67. Awaken


    <span style="font-weight:400">A whileter Nozomi opened her eyes. She feltfy as her head wasid on a very soft pillow. Her groggy mind refused to reboot properly as she felt a soothing sensation on her scalp. However, as her mind finally began working properly she saw Tomoka’s face with a warm smile. The pillow her head wasid on were Tomoka’s thighs, and the sensation on her scalp was the soft cares of Tomoka’s fingers slowlybing through her hair.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nozomi wanted to close her eyes again and enjoy the sensation but the memories of their previous conversation prevented her from doing so. She wanted, nay, she needed to know the truth, all of it. Sitting up, Nozomi stared at Tomoka with a steely gaze.


    <span style="font-weight:400">She began thinking about Tomoka’s words. She soon realized why Tomoka hadn’t told lord Hokage. If her n indeed was nning for a coup then even more blood would be spilled should they survive. However, that didn’t remove the grief from her heart.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Why?” That was all she could manage as her throat closed up.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“The coup had been longing. After the second Hokage shunned your n to the outer edges of the vige tensions had risen. Danzo, that rat bastard, saw the Uchiha as a danger and did all he could to increase the gap between them and the vige. To put it simply, the coup had been nned by Danzo so he could use it as an excuse to exterminate them.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tomoka decided to me everything on Danzo and hide the fact that the third had agreed, albeit reluctantly, to the massacre. If Nozomi found outter she could just feign ignorance of the fact.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nozomi for her part closed her eyes as they began to itch. Her entire body trembled with uncontroble hatred. Danzo, the name felt like a vile poison on her tongue as she said it under her breath. She would make him pay with blood. As the Uchiha girl continued to drown in her hatred she felt soft and warm arms coil around her. Opening her eyes she realized Tomoka was hugging her.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t let hatred cloud your mind. Use it instead, hate those that wronged you and fuel your conviction to be better with the hatred born from their actions. Control your hate, don’t let it control you.” Having said that, Tomoka released the girl from her hug as she wiped away her tears with her hands.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“We will grow stronger together, and we will make that bastard pay” With a kind smile Tomoka stood up offering her right arm to Nozomi.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You have already taken your first step towards that objective, see” As she said that she took a polish kunai to use as a mirror.


    <span style="font-weight:400">As Nozomi gazed at her reflection she saw a pair of blood red eyes with one tomoe circling around her pupil. She had finally awakened her sharingan. She should have felt happy for her progress, instead she felt hollow. These eyes were born from tragedy and she would use them for her revenge. No, not only for that, she would also use them to protect what she has left.


    <span style="font-weight:400">A whileter the two had infiltrated back into konoha as Tomoka exined a few more things to Nozomi. For starters, she exined about the sharingans progression. As she exined the method to acquire the mangekyo and its eternal version Nozomi became light headed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I would rather gouge these cursed eyes than kill you!” She screamed as her hands snaked towards her eyes intent on doing as she had said.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Calm down! There is no need for that. The advance through a special chakra that gets produced when the wearer goes through immense grief. That is why it is believed to be necessary to kill or witness the death of one’s most loved one. However, we might find a way to produce that chakra through other means so calm down”


    <span style="font-weight:400">After hearing Tomoka’s words, Nozomi calmed her nerves. Though she hadn’t abandoned the idea of gouging her eyes if it dide to that. She swore in her heart that she would rather kill the entire vige’s poption before harming one of Tomoka’s hairs.


    <span style="font-weight:400">They continued talking while walking as Tomoka also told her that she wasn’t the only survivor amongst other things. Finally, the two stood in front of Konoha’s bureaucratic building where the Hokage’s officey. After all, they needed to report Nozomi’s survival.