I set the journal down. We had read it from cover to cover. I included the note from my mom. I looked at Mai. She just sat there not saying anything. I draped my arm around her. She looked up at me with a shocked look on her face. "This is how Baa-chan and Grandpa met?"

I nodded. "I didn't know anything about them until I read this journal. I lived alone Mai. With no one. I lived in an apartment and the people there wanted to get rid of me. I lived in fear everyday when I was younger then Suki. I was afraid that people would kill me. There were times when I was in the hospital because I had been beaten up so bad Mai. You have the life that I've always wanted."

"This all happened because of the Kyuubi?" Mai asked flipping through the pages of the journals.

I nodded. "The Kyuubi came to attack our village the day my sister and I was born. I was the first born so I had the Kyuubi sealed inside of me."

Mai looked up at me with confusion in her eyes. "So you're the Kyuubi dad?"

"No. Never think that ever again Mai. I am not the Kyuubi. I just carry the Kyuubi inside of me." I snapped at Mai. I had gotten that so many times it wasn't funny. I didn't need that from my daughter.

"Sorry Dad." Mai whispered.

I hugged her and whispered back. "It's alright Mai-chan."

"Dad, since you have the Kyuubi inside of you...is that why Toshi and I have whiskers like you...?" Mai asked slowly.

"Yes Mai that is why."

"But why?"

I shrugged because Hinata and I didn't know. "I have no idea. You were just born that way. It's like how you have the Byakugan. It's all genetic I guess." I explained.

"Oh, okay," Mai said actually understanding what I said.

I looked over at the clock. "Mai, you have homework and we need to eat dinner." It was ten past eight. We have been reading for the last five hours.

"Okay," Mai said getting off the bed. She was about to walk out of her room when she stopped. She looked at me smiling. I raised my eyebrow at her. She ran over and hugged me. "I love you Otou-san."

I hugged her back. "I love you too Mai-chan."

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"What were you doing in Mai's room for five hours?" Hinata asked when I walked into our bedroom. Toshi was asleep in his room and Suki was in her room. Mai was downstairs eating dinner and doing homework.

I sat on the edge of our bed. "I was reading to her."

"Reading to her? Reading what?"

"My dad's journal."

"What? I thought you weren't going to have her read it until she graduated."

"I thought so too but she picked it up and wouldn't give it back. The only way I could get it back was if I read it to her."

"Did you tell her everything?" Hinata asked. I knew what she was talking about.

I moved my head back and forth. "No, I only told her what she needed to know. I told her that I was the Kyuubi container. I didn't tell her anything after I read the journals."

Hinata nodded thinking of some of the things Mai should not know about at her age. "I think that was a good idea."

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Author's Note: I realize this chapter is short but I think it was the appropriate length. The next chapter is going to be the last. I would go on farther but I think I should have ended the story a couple chapters ago. Until next time!