[Well, Kaoru did ask for direct questions, and should have assumed that questions like these in particular would follow... But they're still incredible difficult to hear and even harder to answer. He doesn't need to answer them, technically; but it hadn't been a secret back home. It's not something to keep hush about for self-preservation like most of his secrets so much as it's just for his own personal comfort, because he's filled with a lot of Furious Kaoru Feelings™ about the entire situation.
It would be easier to say "there was an accident" or to skirt around the subject once more, but he won't treat his birth family's demise in the same way that he treats the demise of the Nagumo clan. He had stepped around actually saying what happened earlier, when the topic of being from the same clan was first broached with Shuu, but there is no mincing of words now.]
They were slaughtered by humans.
[And apparently no other clan stepped up to the plate or perhaps the Nagumos are actual insane kidnappers WE JUST DON'T KNOW, but one way or another, that's how the dice fell.]
No one was left to take me in, and so the Nagumo clan generously did instead.
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[Well, Kaoru did ask for direct questions, and should have assumed that questions like these in particular would follow... But they're still incredible difficult to hear and even harder to answer. He doesn't need to answer them, technically; but it hadn't been a secret back home. It's not something to keep hush about for self-preservation like most of his secrets so much as it's just for his own personal comfort, because he's filled with a lot of Furious Kaoru Feelings™ about the entire situation.
It would be easier to say "there was an accident" or to skirt around the subject once more, but he won't treat his birth family's demise in the same way that he treats the demise of the Nagumo clan. He had stepped around actually saying what happened earlier, when the topic of being from the same clan was first broached with Shuu, but there is no mincing of words now.]
They were slaughtered by humans.
[And apparently no other clan stepped up to the plate or perhaps the Nagumos are actual insane kidnappers WE JUST DON'T KNOW, but one way or another, that's how the dice fell.]
No one was left to take me in, and so the Nagumo clan generously did instead.