X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 38

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~ Niyo's POV~

"As much as I am grateful about your students finally being able to hold their ground against you, I would suggest you not to get carried away with the training." I rolled my eyes at Tobirama and applied some salve on my arm where one of the women managed cut my skin.

"Only two more days Tobirama, then I won't be training with them...or anybody else for that matter." My answer had the white-haired Senju give me a puzzling look. "I doubt I would be allowed sparring or anything that involves fighting after our marriage."

"Only if you wish."

"Really?" I was hopeful.

"But you did mention about not wanting to have to use your elemental chakra so that would definitely limit your options." He said and was right about it too. What good is a warrior who won't use ninjutsu? I could use taijutsu but that was it. "However," Tobirama continued, "you have kept the forest safe for a really long period of time using only taijutsu so I am sure, there would be something befitting your capabilities."

"Let us hope." I breathed trying to reach the cut on my lower back but the movement ached and I couldn't reach so I handed Tobirama the salve. "Can you, please?"

He looked from me to the salve then where I pointed with my eyes and there was a noticeable rise of blood on his face which I found rather amusing but didn't comment on. I lifted my shirt just enough for him to be able to apply the medicine. For somebody who always looked cross and downright ready to murder, his hands were soft and gentle... to an extent when he spread the gel like antiseptic on my skin. It burned a little but it was nothing I couldn't handle.

"Maybe you can be an instructor at the academy." Tobirama suggested out of the blue. I wanted to look at his face to see what kind of expression he held when saying this but I couldn't turn around from the pain.

"I am hardly a good teacher, let alone good with children."

"You have exceptionally rare expertise in the herbs and the wilderness that grow and live in the forest and that is something we wish for every future Konoha shinobi to be well-versed in. Now that I have met you, not one person more suitable for this comes to mind in comparison to you. Teaching is something that is learned and bettered only by teaching so that settles the other matter."

I was speechless. This man, I had detested him the moment I met him thinking he might want to control me as well but now, hearing him pointing out my strengths and advising me for my betterment, I felt warm and... belonged, emotions I hadn't felt from no other man in such a way before.

"What I also meant earlier was that are women even allowed such a thing as fighting and anything that is outside of the household duties in a family so prestigious as the Senju, aren't there rules? I know I should have asked this earlier in our days but I am asking it now so." I pushed my shirt back down and turned out so I was facing Tobirama.

"It is true that being married into a high clan as mine means losing your freedom but that was during my father's time as head of the clan. Anija is the clan head now and allows the women to choose for themselves and even if he didn't, I won't have it that you are held back and confined within four walls."

"And why is that?"

"Keeping you in the house at all times would be an insult to your intellect and skills. Anija is soon going to step down from being Hokage and when I succeed him, I would want you to be my advisor and right hand and in such a circumstance, fresh blood pumping to the brain is the most important, something that house confinement dulls and reduces."

"If all is that good, then why is Mito-san always in the compound?"

"Because she is a jinchuuriki."

"That's it? What about her will and freedom?" I raised an eyebrow at which Tobirama sighed.

"That is her will. She prefers advising anija from home and she does go out whenever she feels like it, nobody forces her to stay at the compound all the time."

"Alright, just one more question."

"Ask as many as you want." He said taking my hand in his and kissing it lightly. I tried suppressing a smile.

"I know for a fact that Hashirama-sama was married to form an allegiance with the Uzumaki clan, so why are you being given the easy way out?"

"All the years anija has been married, and that is quite a lot, my father has tried to marry me to other clans to secure loyalties for the village's sake-"

"I like that you said 'tried'." I sniggered. "Sorry, continue."

"I tried too, to see to it that my father is pleased but, not one of those women were suitable, no disrespect to them."

"And I am?" I smirked.

"One hundred percent yes."

"That makes you sound desperate." I laughed but stopped when I heard rustling in the bushes near where we were sitting. I nodded to Tobirama and both of us infused chakra to see who it was or was it a threat or something but found it all utterly unnecessary. It was a rabbit.

"And that makes us both, paranoid."

"Perks of being a sensory type." I got up and offered Tobirama a hand as well. He took it and I pulled him up. "How is training with Z'er?"

"There is still some time but he proves to be an excellent partner."

"I know right. But I bet you aren't having trouble with him as much as I had with Varg as a pup, he bit my leg when I summoned him one night, said it was for disturbing his sleep. I still have the mark." I said laughing, lifting my trousers a bit to show the bite marks on my shin.

"You had it bad with Varg, Z'er is very co-operative."

"Varg is...old now. There isn't much time for him." I resumed our walk, now sad when this thought really settled. Shaking my head, I regained my composure. "Anyways, see you tomorrow?" I tried smiling but failed miserably.

"Yes. Get some rest please and let yourself heal before another sparring match."

"Who's going to train my students if I won't?"

"I will send two of my students."

"Hiruzen and?"

"Kagami. He is an Uchiha so I think it will be a very good experience."

"Oh yes. Then I will take you up on your offer. Thank you."

"See you tomorrow." He hugged me like he always did before we went our separate ways and I was comforted by it.

I won't have to think so much on whether to agree to the marriage or not, well I was the one who proposed so of course I won't but still, the more I got to know Tobirama, the more I was beginning to achieve peace that it will all be okay. My main concern right now was that I did not want any sort of conflict with him, I feared it even but tried to keep a positive mind that we would work it out somehow.

I shook my head and cleared my head, knowing that I let my emotions cloud my thoughts whenever I was really tired and seeing as how I had been training my students so mercilessly these past few days, I needed immediate and effective rest, and for that, I headed back to my cabin, trying to conceal my big smiles that would give the others a chance to tease me.

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