X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 9

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~Tobirama's POV~

It was midday and I had successfully been able to keep the happenings of the night from anija and Mito-san. They inquired about my absence and battered appearance in the morning and even more so pestered about it when I went to dig up some information on the Tanogata clan. It was irritating how anija laughed and left me when he saw the Tanogata name on a scroll. He always thinks wrong things.

My mind kept going on the stab wound Niyo sustained during the battle and wondered if she got it cleaned and bandaged properly. However I found my worry unnecessary believing that she would have done an alright job.

I was in the study trying to decipher these ancient scrolls and at the edge of my patience with them when there were two messengers running past the halls to anija's quarters. Did something happen? I followed the two men and joined in the conversation.

"Ah good Tobirama you are here."

"What is happening?" I asked. Brother put away the scroll he was reading the message from and looked at me, a rather grave look in his eyes.

"I have to leave immediately. You are in charge."

"Where are you going?"

"Morinome."

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Hashirama left quite abruptly and I monitored the business in the village. He returned some five hours after his departure looking very tired. His clothes were bloodied. I was quick to inquire about it.

"Niyo required immediate medical attention. She was hurt and the wound was poisoned. If I had made any more delay, she would have died..." I hid the surprise I felt at hearing this.

"And I suppose you took care of it."

"Hmm. It always comes to me as a surprise that women bleed so much and still survive the worst." He looked at me again. "Tobirama, you will go there the day after tomorrow and interrogate her."

"What makes you think she will answer me? Have you forgotten what happened at the old lady's cabin?" I crossed my arms.

"I have appointments that day so I can't go. And I get the feeling that she will talk to you."

~Niyo's POV~

I dropped my head in my hands when bacchan left after telling me what had happened. The poison was a new kind so the measures I took only slowed it down a few hours after which it took severe action. The skin on my left shoulder and upper arm was now permanently blue because of it. Great. First red streak of hair and now blue skin. What's going to happen next? Green feet?

What annoyed me the most was that bacchan had to call Hashirama-sama for healing me and according to him, anymore delay would have killed me. I was trying to keep everyone out of my matters, to be strong but I ended up requiring help. Ugh.

Bacchan ordered me to rest and that she would have someone else on my lookout duty. This was the last thing I wanted, a replacement. But I understood the gravity of the situation that if I did not rest and recover, this could get worse. So I tried sleeping and as soon as I closed my eyes, I remembered that many times during the healing process, I was awake and screaming. Such unsightly and weak display. I was disappointed in myself. But I was weaker than I had imagined I would be and my body gave into sleep while I was still loathing myself.

When I woke up and couldn't sleep and had nothing to do, I trained myself in my cabin so nobody would know and tell me to rest and recover. This went on for two days. The second morning after training session, I picked up my sword to polish it and went to sit on the bed with the supplies when Morino-baa told me I had a visitor. I tuned my chakra to sense who it was and it was Tobirama. She sent him in the cabin.

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