Chapter XXIII

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Aquila's POV

Is... this what I think it is?

Darkness overcame me, just like before. I felt a surge of fear take over; emptiness still crept inside me. I couldn't think passed through as I was standing in front of Aiko's seal...

I tried to pinch myself to let me be free from all of this, but this felt real. The gate was still sealed, but how?

"Aquila!"

I heard my name but couldn't see a face. I wanted to shout who is there, but my voice was frail and seemed almost vanished.

"Wake up! Please!"

That voice... who was it? I couldn't think right at this exact moment. Who is calling for me? Why am I back here?

This is not right, I need to get out of here.

I sent most of my chakra to my head, feeling virtuous to the feeling. Everything around me started to blur out of my mind.

I groaned softly as my eyes were blinded by the lights, all I was seeing was the colour white until my vision started to clear around the image I was seeing.

A hospital?

"Aqui-chan!" I was enveloped in a tight bearing hug by Ramiko knocking the last bit of air out of my lungs. I began to cough indicating that I couldn't breathe.

"Aqui-chan?" I breathily asked first thing. Not something I am certainly used to nor like the nickname.

"Well as you were passed out for a few hours, I thought of it. Well, it is nothing. Someone wants to see you!" she beamed as her voice pierced my ears as I grimaced at her.

She is so... happy all the time. As she smiled the shoji door opened and my mouth gaped as Madara walked inside the room.

"Well I will leave you two be," Ramiko cooed as she walked out, ugh she is so-

"Sorry that this happened," Madara whispered and moved closer as he sat himself on the end of the nursery bed I laid on. I propped myself up so my back was leaning on the bed frame behind me.

I looked at my outfit and noticed that I was in something different than what I wore earlier. "Who changed me?" I utterly asked blandly. Madara barely shrugged at me.

"Probably one of the nurses," he responded not making eye contact as I nodded promptly.

I then looked down at my hands that were covered in bandages and felt my throat go genuinely dry.

"Don't blame yourself, you have done what you can. You can't protect everyone, Madara-kun. Even I can't protect the people I deeply cared about..." I looked up at him to see his reaction which showed nothing but his usual stoic expression.

He turned his head towards me and all I found was hurt and grief in his eyes, he felt sorrow from this. "I... I still haven't told you about Izuna. He couldn't tell you how he felt before you left. To him, you were someone he would protect and cherish. But there was someone else he couldn't tell anyone about this woman he strongly liked and what he felt for her before he..." Madara paused. "Died,"

I moved closer to him and held his hand into my soft ones. He looked down at me and was tensed for a moment before he softened his expression.

"Who was it?" I questioned looking back at him. "He couldn't tell Ramiko his feelings even they couldn't ever be together in the end. Their destinies were different and fate changed after his death,"

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