"Oh, god. Please be alive. Please still be alive."
he has his right hand over his eyes, the other pressed firmly against the gash on his chest. the wound was deep — his enemy had been dispatched, but tenzou knew how this would end.
there’s a dribble of blood down the corner of his mouth, smeared onto the back of his hand as he reaches forward to touch feebly at her cheek. she’s there, hovering over him and trying to pry his hand away to inspect the damage.
a quiet, pained note rises in his throat, threatening to escape with a volume that was sure to break his own spirit.
‘ don’t look, don’t look. '
the very hand he had used to hide his own face now pressed against her own. she struggled for a moment, but the grief finally began to overcome his kunoichi. yamato leans his forehead against hers, giving to sakura whatever comfort he had left within his broken bones.
‘ i need you ———— to listen to me. '
yamato gives an almost ragged gasp, the hand upon his chest pushing down a little harder to stifle the bleeding until he was done talking. his head is spinning, struggling to return to what he had been about to tell her — all he can think about is pain.
‘ in all of my life —— everything i’ve done. made. loved — you and her ———— were most ———— the very most. you made me a father and ———— you gave me a family. '
the tears are falling freely and without hesitation. sakura and mei had given him the most important gift —— the ability to feel without question and without complaint.
both of us was implied; caught within his throat as battered limbs begin to tremble. tenzou’s body became heavy, his eyes began to dull — but there’s a smile upon his features.
it had always been his favourite, lingering at the back of his mind whenever times were tough. it was that smile that had always kept him going — and the thought of bringing that grin upon her features one last time. his hand lifts from her eyes to brush against her cheek; it was an action he had repeated every day since she’d told him about their child — an action he wished he had started long before that.
her smile is clouded with tears and her eyes are opened to see the gentleness about his face, but he can see that light within. a comforting presence to keep his fears away for just long enough.
‘ such a beautiful ——— flower. '
tenzou tips her chin up to look up at the sky and all of the warmth that it brought. he would leave her to the sky, the stars, the sun & the moon, because she would shine so brightly among them — in his sky.
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