"later on that day, I sat outside of the hokages office"

Two anbu stood by orochimarus side as he sat in a chair alone waiting to be seen by the hokage, still images were going through his head of what he had done. The door finally opened as orochimaru stood up and walked in being led by the anbu.

The hokage was sitting at his desk giving orochimaru a very stern glare "orochimaru you know why you're here right?" "y-yes sir" "ok then tell me" orochimaru took a deep breath to calm his nerves "I stabbed a kid on the play ground" "yes, and why did you do this?" the hokage asked. "Because he was hurting ryuu"

The hokage gave orochimaru a long look examining his facial expression, he looked almost sad for what he had done but at the same time successful. There was a sigh and then a long silence which was broken by the hokage "the boy is in the hospital..nothing serious, I will let you off with a warning but one more stunt like this and I will take serious measures" orochimaru looked up surprised that he got away so easily "ok sir, I understand" The hokage motioned for orochimaru to leave and he did not hesitate, orochimaru darted out smiling to himself.

Back at the house tsunade and jiraiya were watching ryuu while at the same time talking amongst themselves at what had happened. "it was all like aahh and then all like aahh! And orochimaru was like aahhhhh! And then that sword was like wooosh!" jiraiya explained jumping on the couch and imitating what orochimaru had done with a butter knife. Tsunade sighed "im just glad no one was seriously hurt" she looked to ryuu who was playing with a ball "I guess orochimarus instinct from living alone for so long is still there"

Just then orochimaru walked in panting from running the distance. Jiraiya wasted no time with his rant "oh my god orochimaru that was amazing! You whooped ass!" he explained running over. But orochimaru stepped right by him and walked over to ryuu kneeling down, jiraiya looked over "huh?"

Ryuu looked up to orochimaru holding the ball in his hands "owo?" orochimaru embraced ryuu in a tight warm hug his hair was slightly covering his eyes but he was smiling a little. Tsunade stands up "let's go jiraiya" the two of them exited leaving orochimaru and ryuu alone.

Ryuu could feel his sleeve getting wet he looked confused "owo? What's wrong?" Orochimaru was crying slightly he forced himself to talk "w-we need to talk ryuu…about mom and dad" ryuus light immediately light up "are they back!" "no…" "did we get a letter from them!" "no..ryuu listen"

Orochimaru gently grabbed ryuus shoulders and made him look him in the eyes. Ryuus expression went from happy and excited to worried and concerned "what is it owo?" Orochimaru took a deep breath "mom and dad…aren't coming back" ryuu tilted his head confused "what?" "that fire that I rescued you from, they never made it out of that…ryuu…mom and dad are dead"

Ryuus eyes grew wide as his ball slipped from his hands "w-what?" orochimaru sighed "im sorry I didn't tell you sooner I should have but I didn't, im so sorry" he looked down as the sounds of his sniffling brother filled his ears. "n-no they can't be dead, you promised they'd come for us" "ry I know I promised that but-"suddenly ryuu pulled away from orochimarus grasp "YOU PROMISED ME OWO! YOU PROMISED!" orochimaru looked to his brother and saw nothing but pain, fear, and sarrow in his crying face "ryuu i…" "YOU DON'T BREAK PROMISES OWO! YOU PROMISED ME YOU WOULDN'T!" and with that he ran into his room slamming the door shut.

Orochimaru was stunned, his brother had never exploded at him like that before he just sat there staring at the door in shock. Tsunade walked into the house quietly and looked over to orochimaru she had been listening the entire time "orochimaru?" there was no answer. Tsunade walked over hesitantly "orochimaru…I heard everything" she sat next to him hugging him "im proud of you for telling him" "h-he's crying…he looked so sad" "well it's a lot for him to take in, he's very young orochimaru"

Orochimaru let his head hang low as tsunade stroked his hair "what made you decide to tell him now?" "…after what happened today, I realized even when were safe I could lose him at any moment…I felt I should tell him now before I ever lose the chance and regret it"

Tsunade said "oh…you still did the right thing" he sighed sadly and lightly nudged tsunade off himself "just go away" tsunade stared at him for a minute then stood up walking out. Orochimaru walked into his room and crawled his way into bed sluggishly. He curled up still silently weeping to himself.

Later that night while orochimaru lingered between consonances the door swung open, a small figure walked into the room and climbed into orochimarus bed. Orochimarus eyes fluttered open as he witnessed ryuu wiggling into the covers next to him then curling up close to him. Orochimaru pulled ryuu into a close hug "im sorry ryuu" "its ok owo…"

"we didn't sleep that night, we just laid there silently"