He was looking so innocent it was like he was just a newborn baby, but he knew better. This… thing killed his father, mother, and fiance. He wasn't going to let him live. He was ready. He coated his blade in poison, and even its sheet was filled with it. He grabbed the katana and pulled it out, and drops of poison flew around. Two hit the demons face, and got into his eyes. He started to cry.
"Don't worry. You will die soon." said the man and readied his blade. It was so close. He focused on his task. It was something not even the fourth Hokage could do. He almost stabbed the demon, when pain erupted from his chest. When he looked down he saw a hand coated in electricity.
"You blind foll. You almost killed the legacy of the Fourth because your pity revenge." said the man standing behind him. He did not needed to look back to know who it was. He know the man's reputation all too well, but before he could say anything the man just pulled back his hand, and let him fall to the ground. "You are worst than trash." said the Dog masked man, and picked up the baby, and he started to look around in fear.
It was a hard day. Kakashi just lost a few friend and his teacher in a few hour. Now he had his teachers son in his arms, who had some kind of liquid in his eyes. He ran as fast as he could. He should have arrived sooner, to make sure the newborn baby was okay. He run into the Hospital and went to the first doctor, who should first heal and ask later. It took half an hour before the man spoke.
"I did everything I could." said the man first. "His life is not in danger." come second when he saw how Kakashi tensed up for his first answer.
"Then what is the problem?" asked a nervous Kakashi in his ANBU mask.
"His eyes. The poison was created from more different type of poison. One was a nervous system poison what killed most of the brain cells responsible for his vision. It is surprising it did not attacked anything else." Kakashi was devastated, but did his best to not show it.
"There is nothing we can do?" asked back Kakashi.
"I am sorry but not even Tsunade can heal this type of damage after it caused this much damage." answered the man, before he looked at the boy. "He did not even become a ninja but got an injury only ninjas could have. What happened to him?"
"A stupid chunin, who thought this boy is the reason why his family died." come the dark answer from Kakashi. He was ready to kill the man if he tried anything.
"It's a shame that most man can not see the difference between, the kunai and the scroll, the monster... and the hero. If anything happens to him, bring him here. I will heal him." said the man, before he sat down.
"What is your name?" asked Kakashi.
"I am Akuma. I know a strange name, for someone, and a rather strange one for a doctor. I think it's fitting I heal the boy who viewed as a demon." said the man, with a strange smile on his face.
"It is." said Kakashi, before he picked up the boy. "I will bring him to Sarutobi. He most likely will take back his mantle as Hokage." And with that Kakashi shunshined away.
Eight years latter
A young blond boy was walking on the streets of Konoha, with a stick in his hand. He used it, to point with it in front of him. To someone who did not know it looked like the boy is playing a game. In reality it was the only way for him to see where is he going. After a while he entered into a round building, and went straight to the stairs. After two set of stairs he changed direction to the office of the most important man in the village.
"Stop right there. What is your business with the Hokage?" asked an angry woman. The boy did not liked her. She lied to him a lot of time, about his Jiji. He know when he was in there, even if he did not know how. He even know how many people was in there with him.
"I come here to ask his permission about something. He is most likely suspecting me." the boy lied without blinking, what wasn't hard considering that he did not see his eyes did not showed if he told the truth or not.
"Liar!" said the woman. "I know his daily routine. He don't want to talk to you!" she was right of course, but she was too loud, and the Hokage heard her.
"Let the boy in. I have a few free minute for him." come the voice of a wise old man from the speakers, but for the woman in promised pain if she disagreed. Most likely emotional, or maybe her payment would be cut in half this time? She did not wanted to know.
"You heard the Hokage. Just don't waste his time." said the woman, before the boy went into the man's office.
The boy went in, then bowed slightly to the man, than to the four ANBU on the room.
"Hello Jiji." said the boy, while the Hokage chuckled.
"It's look like my guards are still too loud. Aren't they?" asked the old man, while the boy just nodded. "Well it can not be helped. Only one man was able to hide from you, and even he failed a few time. You have the best hearing in the village Naruto, if not in all the Elemental Nations." said the old man.
"Well Jiji, my blindness may be a cure maybe a blessing, but I come here because something else." said the boy on an unusually collected and calm voice. He was thinking about it, and maybe even tried this before, there is no mistake in it.
"What is it?" asked the man interested in what made the boy so serious.
"I want to go to the ninja academy." said the boy, and he heard the old man displeasure, only from his heart rate change, and the sound made from his light move he made towards the table, but stopped himself. "Before you say something, I know how hard it will be. I most likely never become a ninja, but I never know if I don't try. I already can read, and started to study in the library. I may be slow, because I don't see, but I could use the knowledge provided by the academy."
