"I'm sorry that you've had to suffer alone...I should have been there to help you through it...even with what I've told you there simply isn't an excuse for what you've had to endure...I just hope you can forgive us for keeping this from you..."
" sometimes keeping the truth away from those you love is the only way you can protect them...I want you to always remember this..." she says holding me tighter around her arms as her voice begins to slowly break down...
"Always remember this ayame.…everything we do is to protect u…EVERYTHING..so please... just remember this...no matter what happens...just remember ...it's...it's all meant to protect you in the end..."
" you're a special girl, more special than you could ever imagine… we want only the best for you because we lov-"
" HAHA! I beat you!" kouta shouts interrupting hitomi.
"Hey no you cheated! I want a rematch!" seiji snarls back at kouta with both arms full of clean bed sheets, towels and various cleaning supplies.
"oh whatever! don't be a sore loser!...thats not manly!" kouta utters carrying two large wooden barrels.
"Hey! Where back!" seiji joyfully exclaims as I see Hitomi brushing away her tears and backing away from me.
" um, good!" she responds trying to put back her tough face.
".. hey is everything alright mom? you look -"
" I look what!?" hitomi butts in aggressively, scolding at him as he backs away from his statement.
"Nothing! never mind!" he panics cowering back.
"ah huh, that's what I thought" she states folding her arms, "now get to work!"
"Yes maam!" seiji responds rushing to the mess beneath my bed and beginning to clean it.
" so how are you are feeling!?" kouta asks me as he approaches hitomi.
"I'm..a lot better now..." I answer.
"gooood! gooood.." he says dropping the barrels to the ground and stretching out his body.
he pauses for a moment as he catches the discomfort and indifference in my tone and body language.
He then looks at hitomi who despite her best effort showcase's similar mannerisms.
it doesn't take long for him to figure out what we've been discussing from there..
"... you know...it wasn't easy ayame.. doing what we did," he calmly speaks out, opening the lids of the barrels and soaking them with mutiplie towels.
" I'm sure hitomi's told this to you already but I want you to hear it for me ayame.."
...
"...I understand.." I respond looking away at him.
for some reason...I can't help but feel a little angry now...I feel like an even bigger freak than before..like some crazy ticking time bomb..it's almost embarrassing..
hitomi approaches kouta and gives him a look as he attempts to speak out more.
she flicks her head over to seiji who is in his own world humming away as he cleans and scrubs joyfully. kouta then stops himself from continuing, handing her the soaked towels.
"please lay over on your bed, we still need to pour some of this water in your body to begin fully healing you." she says.
"okay.." I respond.
"do you feel anything?" hitomi asks me, after laying one of the towel's on my right arm.
"no.." I reply...
"hmm...than it's just as Isao told us..."
"your chakra flow is not stable, and in order to receive the effects of the water, your chakra must be actively stable and fluctuating.."
"..dammit, these pills really did more damage than we expected.."
"even though you gain your energy and composure back right now the effects and years of damages of the pills still remain in your system."
" it's strong stuff so your body won't be able to heal or control chakra properly on its own for while... and since the water needs stable fluctuating chakra to activate you will need me or kouta emitting and monitoring some of our own chakra into the wet towels so that the cure can activate and immediately delve into your pours and steadily further into your body. "
"I would personally do it all myself but kouta's much more skilled at chakra control so he'll more than likely be the one helping you through this healing process...which could last for the next couple of weeks...to various months from what Isao told us..."
"it's really a shame that we couldn't collect more of the saliva, that seemed to work on you regardless of how stable chakra was. "
"I used just about all of it when I caught you nearly past out on the ground... I shouldn't of used so much of the saliva on you but at that moment I panicked and couldn't help myself.."
"I really wasn't thinking but we still have more than enough of the cure in the water..we just need to have it laid on most on your body so it can take greater effect on you...we'll soak as much water as we can within these towels and lay them on separate parts of you limbs."
"here kouta" she says handing him the towel, hitomi then grabs four more towels soaking them with the water.
she lays two on both my arms and another two on each of my legs.
"place the towel I've given you on top her belly. "she tells kouta.
kouta does so, closing his eye as he slightly holds his hand on top of the towel on my belly.
he raises his other hand, summoning four clones of himself. Each clone heads to each part of my limbs where the towels lay and also hold their hand over the towels and begin focusing their chakra into them.
I can feel the effects of the cure already happening...
it's feels amazing...like laying down a soft cloud that massages you...
" how is the cleaning going? it's getting late enough as it is and you need to be in bed soon." hitomi switches over to seiji.
"It's going great! I've already finished the floors, just need to pick up these clothes on the ground!" seiji reply's.
" you can thank your idiot father for that!" hitomi scolds over to one of kouta clones, smacking the back of its head.
"Tell me about! but I'm almost done, I'll just need to hurry it up bit!..hmm..Hey! um where should I put all of ayame's clothes!?" seiji asks out loudly...picking up the worst possible piece of clothing he could have picked from the floor…
A black, slim and long sleeved turtled necked hoodie...
with the uchiha logo branded behind it.
