X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 31

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~Niyo's POV~

"Alright then I will take my leave." I told Hashirama-sama and started to get up but stopped, remembering something. "If there is ever a need of a competent warrior on any of your missions, you can always call me."

"I will!" He replied, his face beaming.

"Dewa..." I said bowing and walked out of the Senju compound and back to Morinome.

My walk back to the forest seemed very short, maybe because I was lost in thought about what I had just talked about with Hashirama-sama. Once I realized that I had been in the wrong with treating Tobirama just like every other man I had encountered, holding him accountable for all their sins as well, I decided to make it all right. So first I went to bacchan to talk things through with her and although she teased me to no end and passed some dirty comments about it, she advised me to talk to Hashirama-sama as well about the matter at hand and so I did. It was because of that I was here in the Senju compound today.

I arrived early but the Senju leader was being a giant puppy when I told him what I wanted to. I made sure Tobirama was not in the premises before I talked it out with his brother. Talking to Hashirama-sama when he was elated was really a difficult thing, which is what kept me in the compound till almost sun down.
Once I was back in my cabin, I just threw myself on the bed and tried to shut down my brain. It wasn't working so I switched to polishing my sword and thankfully that helped a little. While I was doing so, my eyes would occasionally move to the other corner of my cabin where there was another bed, Shizu's. With everything happening and my healing, I hadn't had the chance to move Shizu's stuff out of my cabin and to somewhere else.

Maybe the storage...

Sighing, I got up and put my sword aside, collecting whatever of Shizu's I could in my arms and going to the storage. I passed by a few women who glanced at the stuff in my arms and went silent, mourning the passing of a young girl. Next I separated the bed in pieces and carried them out as well. My face was devoid of all emotion but my head was not. I remembered how the kid had begged me in her last moment of sanity to not let her die but I failed her. I even so mercilessly cut off her arm...

Shaking my head I went to a part of the forest where nobody goes that much and got to business of collecting soil and making a mound. Next I grabbed a big plank of wood and scratched Shizu's name with a kunai, placing it on the mound as a headstone. This was the first grave ever to be made in Morinome. Under bacchan's care, not one of us had died but now...

I prayed for Shizu and sat in front of her grave for what seemed like a really long time. There was nothing left of her to bury, just her memories. All the while I cursed my weakness and made the resolve to learn and better myself. I didn't wait for daybreak like most people to act on my decision, I started right on that second.

There were books on how to heal and various other things. I didn't always want to resort to my ninjutsu to heal and stuff so I wanted to learn another method. When my eyes couldn't focus that much on the written text, I went to my training area and challenged myself physically. The sun rose and shone in my eyes but it didn't make me stop; what did was the appearance of a man whom I would have hurt badly if I had not seen his forehead protector. He was from Konoha.

"Niyo-sama, Hashirama-sama requests your presence for a mission." I stopped beating the tree and wiped my hands and face on a towel that was nearby.

"Give me a minute." And a minute was all I needed to change in decent clothes after which I was off.

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"So, what's the mission?" I asked, right off the bat – after exchanging greeting of course. Hashirama-sama rubbed the back of his head.

"We are waiting for one more..." And right on the cue the door to the Hokage's office opened and in came Tobirama, who first closed the door behind him then looked at me and his brother before raising his eyebrow in confusion.

So it was a mission with Tobirama... great...

"Ohayou." The younger brother bowed to me and I responded with the same politeness. Hashirama-sama cleared his throat to get our attention.

"Now, Niyo-san before I explain the contents and nature of this mission, I would like to inform you that I would not have bothered you if we had any other women shinobi to send but since there aren't...any...kunoichi in Konoha as of yet, I must request you."

"That's ok. I did tell you that you can count on me." He smiled and I felt the slight disturbance in Tobirama's chakra, who was standing just beside me. He must be wondering when I got to tell his brother that.

"Thank you." The Hokage took out a scroll and suddenly his face turned bright red. "The...the next bit is a little..."

"Speak up anija!" The little brother bellowed, making the elder one jump in surprise.

"It was the mission's requirement, there is nothing I can do about it..." Hashirama-sama started explaining before even telling us what the mission was.

"Anija..." Tobirama warned. Hashirama-sama gulped and said it all in a single breath.

"Youbothmustgoashunbandandwife." I wanted to laugh at the way the Hokage's head was fuming from embarrassment but didn't when what he said registered in my brain.

"What?" Tobirama asked slightly dumbfounded.
"Ok." I agreed, shrugging.

Now I laughed for real, at the look on the brothers' faces and how their chakra practically screamed, 'WHAT.'

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