Secrets out
Walking up to his family home, Ryu found the air around him suddenly become thick with hate and anger. He looked around the front yard to see where it was coming from, be could sense that the source was coming from the house. Guessing that his parents were fighting again, he moved closer to the door. He knocked on the door once and waited for a few moments for someone to open the door, seeing that no one was coming, he knocked again, this time a bit louder. He sighed and walked around to the side of the house that his room was on, using his many years of training, Ryu climbed the side of the walls and silently snuck into his room like he had been doing for years now whenever he didn't want to stick around his family at night. He walked out of his room and down the hallway to where the source of the killing intent, he found that it was his parent's room, "I wonder what's going on?" He shrugged and continued to the room that his parents slept in, he was going to knock on the door, but the sound of someone crying stopped him, "huh? Is that-is that dad's voice??" He was shocked, alarmed even, never in his life had he ever heard his dad cry before, he never saw him shed a tear before either. So why now? Jumping to conclusions, Ryu rushed into the room, "dad! Dad, I'm here, what's wrong?" He said as he ran over to the blond who was a spitting image of his older and younger brother. He looked upon his father's crying face with worry when the older blond only answered him with more sobs, "dad?" He started again, cautiously taking a step closer to his father's crying form on the bed, he brought up the one thing that he knew would get an answer this time, "Is this about mom?" He asked.
Minato's head snapped up quickly to look up at the person who dared to mention that demon's name, he scowled at the mare mention of that woman's name. He retracted his scowl when he noticed his second-oldest son in front of him. "Ryu? What are you doing here?" Minato asked as he dried his tears.
Ryu shrugged as he walked over to the bed to take a seat next to his father, "donno, I guess I wanted to talk to you and mom. You know, see how things are going since the quadruplets started walking and whatnot," Ryu rubbed the back of his neck. "I know you and she has been having some trouble recently, but I wasn't sure of how much until now," he looked at the floor, "are you guys getting divorced?"
Minato looked at his son with sad eyes, "I..." he started but stopped, were they getting a divorced? After what he found out about his son that day, after finding out what she did to one of his babies. Was that even a question? Minato sighed, "maybe, I don't know about that right now, I guess I'm...still in shock is all."
Ryu looked up at his father, "shock? The shock of what, dad?"
Minato looked at Ryu for a few moments, should he tell him? It is the younger brother, after all, he would want to know what happened, right? Minato took in a deep breath before starting to speak again, "Ryu, I don't know how you're going to take this, but....your mother did something. She did something bad to your brother, Naruto, it happened a long time ago and....and I don't know why or how she did it, but....uhm. I-I guess I just wanted to let you know now before you find out some other way from someone else later."
Ryu was confused, his mother did something to his little brother, Naruto? What was it? When was it? Was it the reason why he ran away with the other two all those years ago? "Dad?" He started, he watched as Minato looked at him for a moment before turning his face to the wall next to the bed, before he looked away, Ryu saw deep sorrow in his father's eyes. The type of sorrow that buries itself deep within the center of your inner being and sits there, rotting, until you can't take it anymore. It eats away at you, trying to make it's way out, to see the light once more, but you know that if you let it out, it will swallow you up the whole. Bury you deep within itself and sufficient you until you give in to its will. That feeling was something dangerous to have, it was the cause of suicides everywhere.....so why did his dad have that look? "Dad?" Ryu tried again, Minato didn't answer, "dad? C'mon, talk to me, please?"
Minato clenched his hands into a fist as his tears returned to his eyes full force, "I'm sorry," he said in a small, whispered voice.
It was so quiet that Ryu also didn't hear it, but he still heard it, "sorry for what, dad, did you do something wrong?"
Minato nodded, "yes," he whispered again as he tried to rid himself of his tears.
Ryu put a hand on his shoulder, "what happened, dad? You can tell me, can't you?" He placed a hand on Minato's shoulder, making side man jump a bit but relax in soon after, "I won't tell anyone what happened if you don't want me to."
Minato shook his head, "no, it's not that, I can't..." he wiped some more of his tears away, but they just kept coming.
"Can't what? Can't tell me what she did to Naruto?"
"Yes"
"Why not?" Ryu was starting to get worried about what it was that his mom had done to his little brother. It must have been really bad since his father can't even speak of it.
"She...she...she," Minato swallowed the lump in his throat.
Ryu was getting anxious now, he didn't like beating around the bush for a reason, wasting so much time trying to get out what you want to say. Who had time for all that fuss anyways, getting up off the bed, he stood up in front of his father, placed his hands on both of his dad's shoulder's and looked him right in the eyes. "Dad, I'm a big boy now, I can take whatever bad news you have to give to me. Remember, I'm in ANBU now, I've seen somethings, done stuff, and I know more than I did when I was six, so come on...spit it out already."
Minato looked up into Ryu's deep blue eyes that matched his own, "have you seen a mother kill her son for drugs?" Ryu froze at that comment, the coldness of the tone sent shivers up and down his spine, "have you seen any mother sell her son's dead body off to some shady dealer drugs and then did something to bring him back to life?..... Well, have you, son?"
Ryu looked into Minato's tear-stained face, he was looking for the lie, any small hint that he was lying. Something told him that this was the truth, something told him that he knew what his father was talking about, but something else inside of him told him that he wasn't allowed to know about it. He wanted to know why that was, but again, something inside of him told him that he wasn't allowed to know, didn't want to know. "Wha-what?" Ryu answered, "y-yo-you're joking, right? Right, dad?"
Minato slowly rose from his spot on the bed, "she doesn't want us to know, never wanted us to find out what happened that day. The truth behind it all, the reason for the eye. She never wanted us to know the reason why the eye is green, why it's like that, why him, why them? Why them! Why! WHY! WHY!" He shouted.
Ryu was getting scared now, "dad, what are you talking about? What doesn't who want us to know?"
Minato sat back down on the bed with his head in his hands, "she doesn't want us to know."