No more hiding (Naruto fanfic)

Chapter twenty four: A 'friendly' dinner

   I finally reach Tuzuna's house and low and behold. Kushina and Kakashi where standing at the front door waiting for me. I walk inside they follow close behind me. The rest of the two teams are sitting around the table waiting for Tsunami to finish cooking dinner. Sasuke and Naru look half dead as they lay on the table panting heavily. Sai, Sakura and Nanami are a little sweaty but are no where as bad as Sasuke and Naru. I sit beside Sai knowing he is the only one who won't verbally attack me just because I sat down. Tsunami brings dinner to the table and everyone puts food onto their plates and begin to eat.

    Halfway​ though the dinner Sakura spots a picture on a table nearby. She points to the picture and says.

"Who is the man in the photo?"

  The atmosphere of the room changes. Inari has bowed his head so his hair covers his eyes. Tuzuna's grip on his sake bottle tighten until his knuckles turn white and Tsunami's eyes gloss over with unshed tears. Tsunami opens her mouth and responds.

"He was my husband..."

  Inari slams his hand on the table. He looks up clearly holding in tears. Inari gets up and goes into what I assumed was the kitchen. Tsunami reaches out to stop him from leaving but Tuzuna grabs her wrist. Tuzuna shakes his head silently telling Tsunami not to go after Inari. Tsunami sighs and sits back down at the table.

  Sakura decides to speak up clearly not able to read the atmosphere. Everyone else can read it the atmosphere is saying be quite and don't say anything else about the photo. But being the fan girl she is she asks.

"What happened to you husband?"

  This causes Tsunami to go into an in-depth story of how her late husband saved Inari's life. How he was a Hero in the land of the waves and how her was killed by Gato's men in front of the town's people including Inari. At the end of her story Sakura, Nanami and Kushina had a few tears in their eyes. Kakashi, Sasuke and Naru seem to be in deep thought. What are Sai and me like after this story. We are completely unfazed both of us have either been though worse or have very strong emotional masks.

Inari came back into the room. He stands in the doorway tears in his eyes he opened his mouth and started yelling at us. Say that we are all going to die that their are no such things as heroes. He yells saying that he has had such a horrible life. Finally I snap.

" Well at least you have a mother and grandfather that love you! I was kicked out of the orphanage and had to live on the streets or in a crappy abandoned apartment building! I've never had a single friend my age in my life! I was hunted down every year on my birthday to be beaten never knowing why! If you think your life is bad try to live a day in mine!"

  At the end of my rant I'm standing in front of Inari my fists clenched against my sides my bangs shadowing my eyes from view and my breath laboured. Inari is looking at me with fear in his eyes he runs past me going to what to my knowledge is his bedroom.

  I walk towards the door. Once I place my hand on the door knob I turn my head and say. "I'm going to go train. Please don't bother me I'll be back at breakfast." And with out another word I open the door and run off into the forest to find somewhere to train.