Chapter 11: The Truth
My POV
I began to read the file, and I almost started to cry. In the file, there was all the information about my brother, as well as the Kusanabe Clan:
Name: Kentaro Kusanabe
Date of Birth: April 17
Age: 18
Blood Type: O
Background: Kentaro Kusanabe was born to Shinta and Yuko Kusanabe. Because he was the son of the most powerful ninja of the Kusanabe Clan, everyone thought that he would be able to save their clan from extinction. However, when Kentaro turned four, the 3rd Great Ninja War began, which killed off many of the Kusanabe Clan. A few years later, when Kentaro turned seven, his father decided to train Kentaro to use his kekkei genkai. Kentaro hardly had any power, and couldn't master his kekkei genkai, the Boshigan, which angered his father, Shinta. Shinta then tried to kill him, showing no regrets. Kentaro then felt hatred towards the Kusanabe Clan, claiming that they only cared about power, and not about the well-being of the people. He showed his dark side even more when he returned a day later, only to kill his mother and half of the remaining people of the Kusanabe Clan. Kentaro then left and became a rogue ninja. His current whereabouts are unknown.
I couldn't believe what I was reading. I saw that there was another sheet of paper underneath Kentaro's profile, so I began reading again…
History of the Kusanabe Clan and its leader, Shinta Kusanabe
The Kusanabe Clan showed up around the time of the 2nd Great Ninja War. The people of the Kusanabe Clan carried with them a kekkei genkai known as the Boshigan, or the Prevention Eye, which can repel any attack and send it back towards the enemy. Many of the shinobi villages realized that they posed a great threat. Thinking that they might become too powerful, some of the shinobi villages, including the Village Hidden in the Leaves, decided to keep a close watch on them. However, something went terribly wrong. The Kusanabe Clan realized that they were being watched and tried to fight the Leaf Village Shinobi, but they were too weak. Many of the Clan was killed, causing undying hatred between the Kusanabe Clan and the Leaf Village. To make matters worse, the Leaf Village sent in the Uchiha Clan, a powerful clan in the Leaf Village specializing in the Sharingan, or the Mirror-wheel Eye, to give an ultimatum to the leader, Shinta, stating that either the Kusanabe Clan surrender to the Leaf Village or the Kusanabe Clan will perish then and there by the Uchiha Clan. Having no choice, Shinta surrendered. Soon after, the Kusanabe Clan began to deteriorate, losing the will to fight after suffering humiliation from the Leaf Village. It was around that time that Shinta and his wife, Yuko, had their first child, Kentaro Kusanabe. Many of the Kusanabe Clan believed that he was the one who would be able to get revenge on the Leaf Village and save the clan from extinction. However, the opposite happened. Kentaro had no talent in ninjutsu because he was unable to control his chakra very well, and his taijutsu skills were average. Three years after the 3rd Great Ninja War, Kentaro had had enough. He slaughtered half of the clan, including his mother, claiming that they were inhumane. After that, he left the clan and became a rogue ninja. A month later, Shinta remarried Tsubasa Yamamoto, a shinobi from the Village Hidden in the Stones. Together, they decided to take over the duty of rebuilding the Kusanabe Clan, while at the same time taking care of Shinta's five year old daughter, Ayame, who was born two years after Kentaro. She still doesn't know anything about her past, her brother, or her birth mother.
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I couldn't stop crying. I wanted the pain in my heart to stop. And I wanted to kill my brother for what he did. "Are you alright, Ayame-chan, hmmm?" Deidara asked me. I nodded, but continued to cry. Sasori just looked at me. "We should go back to the hideout. Once we get there, we will see what we should do next." Sasori replied. Deidara nodded and stood up. However, I couldn't move. Sasori left the room, but I was frozen in one spot, still staring at the file. "Ayame-chan, Sasori-danna is leaving, hmmm. We should leave too, hmmm." Seeing that I wouldn't budge, Deidara picked me up and put me on his back. I began to cry some more and just hugged Deidara the whole way back.
