"Lady tsunade, Mito-sama had arrived" a maid informs from outside the hot spring
As soon as I heard it, I got up from the hot spring and started dressing up.
"Hey cover yourself properly! " tsunade complained in a half-asleep state.
I got up and left the hot spring, along the way I ordered a maid to take care of her and continued my way towards Mito's room.
The sun was already starting to set and as I reach her room, I heard a voice.
"Come in"
I silently entered the room and saw a figure sitting on a chair facing the opposite direction.
"Mito... " I didn't call her grandma like before
"Izuna-kun" Mito smiled and turned towards me.
Her smile was still the usual, her face still looked like that of a woman in her 20's but her face had lost some of it's vitality and lost some of it's youthfulness.
Her face was pale.
"Sorry..... " I whispered and a drop of tear unknowingly fell from my eye.
"It's alright." She gently touch my face with her hand and even though her hand was a little cold, I felt her warmth through her touch.
"Even though you help me so much and even saved my life yet.... I-" tears rolled through my cheeks.
She wiped my tears and said " Don't cry, I am not angry. " she hugged me closer to her.
I cried for a while in her arms
"How much time have you got.. " I was feeling powerless, even though I knew it couldn't be avoided.. I didn't want to accept it yet...
Mito looked at me and smiled " You are always so mysterious izuna-kun, how did you know? "
Mito stood there silently and so did I
None of us spoke. I quietly stare at her waiting for her reply.
* exhale* " Sheesh, you are so stubborn izuna-kun! " mito finally gave in.
After a while she answered
"2 years" she smiled.
I didn't said anything to comfort her.
They say that if a man knows when he would die then he would start to act restless and show other extreme emotions because he couldn't accept the fact. He would lose peace of his mind and slowly start to turn insane but mito showed no sign of it...
She's a strong woman and doesn't require my sympathy.
After that , we talk for some time , laughing and smiling at each other....It all felt so peaceful. I wish that it would continue for all of eternity but it wasn't possible.
After some light hearted talks, I got up and bid goodbye to mito and started my way towards home.
'Senju's ninjutsu room.. ' Before going back, mito told me that if I wanted to learn new ninjutsus then I could enter their ninjutsu room.
"Is she a numskull, giving away something like that. ' I smiled.
.....
*Kaw* *kaw*
It was already sunset and the sky was coloured orange .
At a park
"Tomato! tomato! "
"Beat that tomato up, oni-chan! " a mushroom hair kid shouted
A group of kids were surrounding a little girl
with an older kid as their head
"Hey! why did you beat up my brother?" the older kid aggressively asked .
"He called me tomato and made fun of me"
the girl also aggressively replied but her tone was a bit down due to the size of the other party.
Obviously the girl was kushina
"Hmph! you do look like a tomato and are you going to beat me up for it! " the older kid mocked her.
"You-" kushina was angry and directly punch towards the older kid but the latter easily dodged it and kicked kushina away.
She hit a nearby ride and hurt her legs.
"Ow.. " she got up and her eyes were red , she was about to cry. * sniff* *sniff*
"Such ugly hairs" the older kid went near her and pulled up her hairs.
"Oni-chan, I think that's enough. She is starting to cry. " the mushroom hair kid persuaded
"But look at these weird and ugly hair of hers! " the older kid pulled kushina's hair harder then before.
"I also hate my hair dattebane" tears started falling from kushina's big eyes
*bang*
The boy holding kushina's hair was sent flying towards a tree and crashed.
A little kid with yellow hair and blue eyes was looking at kushina.
Kushina looked up with her teary eyes and saw the familiar figure.
"Izuna-kun.... "
"Run! "
" It's izuna! "
"Run for your life! "
The kids started panicking and ran away from there.
"Wh-why did you helped me? " kushina asked me with her quavering voice that was due to her crying.
The wind blew and swayed her long red hairs
"Your hairs messed up" I combed her hair with my hand.
"I don't like it.. These ugly and weird hair of mine. " Kushina quietly replied.
"I don't think so, your hairs are beautiful. "
I touched her hair and replied to her
Hearing my reply, kushina stopped crying and looked towards me with her big eyes.
"Your hair is full of vitality and life. " I continue to comb her hair
"Pffft.. what's that suppose to mean dattebane! " kushina laughed and wiped her tears.
" It means that your hair looked very lively " I
replied feeling wronged.
"Baka~" kushina smiled and got up but feeling the sourness in her legs she fell down.
"Don't force yourself, I will carry you to your place" I catch her and put her on my back to give her a piggyback ride.
"Wai-" kushina face turned red and protested but izuna didn't listen to her and jumped towards the nearby house's roof and started moving.
It was already sunset and the sky was already painted orange, the lake in the forest reflected it and turn into a beautiful shade of orange.
The world was peaceful and quite beautiful
'I always loved sunset and sunrise... it gives ease to my mind'
.....
"Geez, you are already this strong before even becoming a ninja dattebane. That guy you beat earlier was a new genin! " kushina complained and pouted with her small lips
"You can say that I practice diligently. " I joked
Unknowingly I started to accept her after talking with mito and unknowingly, I also become special for her.
'Mito and kushina, both are jinchuriki. If a tailed beast is captured then it is not only them who loses their freedom. It's not only them who are treated as war weapons and it's not only them who gets controlled by the village.
Their jinchuriki shares the same fate as their tailed beast.
I guess that's what it means to be a jinchuriki,
the power of the human sacrifice.
.............
[AN: I wasted quite a long time to make that boundary˙˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙]