They stared at each other for a few minutes. A period of time in where Menma could see the contempt in those dark onyx eyes.

"What are you doing here? You're no longer my son!" The man yelled filled with rage. The man was only holding himself back because the police was right here.

"But you'll always be my Dad. Even if you didn't really act much like one. It's kind of your fault things turned out like this, at least in a certain level." The boy said with a lot of firmness to it.

"Now you're blaming me for you turning gay? No, you're not just gay. You're an abomination! That's what you are!" He screamed again.

The boy noticed that his Dad's eyes were full of hatred.

"And what about you!? Dad, you should've taught me how to respect other people. I only acted the way I did so, that I could make you proud. All those people I hurt. I never once stopped to think about their feelings. They were also human beings who had feelings. My family name and money didn't give me the right to mistreat others."

"Just shut the fuck up and leave!"

"No, now you're going to hear me out. You're going to listen to everything that I've kept locked inside of me. You turned my siblings into my enemies because, everything was a battle to the death to get your attention. Why did you enjoy watching someone hurt other people? You never put a stop to me or taught me how to be responsible."

"What does any of that have to do with you being..."

"Do you know who the man that appears in the video is? A guy that one of the girls who I played with hired. She hired him out of revenge. Just so that he would humiliate me the same way I humiliated her. I can't say that I blame her. After all of this, I've become a better person. Both you and Grandpa can keep your ignorance and bitterness. Let's go mom."

This would be the last time that he would ever speak with his Dad or see his Grandfather in a very long time.

His mother and him stayed at Gaara's house for some short time until they moved to a new apartment.

"I sold the wedding ring your Dad gave to me. It was a diamond ring and it was worth a lot more. But oh well, it's enough to buy this place and the furniture."

It was a small place. It had two plain rooms. Two beds and some electrical house-hold appliances. But Menma felt this place a lot more cosy than that mansion filled with solitude. The place he had been in his entire life. At least in this new place there would be no repression.

"I'm going to buy more stuff. I'm about to sell an emerald ring that he gave me. The bad thing is that I'll have to lower the price but, I'm thinking of paying for your university right now."

"I promise I'll study a lot so that I can earn a scholarship."

She smiled and hugged him.

"I'm going to form a partnership with Gaara's mom. At Karura's beauty business. I have contacts and as soon as I sell my diamond choker I'm going to put in some money and buy a car. Although, it's not going to be super fancy."

"Mom, don't worry about it. This place is perfect and I'll get a job."

"No, little guy. You're going to study and get that scholarship you promised me."

She told him as she smiled again.

"Mom, there's something I have to tell you. I'm not so sure about my sexual preferences. I..."

"That doesn't bother me. It's 2020 already and I can understand if someone falls in love for a person of their same sex. But, but that man. Well... Do you feel something for him?"

Menma lowered his head. He felt shame because, after everything he did to him and the way he treated him. He couldn't stop feeling like this over him.

"I wouldn't like having that man close to you. I don't want to see you hurt again."

They finished putting things in their place. And little by little, the love he felt for Tobi went numb. It still didn't disappear but, it went numb and was locked away in the deepest part of his heart. Time went by and Menma went to the university. He studied Business Administration and gave it his best. He got the scholarship, just like promised his mom. He kept on hanging out with Gaara and made some new friends. Naruko and Karura prospered in their business and the business grew until it turned into a prosperous little company. It seemed like the bad things were a thing of the past.

Every one of us is going to have bad moments. Every one is going to hurt someone even if we don't realize it. We all make mistakes too and suffer the consequences. But, it's all up to us if that suffering is in vain or if it's going to make us learn from it. To make us into better people. We have to try to put the pain behind us because, the hate and time that we waste in trying to take revenge on the person who hurt us won't give us back what was taken from us.

It was a cold night. A couple of students in their third semester of Business Administration went outside laughing. On a Friday night, some pushed against one another and their laughter was echoing. The people stared at them like if they were crazy but, it was a Friday night. They would surely go to a club to party. In the middle of all the ruckus and people. There was a sudden chill in the air. But no one noticed it. No one noticed the supernatural air that surrounded everything. It was like a presence with a mind of its own that passed through the locked doors of the houses and haunted dreams. It played with the dogs and cats that ran terrified once they saw it. That latent darkness that makes you tremble in fear when you're alone. The one that's been around throughout history and has been called several different names. The one that sometimes takes on a different form. Too grotesque to even imagine but, some other times it's quite subtle and disguised in a harmless way. Something that makes it impossible to suspect until, it's too late.

Two lurking shadows hidden in the darkness were watching the spectacle.

"Look at that. What a group of dynamic teens." A 9 year old boy said. But the look in his eyes said that he's lived through a lot more than that. His face was white as snow and it looked as soft as porcelain. His lips were rosy pink and his big round black eyes that looked like coal. Eyes that were shining softly like if deep inside of them, the pits of hell existed. His straight ebony black hair was in a low ponytail.

"That's the kid who should be 20 years now?" Asked a very tall and muscular man with a distinctive shark-like face.

"Tell me, Kisame?"

"What do you want to know Itachi?"

"Does he know anything?" He asked with a curious look in his childish face.

"I don't think so."

"He's a beautiful boy. I do find him very attractive. However, his good looks are nothing out of this world. Are you sure that this kid is going to make Obito appear? Why is he so important to him?"

"That's what we're going to find out." Kisame said with a smirk on his face.

"Very well then. But you better come up with something good." The small boy said before he disappeared in the shadows.

The End

終わり (Owari)

Thank you all for reading this story. It's the first time I ever write something this long and complex.

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