To deal with trauma and negative emotions, Akira made sure that she and her sister worked through the events of the past. She did everything her mother had taught her so that both of them could come out of their suffering and not let the darkness take over them. Mental health and self-connection were all Big Moth had always taught, as Midori used to say. By accepting your dark side, you could achieve true harmony and the power of light.
The singing and dancing, while still painfully reminding of dead relatives, gave the Nanusake sisters a special comfort. Akira told Izumi to cry and feel everything when the little one was starting to get stressed - she said that only thanks to this, the pain would finally be healed.
The sun was setting over the Uchiha fans engraved on the walls of the compound. Its last rays reached the empty exercise room where Akira and Izumi sat alone opposite each other. Akira reached out to grab her sad sister's arms.
'Sasuke and Itachi's dad is always angry when I cry. He says it's a sign of weakness' the girl said quietly.
Akira sighed and frowned, suppressing anger at the head of the Uchiha family and his radical and emotionless approach to parenting. At times she wondered how it happened at all that Midori was so different from him but somehow she managed to win him over back in the day. Or did she…
'Come on, let's sing, baby.' Her soft voice soothed her younger sister, though the pain still gnawed at her heart. Akira took her guitar on her lap and after quickly tuning a few strings, she hit them gently making the first sounds. The melody was familiar, and Izumi lifted her head slightly, calming her breathing.
'Cut the ties that bind us, my chest will cease to rise' Akira looked deep into her younger sister's eyes. 'Bear in mind my likeness, eternal in your eyes.'
Izumi joined her, her voice still trembling, but calming down with each verse. Her hands were clenched on her flute, which she had been carrying since leaving the Clan. She brought it to her lips and accompanied Akira after the first verses.
'By your side, I wander, where shall you go?'
Moths jumped up in the air and danced surrounding the girls like an aura. The song circled to calm down slowly, while tears flowed down Izumi's cheeks in large peas. She could no longer sing the last words, so she let her older sister finish, who continued, with a warm, light smile, but with pain in the depths of her eyes, in a beautiful and clear voice.
Behind the soft paper wall, Sasuke was hiding, trying to make the sisters not notice him, but every now and then he leaned his head intrigued by the little performance the sisters gave in an empty room. Seeing how little Izumi was crying, he began to sympathise with her and pursed his lips in a circle, feelings of sadness enveloping his heart slowly as well.
'You're my Borealis, you're the lines in my brow' the last words hurt the most and Izumi went from shedding tears silently to uncontrollable sobs. Akira put the guitar aside and hugged her sister tightly to her heart, finishing the song in an increasingly quiet voice. After the last words, she also cried. 'You're the turning seasons, you're the breath in my mouth…'
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The Huntress and Holder of Hands - Borealis