Hanabi let go of him and took a step back, her eyes rimmed with red.
"Brother-in-law, I want to... tonight, give myself..."
The night wind scattered the rest of her sentence. She didn't need to say it; those eyes had already said everything.
Genya looked at Hanabi.
That face was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiar was the little girl who had followed him everywhere since childhood, calling him "Brother-in-law."
Unfamiliar was what he saw in the eyes of the fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl before him.
He opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out.
Silence lingered.
It lasted so long that Hanabi thought he would turn and run, but then Genya's eyes changed.
The nine tomoe in his Rinnegan began to spin, and space tore open behind him, forming a pitch-black rift.
The entrance to another dimension opened without a sound.
Genya held out his hand. Hanabi looked at it and, without hesitation, placed her own in his.
The two walked into the other dimension side by side.
The rift closed behind them.
No one knew what happened in that dimension that night.
Genya didn't return until the next morning. He had changed his clothes, and his hair was still wet.
Hanabi went straight back to the Hyuga Residence.
At the wedding venue, a red carpet stretched all the way from the Hokage Building to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
Flower baskets lined both sides, and cherry blossom petals blew everywhere in the wind.
There were so many people.
Villagers from Konoha, guests from the Five Great Nations, old acquaintances from Amegakure, and friends from Sunagakure packed the entire Uchiha Clan Compound shoulder to shoulder.
Shisui stood at the entrance in his ceremonial robes as the Sixth Hokage, welcoming guests, while Yugao helped collect cash gifts behind