X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 23

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~Niyo's POV~

Right when I thought it was finally over – and we could be on our way to deliver Kyouya to either Morinome or Konoha or wherever the heads wanted to, I could care less – there were a number of huge blasts in the distance, where the town was. I closed my eyes and breathed through my nose, trying to calm myself down because if not that, I'd have murdered Kyouya.

One after another the sky lit up orange and red and yellow and the thunderous sounds hurt my ears. Silence followed the big sounds not fifteen minutes later, an eerie silence. I opened my eyes and looked at the kid on the ground, we had 'saved.'

We didn't save anyone.

It was all a failure.

I was a failure.

"How does it feel Niyo?" Kyouya laughed and kept laughing. I tried controlling myself by taking deep breaths but I couldn't, not when she was laughing like this. What did she think a human life was? Who did she think she was to play with it? "Ne ne Niyo! Tell me how does it feel?"

"SHUT UP!" I stood up. "You shut up." I picked up my sword. "Shut the fuck up!"

Everybody knew shit got real when I took one step close to Kyouya. Tobirama's team moved to guard the prisoner and their teacher took hold of both my wrists to prevent my movement now that I had unsheathed my sword. Even in this situation, where her life was at the mercy of others, Kyouya was still laughing and I was twitching in my place, wanting to kill her, bash her head open and do all kinds of horrors but my movement was restricted by Tobirama.

"We need her alive."

"What for? What the hell do you need her alive for now?!"

"The mission-"

"Oh screw you and your mission!" I struggled against his grip, itching to kill the woman who was still laughing. "Let me go Tobirama or you will live to regret it."

"I very much doubt you can do anything in your state."

"Right, so let me go." He gave me a stern look, which I reciprocated until I felt my strength being drained from me. "Don't you dare..." I was only able to whisper this before my knees gave out and I was let down on the ground. I couldn't move anymore. The bloody Senju took away any chakra I had so I wouldn't end up killing Kyouya who was asking to be killed. "I hate you..."

My eyes once again went to the boy when I averted them so I won't be looking at the woman I wanted to kill. One silent tear fell from my eye. I dipped my head to conceal it and whispered prayers for the people I left for the dead.

While I was silently mourning, the team went ahead with their plans and it was decided that Tobirama would hiraiishin Kyouya to Konoha and then he would come back for the rest of us but then I suggested that it would be a waste for him to return and that we would follow with our natural paces and that there was no need to worry for anybody.

"I am the team leader-" Tobirama protested.

"Of your team. The mission is over now so I am none of your concern anymore." I barked back from my position on the ground. I was starting to regain my strength and the Senju knew it wasn't wise to lengthen out the argument with me. He turned away from me after a minute of us staring each other down.

"Saru, take charge and take the prisoner back. I will have one of my clones accompanying you." And then they began discussing the technicalities of their plan about how I was slow so the real deal Senju Tobirama would be tailing behind with me while his team and his clone would be taking Kyouya and the boy to the village ahead of us because they can do so fast. Once all was decided, they left.

I was still sitting on the grass because I couldn't yet stand up and run, thanks to the white haired idiot who could probably feel all this hostility in my chakra towards him. I didn't even try to hide it. He made attempts at small talk but I was too angry to response and my mind was elsewhere as well.

When I knew I was able to stand without falling, I made my way to the town. It was necessary to see the damage to achieve any peace of mind and perhaps to bury them if I could. It was only right. I didn't tell Tobirama what I was thinking of doing and thankfully he went quiet after asking twice as well.

I walked the distance to the town and noticed that the heat from all those blasts shifted the air current and formed rain clouds, which would pour down any minute now. I didn't care. I was responsible for all these death and I wouldn't be able to get any peace if I didn't bury the bodies or what was left of them.

Reaching the area, I didn't know how to react or what to think even. The buildings were broken and badly damaged and when I tried to find some bodies, I only found pieces, which had my already weakened state to worsen further. But this was no excuse. I found the biggest site of the blast where the ground was dented the most and summoned two shovels. I threw one at the Senju and he got the meaning, thankfully, because if I had to spell this out as well, I would have snapped for good.

The skies started pouring while we were digging the graves and burying people. The rain was cold and brutal but what happened here was worse. I didn't have the strength to cry even but my eyes shed silent tears that mingled well with the rain while my mind was on a complete shutdown. Once every twenty minutes or so I was reminded that I literally snatched the boy from his mother and the last moments she had with her child were those of struggle to keep him with her while I was trying to take him away. It kept bothering me, making me feel unbearable guilt and the more I tried to suppress it, the more it haunted me. I held human life and the connections it made in highest esteem so it damaged me bad whenever I got something wrong.

My bones were aching immensely when we were done with burying every human or human part that we could find and after all the prayers and apologies were said and done, I started my walk back to Morinome, silently.

It took a day and a half to get back to the forest and my body wanted to collapse every minute of the way but I held it together, not allowing myself any breaks or rests until I got back and made sure bacchan was alright. Now that Kyouya was out of my mind, I was worried about bacchan.

Bacchan was alright and well and she had healed perfectly. I was rather rude in my nonexistent farewell to Tobirama but that was his own fault. I didn't say a word the whole way back and once he escorted me back to bacchan. Bacchan wanted to scold me and all that but when my mind registered that she was ok, the forest was rebuilding and the danger had passed, my body gave in to all the stress it had been putting off till a later time and that later time caught on with me, in a rather expected way.

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