Shingetsu had not been having an easy time lately.
"He's back..."
In the dead of night, Shingetsu curled tightly beneath her covers, her eyes wide as a startled deer's, her whole body prickling with goosebumps.
She did not even need to poke her head out to know that Madara was standing beside her bed, staring straight at her with the bitter, accusing eyes of a female ghost haunting her faithless lover.
The Uchiha Male Ghosts was back in action. His mournful, anguished appearance was so eerie and terrifying that Shingetsu felt both rattled and guilty under his gaze.
"S-should I say something?"
Shingetsu trembled beneath the covers, thinking she ought to at least comfort her suffering Master. But faced with a scene straight out of a horror movie, she simply did not have the courage to leave the protection of her blanket!
Shingetsu was very afraid of ghosts.
And the most ghostlike things she had ever seen in her life were the Six Paths Old Coot and her Master.
The three little tailed beasts were badly frightened too. Normally, they spent their days eating at everyone's houses, then returned at night, found a spot on Shingetsu's little bed, and slept beside her.
Now they clung tightly together, forcibly commandeering Kaguya Bunny's rabbit nest and squeezing her out. They hid inside, terrified of getting on this horrifying Male Ghosts' bad side.
Poor Kaguya Bunny could only huddle in a cold corner of the room that night, trembling with fear that Madara, this Male Ghosts, would devour her alive.
After this continued for an entire week, Kurama finally snapped. He leaped into Shingetsu's arms-she now had obvious dark circles under her eyes-and shouted:
"Shingetsu, do something about your Master!"
Kurama was so furious that all nine of his tails bristled. Madara had