"Who told you this?" asked the man. The boy can not form sentences like those on his own. Not without some help.
"I overheard a talk between a boy and his father on the street. They sounded really lazy, but the way they talked I know they where very intelligent." said the boy, using an other hard word, he learned not too long ago.
"Well they may have had been right about themselves but that doesn't mean they where right about you two. To study in the academy you need a lot of knowledge you can not obtain without seeing it." answered the old man.
"But I want to try. Please Jiji. I let me try the first year. If I fall too low I will quit, but if I do it right, you need to let me stay in." said the boy, who was sure he can do it.
"You need to have a "C" from every 'class' at the end of the school year, or better, or you will be dropped out, and it will be every year, not just the first one. On the first year there will be no sparring between students, and you need to excel in tajjutso too." answered the old man.
"Thank you Jiji!" said the boy, with a big smile on his face. "I will not disappoint you, its a promise." and with that the young boy run out of the office, before stopping in front of the wall, and pulled out the stick he used to walk, and started to go down.
"Are you sure it is wise to let him into the academy?" asked an ANBU.
"I know that he can not become a shinobi, because he is blind, but I need to give him a chance to meet kids his age. it's enough reason for me to let him in." answered the old man.
Next week. First day in the academy
There where so many student, and each one of them was excited about what will they do, and learn. In the crowd of children and their parents there was a lone blond child with a stick in his hand. He was the most excited. He rarely meet with anyone his age, and that end soon when the parent's see who they are talking to. The other problem is that he is blind, so he can not play with them, like the others. He hoped that in the first day he can at least talk to some of them, but he was unsure about that.
After a few minute the parents started to go home, or work, and the children where let into the academy. Naruto couldn't do anything else, than following the sounds of the youngest of them, what should have had been something very hard for others, but not for him, but unlike the others he waited outside of the class, for someone.
"Hello, can I ask who are you?" asked a man. His voice wasn't anything out of the ordinary. No unique pattern, no interesting rhythm to it, but somehow it eased Naruto unlike most other people. He did not trusted the man, but his guard was somewhat lower than with others.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki. I talked to the Hokage, and he said I should come today, to the academy."
"I see… well you come to the right classroom on your own considering your… handicap, what is a good sign. Come in with me." there was a strange concern and worry in the mans voice, and an inner struggle. It made Naruto cautious. He did not know who the man was, or why he reacted the way he did. Well the first part was a lie. This man was his new teacher, that much he know already, but that was all.
Before the teacher opened the door, Naruto tried to listen to as much voice in the room as he could. Until now he just ward of everything but now he wanted to know who was in there. The first voice was a boy's most likely Kibas. Naruto did not know the boy, but heard him enough. Then there was two other. One was most likely the Yamanaka heiress, and an other her pink haired friend, or at least that was what they where talking about her besides her big forehead. Naruto heard them countless times, but did not know their names. The others weren't speaking or he did not know them from before, but they where enough to confirm this will be his class.
It will be strange for him and everyone else. A blind boy in the Academy… the reason he learned in the library was because the civilian school refused to teach him. He was lucky the hokage had more control over the academy thanks to the fact it teaches the forces he command, and all the teachers are his solders.
"Class, its time for two announcement." said the teacher after he reached his desk. "I think you all figured out the first one. You will have a new classmate."
"But Iruka-sensei, he is blind, how can he become a shinobi?" asked a civilian student.
"The hokage allowed him, to finish the academy, if he has at least average scores" answered Iruka. "Now let him introduce himself."
"Hello. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I hope I can be friend with you all, and please stop that Kiba, even if I don't see what you are doing it sounds insulting." everyone was shocked at that. Kiba just covered his eyes with one hand, and made talking motion with the other. "I may be blind, but there is no one who has a hearing like my own, and my smelling is as good as the pups next to Kiba." Naruto told everyone.
"And how do you want to read?" asked a girl. She was most likely the pink haired girl.
"I may don't see, but I can read with my fingers. I just need to touch the paper, and follow the ink. Anything else?" asked Naruto proudly. They may think he is below them, but they are wrong.
"Looks like no." Iruka broke the silence after almost a minute. "Would you like anything else?"
"Well I should love if in the break everyone told me their name. I may can't see you, but I can remember your voice." answered Naruto.
"Reasonable. I hope you all will be cooperative with Naruto, but don't pity him. He may be blind, but he can do things you cant." Iruka addressed the whole class, then turned to Naruto. "You may sit next to Hinata. She sits in the third row, what is..." started Iruka, but Naruto rised his hand.
