"That he did! This shop was a lot busier in those days.. Shinobi need a place to feel safe. Still have the privacy seals around the walls for all that they're fading now but ah, your father was a regular, yes."
Tae-san watched the unease flash across his features from the corner of her eye and carefully kept eye contact to a minimum, letting her words fill the space between them.
"A good heart if ever I saw one and so very devoted to that wisp of a girl..such a bright flame to lose, that one.."
She could still see the slump of Sakumo's shoulders and the careful way he'd held the bundle of his son close, tucked into the corner of the shop and letting the world pass them both by. She'd fed him and kept the tea pot fresh the whole day, into the evening, hovering and keeping her distance in equal amounts. Child birth was no way for such a strong kunoichi to lose her life, but then, it was a small mercy that the child had been saved and Sakumo had not lost them both to some nameless battlefield.
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Tae-san watched the unease flash across his features from the corner of her eye and carefully kept eye contact to a minimum, letting her words fill the space between them.
"A good heart if ever I saw one and so very devoted to that wisp of a girl..such a bright flame to lose, that one.."
She could still see the slump of Sakumo's shoulders and the careful way he'd held the bundle of his son close, tucked into the corner of the shop and letting the world pass them both by. She'd fed him and kept the tea pot fresh the whole day, into the evening, hovering and keeping her distance in equal amounts. Child birth was no way for such a strong kunoichi to lose her life, but then, it was a small mercy that the child had been saved and Sakumo had not lost them both to some nameless battlefield.