I know I absolutely should not start a new story…but I can't help it. Every author on this site knows that it is impossible to stop new ideas from coming in your mind and well this idea was bothering me for some time.
I'm can't write 'Most precious' right now for some reason…but I'm trying to…expect an update for the story before mid july. My other story 'A game with time' is reaching its climax and getting complicated giving me more stress then relieving it!
So please try to forgive me and enjoy this new story. I'll finish all my stories. Promise. :D
Warning: Nothing really. :D
I don't own Naruto…just the plot.
The Uchiha clan head Uchiha Fugaku sighed in relief when the pained screams of his wife died down and instead a loud cry of a baby rang through the hospital.
'Finally…' he thought slumping down on the plastic chair and taking a deep breath of relief.
The young boy beside him looked at the closed door curiously, "Dad? Can we see my little brother now?" five and a half years old Uchiha prodigy and Fugaku's elder son, Uchiha Itachi asked his father curiously. His parents were talking about his little brother all the time for the past few months and Itachi really really wanted to meet his little brother!
Fugaku looked at his son with pride filled eyes and slowly nodded, "Just a little longer son. The nurse will bring him out after checking him up."
Itachi's face fell hearing that but he nodded anyways and started practicing the hand seals of the jutsues he'd need for his graduation exam, which is only two months away.
After what felt like days but originally only half an hour a doctor came out of the room with a small white bundle in his arms.
Fugaku and Itachi both stood up when they saw the doctor approaching them.
"Hello Uchiha-sama." He greeted the clan head and gave him a small professional smile. Fugaku nodded at him in acknowledgement, raising his hands to take his son from the doctor.
"Congratulations. This is your daughter." The doctor informed politely.
Fugaku's hands stopped in mid air his relaxed face darkening a little. 'Daughter? But he was so sure they'll have another son. He needed a son to back Itachi up when he becomes the clan head.'
Shaking his head Fugaku mentally scolded himself, 'It doesn't matter…his daughter will also be a prodigy like his son. He'll make her strong enough to have Itachi's back.' Finally he took his daughter in his arms and gently cradled her.
She has pale skin and a patch of dark hair just like every other Uchiha. Her eyes were closed and small pink lips were parted slightly and she slept in her father's arms.
Itaachi was looking at the small bundle in his father's arms with wide curious eyes but his attention went back to the doctor when he coughed a little.
"Uchiha-sama, there is something you should know." The doctor said tentatively. Fugaku looked at the doctor and raised a questioning eyebrow at him, "Is my wife all right?" he asked with concern.
The doctor nodded, "Yes, yes. She is perfectly fine but…" he paused a little and looked at the baby sadly, "Uchiha-sama...your daughter, she cannot see."
"What?" Fugaku felt like someone has punched a hole through his chest, 'Can't see? An Uchiha who can't see?'
"She is blind. We can't do anything about it. I'm sorry." The doctor conformed with a sad smile.
Fugaku could not bear it anymore. First instead of a son, he had a daughter and now this! A handicapped daughter and not only handicapped but she had to be blind! Blind! What use was a blind Uchiha!
Fugaku's grip on the newborn in his arms tightened painfully and the small baby in his arms started crying loudly from the painful hold.
Itachi quickly but carefully took the baby from his father's arms, who was now trembling in suppressed anger and disappointment, "Can I see my wife now?" he asked through gritted teeth, his firsts clenching and unclenching from rage.
"Yes of course you can Uchiha-sama. She is sleeping right now. I'll take my leave now." The doctor said and turned to leave.
Fugaku punched the wall hard in frustration and stormed in his wife's room with a frustrated sigh.
Itachi watched his father leave and then his eyes landed on the baby in his arms. Her cries had softened but tears were still trailing down from her rosy cheeks. Itachi sat down on the nearby chair and rocked her in his arms, he wiped her tears away with his thumb and made funny noises(Which was just some whistling, nothing funny at all but well we are talking about Itachi Uchiha!).
After a few hiccups and soft sobs her tears finally stopped and she giggled hearing the noises and Itachi stopped his attempts, looking at his sister lovingly. At that moment the baby's tear soaked lids fluttered slightly and she opened her eyes.
Itachi's beath caught in his throat, her eyes were so beautiful, big onyx eyes with long eye lashes framing it. Itachi waved his palm in front of her eyes but her onyx eyes did not follow the movement instead they stared at the wall behind them as the child leaned into Itachi's protective hold.
'…Blind…' the reality of the words said by the doctor finally hit Itachi and he felt his own eyes watering thinking about the struggles his baby sister would have to go through. He held the baby a little closer and ran his hand on her back soothingly,
"Don't worry little sister. I'll always protect you." Itachi whispered, "It's a promise."
"Tou-san! Kaa-san! See what I caught!" The three year old girl ran through the long hallways of her house, her voice filled with excitement.
"See tuo-san see!" she approached the living room where her parents were having breakfast.
"Hn." Fugaku grunted not bothering to look at his daughter, he continued to read his newspaper. Mikoto sighed and stood up approaching the little girl standing at the doorway, "Sasuke, let me see." She said softly guiding her out of the room to avoid disturbing her husband, Fugaku always got more irritated whenever Sasuke was in the same room as him.
'Sasuke' it was the name she and Fugaku wanted to give their son…but…Mikoto felt sorry for her daughter…if only she could see. Mikoto had insisted that they should give her the same name because the name was Fugaku's choice…the only thing her daughter would ever get from her father.
Mikoto's grip on her daughter's hand tightened as she looked down at her small frame.
The raven haired girl smiled brightly at her and opened her palm and a small yellow butterfly flew away from her palm towards the open window.
"See kaa-san…butterfly!"
Mokoto frowned at her daughter, "How do you know it was a butterfly Sasuke?"
"Nii-san told me." The little girl answered easily, smiling brightly at her mother, "He said they are beautiful. So I caught one today in the garden."
Mikoto sighed heavily. She was really happy that her son and daughter were very close to each other after all Sasuke only had Itachi as a friend but sometimes it made her worried. Sasuke's curiosity would have been natural and welcomed if she was a normal child but with her disability…she could hurt herself.
"I told you not to run around the garden Sasuke, why don't you ever listen to me?" she scolded her daughter.
"But…but kaa-san…I'm fine…I caught a butterf-"
"Yes Sasuke I can see that you are fine but you should listen to your parents should you not? I've told you several times to stop being reckless. I'll tell Itachi to stop playing these types of games with you. Now go to your room."
Sasuke hung her head and mumbled a "Yes kaa-san." in a soft voice.
She could not understand why her parents scolded her for everything. They never scold aniki for anything but in her case they wouldn't let her do anything!
Only her aniki was fun. He told her new stories and played interesting games with her, like identifying things with the help of their sound, smell and chakra! And hide and seek! And treasure hunt!
Sighing heavily she entered her room and let her mother guide her towards the bathroom. It was completely useless telling her that she could do it herself. Sasuke sighed, she really thought her parents would be happy seeing that butterfly…well it was ok, Sasuke thought, she would get one for nii-san tomorrow. He'd be sooo happy seeing it!
The thought made her smile as her mother started washing her hair, she giggled softly thinking about all the fun they'd have tomorrow, nii-san had promised her that they'd play tomorrow.
A five year old Sasuke walked beside her mother through the busy streets of Konoha. Mikoto had one of her hand tightly around her wrist while her other carried a shopping bag.
It was their weekly routine. Mikoto would come for grocery shopping every Wednesday, sometimes when Itachi didn't have any missions Sasuke stayed at home but otherwise she would come with her mother, Mikoto would take her to the childern's park opposite to the shop she liked to go and Sasuke would sit under a tree for an hour or two before heading home.
Truth to be told Sasuke preferred staying at home with her nii-san. The people at the park were so mean. They never talked to her directly but she had heard them insulting her from afar several times. She had never told this to her mother but when she told her nii-san he told her to ignore them but to memorize their voices so when Sasuke would become a cool ninja she'd be able to make them pay!
When they finally reached the park Mikoto took Sasuke to her usual sitting spot, "Stay here ok dear? I'll be back soon. Do you want anything?" She asked her daughter which Sasuke replied with a shake of her head as usual.
"All right. Be a good girl Sasuke." with that Mikoto left to finish her shopping. The park was filled with people, Mikoto waved at some of her friends and pointed at Sasuke, silently telling them to keep an eye on her daughter. They nodded and waved back before returning to their own gossip.
Sasuke sighed contently as the cool evening breeze blew through the playground. Stretching her legs in front of her she leaned against the tree and made herself comfortable.
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"YO!"
Sasuke almost jumped as the loud voice screamed a greeting in her ears. For a few moments her unseeing eyes stared in front of her stupidly while her brain tried to comprehend what was happening.
Ok so she had probably dozed off for a few moments and someone had decided that shouting in her ear was a good idea to get her back in the world of consciousness.
Finally she turned towards the voice that was coming from her left and shouted an equally loud "WHAT?" in the person's ear. Feeling quite satisfied with herself when the person let out a pained, "Ouch."
"You don't need to shout so loud you know…" the boy beside her mumbled out and Sasuke felt his eyes on her as he sat down beside her.
"Hnn."
"Hey hey!" once again the boy cried out loudly in her ears making her cringe, "Would you play with me?" he asked.
This got the raven's attention, "You want to play with me?" she could not keep the disbelief out of her voice, 'why would someone want to play with her after all this time?'
"Yeah. No one wants to play with me." The boy said with a heavy sigh and slumped against the same tree Sasuke was sitting under, "I used to go to a different park you know. But no one played with me there. So I thought I should change the park and go somewhere else, but every time I changed parks the same thing happened! I'm coming here since last month and I saw no one plays with you either…so will you play with me?"
Sasuke considered this, 'Why does no one play with him? Is he like me? Or maybe because he is too loud? But those kids are loud too I can hear them shouting!'
"HEYYYYYY." For the third time the boy shouted in her ears and this time also poked her shoulder.
"Would you stop shouting Dobe? Are you trying to make me deaf?" Sasuke said annoyed and considered her options again, 'The boy is really annoying…and too loud….and stupid.'
"…I'm sorry…" Sasuke heard him mumble, "Please?" he asked hopefully and Sasuke sighed, she knew how bad it felt when people ignored you all the time…maybe she could play with him today…after all she was bored too.
"…fine. Just today ok?" she finally replied after a few moments.
"Yeeeee!" The boy beside him cheered, "I'm Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto, the future Hokage of Konoha. Believe it!" he said cheerfully taking her hand and shaking it furiously.
Sasuke snorted in amusement and snatched her hand from him, "You really are a dobe." She mumbled out.
"Heyyyy….don't be mean!" he pocked her again, "What is your name?"
"Uchiha Sasuke." she supplied to her new friend, "So, what do you want to play?"
"Hide and Seek!" Naruto said bouncing on his feet with excitement, "Count to ten then try to find me. Don't cheat." With that he ran off.
Sasuke sighed, well at least she has already memorized his chakra signature, it'll be easy…his chakra was too bright to hide it from her.
"Ten…Nine…Eight…." Sasuke started counting after a few moments.
The first time Sasuke found him behind a bush…and Naruto failed to find her when it was his turn. The second time she found him under a bench at the far end of the field…and this time too Naruto failed to find Sasuke.
It was now the eighth round and Naruto was running around the field looking at every probable place his new friend could hide but again he failed miserably 'Maybe Sasuke is a magician who can vanish?' Naruto thought as he shouted her friend's name over and over,
"Come on Sasuke come out. Where are you?" He shouted again. He was panting he had ran around the field for at least thirty times in the last hour. When Naruto reached the tree they had started from he slumped down under it and called his friend's name once again, "Sasukeeee! I can't find you."
And just like that the girl jumped down from a higher branch of the same tree, making Naruto scream in surprise, and she quietly sat down beside him, smirking smugly.
Naruto pouted, "You cheated. I'm sure! You found me every time without breaking a sweat!" he said pointing an accusing finger at her.
Sasuke shrugged nonchalantly, "I did not. You are an idiot. A loud idiot. Dobe."
"H-Hey! I'm not loud and don't call me dobe, teme!" Naruto cried out.
"Hn."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Temeeee."
"Idiot."
"You are mean teme!"
"Hn. Dobe."
"Agh! You are impossible!" Naruto leaned against the tree and smiled.
"You know, this is the first time I had so much fun." Naruto admitted after a few moments. Sasuke smiled at this. She had fun too. Naruto was not as smart as his nii-san but he was a loud mouthed idiot and it was really fun…he made her smile a lot.
"I had fun too." She said softly, she would not mind having Naruto as her friend.
"So, we can do it again?" the hopefulness in the voice was too much for Sasuke to deny such a request even if she wanted to but it was a good thing that she also wanted the same thing here, "Sure, maybe next week."
Naruto's beamed at her and a comfortable silence fell around them as they both enjoyed the afterglow of their new friendship.
"Ne ne Sasuke…" It was Naruto who broke the silence, "Why does no one play with you? You are so smart and…pretty."
Sasuke felt her face heat up at the comment, she was not used to hearing these kinds of things from others, the only person who had ever praised her was her aniki…Sasuke hesitated, she did not know if she should tell him or not.
But then she sighed. Naruto was too involved in the game to notice today but he would eventually find out anyway…so it was better to tell him now…if he would not be her friend anymore after learning the truth then…it was his choice.
"Probably because they don't want a blind person to be their friend."
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"…"
"You….you are…" Naruto jumped up and sat down directly in front of Sasuke, looking at her deep onyx eyes with a frown in his face.
"You can't see?" he asked stupidly. Her eyes looked normal to him, perfectly fine. Then why couldn't she see?
"No dobe I can't." Sasuke confirmed feeling a bit uncomfortable when she felt Naruto's eyes on her.
Naruto scratched the back of his head his frown deepening, "Then how did you managed to find me?"
Sasuke sighed, "I can feel your chakra…every living thing has an energy and they are all different from each other…I can sense it and your chakra is too bright to miss."
"Umm ok I understand." Naruto replied blinking stupidly and trying to process the information he was given.
"So, if only living things has chatora then how do you know where the benches or the swings and other things are? You never tipped on anything or crashed with them!" he could not understand it…if she couldn't see then how could she move so easily!
"It is chakra dobe not chatora!" Sasuke huffed, "My brother told me to spread my chakra around me, so if there are things around me they first come in contact with my chakra and I can feel the shape of the thing…besides different sound also helps in identifying things. Like there is difference in the footsteps of a cat and a dog, the way a hawk moves its wings a crow of sparrow does not. An empty swing makes different sund than one with someone sitting on it, I can hear and feel them."
"Wow…" Naruto whispered out in disbelieve, his eyes were wide, "You are the most smartest person I've ever met."
Sasuke chuckled at that, "Most smartest is not even a word dobe."
"Hey!" Naruto cried out, his cheeks heating up in embarrassment "Don't be a teme, teme! I'm trying to give you a complement!"
"Hn." Sasuke said, smiling when her new friend huffed in annoyance, "Thank you Naruto." She said softly and stood up, "I need to go now, my mother is here."
"Oh ok…bye Sasuke." Naruto said reluctantly and watched as a dark haired woman approached Sasuke and took her hand mumbling an apology to her for being so late.
Her dark eyes flickered at him for a moment and unlike the usual hatred he was used to seeing, her eyes soften and she gave him a small polite smile.
Naruto grinned as he watched his first friend leaving the park with her mother, today was a god day, and he couldn't wait to meet Sasuke again.
Naruto ran towards the park as fast as possible. He was late…almost an hour late! 'God. I hope Sasuke has not left yet.' He thought turning to take a shortcut.
No it was not their usual weekly meeting, that was two days ago when Sasuke had asked him if they could meet on Friday morning. Naruto had agreed of course but being a late riser he had woken up almost half an hour after their scheduled meeting time.
So now Naruto was running through the busy streets of Konoha like a mad man to reach his destination as soon as possible. He did not want to lose his only friend!
Naruto panted as he reached the entrance of the park and quickly looked around to see if his friend was still there waiting for him.
His face lit up when he saw the raven haired girl sitting on a bench at the far corner of the almost empty park.
The blonde haired boy bounced on his steps with a large grin on his face and hurried towards his friend feeling a wave of relief wash over him.
"Heyyy Sas!" he greeted cheerfully when he was close enough. The raven haired girl didn't even turn her head to his direction or acknowledged her.
"Temeeee!" Naruto whined childishly at that, "I'm soooo sorryyyyy…I won't keep you waiting ever again….proooomisss."
Sasuke felt a smile tugging on her lips at her friend's antics but she tried to control herself…after all she was mad at him for being late.
Naruto glared at his silent friend when he received no reply again and jumped to tackle the raven on the ground. But Sasuke was faster….she swiftly moved from her position as she felt her friend coming towards her. She knew her friend too well to read his intensions without even trying.
Naruto landed on the ground with a loud girly shout and this time Sasuke giggled out…not being able to hold herself any longer….god her friend was so stupid.
Naruto pouted as he watched his only friend laugh at him but soon his pout turned into a smile, he sat down on the soft grass and waited for the raven to join him.
"Blockhead." Sasuke murmured affectionately punching her friend on his shoulder as she sat down beside him.
"Hn. So you are the one who made my foolish little sister so adamant on visiting the park every week instead of spending time with me?"
Naruto cringed at the monotone voice and slowly turned around while Sasuke jumped on her feet and ran towards the source of the voice, "Aniki! Did you bring the ice cream I told you to?" she asked hopefully.
Itachi smiled and poked his sister's forehead, "Of course I did." He handed her the ice cream and looked at the boy who was staring at him with wide eyes.
"So…you love my sister?" itachi asked bluntly enjoying when Sasuke cried out a high pitched warning at him and both children blushed a bright shade of red. They are too young to really understand love but old enough to know love is…after all they were almost six and for a ninja it was the age they join the academy.
"N-no…" Naruto shuttered out feeling embarrassed and fearful at the same time.
"Whaat? You don't love my little sister!" Itachi said dramatically causing Sasuke's pale cheeks to turn another deeper shade of red.
"What. No! I-I mean…I do…" Naruto didn't know what to say…if he said the wrong thing then Sasuke's brother would take her away and he'd lose his only friend…he looked at Sasuke for some help but lost hope when he found the girl fuming silently.
"So, you looove my sister." Itachi concluded and this time Sasuke threw the ice cream away and jumped on her brother with loud cry trying to land a punch on him.
Itachi laughed as he blocked the attack and grabbed both her small hands, restricting all her movements.
"Calm down little sister I was just joking." He said ruffling her soft raven hair. Sasuke huffed in annoyance.
Naruto looked at them with wide unsure eyes…he could not really understand what was happening.
When both Itachi and Sasuek sat down this time Naruto silently waited for them to start the conversation…why had they called him?
"Here." Itachi handed both of them an ice cream which Naruto accepted with a small smile but did not dare to open the packet.
"Ok. So, I'm Uchiha Itachi Sasuke's big brother and I know you are Uzumaki Naruto, you love ramen and you want to be Hokage…Sasuke talks about you all the time."
Naruto blushed again at those words. He felt a warm feeling slowly spreading on his heart at the friendly behavior of Sasuke's brother.
"Now, my foolish little sister wants to train with you…because I'm gonna quote it, 'the dobe can never catch me.' And that is why she asked me to come and meet you today." Itachi spared a glance at his sister who had her head turned in another direction.
"So, what do you say Naruto? Want to train with us?"
The blonde looked at the older boy disbelievingly, "Really? You'll teach me too?" he asked hopefully…no one has taught him something before…would he really get to train with Sasuke? Sasuke was so much stronger than him…
"Yes, of course, if my little sister wants so…and I think you should eat your ice cream before it melts." Itachi replied pointing at the packet which was now dipping.
Naruto gave the elder raven a bright smile before tearing the plastic and starting to eat the ice-cream.
"Arigato…Itachi-san." he mumbled.
Itachi smiled at the boy and nodded…he was glad that he'd be able to help this boy…he was probably the only other person than Sasuke who needed most help.
I know Itachi is a bit OOc but he'll come to his usual self later…he is still young and wants to give Sasuke as much happiness as he could…so here he teases Sasuke, plays with her and trains her.
Please please tell me what you think about it via review/fav/follow. I really enjoyed writing it and I hope you enjoyed it too. I'll try to update twice a month…but the updates may be monthly too. (PS: Can anyone suggest me a better summery for the story?)
Thank you. :D