Ginchurki Series Chapter 3 (2/2)
"Kaiori, can I talk to you?" Tushira asked.
"Sure, mom" he said after he helped her clearing the table that held desert and fruit for the former respected visitors.
They sat on the same couch far from each other:
"It is about, your father..." Tushira igniting him and made his heart beat rapidly.
"My dad?! Mom if you don't want to I don't have a problem with it..." Kaiori said.
"Kaiori..." Tushira prepared herself "Kai-ori"
That split made Kaiori realized that his name included his father's "Kai..."
"Your name, makes me remember your father and the thing he died with, well calling him a thing is disrespectful, I correct my senstence" Tushira said.
"Died with?" Things getting stuffed to Kaiori.
"Kai, is your father's name, Ori, is related to your dad's beast, Mamori" Tushira explained.
"Mamori?! My dad had a beast like Kage Naruto!" Kaiori starting to realize how great his father was.
"Yes, and they both died together..." Tushira having her eyes blurred but didn't mind to drop some tears "Your father, Kai, I never knew his last name, but he was from a clan called "Yuki", he lived hard life after he eliminated his village..."
"My dad...destroyed his village?!" Kaiori felt a shock.
"It wasn't his intention, a spark ignited his beast to emerge, and destroyed everything around" Tushira trying to convince him.
"My dad and his beast destroyed a village..." Speaking what he was thinking.
"Kaiori! Do not build these false assumptions! Neither your dad nor his beast destroyed the village!" Tushira realizing how tough it will be.
"But you said so..." Kaiori made no facial expression, just the facial of a dead with a wide open eyes that didn't blink.
"I told it you it wasn't their intention!" Tushira felt mad of his answers.
"But that doesn't change the fact that they are the ones who did it? does it?" Kaiori forcing Tushira to accept his idea and made her even more careful picking the words, but she knew that when she tells him about his death and about Naruto, made it almost clear that he will never forgive him, but she continued hoping the best:
"He lived a hard life after that, losing his godmother, and lost me as his comrade, he was completely alone for a decade, wandering alone in the lands, before he met the people of this village..." Tushira said, happy that she finally reached the happy part "He did kind acts for the village, saying that he was doing that just for the sake of himself nothing more, he refused to stay and spent his last period with me when he found me after he left the village"
This made Kaiori feel a bit better.
"However, me and him didn't spend that much time together, it was brief but rich..." Tushira back to the sad part "The danger that was upon Kai got flipped on the village, and made it clear for Kai that he must defend this village at any cost in order to repent for his fatal mistake in the past"
"So my dad died eliminating the danger and dying with it?" Kaiori asked.
"Yes, and no" Tushira answered.
"Please mom, explain! I can't think anymore!" Kaiori couldn't handle it anymore.
"Yes, he cleared the danger with Naruto and the others, but that danger wasn't the reason that killed him" Tushira slowly expanding in her explanation, buying time because she really hated the end.
"It wasn't?! Mom! Please I can't stand it!" Kaiori's voice tone started to get higher.
"N... Na... Na" Tushira struggling to speak the name.
"Spit it our already!" Kaiori shouted.
"Naruto's beast was the one who killed him!" Tushira couldn't stand it.
Dominating silence, nothing more, Kaiori tightened his palm on his knees with a shake, tears fell on his thighs, but his facial expression never changed.
"Naruto was the one who killed my dad..." Kaiori deduced.
Tushira didn't counter because she already knew what answer she will get, she tried to get closer but he stopped her by pushing away her arm that was approaching his shoulder and said with a dry tone and got higher whenever he was approaching the end:
"You allowed the one who flipped our life upside down to enter from the front door...How could you know the truth and allow that to happen, how could you stand living between the ones who killed him, how could you stand in Naruto's face without the will to kill him!" Kaiori exploded.
"Kaiori stop thinking this way! It isn't how it is! stop it I beg you! It wasn't his intention to do that! It was beyond his ability!" Tushira trying to convince her completely blinded son.
"Forgiveness...Is beyond my ability now as well" Kaiori got back to his deadly expression with a dry tone and walked out.
"Where you think yourself going! It is too late! Come here!" Tushira trying to make him come back.
"Too late to kill him? It never was and never will be" Kaiori took the other meaning of "too late" far away from what Tushira meant.
"That wasn't what I meant..." Tushira heard the door shut witnessing her son speeding to nowhere.
"Hey Kaiori..." Naruto spoke when he came out from the shadows.
Kaiori turned himself facing him "You know what? I've realized something"
"Something?" Naruto wondered.
"Living without pain is boring..." Kaiori wasn't him speaking anymore
"What...What are you talking about?!" Naruto didn't believe what he said.
"I didn't intent to set to my life any goals yet, but vengeance made one for me, I am now itching to kill you, to destroy your surroundings, to let your family appreciate what I am passing through from pain and lacks, I can't wait to let Boruto feel the same!" Kaiori grinned a devilish grinned that made Naruto freeze in his place never seeing that awe scene in his life.
"You are saying that because you are mad, this will fade with time, I know it" Naruto said knowing that he isn't facing the kid that he knew.
"Till then, you might not be here anymore..." Kaiori grinned but tears still going down as rain, he gathered his fist and tightened it, black smoke, or aura, started to form on it and expanding when he was saying those words.
His eyes, went deadly, the pupil was no more there slowly lifting his head revealing his face, he opened his eyes suddenly and tighten his eyebrows to show anger and hate. The smoking aura circled his body, creating down on his feet a cloud that covered them on a small radius, the aura was too sad to be spiky and straight but it held some anger and reflected the cold inner of Kaiori:
"You've never visited my dad's grave, nor replaced a flower, first time I got there the flowers were already yellowed and left over, you didn't even care about replacing them, after all what my dad has done, you are busy taking care of the village's business and left the one who save it scatter and surf away with the time" Kaiori throwing darts of words at Naruto when the last accepted every word he said, not countering with any.
When he said those words, that smoke covered his fists, made rays of a dark sun, and shouted:
"YOU MUST PAY FOR THIS! THERE IS NO WAY I AM LETTING IT GO!"
Kaiori prepared to strike, when suddenly he glanced at that window that reflected the light in the house and suddenly got part of blocked by a body.
That body was to his mom, Tushira, taking glances the window, when she heard the shouts of him, she was too stoned covering her mouth in her palm as a habit of her when she gets concerned and afraid.
"Her glances at me, always make me forget the lack that I am suffering from...Her smile, puts me in the top of the world...I can't do anything opposing her opinion because she was always right...To satisfy her is all I need" Kaiori aura slowly vanishing and fading, seeing her was enough to calm him down, "She doesn't deserve what she is living, she doesn't deserve to spend her life alone like this, I am trying my best to make her feel better, she pretends it...But she never fooled me" Kaiori took a dash in that dark street vanishing behind the shadows.
After adjusting his breath, Naruto signed for the two ninjas behind him to follow Kaiori in order to avoid getting himself hurt by his unstable behavior. He took a glance behind and saw Tushira lurking from the window, smiled as a sign it will be okay, left to his home.
