Chapter 36.6- One Thousand Hands
Added 2025-01-15 13:42:00 +0000 UTCIt turned out I was right, I thought to myself as I got to the halfway point of the journal. The style was wildly divergent in the way it shifted from his thoughts on Senjutsu and feeling out and finding sage energy for the first times to his studies learning lightning release. The fact that he had only even stuck with lightning release because of how good Tobirama was with it was another bit of comedy that made the two men seem like real people in my eyes- real brothers.
The sun was just beginning to rise when I realised that I’d actually stayed up all night reading. Uraume woke with a start and turned to me with narrowed eyes. “You were supposed to wake me up for my watch” She said with barely suppressed annoyance. I could tell from the way her hands were squeezed closed and her eyes were narrowed right at me.
“I lost track of time” I said with a shrug and I saw the way she pressed her lips against themselves to prevent herself from saying the first thing that came to mind.
“You do this all the time, Shorirama Senju” She said.
“You’re exaggerating. This is the first time I’ve ever forgotten to wake you up for your watch.”
“No, I mean This. This thing you do where you forget where you are. We are in the Land of Rivers at war, Shorirama Senju. You can not be pulling all-nighters because you are reading of all things” The way she used the word, ‘reading’, made it sound like the gravest of offenses.
“I feel fine, Cousin” I said, getting to the root of it easily.
“Anything less than your best and we are dead, Shorirama. We are dead.” She said the words again as if there was not enough emphasis in the word dead already.
“I got that, Cousin. I got you.” I said, and she nodded before backing off.
“And Uraume?” I called out to her as she walked away.
“Yes, Cousin?” Back to cousin, it seems.
“There’s no chance I’d let you die here. That’s a promise” I said, and there was something that resonated deep within my very being as I said those words.
