X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 36

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~Niyo's POV~

Calm the fuck down Niyo. Your chakra is so obviously turbulent!

I was trying to scold myself into sobriety. This flustered state was very new to me and not welcome at all. I received summons to bacchan's cabin and I knew what was up. I was happy and slightly nervous but my legs were extremely jelly-like and my chakra was all over the place. I had to calm down before I went to bacchan.

Grabbing a hair-tie, I pulled my hair back and braided them and changed into a fresh shirt before I stepped out of my cabin. All the while I was walking to my destination, my eyes were glued to my feet while I tried to make efforts to calm myself.

I am the strongest here for fuck's sake! I cannot allow myself to be this jittery! Get a grip!

Ow!

Consequence of me not watching where I was going, my head went straight into a tree and as much as it hurt, it made my nerves settle down. Guess I'd be adopting this method of calming myself down from now on. Knocking on the back door, I entered bacchan's cabin and took my place a little behind her on the raised platform and kept my eyes down.

Nobody was saying anything and I had restricted my chakra to sense any disruptions or patterns in chakra all around the room. "Niyo you know why he is here, don't you?" Bacchan spoke all of a sudden and it startled me but I handled it like a professional.

"Yes." My voice was low.

"Then get out and explain things to him." I nodded and slowly raised my head to look at the person in front of me.

I didn't know why but I was slightly afraid of meeting his eyes but once I did, I was serene. All my nervousness and anxiety before this was gone in an instant and I was calm. Tobirama offered me his hand and gestured me to take it, which I did, not wasting a second. Hashirama-sama was there as well and after a bow to both the elders, I walked out of the cabin with Tobirama leading the way, our hands still connected.

"You are five days early." I commented remembering that I gave him a week to think this through but he just arrived here after two days.

"I didn't need to think. I pretty much agreed to it at the moment you asked." We were walking out of the inhabited area and to the thicker part of the forest, knowing we would have some privacy there.

"So before anything else, let me brief you on the rules bacchan asked me to."

"Alright."

"Umm, first is that we both have ten days in total to arrive at an agreement with each other, that is ten days to know each other to see whether we are compatible or not. In case of an agreement, everything else like marriage dates, venue, dresses, guests etcetera is decided after the ten day period in presence of bacchan and an elder from the groom side, which would be Hashirama-sama in your case and of course our views are to be held in the highest esteem."

"Sensible."

"Yes." I sat down first in the clearing we walked onto. "We are allowed to meet as much as we wish during to the ten days but after it, if anything is decided positively, you would be asked to refrain from participating in any life-threatening missions and my duties would similarly be reduced to prevent any harm until the parties in interest are married, a bullshit rule if you ask me. Also we will not have the luxury of meeting as much after the ten days."

"I mean no disrespect but you should still be resting after using your kekkei genkai at that big a scale... it must have similarly enormous side effects."