Kaguya slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing that caught my eye was the face of Chiya.
Chiya was sitting on the edge of the bed, still holding her tightly with one hand. When he saw those white eyes finally opening, he was startled for a moment, and then he relaxed obviously.
"You're awake."
Kaguya looked at him, his eyes still a little blank.
After a while, she remembered what happened before she fell into coma. She turned into consciousness and entered Pseudo-Karma, and returned here along the connection between the two.
Kaguya looked down.
Chiya still holds her hand.
She didn't pull away, but just raised her head again and looked at him carefully for a while.
"Chiya."
"Hmm."
Hearing this long-lost voice, Chiya finally showed a smile on his face.
Kaguya also slightly curved the corners of his mouth.
The two people just looked at each other, and no one was in a hurry to speak.
They hadn't seen each other for more than half a year, and there should have been a lot of words between them. But after they actually sat together, it seemed that they just needed to confirm that the person in front of them was still there, which was enough.
Kaguya sat up holding the edge of the bed.
Chiya stretched out his hand to hold her shoulders and waited until she sat firmly before asking:
"How does it feel?"
Kaguya moved his fingers.
A wisp of Chakra emerged from the fingertips and dispersed as soon as it condensed.
She looked at the disappeared Chakra and frowned slightly.
"It will take some time."
Chiya nodded and said nothing more on this matter.
Kaguya turned around and looked around.
The mental space remains as it was when she left. The Uchiha Clan style table is placed in its original position, and the things beside the bed have not been moved.
"It's still the same here as before."
"It's only been half a year, what changes can be expected?"
Kaguya looked at him.
"Half a year has been a long time."
The smile on Chiya's face paused.
"Yeah, it's been a long time."
After Kaguya left, the place became completely quiet.
In the past, she often sat at the table in a daze, and sometimes she would suddenly appear next to Chiya and point out what he was doing. At that time, Chiya never felt anything was wrong. It was not until she actually left that he discovered that the spiritual space could be so quiet that people would not want to come in.
Fortunately, now, she is sitting here again.
Chiya did not continue thinking and asked instead:
"Where have you been in the past six months?"
The smile on Kaguya's face gradually faded.
She was silent for a while, then slowly spoke.
"I didn't find the original body."
Chiya's eyes became serious.
After Kaguya left Shinobi World, it first returned to the location in memory.
There used to be Chakra left by the original body there, and she relied on that weak connection to determine where she should start looking.
But when she finally arrived, there was no one there.
Kaguya only found traces that the space had been opened.
She continued to follow those traces and passed through many different spaces. Some places were completely deserted, and some places still retained the original Chakra, but every time, she arrived late.
Chiya never interrupted her.
As Kaguya spoke, the smile on his face gradually disappeared and his brows slowly wrinkled.
"Those marks are very messy."
Kaguya looked down at his hands.
"Some belong to the original body, and some I can't distinguish."
The memories she has now are incomplete.
Sometimes she came to a very familiar place, but she couldn't remember what she had experienced there. She could only rely on the remaining Chakra to keep searching, but in the end she came up empty again and again.
In the past few months, she had not encountered any enemies.
The real danger has only appeared recently.
In order to catch up with a trace that was about to disappear, Kaguya once again used the power that she had not fully mastered. She forced her way through the originally disconnected space, thus leaving too obvious fluctuations.
Ōtsutsuki Clan people found her quickly.
Chiya's brows furrowed even more.
"Is that the person just now?"
Kaguya nodded.
The other party has been looking for the lost consciousness. After discovering Kaguya, he did not kill her immediately, but wanted to take her back intact.
Kaguya is unwilling to leave with him, so he can only continue to travel through space.
But she herself is already disabled, and most of her strength has been consumed in the long search. Every time she uses that ability, her consciousness becomes weaker.
On the other hand, the person who was following her seemed to have a strong control over space.
No matter where Kaguya escapes, he will eventually catch up.
"You have seen what happened next."
Kaguya stopped here.
Chiya did not speak immediately.
He lowered his head and looked at Kaguya's sleeves. The white robe still had damage from the battle, and faint spots of light occasionally appeared on the edges, which quickly melted back into her body.
Kaguya spoke very calmly and even deliberately omitted many things.
But just what she was willing to say was enough for Chiya to imagine how she had spent the past six months.
A person walks through an unfamiliar space, constantly searching for traces that may have disappeared long ago.
The real body cannot be found, and there is no place to go back to.
In the end, he was discovered by the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and he could only escape with less and less strength.
Chiya held her hand and unknowingly strengthened it.
Kaguya noticed it and turned to look at him.
"Chiya?"
Chiya still didn't speak.
He remembered the night before Kaguya left.
She let herself forget about her, and embarked on the road to find her true body alone. She had no intention of coming back from the beginning, and she was not prepared to let Chiya know these things.
The mental space became quiet again.
This time, the ease that they had just reunited has disappeared.
Kaguya looked at Chiya's frown, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.
After a long time, Chiya raised his head.
"When you recover, you won't want to leave, right?"
Kaguya was startled for a moment.
She heard a hint of joking in Chiya's tone, but there was no smile in her eyes.
"Chiya..."
"I won't let you leave again."
Chiya interrupted her directly.
His voice was not loud, but his tone was extremely serious.
"I will accompany you to find your true body."
"I will also accompany you to deal with those Ōtsutsuki Clan."
"Next time, no matter where you are going, don't even think of leaving me alone."
Kaguya was completely stunned.
She stared at Chiya blankly, her white eyes gradually showing a hint of panic that she had never seen before.
Chiya didn't give her a chance to refuse.
He put his arms around Kaguya's waist, pulled her into his arms, lowered his head and kissed her.
Kaguya's body froze instantly.
She opened her eyes wide and looked at Chiya so close at hand, her mind went blank.
After a moment, she slowly closed her eyes.
The hand that was originally hanging by his side was also raised, and he gently hugged Chiya.