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Chapter 11

Reunion 2

Akiko and Dewu watched their friend as they arrived in their village. Reporting into the gate guards on duty, the trio had begun walking towards their destination with silence. Even now as the people come out to greet them, they stop and pause in concern. Those who live here have known Eiji, to be bright and friendly, always willing to say hello in even the darkest of days.

For him to not return those hellos, it meant something was wrong.

"Akiko, Dewu... You two go ahead and head home. This is something I have to do alone." Eiji said quietly as he paused in the middle of the street. His two friends nodding their head in understanding, before they left him, Dewu who was considered the sensible one of the trio spoke.

"Whatever happens man, remember two things. One is that we have your back always." The youth told his blonde friend. Akiko nodding her head as she smiled softly. "And two...even if she did lie...she is also still your mother Eiji. Don't forget that."

That said the two leaps off in different directions for home. The blonde continuing to walk forward, it is another 10 minutes before he arrives at his destination. Tall and models after the one in Konoha from what his mother had told him, he steps into the tower of the village leader.

Who just happens to be his mother, one Kushina Uzumaki.

Walking towards the rooms that hold her office, he looks to the guards with a quiet gaze. "Prior notice...my mother and I will more then likely be having a huge fight shortly. Don't interfere."

Startled to say the least at his statements, the guards just watch as Eiji kicks open the door. A red headed woman as well as a dark haired one standing next to one another, Eiji sights are on only one of them, as they whirl around.

With vibrant red hair that's a deep scarlet color and brilliant green eyes, Kushina Uzumaki despite being 45 years old looked as if she had not aged past 30. Seeing her son, she is about to greet him when she notices the anger in his features.

"Eiji? Son? What's wrong? What makes you so upset? Is it Akiko...Dewu? Where are they?"

The blonde youth remaining silent towards her questions, she is ignored as her son looks to the woman beside her. "Sari, it is best you leave now."

Surprised to say the least by the barely controlled rage in his voice, the brunette looks to go as something tells her that to stick around would be bad. Her instincts in high gear, she is halted as her employer and friend halts her.

"Sari, you stay here. My son has forgotten he has not authority here and we still have things to discuss."

"No authority." The blonde voiced out with anger and bitterness, before the woman could respond. "No authority you say mother? And here I am come to make a report as we talk. Do the names, Minato and Naruto Namikaze mean anything to you?"

Paling considerably, the woman nodded her head as she released the dark haired woman. "Maybe it is best that you go Sari."

"But mother, didn't you say that you and she still had things to discuss?" Eiji replied angrily. "It's to late now; you had your chance to send her away."

"Son, please..."

"Please what mother? When were you going to tell me I had a brother? Specifically a twin brother, whom you apparently abandoned? When were you going to tell me that my father was the famed Yellow Flash?"

The other woman listening, she gasps in shock and surprise at what she has just overheard. Even outside their voices were loud enough to be heard the guards themselves find themselves startled by what the son of their leader had just said.

Their leader who advocates teamwork and unity abandoned someone?

And not just anyone...a son? She had more then one son?

"So why mother? Why did you not tell me about them hmmm? And by the way if it is about what my father did that night, you can save it."

"How...how did you find out?" Kushina said softly.

"They told me mother. Guess who I ran into along with team while on a patrol that you sent us out on."

"It's not possible...your father's dead....and your brother..." The woman protested weakly. "It's not possible...."

"Yes mother it is very much indeed possible. My brother? The one who holds back one of the 9 within him? The one that even now as I stand here is alone with my father and not harming anyone? Both are right now in the forest just outside our home very much ALIVE!"

"No! What you saw had to be an illusion! Minato is dead! Naruto was just as good as with all the attempts that people were making on his life!"

"Well I can tell you right now although my father told me he doesn't understand how he came back quite yet. He is a living breathing man, and my brother is as well. So tell me the truth mother. And don't give me this just as good as dead crap."

"Eiji, son, it is why. Your brother was beside me along with you and in that first week alone several people tried to kill him. Some had even mistaken you for him. I had to leave! I had to protect you! I knew the Third and his godparents would look after him!"

"So you left him because you were afraid of others mother? Others that attacked me thinking I was him? I say bullshit." Eiji replied with scorn. "My mother, the famed Red Death of Whirlpool, a woman who is said to have been able to battle the greatest of ninjas and come out on top...was afraid of those trying to kill her children? When she could take them out in battle? I say Bull fucking shit!"

"Watch your language!"

"No! I want to know the truth mother! I want to know why you abandoned my brother! Dewu and Akiko both said something to me about twins when we met Naruto and my father. Said something that ringed to true to be real! Those nightmares I've had since I was a child...they weren't nightmares! It was him! It was my brother reaching out to me! A brother, that needed me as much as I needed him!" Eiji whispered out bitterly. "I had family mother. A family that you lied to me about and said didn't exist!"

Reaching out to comfort him, as her motherly instincts command, Kushina was hurt as he pulled away rapidly. "Don't touch me!"

"Eiji please...."

"Why...why did you not tell me about them?" The youth looked at her as he stood up with a gaze that breaks her heart as he turns away. "You have a day mother to figure it out." The blonde youth said quietly. "You have a day to come up with the truth."

"Eiji, I just told you..."

"And I still say bullshit mother that is no excuse for what you did to me and my brother. Denying our existence to one another." The youth stated in pain. His words soft and cutting to her very soul as he speaks again.

"Eiji...please...don't. I didn't mean..."

"Save it. Did you know I overhead him say that someone he refers to as Baa-chan has become more of a mother to him then you would ever be? That this Baa-chan was the first woman to even show him what a mother was like? And there I am protesting because I thought I had the greatest mother in the world. The woman who raised me was not to be compared to anyone." Eiji stated coldly as he turned to look at her emotional green eyes with intense pain in his blue ones. "I am bringing them into the village the day after tomorrow. And then I and I am pretty sure that they will want answers as well mother. And if you can't give me or them what we want..."

"Eiji?" She whispered as her heart pounded. Knowing what is to come, she braces herself for the pain and the hurt that was sure to follow.

"Then I'm leaving...I will leave this village. My father said there was someone after Naruto. And that he would be damned before he would loose him again." The blonde youth replied. "And I agree with him, I will go with my father and my brother and aide them as best as I can."

"You can't! I won't let you!"

"I will not be denied getting to know them mother! I will not be stopped helping them survive! So to paraphrase you mother...when the time comes just try and stop me."

That said the blonde walked out of the office as the woman collapsed to the ground in tears. The brunette comforting her as best she could, just seeing the normally strong woman that weak and hearing of what she had done had already begun to spread.

With each person who hears, confusion and the loss of what could only be respect in the eyes of some has begun.

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I was kind of feeling a good mood within me, because you are all reviewing a lot. Me likey...makes me actually want to work on it.