Eita's POV

The next day, I was talking to Lord Hokage because he wanted to see how I was doing. I told him that Inari was being good and I've made friends with Naruto.

"I'm glad to hear that," Lord Hokage said with a smile. "By the way, Eita. You weren't in class a couple of days ago to meet your jonin teacher. Where were you?"

"Oh... Well..." I trailed off. How am I supposed to tell him that I dozed off while walking into the woods and Inari teleported us to the Rain Village? "It's a really long story," I said instead. "I should be going home. My mom will start to worry if I'm out too long."

"See you tomorrow, Eita." Lord Hokage said with a smile before letting me leave. I left the Hokage House and headed back home.

When I got home, I noticed how quiet it was. "That's strange. Why is it so quiet in here?" I mumbled as I took off my shoes. I paused as my eyes widened in terror when I saw a blood splatter on the wall. "Teruko? Mom? Dad?" I called, nervously.

This can't be good. Actually, I know it can't be good. I ran inside the house to find the living room a mess as furniture was everywhere. I slowly looked at the floor, spotting Mom, Dad, and Teruko's corpses laying there with a pool of blood surrounding them.

"Eita? What's wrong? Why'd you get quiet all of a sudden?" Inari asked. I took off my eyepatch so she could see what I was seeing. When the eyepatch was off and Inari could see, she gasped at my family's dead bodies. "How... could this have happened? We weren't even gone that long. How was this to happen in just a short amount of time?" Inari asked.

"Who would do this? Why would anyone do this?" I whispered. I fell to my knees and began to cry as snow started to fall from the ceiling. "Why...? Why did this have to happen?" I asked. I don't want to be alone again...

I started sobbing as Inari hugged me from behind, crying silently with me. If this is the life I have to live, then what's the point of going on? Why go through so much when you can just end it?

But that would result to even more tears, more pain, and more sorrow. That won't change. Nothing will...