3 - A bad dream....

After getting scolded by the food shop owner, Kirito knew that it had started and there would not be any way for them to buy food from that shop owner again. So he thought of not going to that food shop and nearby shops again.

After returning to their apartment, Naruto and Kirito ate their breakfast with two different things in mind.

Naruto was thinking about why everyone hates the two of them so much and why the villagers call them demon fox.

On the other hand, Kirito was thinking about where they would get food for lunch and dinner. While thinking about their food problem, he heard Naruto asking him, "Why does everyone hate us and why do they call us demon fox?"

While eating and deep in thought, Kirito came back to reality with his brother's sudden question about something that he was too early to know.

So Kirito looked at Naruto and diverted the question with another one, "I am more worried about what we are going to eat for lunch."

"Why would you worry about that? We can just go to another shop and buy something to eat," Naruto answered as if he was looking at someone stupid.

"We can try, but did you forget the look he was giving us? I don't think other shopkeepers didn't see us. Ok, so they will also not sell us food," Kirito said, making Naruto worried as he finally caught up with the problem.

"So what will we do then?" Naruto said with a worried tone.

"We can go a little further away and buy something to eat, but this time we will buy all the food at the same time.

Also, we need to continue this process until we can't buy any more," Kirito said absentmindedly as he drank milk.

"Then what will we do?" Naruto said, still with a worried tone.

"We will see when it is time. Anyway, let's go out, and I want to see how they practice in the academy," Kirito said as he drank the last drop of his milk.

"Yes, let's go," Naruto said excitedly as he also wanted to see the shinobi training.

This way, the twins started to spend their days, and finally, after 3 months, they were out of food stock as no one in the village agreed to sell food to them. After starving, the twins fell asleep.

While asleep, Kirito had a nightmare. Currently, he was running after a red-haired woman who died a long time ago.

She was calling her son, but no matter how much he ran, he was never able to catch up to his mother.

Then suddenly, a huge nail made a hole in her stomach as she coughed a mouthful of blood onto Kirito's face.

When she stopped and Kirito finally caught up to his mother, he found her lying on the bloody ground, looking at her little boy who had tears of blood in his eyes as he knelt down on the ground to see his mother when he heard someone calling his name.

Then suddenly, he found himself in a dark space, and under his foot, he discovered that the ground he was standing on was covered with a lot of water.

But that wasn't the main issue here, because there was a huge cage in front of him, and he was sure that the sound or the voice he heard calling his name was coming from inside that cage.

As Kirito walked near the cage, a huge eye opened and looked at him.

The eye had a dark red pupil, a fox pupil, and light red irises with a clear white sclera.

Kirito fell back out of fear when he saw the huge eye, which was even bigger than him, at least 4 to 5 times bigger.

But soon he remembered, "It looks familiar; isn't it the eye of the nine tails?"

After this realization, Kirito, while still shaking with fear, looked at the nine-tailed fox with great resolve, and his fear turned into anger.

After staring at each other for a little while, the nine tails got angry at Kirito for giving that look, as it asked, "Stop looking at me with that hateful look, kid. Do you think I won't devour you alive?"

The nine-tailed fox knew that the look it was getting from this small boy was different from any other because Kirito wasn't looking at it hatefully out of fear like others.

All the people looked at it with hate because they were afraid of its power, which gave birth to hatred for it in their hearts and similar feelings.

However, the nine-tailed fox could clearly see that the look that Kirito currently had didn't contain a small amount of fear but only hatred towards it, nothing else.

This little kid in front of it didn't care that it was a tailed beast or anything; he only had hate for it.

"You stupid fox, dare you say something like that? How can you even talk even after what you have done?" Kirito said as he looked at the nine-tailed fox with rage, remembering the sad face of his mother - the woman who tried to save her sons and place them in safe hands even at the moment of her death.

He remembered the look she had when she was looking at him with that motherly love and care.

Even though he reincarnated and knows everything, he still can't act like the things that are happening in front of him are fake.

After all, he remembers the sad face of his mother, the care that she showed toward her little son, and everything that happened till now. The more he thinks about it, the angrier he gets.

After hearing Kirito calling it stupid, it really got surprised. After all, this is the first time someone called it stupid.

Not only that, the one that called it stupid is just a kid, so it wanted to laugh.

But then it heard Kirito saying that it had done something to the little boy, but it doesn't remember what wrong thing it has done to get such hatred from this little kid.

'Is it because I am sealed inside the kid and the villagers hate him, or is it because he gets mistreated by people because of me?' the nine-tailed fox thought but didn't know the exact reason as it asked, looking at the small boy, because there were really too many reasons for the little boy to hate it.

"What did I do to you, boy, that you are so angry at me and looking at me with such eyes, filled with so much anger and hate that you are not even afraid that I could kill you instantly?"

"You ask me why I hate you, you ask me why I ask you?" Kirito asked again and again with full rage as he looked at the nine-tailed fox, who nodded at him, then said, "You dare ask me what you have done to me even after killing my parents and you think I will be afraid of the murderer of my parents, the murderer who killed my parents in cold blood with his huge nail stabbing them in their belly." Kirito said as tears of blood started coming from his eyes, and he rubbed his eyes.

"Wait, are you telling me you remember who your parents are and their identity?" the nine-tailed fox asked, surprised, as it knows that at the time of the death of Kushina and Minato, Kirito had just been born in this world, and he was a small baby. So he shouldn't remember who they were; after all, that is impossible.

"Of course I know who they were.

They..."

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