Blossoming In The Shadows

Emergence Of Raijin -Part1-

Leaning over the railing of the bridge Seihana gazed into the flowing water. Leading after the exorcism of the lunatic Namanari from her body she felt lighter, more in control over her mind, feelings and body. The shadows which she had no chance of escape had finally dissipated, Thanks to the aid of her friends and loved ones she had been freed from her cage.

Her pale eyes watched as the energized fish danced through the streams as if given new life. Just three weeks had past after Namanari's descent into Jigoku, the deathly peace Akihiko was granted, Suijin's reincarnated reversion into a new born deity.

After Namanari's exorcism she was unconscious when this all occurred, no one whom participated would speak of what happened. Including Madara whom after Namanari's banishment could not gaze upon her the same way as he had before. Reflecting upon the deception of Namanari, the intimate moments he shared with guised Namanari on the night of their daughter's conception and the days leading up to their wedding, Madara could not face his wife.

She felt a familiar presence stand next to her, She commented, "You lied to me all this time, Tobirama..."

Honesty enveloped his word as he explained, "After you told me about your dreams at the hot springs... I knew then I must leave you... I was not being honest with you, whatever future you and I could've had together would be based upon lies. Our later promises were made in vain. I pursued you to learn more about the rumors surrounding you, the knowledge I could've gained by doing so, lastly to get insight into the dynamic within your family."

She interrupted him, "I shouldn't have pursued you further."

"Do not forgive me for leading you on." He insisted stoically.

At the same moment both peered to each other, only to look away as quick. She turned from him so he could not see her face. The tears streaming down her pink cheeks.

A warm smile graced her primrose lips, Seihana said her voice cracking, "I forgive you on the grounds that you fulfilled your promise to me and brought my daughter to safety with your amazing speed... If I killed her I could not bring myself to go on living. You saved Usagi, myself, and defeated Suijin."

"Technically I defeated his dragon form with my multiplying paper bomb jutsu, Madara and Hashirama were the ones who finished Lord Suijin off."

"You lied to me but it cannot compete with what you have given me. If there is anything only I can grant you please tell me."

"Yes, I can think of something of priceless value... I will tell you at a later time..."

She moved on, "How did they defeat Suijin?"

"The god had one weakness we took advantage of, Our fore-father refused to fight Hashirama and I because in the process he'd be causing himself terrible anguish mentally and physically... Your child sensei Akihiko placed me inside his tsukiyomi where I was slowly ripped apart by the oni guardians of Jigoku." Tobirama explained trying to hide the painful strain he suffered under such a genjutsu. The first time he had been under a sharingan genjutsu.

Lightly she giggled remembering Suijin's unparalleled masculine beauty, "I thought the handsome divinity was omnipotent. The all powerful deity on this earth."

"Yes... Forefather Suijin once was omnipotent... His anguish was a curse placed upon his divine half by the sage of 6 paths all those thousands of years ago. The sage cursed him to feel the pain and passing of all his chakra descendants throughout the future ages. His dogma caused him to be continuously weakened over time... Without a doubt, The battle against Suijin's divine half was distasteful." He explained in detail, Seeing the reverent fore-father in such a disgraced and pitiful state truly repulsed Tobirama. In many ways it was insulting as well.