“Tomoka I-”
“It’s fine, but I find it a bit unjust that I am the only one that had to promise to take better care of myself” Tomoka walked closer to Nozomi wanting to hug her but she knew she shouldn’t.
“Four years ago you made me promise to never do something as reckless as what I did back then. You told me to stay with you forever and ever” Tomoka’s expression became serious, she hated seeing Nozomi hurt. Now she finally understood why the girl had reacted how she did back then.
“Now I will hold you to the same treatment. I want you to promise me to take better care of yourself. I want you to promise me that you won’t do something reckless again. I want you to promise me that you will stay with me forever and ever.” Tomoka's eyes became teary. As she spoke she imagined what it would be like if she were to lose Nozomi.
“I promise” Nozomi’s heart hurt, it was as if someone was squeezing it. She hated seeing Tomoka like that. She hated seeing the happy-go-lucky girl sad. She hated herself for making her cry.
“It’s a promise, if you break it I will hate you forever and ever” With that, Tomoka took a step forward while wiping away her tears. She extended her right hand with her pinky finger forward. Nozomi gave her a little nod while linking her pinky with Tomoka’s.
“Uhm, I-I also want you two to promise me to be safe! P-promise me!” Turning around, Tomoka saw Hinata standing by the door.
“Sure but you need to say the whole thing or it doesn’t count” Feeling a bit better Tomoka decided to tease Hinata a bit. However, the determined expression on Hinata’s face made her shut up.
“Then, Tomoka, Nozomi, promise me that you two will take care of yourselves. T-that you two won’t be reckless and hurt yourself. T-that you two will stay with me f-forever and e-ever!” By the end of it Hinata’s cheeks had turned rosy.
““We promise””
“But you have to promise us the same thing” Tomoka gave hinata a smile while offering the pinky from her left hand.
“Yup come here, I can’t move my left arm” Said Nozomi who had a cast on chest that prevented her from moving her left arm at all.
“I promise!” Hinata had stepped forward and linked her pinky fingers with those of her friends. She felt that they had grown closer, a lot closer. It gave her a tingly feeling in her chest.
“Though, with the wording, others might think we are asking each other to get married” Tomoka felt cheeky and wanted to tease the others. However, she didn’t expect her own words to backfire on her so spectacularly.
The three girl’s cheeks became red as they blush thinking about it. Tomoka realized that she hadn’t given much thought about it, be it in this life or in her past one. She didn’t even know if she liked guys, girls or both. However, she felt that perhaps spending the rest of her days with these two wouldn’t be so bad.
For Nozomi and Hinata the attack had sent their heads spinning. In the past, they had been constantly competing against each other for Tomoka’s attention. They regarded her as their first friend, their best friend but now Tomoka’s words made them realize that it wasn’t just that. In their eyes Tomoka was like the sun up above. She lit their otherwise miserable lives with her warmth.
“I-I was just joking” Not being able to take the awkward silence any longer Tomoka decided to try and break it to no avail. The other two girls had devolved into blushing messes. All they could do was nod in acknowledgement of Tomoka’s words.
“Anyway, I hope you get well soon Nozomi” Tomoka was desperate to change the topic. Her heart had been beating wildly inside her chest. The two extremely cute blushing messes in front of her only exasperated the problem.
“M-me too, I hope you get better soon” Hinata had recovered a little and was finally able to answer.
“Don’t worry you two. Nozomi should be able to leave in around three days to a week. Though she should be careful and not push her healing body for the better part of a month.” The gentle doctor answered. Satisfied with it both Tomoka and Hinata thanked him and said their goodbyes before leaving.
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To be fair Nozomi is an OC and Tomoka first friend which means she does need all the character development she can get compare to Hinata who is more well-known.
Thanks for the chapter. I'm waiting impatiently for when you reveal how tomoka learns the timing of the uchiha massacre. I'd suggest Nozomi get's pulled into a clan meeting where the day of the coup is revealed to be within a week and then she goes to tomoka for help, at which point tomoka tells her to sleep over for a few days and then gives a vague reason for why the conflict will end.
nozomi is too young to go in a meeting and not revelant in the uchiha's pov to be an exception and you must consider the fact that she is bullied because she don't has fire affinity even sasuke didn't know about it until told by danzo in shippuden or was it itachi
I personally hate the whole ‘promise me not to take risks/find themselves in a dangerous situation’ when it is quite literally the definition of their line of work. They may as well promise to be regular citizens and live in seclusion. Its utterly stupid.
Its just me or anibody feel like they romance is too rushed? Like, they are just litle girls whom barsly know eatch other. Maybe Hinata if they time had be more explored
this my friend is an important question. The answer is that this romance is not a healthy one. It leans more towards dependency and obsession. Which is spontaneous. Thats why they three of them act in a yandere kind of way.
With time they will melow out and explore their relationship more.
@minimi22 tanks for the answer
Cuteness overload
Thanks for the chapter
Idea: have tomoka go to hiruzen and ask to speak to itachi, then work out some way for nozomi to be spared from the massacre, maybe blackmail or bribe him, she could threaten doing stuff to Sasuke or just leaking that the massacre or coup is going to happen
Thanks for the chapter
Can you make an evolution of the byakugan as a kind of representation of hinata's character development?
an idea for what this mangekyou byakugan could do and look like is increased physical capabilities and this next part relates to the design, the black markings that appear at the center of the eye could expand to the outer edges and form a rim and pigmentation form around the eye like sage mode and slowly spread to the rest of the body signifying its growth with these markings being able to take control of whatever chakra it comes in contact with, this would make it an even greater counter to chakra based abilities.
the final stage of this can be something like the markings fully covering the body to then tint the color of their skin to some kind of neon one.
this is just my idea and you can think of your own but I do recomend making an evolution for the byakugan since Hinata's going to be one of the main characters.
Thanks for the chapter