Rose [Shisui Uchiha]

Thorn #12

I nearly lost it back there.

Koharu's back was to the door. Her breathing was even but she was feeling at a loss. She didn't answer him. He was gone now, but she was still there, leaning against the door.

I guess my answer to not killing him was good, but...he looked so sad when I closed the door on him.

She sighed gently to herself and went to make some dinner. As she was, she just couldn't get the image of Shisui out of her mind, and the sadness that reflected in his eyes when he was reminded time and time again that she was only doing her mission, that she was lying to his face about their relationship.

Why...does my chest hurt so much?

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"You didn't do your mission." Danzo stated, his fingers intertwined and his gaze hard on her.

The flower shop owner, in her usual flower shop apron and casual clothes, just smiled. "I never said when I'll get it done."

Danzo grunted and narrowed his eyes—he was suspicious of her. Very suspicious. A few nights ago, a ROOT that was stationed outside her home was knocked unconscious when she was inside with Shisui, so he doesn't know what happened.

"Plus, you never said when I should have it done." She smiled at him innocently, because all she said was true.

Danzo's nose wrinkled and his frown deepened just slightly behind his hands.

"Then, you will kill him on—"

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He chose the date of the coup, Koharu pressed her lips together. She was sure he was up to something. There was no way that he didn't know the day of the coup and there was definitely no way that it was a coincidence.

Danzo isn't someone of coincidences, after all.

If it was like this, doesn't it mean that Danzo is there to dispose of Shisui? Doesn't that mean that regardless of him doing anything to help the clan of Uchiha and the village, Danzo is really just doing whatever he wants in his own calculating cold ways?

Koharu frowned. Even for an old calculating geezer that was a horrible thing.

Well, I'll be damned. It's either kill him or mum dies.

After Koharu had heard the date of when she would have to kill Shisui on, a couple of other ANBU came in with her mother.

She was shocked that they had brought her to that place, and was even more so when she saw her for the first time in many months. She was pale, had lost weight, and she looked like she didn't have any shred of happiness left in her.

That's...mother? Koharu had thought at that time. She was 100% sure it was, but at the same time, the woman also didn't seem to be her mother at all.

"You know what will happen should you disobey." The elder seemed to almost be smiling through his words, but he himself was saying them harshly.

Koharu didn't have any change in expression. Had she had any, Danzo and the other ANBU would pick up on it and expose it as a weakness.

Whoever the better actor was whoever won.

Koharu had left then to go back to her shop after the lunch break, but passing by her mother, she heard these words that nearly made her stop right then and there.

"Who is she? I don't have any daughters."

Back at the store, she hid her troubles by wishing customers a good day and staring at the beautiful flowers that adorned her shop. But, she couldn't stop replaying the words her mother said in her mind.