"I know where it is. That is the only free place in the third row." and with that Naruto went up in the middle lane, used his stick to know where the stairs are, then stopped next to Hinata, who sat in the middle of the row already. Naruto just smiled at the girl, then sit next to her, like he know where the chair was.
"How did you do that?" asked Iruka who could not hide his surprise.
"I heard that there is the only place without heartbeat, so I come up, and after Hinata was so kind, and sit to the empty chair, I was able to hear where the other one was before I sit down." answered Naruto. "But sensei you shouldn't be surprised, or Hokage-sama did not told you that I could spot almost all of his ANBU guards?" this was a secondary shock to everyone. Such an ability to hear…
"w-well h-he told me, y-you have the best h-hearing in the country, b-but I t-tought he was just kidding, w-when he said y-you should go to s-some mission, t-to help out w-with detecting enemy f-forces." answered Iruka. He was beyond shocked at this point.
"If you have such a good hearing, why the stick?" asked Kiba, somewhat impressed by Naruto. If someone else showed this he may be feel like his position is threatened, but Naruto was blind, so it was something he could let go.
"Well it helps with stairs, because they don't make any sound, and shows others, that I am blind, without telling them, so if they run into me, and I can not step aside, they don't force me to say sorry for what they did." finished Naruto. Everyone saw now that he wasn't an ordinary student, and not only because he is blind. He is proud to what he can do, and he may be a bit more mature than his class. Of course they all saw his goofy smile, so they know, he is a normal child, but still different.
"Now then…" started Iruka after one or two minute, to let everything sink in to everyone. "The second news is something that will effect you more than a new student. The academy years will be two years longer, and it starts with the second year students." that meant two things for them. One, they will receive better training than those who come before them, and secondly they may have even more choice than the one before them. Most of the class already know about the idea, but did not know when it will start, or would ever. Some student were disappointed, because this meant two more year in school, but everyone whit half a brain saw it was something for their own good, even if they did not liked it, after all most of the class was clan heirs and heiresses, who were taught in political and shinobi skills already.
"And what will we learn in the last two year?" asked a civilian boy.
"It will be an almost only shinobi skill training. It will contain basic healing, ninjutsu, tajjutsu, genjutsu, sneaking, and tracking. Of course not all of them will be studied by all of you. Three will must to be chosen, and there will be two non shinobi lesson every day. Everything else will be known later."
The lessons weren't anything interesting for Naruto, and much to his dislike he eat alone in the lunch break. Of course everyone told him their names, and he tried to talk to them later, but the difference between them was too big to let him have a chance to talk to them. Naruto started to think it wasn't a good idea, or at least he shouldn't have hoped, he make friend's in the academy.
After the dinner break started the basic academy tajjutsu training, and everyone was surprised that Naruto was present and did everything to the best of his abilities. It was interesting to everyone that he was somewhat able to follow them, even if they already learned a lot, he just mimicked them somehow. After they finished Shikamaru walked up to Naruto.
"Hello Naruto. How did you followed our moves that good?" asked the lazy Nara being unable to figure out. He know that the sound should have helped him, but that wasn't enough.
"Well I go to the library every day to learn, and found the basic stances for a lot of style. It wasn't enough to learn them, based on the fact I don't see how wrong I am, but give me an idea, how to start. I think you can figure out everything else." answered Naruto, while resting. He isn't used to moving this much in such a short time, but it is time, to get used to it. Even if he never become a ninja, he will need all the endurance he can get.
At least that was what he thought until he "looked" around. Everyone was still resting, and he started to feel he can continue everything. The thing that confused him, was the fact that Shikamaru walked up to him, who did not do as much as the others.
"Naruto could you come here?" asked Iruka, and Naruto run up to him.
"Yes sensei?" asked back Naruto.
"We will train shuriken throwing." said Iruka, with a concerned voice.
"And you can not give throwing weapons to a blind boy… if I am not the first to throw I may be able to hit the target, but you don't think that is a good idea." with that Naruto started to think. "Can I train in something connected to it, so I can get grades for that?" come the only question he had.
"I will figure out something, until that you should learn how to dispel genjutsu." with that Iruka instinctively showed Naruto how to do it, and Naruto's eyes suddenly widened...
Yes this is where the chapter ends. Do you want to know what happened? Then wait and you get the next chapter, or write reviews, and ask for a new one to come out faster. I hope you liked this, and the fact that i am still learning english as my third language isn't ruining the story for anyone.
