"Hanabi, Hinata, you're planning to revive Kaguya tonight, then ruin Wuye and Tsunade's wedding night, aren't you?"
That night, just as Hanabi and Hinata were about to lie down and cause trouble, someone they had not expected appeared in their room.
Uchiha Mikoto.
"Ah..."
Hinata flustered helplessly, her face flushing crimson.
She still retained some sense of shame, but Hanabi was far more forthright.
"Mikoto," she said, stepping up to wrap her arms around Mikoto's arm with a giggle, "what we want to do is what you want to do too, right?"
But Uchiha Mikoto did not joke around with her.
At that moment, her expression was unusually solemn, with a faint trace of pity hidden in her eyes.
"Hanabi, Hinata, what I'm about to tell you may disrupt all your thoughts and plans for the future..." she began softly.
The playful smile on Hanabi's face gradually faded.
Hinata looked over as well, instinctively gripping her sister's hand tighter.
"What is it?" she asked softly.
Mikoto hesitated again before saying, "You don't understand how powerful Kaguya is, and Wuye didn't foresee this either. The two of you existed from beginning to end only for the sake of reviving her. So, the moment she revives..."
She paused, looking into their pale eyes. "You will lose your value of existence..."
"What... does that... mean?"
Hanabi and Hinata wore equally baffled expressions.
Mikoto stepped forward and pulled them both into a tight embrace. "It means Kaguya's soul is parasitic within you. Once it leaves your bodies, it will be a true departure. She will never return."
"So... so..." Hanabi and Hinata shuddered in horror. "We'll die?!"
Mikoto released them and nodded. "I went to the future and saw everything. Many things will happen, and all of it is destined, just as I will