I had quite an average lifestyle in my early childhood, despite the approaching war around us, my mother and father were quite well off. Things were splendid for our family of four until that fateful day.
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A young blond boy snuck quietly at the crack of dawn through the bedroom of his younger sibling. He was searching for the secret treasure he had been wanting to get his hands on. The bedroom was decorated with an assortment of fans and a purple quilted futon in the middle of the room. He watched his sleeping sister carefully as he approached her night stand. He slowly opened the top drawer of her night stand and pulled out the small purple diary. With a small chuckle he opened it up, but he hadn't been as quiet as he planned to be.
"Deidara what are you doing in my room?!" a high pitched voice yelled.
"Uh oh busted!" Deidara spun around looking upon his little sister. Her eyes were tired and her hair was a frumpled disaster.
"Nothing Ino." He played innocently as he hid the secret book behind his back.
"Lair! What are you doing with my dairy?" She squealed before hopping out of bed and darted toward him.
He quickly dodged her and ran out of her room with Ino hot on his heals. He ran through different rooms in the house knocking things and breaking them.
"So little sis whose Sasuke?" He questioned as he ran into the kitchen were a delicious aroma filled both their nostrils.
"None of your business! Now give it back!" she screamed after him.
"Would you two stop running in the kitchen! You could get hurt."
Their mother snapped glaring at the two running around the kitchen.
She turned back to her frying pan on the stove.
Deidara ran recklessly past his mother laughing. Ino followed him, ignoring their mother's warning. Deidara hopped up on the kitchen table and held the diary in his hands. "Catch me if you can!" He yelled. Ino hoped onto the chair and tried to grab the book from his hands, but Deidara was already off the table and he rushed to the opposite side of the kitchen where a screen door gave him the hope of victory and escape.
Ino too, leapt down and rushed toward him through the center of the kitchen, her blonde hair falling into her face and causing her to lose her barring. She clumsily bumped right into her mother's arm. Hot boiling oil flew out of the pan right into Ino's eyes. She fell to the hard tile floor screaming in agony.
"Oh god Ino!" Her mother gasped quickly collected her in her arms.
She brushed the molten strands of hair away from the shaken child's face and looked to at her daughters scorched eyes. What have I done? She thought to herself.
"Deidara Quickly run go get the doctor!" She ordered her shocked son, "Deidara now!"
Deidara snapped out of his daze and quickly ran out of the house, dropping the diary at the threshold of the door.
"Mommy it hurts. Please make it stop hurting." Ino cried, instinctively she wished to rub her eyes, but Rin pushes her hands down, keeping her from damaging them further.
"It's ok baby mommy's here" She choked out carrying her daughter to her room.
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Inoichi was walking home from another long day at the bank, anxious to eat the delicious dinner he knew his wife planned on making. He arrived at the house a few moments later where He noticed a black carriage in front.
Immediately he recognized it as the town's doctor who frequently made house calls. A sense of panic overtook him, flowing through his veins as he quickly rushed into his house. Upon entering, he saw his wife comforting his sobbing son.
"Rin what happened? Why is Deidara Crying?" He looked around, noticing his daughter was nowhere to be seen. "Where is Ino?" He panicked.
"Inochi.." Rin started. "They were running…..I should have stopped them….Ino she…..H-her eyes…..It's all my fault." She sobbed holding Deidara closer as the doctor came out of Ino's room.
"Doctor." Inoichi rushed to him, uncertain what the situation looked like.
"Calm down sir. She is just fine. Her injury isn't life threatening." He held up his hands as a calmig gesture to the girls frantic father.
"Injury?!" Inoichi choked out. "What happened to her?"
"There was an accident in the kitchen. Apparently the two were monkeying around and bumped into their mother. The oil from a pan she was cooking in, landed directly into her eyes causing permanent damage."
"What do you mean doctor?" Tears forming in his eyes.
"Mr. Yamanaka your daughter is blind." He started. "I'm afraid the damage is irreversible."
"Oh god no." He whispered leaning against the wall.
Slowly he slunk down the wall to the floor. He looked to the ceiling tears streaming down his face when something purple caught his eyes. Looking over to the threshold he spotted Ino's diary. Slowly leaning over he picked it up, opening it to the last entry.
"Dear diary, I can't wait for tomorrow. Daddy and mommy are taking me and Nii-san to see the cherry trees. Daddy said he'd let me sit on his shoulders! He's the best daddy in the world!"
Inoichi hugged the small book to his chest and sobbed.
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Soon after that my mother died of Tuberculosis. Daddy hired a nanny to help take care of me and Deidara while he was at work. Though one day while "playing" outside I fell and broke my arm. Daddy became overly protective after that. He didn't allow me outside anymore and if I did go out, I couldn't go any further then the porch. I've spent six years locked up in my house no my prison. Sitting in nothing but darkness every day. Until the day He showed me the light again.