These days, Shingetsu felt as though she were living in a horror game.
In the middle of her perfectly ordinary daily life, jump scares would pop up without warning. She might be eating, reading, or sleeping when her vision suddenly shifted to the apocalyptic landscape of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. It was enough to scare her sick.
Though the torment had left her nerves frayed, whenever she thought about actually facing Tobirama, Shingetsu couldn't help picturing him as a mad scientist, along with all the Forbidden Techniques he had invented that would "live on through the ages"-Impure World Reincarnation, for instance. The thought left her anxious and tempted to back out.
On the appointed day, Shingetsu huddled inside the Uchiha Clan Compound and refused to leave, no matter what anyone said. But once Tobirama heard that she had volunteered to come to him as a guinea pig, he did the unthinkable and barged into the Uchiha Clan Compound to fetch her himself, determined not to let such a rare research subject escape.
Hōkaku, who had come to answer the knock, turned green at the sight of him. Outside the door, a large crowd of Uchiha with weapons drawn looked as though they had seen a ghost.
By the Sage of Six Paths! Tobirama Senju, the man who would mutter "damned Uchiha" even after tripping over a pebble in the road, had actually set foot in the Uchiha Clan Compound of his own accord. If that wasn't like seeing a ghost, what was?
"I-if you do anything to me, Master won't let you get away with it!"
After several twists and turns, Shingetsu finally ended up like a lamb in a tiger's den, brought into the most respectable of Tobirama's many laboratories.
Facing the fully equipped, imposing Tobirama,