The Gift of Sight

Chapter 4

'You can take your bandages off now.', the doctor signed.

Heero started to unwrap the gauze, and then, took the bandages off of his eyes. A faint bit of light could be seen through his eyelids. He slowly opened first one, then the other eye, and he saw two large, violet ones staring back. Heero tried to scramble back, until he saw the braid, then he whacked Duo promptly upon the head.

Heero looked around himself, Trowa was the one with one eye showing, while another hid underneath his hair. 'Trowa?', Heero signed, and received a nod.

Wufie was the one with the slicked back, oily looking hair, and he also smelled of some oriental spice, or something. 'Wufei?', Heero's fingers signed the name. "

That left the blonde, 'Quatre.', Heero signed, and got a beaming smile.

A mirror was given to Heero, and he stared at the reflection for a long while. 'Me?', he signed.

Duo nodded, signing yes at the same time. Heero touched his own face, opened, and closed his mouth, then, one eye, then closed it, then opened the other. Just as he was adjusting to this, Milliardo, or now known as Wind showed up. Heero looked up at him, as the Quatre signed all three of Wind's names. Heero nodded understanding, before looking directly into the ice- cold eyes. 'Hey, Heero.', Milliardo signed.

'Hey.', Heero signed back, a smile came upon his face.

'Look at that smile of yours.', Milliardo quickly wrote in his palm.

Heero did, it made a drastic change in his face from the earlier slightly curious, and awed nature of earlier. Heero decided he liked smiling, and watched as Duo walked out for a couple seconds. Soon, he came back with two boxes tucked under his arms, the only way Heero could tell was the shape was square. Duo gave him the first one, which Heero seemed more interested in the paper, then what was inside the box, but, he opened it. 'A new Soft.', Trowa explained, 'The old soft it kinda.... Worn.',

'Thank- you.', Heero signed back, hugging the bear, before setting it back down.

The next package was opened much faster, revealing a crystalline figurine of a unicorn, who's horn was a blood red ruby, and eyes of sapphire, the hooves where gold, and the tail was also ruby. Heero stared at it, with fascination, even after what it was had been explained. He watched it even as he fell asleep later that day, having become exhausted from the excitement.

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The five pilots looked on with care as Heero slept, and made plans for the next day. The best way for Heero to relearn what things were around himself.

End Chapter: Hmmm... Next Chapter, Heero learns to identify things by sight.