Drifted Apart ✅

28. "I'm sorry"

"And for bringing her back..." Sumire started. "You need to kill everyone?"

"Yes." Osamu replied. "Especially you and Kawaki. By killing you both, I will transfer all your chakra to her and she will be alive again."

"And you think Akari would be happy about it?"

"I want her alive! The consequences don't matter right now! I will face it after everything is done!"

"Osamu, try to understand!" Sumire yelled. "Akari wouldn't want you becoming evil! She wouldn't like it if you end the world, killing everyone-"

"Shut up about it already!"

"Sumire!" Inojin called out her name when she fell, yet again. The other doctors also seemed worried for her. "Sumire, I think you've done enough. Please take some rest-"

"Inojin, can you- can you send me to Kawaki's heart?"

***

It was dark with only a hole in the ceiling which allowed a very few light to come in. The room was so quiet that Sumire could hear the sound of her own breathing.

Her hands were all sweaty as she wandered around in the unknown place. The place was similar, yet, so unknown to her.

"Kawaki. It's me. Sumire." Sumire called out. Right after, she felt a cool breeze hitting her face. Her lips grew into a big smile as she realized that Kawaki can hear her.

She suddenly saw her own shadow in front of her. She quickly looked behind and saw a door that had opened by itself releasing the light.

Sumire ran towards the door only to be led at a huge room. The room was so big that a whole town could fit inside it.

Her eyes fell on the walls and her eyes widened when she saw different pics hung on the walls.

She moved to a pic that showed nothing but darkness and Kawaki sitting in the dark. He was much younger... a kid. Sumire suddenly felt fear.

Her eyes went to another pic where Kawaki was standing in front of Naruto. It was the time when Kawaki was running away from him. Sumire again felt fear, but with a disturbing feeling inside her this time.

"What is with these sudden emotions?" She thought to herself.

Her eyes fell on a pic where Sumire and Kawaki were sitting beside each other. Kawaki had blood on his arm and there was an unconscious dog laying in front of them. "When we first met." Sumire's brain recalled.

The next pic had a scene of Kawaki sitting at the Uzumaki dining table. He sure made himself look uninterested but Sumire, somehow, could feel the emotions that Kawaki was feeling at the table; overwhelmed.

She moved onto the next pic which had the sence of Kawaki sitting in his class with Himawari grinning at him. The emotion that Sumire felt this time was gladness.

In the other pic, Kawaki was standing in front of Sumire who had her usual smile on. Kawaki was looking at Sumire like she just transformed into an alien. That was the time when Sumire came to Uzumaki house and Kawaki told her that Boruto wasn't there. But Sumire replied that she was there to see Kawaki, not Boruto. This time the emotion was... something tingling inside her stomach. Sumire felt her cheeks getting hot at the sensation as she immediately moved to the next picture.

The pic was the time when Kawaki literally blew a hole inside Boruto's body and nearly killed him. The emotion that Sumire felt was displeasure, sadness and guilt.

She realized that she was looking into Kawaki's memories and since she was inside his heart, she could feel the emotions Kawaki felt at the scenes.

One of the pics had the scene when Sumire kissed Kawaki on his cheek and just ran away. Sumire always wondered what Kawaki thought of her after that. But now that could feel what he felt, her face was beetroot red. Because all she felt was her cheeks getting hot and butterflies in her stomach.