like a little girl. "Ren's amazing! I love her too much!" They both were jumping up and down in the flower shop. "Right now she's working at the hospital. I wanted to surprise her with some nice flowers, but I'm not sure which one she'd like."
"Oh, Kosuke! Who would've thought you were this cute?!"
"Oh, stop that!" He blushed.
"Here, I'll help you choose!"

***

They stopped to get some mochi.
"Oh, it's so good!" Mayumi covered her mouth still chewing. "And chewy!"
"This place has the best desserts. Akari and I used to come here almost everyday."
"Speaking of Akari, have you seen her lately?" Mayumi asked out of curiosity.
"She came by few days ago." He took another bite of pink mochi.
"Did you guys talk?"
"Yeah.. she wanted to share some things with me."
Mayumi nodded.
"Did she tell you about.. Isshiki?" She asked carefully. Kosuke stopped eating.
"She did."
"Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the one to tell you!" She took a sip of her tea. "I was so worried about her. She was hurt badly!"
"She was hurt?"
"I panicked when I found her drowning in her own blood at your wedding. She promised she'd tell you herself."
"At my wedding?! What are you talking about?"
"When she fought Isshiki on your wedding day..."
"She fought him?!"
"I'm confused." Mayumi scratched her head.
"So that's why she left that day.. and I thought she was upset about me getting married." He gripped the teacup.
"Since I spilled the secrets already, you should know that Isshiki threatened to kill everyone at the wedding. Akari fought him in another dimension to keep us safe."
Kosuke covered his face.
"So they're not entirely gone."
"Who?"
"The Ōtsutsuki.. Isshiki wants to take what's locked inside of her."

Mayumi looked at the people walking by the mochi shop. They looked so careless.

"I miss seeing her smile." She mumbled. "You know.. like she means it. Ever since Ogen and Naruto were killed Akari hasn't been herself. She's trying so hard to be good for everyone, she forgets her well-being in the process. I feel like I need to do something to help, but I can't. It's impossible to bring the dead back." She shrug. "I even tried to set her up with that writer guy."
"The writer guy?! Are you crazy?" Kosuke got furious.
"Why not? He's in love with Akari. And he's cute."
"Cute my ass!"
Mayumi laughed at him.
"You can't be jealous. You're already married, but she needs someone to care about her personally."
"Fumihiro isn't the one she needs! He's not good enough."
"No one's good enough.." she sighed.
"Not anymore."
"Man, I wish Naruto was here.." Mayumi looked at the bottom of her green tea. "He'd know what to do."
"If Naruto was here we wouldn't even have this conversation."  Kosuke finished his tea and left some cash on the table. "I have to see Ren. Then I'll check on Akari."
"Kosuke.."
"Don't worry.. I won't tell you spilled her secrets with me." He smiled.
"You're a lifesaver!"
"See you around."

***

Akari had drowned herself with books in the library. She needed to figure out how to keep everyone safe.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Kosuke touched her shoulder.
"Oh, hey! I was just trying to learn something." She wiped her sore eyes. "What brings you here? Do you even know how to read?"
"Now that my honeymoon's over, I'm back at your service, Lady Hokage. I came to see you in the office, but Shikamaru said you never showed up."
"I sent my shadow clone! " she sighed. "So I'm not good at shadow clone jutsu. I need to work more!"
"Akari, relax for a minute." Kosuke grabbed both her hands and sat on the desk. Akari looked exhausted and anxious. "Come on, let's eat."
"But I have to read some more and.."
"No, you don't. You're hungry and stressed."