Summary: Masumi was shocked to find out that her mother knew her supposed hidden secret for years.
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An icy cold sensation crept on her skin.
Masumi's inside went cold.
Her mother knew! She knew that her daughter was a reincarnation of someone else for seven years.
Seven years since her birth.
She inwardly panicked at a thought of her mother knowing her secret for that long. She didn't realize that she started to breathe faster and harsher, her blood rushed and roared in her ears. She felt a room became too small which made her feeling claustrophobic. Her heart was escalating too fast, feeling like it was about exploding in her chest cavity. Her chakra frequency went wild in an uncontrollable and agitated manner.
Then, a warm hand pressed and rubbed soothingly in a circular movement against her petite back. A familiar wave of her soothing chakra washed over her trembling form.
"Calm down, daughter. You're hyperventilating. Take a deep breath. Breathe in. Exhale out."
She struggled to swallow the needed air into her lungs. She gasped and then, took a slow breath in. She exhaled. She repeated the breathing process several times until her heart subsided down and her breathing went back to normal. A room felt now much more spacious ever as same as before.
Her chakra calmed down slightly as it synched with her heart and emotion. But her chakra remained tense especially her panic was now under her control and wasn't completely gone.
Her blue-green eyes blinked and went back to focusing, she found herself embracing in her mother's arms. A comfortable but tense silence was over their heads.
"You knew?" Her voice, for a first time, was meek.
"About what?"
"Me being reborn as your daughter." Her blue-green downcast eyes avoided the eye contract with her mother. Her voice was trembling slightly.
A green haired mother sighed softly, her eyes softened with compassion. Her always confident and strong daughter, was now reduced into a scared child in her arms. At a sight of her child in that state stirred her motherly instinct. No mothers wanted to see their child in any forms of pain.
"Masumi, Look at me." Michiko called her name firmly, causing her daughter looking up at her azure blue eyes.
"I know that you are afraid of me rejecting you, just because you are stealing my daughter's body and deceiving me into thinking of you as my daughter? No. I am perfectly aware that you tried to keep your secret under a wrapping. I understood your reason and did what you done in your situation if I had been in your place. You're always my daughter no matter what, even you are a reincarnation of another person. I still love my dear daughter whatever she was reincarnated or not." She said. Her voice was unwavering and full of the motherly love.
There was a silence between them as a teal-tinted green haired girl took what her mother says to her. Secretly, her heart rejoiced silently at her mother's genuine acceptance of her as her daughter.
She was thinking of Michiko as her third mother in figure because just like her Tsunade-shishou, Michiko was always expressing her strong faith in her. She was encouraging her to reach her potentials in the fullest. She would lose her bearings if had her mother been not her steady pillar of support.
"I...Thank you...I don't know what I want to say, Mother."
So many things in her mind that she wanted to share with her mother, she, at a moment, did not know which things she want to say to her.
"Perhaps...you can start with your name that you once had in your previous life and who you are." Michiko kindly suggested. She herself couldn't help but excited and curious at the same time about her daughter's previous lifetime. It was a such rare and special opportunity for someone in her place to get to know the genuine reincarnated person with the memories and personality intact.
Masumi nodded in acceptance, but uncertain about its consequence of telling her mother about her being from the future. Her mother would instantly know that she held back something if she was omitting out that part about her true origin in her story. After all, she was her mother, whose are very perspective when it came to her firstborn child as well as she was a master of her bloodline limit along with her special ability.
Michiko sensed her uncertainty in her chakra.
"That's all right, daughter. You can trust me. As far as I know, no one was aware that you are a reincarnation of someone else beside me, Mai-chan and Asami-chan. I do not inform the elders or anyone about a true source of your dense yin chakra. And I will not say anything what you told me here to everyone without your consent." An older green haired mother reassured sincerely, releasing her iron tight control over her chakra.
That action would be ensuring her daughter feeling her sincerity from her chakra.
The seven years old green haired girl went stiff when she heard her mother mentioning the two people else beside her, knew her secret.
She then relaxed slightly upon hearing who these two people were. These two people that her mother mentioned, were well known to her especially they were closest to her mother more than anyone in her clan. They were the honored and trustworthy women. So, she trusted her mother's choice in the people knew her secret.
She also trusted her mother because she could tell that her mother spoke a truth from sensing her chakra.
She couldn't keep her secret alone and forever, her secret became more and more like a burden pressing heavily on her heart. Confiding in her mother who was compassionate and understanding, capable to keep her secret from anyone in her over seven years would lighten her burden. She felt like she wasn't alone on her secret anymore.
It would be requiring a lot of faith and bravery to tell the Clan Head who might exploit her for a malicious purpose.
But her mother was...different. Her mother did not treat her like a weapon for her clan as other clan usually treated their members as their weapons and canon-fodders. As far as she knew, her mother was treating everyone in her clan like a family. She could trust her mother with a full depth of her secret.
Her decision formed and solidified with a strong conviction. If an older woman noticed a resolute feeling emitting from her daughter's chakra, she did not comment on it.
"Was this room soundproof?"
"Yes, I already activated the soundproof seal just right before you came in." The Clan Head answered.
Huh, her mother was seemly always knowing everything in advance when it came to her.
"Ah, that's good." Sure, she wanted her mother to know her full story. It didn't mean that she wanted others to know the truth about her. She preferred the less people knew about her. "...I think you should sit more comfortable because it's a long story."
"I have a plenty of time on my hands."
They shifted their bodies more comfortable sitting on the tatami floor and faced each other in their fronts. Her mother looked at her expectantly, her ears ready to listen.
The seven years old heiress took a deep breath in a preparation for a long speech, and exhaled deeply. "I was once known as Haruno Sakura, you see, I'm from..."
Masumi, formerly Sakura, began to tell her mother an extraordinary tale about a pink-haired girl with a humble beginning from the future who was born and grew up in her not yet existing beloved village; she started out her ninja career with the lazy teacher and two ninja in the training males who bought the avalanche of change into the Ninja World.
A/N: Yay, I reached 10th chapter of Shatterpoint! Aw, what a such touching moment of mother-daughter! Now Michiko officially knew of her daughter and her secret including that future part! Are you imaging how relieved Masumi feel when she was not alone on her secret anymore? I would be relieved if i was in her shoes.
*gasping in surprise* What? Asami and this mysterious Mai person also were on it, too?! Who is this Asami Shihoin person whom mentioned occasionally in the previous chapters? And who the heck this Mai person is?!
Ohh...the mysteries got deeper and intriguing more ever! Dun! Dun! I guess that we had to find out how these two people knew her secret in the upcoming drabbles. *wink wink*
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Translation Note: Shishou was a honorific referring a martial art instructor and masters who specializing in the traditional Japanese arts and crafts. It had similar meaning to sensei. It roughly translated a master. Tatami was a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms.