I don't own Naruto, or anything related to it. And inspired by Avatar: Last Air Bender, so I don't own the ideas I used from it.
I'm sorry in advance for spelling aand grammer mistake. I have dyslexia, so again sorry.
Lost in the Darkness
Chapter 1
Darkness. Dark as the night itself, like a depressed bottomless abyss. The dark it the only thing I have been able to see. But I wasn't born this way. I've been stuck in the abyss for five years now. I can still remember the sunrise, my favourite time of day. I miss it. I miss the colours and seeing new faces I met. My eyes were seriously damaged for being taught a 'lesson' for speaking my mind in front of my superiors. I last I ever saw a kunai about to slash my face for about the 8th time. When I woke in the hospital I saw nothing.
My sense of hear got a lot better, I can hear a bird chirping from miles away. My hearing wasn't my only sense to get better, my sense of touch too. I can the feel the vibration in the earth. But it's weaker when a wear shoes with a thick sole. I feel about a 10-meter radius, when I'm not wearing shoes. But if I have shoes on with a thin sole, I can feel about a 2.5-meter radius. I can feel only a 1-meter radius with a thick sole.
I can't forget the day it happened. The superiors were having a meeting and I was invited to go. It started out all right but ended badly. There was talk on overthrow my village leader. It's when I spoke out against the idea. The leader of the superiors did not take kindly of my freethinking mind. He changed me to a fight. He was so mad he just kept cutting away at my face, until one of his strikes permanently damaged my eyes.
When I first woke up in the hospital my eyes were covered by bandages. As they still are. I could hear much better. I lied in the bed for gods know how long. I could hear voices outside my door. A strange man was saying that their eyes were serious damaged. I knew it was a doctor, most likely talking about me to my parents. The doctor also said that I would never been able to see again. Seconds later I heard a woman crying, my mother from what I could tell. I get up from bed, but the moment me bare feet touched the floor. It was like I could feel where everything was. With every step it still happened, I could somehow feel where things where. And people, because I could feel the door opening and someone walking in.
It was a nurse or a doctor, I couldn't tell but I don't know who it was, only that they were male. He hand me a cane to help me walk around, not like I need it. I decide to pretend, to avoid questions. I walked down the hall to I think the waiting room; I could feel a few people. I walked into a more opened space, I felt almost everyone rushing towards me; asking me if I was okay, if I needed help, and if I was hungry or thirsty.
After that I left home, that was five years ago. I'm 18 now, on my way to Amegakure(1) for work. I'm holding a letter of recommendation for a man named Kishiro. He owned a chain of pubs, but close his main one after his son passed away on mission. I worked at that one; after he closed it down he told to go to Amegakure's pub, because his business partner Rai worked there. I've been walk to Amegakure for almost four days now.
I was getting tired and hungry. But I could feel it now, the village. There were two people station in front of the gate. I feel them get closer to me. I kept my head down to hide the bandages over my eyes.
"What's your business here?" asked the one on my left. He was male.
I don't reply, I only held out the letter. I felt one of them grab it from me.
"Alright, you may enter." The one on my right answered. She was female.
"Arigato(2)." I said softly. "Can you show me where to go?"
"Oh yeah. It's hard not to see theirs a huge sign tell you." The male guard said.
"That maybe hard for me to do." I replied showing them my bandages. I could hear their gasps of surprise.
"Yeah, let me show you the way." The male guard said. He started to walk away. "Follow me."
I walked with the guy for over five minutes, I could feel a lot of people walked around; this village was pretty busy. I could tell a lot of the people stopped suddenly, most likely to look at me. Suddenly we stop, I heard a door opening, and the guard pushed me gently inside.
There were a ton of people in there, moving around talking, whispering, and laughing. I could feel to what I thought was a counter and went over there hoping to find Rai. I stopped right in front of what I thought was a counter. I lightly touched the surface. So, I was right it was a counter. I could feel someone behind it.
"What can I get you?" came a soft female voice behind the counter. Who ever she was, she sounded too young to work at a pub. At least 14 years old.
"I'm here for to see the owner." I replied sliding the recommendation across the counter top.
"Oh! You're Ryuk. Right? Rai-san(3) is waiting for you. Come with me."
I heard a click sound followed by another over on my right. I think she was making a door in the middle of the counter. I used my hand to find the space in between the counter. The bottom part of the door didn't touch the floor making it hard for me to find the space. The opened door was about half meter away for me.
I followed the young girl into the back hall. I heard her opened another door at the end of the hall.
"Rai-san, Ryuk is here." The girl said. She left the room shortly after and closed the door behind her.
"Ah, Ryuk, I've been waiting for you." Rai said. I recognized his voice. I only met him once, when I still work with Kishiro. "How are you?"
"I'm fine. Thanks for asking."
"Good. So, when can you start?"
"Whenever, works for me."
"Okay! How about right now!"
"Sure, sounds good to me." I pause for a few seconds. "Hey, do you know where I nearest inn is? I need a place to stay."
"Iie(4), you're staying with me!" Rai said walking toward the door and opening it. He also handed a nametag to me. "You remember how to get back?"
"Yep." I answered popping the 'p'.
Rai and Kishiro were the only ones who know how I see. They don't treat me like I'm a helpless child that I liked. They treat me like I'm a normal guy.
I left Rai's office and headed down the hall. I gave an apron and tied it around my waist, I pin the nametag to the left side of chest. Lucky for me the nametags are engraved, so I could tell if it was the right side up. I turned the corner so quickly I couldn't tell there was someone doing the same thing.
"Oh my god. Gomen(5). I didn't see you there!" said the same girl from before. "Oh, Ryuk! Are you okay?"
"I'm good. Thanks for asking."
"Here let me help you up." I felt her hand pull mine up, forcing me to stand up. I heard her gasp in shocked. She saw my bandages I can tell. "What happened? To your eyes, I mean, I mean you don't have to me."
"I had a bad accident, that's all."
"Oh, okay. Hey you're working here now right?" I nodded. "Cool, by the way my name is Sato Hisana."
"Hisana, a beautiful name."
"Oh, arigato." She gently pulled my hand to make walk with her to behind the counter. "Come on I'll start your training."
"Alright, sounds good to me."
Words
(1) Means " The Village Hidden in the Rain"
(2) Means "Thank You"
(3) ?? -san means "Mr., Ms or Mrs. ??"
(4) Means "No"
(5) Means "Sorry"