X OUR TRAGEDY X [Senju Tobirama AU]

Chapter 45

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~Niyo's POV~

"I, um, I'm going to go train in the forest – might not be back before nightfall so don't wait up." I informed Tobirama quickly and made a run for it before he could stop me for further questions. He was painting his usual red lines on his face so I thought it the best strategy.

"Let me do your hair." He called and I sighed.

"Um, no thank you, it's alright like this today." I wanted to get away sooner than possible. I didn't wait for a reply or an answer and turned around to make my leave but collided with a rather hard surface.

"Sit. Down." I rolled my eyes at Tobirama who looked down at me with a frown. His face looked funny without the red marks properly done. I let out a breath and went to sit on the bed beside the window like every day.

"It's really ok..." I tried one last time.

"I reckon nobody told you that we were able to apprehend that Yamanaka, thanks to you." I stopped moving around and fidgeting at the news.

"Nobody thought it relevant or necessary to tell me?!" I was on my feet in a moment and backed away from Tobirama, giving him a look.

"She's in a cell, she's not going anywhere."

"Still!"

"Anija kept delaying it for some reason and now I know why. We want you to interrogate her but anija wanted you to get better first." I inhaled deeply to calm myself down. He had a point.

"I am fine. I can handle little interrogating."

"Take the training a little easy then, we'll have the interrogation tomorrow."

"Ok."

After Tobirama was done braiding my hair – he got really good with time, hardly any loose hair – I made my escape to the forest, to my secret training grounds. I wasn't even fifty percent and crying a whole lot the other day made me more unwell when it should have done something to better my case. Ugh.

Now this... the interrogation tomorrow, just thinking of that woman made me angry and as much as I wanted to keep myself calm and keep my chakra in check, I was failing. In my anger I let out a lot of chakra and it was all I had, losing it made me feel really nauseous so I had to take a rest against the tree I was bashing.

I looked at the sky and thought of Tobirama. He was kind and –

'I am not being blinded by my love for you. Just know that.'

Wait a minute...

His l-l-l-l-l-ove –

I had a hard time getting his voice out of my head and an even harder time getting my blood down from my face so I could go back. It felt nice to know that but no way in hell would I ever confess to that out loud. I decided to head back and pretend that the massive blush was a fever.

Yeah that could work since I was already sick and weak. Just gotta act sick too.

~Tobirama's POV~

Niyo wasn't well and she didn't try to look it either. I was worried, for more than one reason. Sometime before the marriage, Morino-baa told me that Niyo hated showing weakness and that she was stubborn as a bull when it came to letting emotions loose so I was concerned that she won't be able to handle letting it out. She proved me wrong when she accepted help and tried seeing the light.

It wasn't just that though. Niyo hated being controlled and possessed, Yamanaka are the worst match for her and falling prey to a jutsu that controls a person, I could only imagine the loathsomeness she would have felt and the fear that accompanied it. It made her lose a life in the process, something she held in the highest esteem. She was being hard on herself for that reason even though it wasn't her fault, even insisting that she was at fault because she could have told me sooner and I would have been able to do something or we wouldn't have had trained at all, this preventing the tragedy. She was stressed with all that happened so I thought it necessary that she should let off some steam in her own way even if it would make her recovery a little slow.

Niyo was on my mind almost all the time I was in the office helping anija with ending his duties – he would soon pass his title to me. I walked to the window of the office and looked at the sky, wondering if Niyo was looking at it too.

She believed it was all her fault but it wasn't. Thinking this made me remember something I told her the other night and for somebody as composed as me, my face was noticeable red.

"Tobirama, maybe you should go home, your face is all red." Anija pointed. "Maybe you caught your wife's fever, I saw her walking back to the compound and she was really red too. You should advise her to take it easy-"

I didn't hear what my brother had to say and made my exit hearing that Niyo might be sick. I told her to not train too hard but she didn't listen.

"Are you ok!" I asked in a rather loud voice, slapping the door to our room open, catching Niyo off guard. She jumped in her seat and looked at me. She looked fine but the moment our eyes met and it fully registered in her brain that it was me asking her something, her face was bright red again and her chakra was all over the place. I strode to her and shook her shoulders to get an answer but she seemed to have gotten mute.

~Niyo's POV~

Just say it.

Say it.

You can do it.

I glared at Tobirama and he let me go, taking a step back. Maybe I looked too scary. When I was sure I had his attention I let off the weight.

"When it comes to making the right choice and doing the right thing, just know that I won't be blinded by my love for you either."

I SAID IT!

Tobirama was so embarrassed that we spent the rest of the day just sitting silently in our room and staring at each other's hands. It was awkward but it was nice, if that makes sense...

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