Chapter four: the eyes of Neji.
Small special chapter for Neji. because I love you, Neji, to make me forgive to make you suffer.
Blind. He had never thought that could have occured to him. However, he knows well that this kind of things occures. Ninjas wounded in combat, often. Often the wounds are serious, sometimes ninja are seriously handicapped. He saw it, he knows it. He saw Lee, he saw him completely destroyed, he knows that he couldn't be Shinobi any more. today is the turn of Neji to be mutilated.
But why him? why this single wound, why his attacker did anything but burst the two eyes, and only his eyes ? why did he want to break him? Neji doesn't know the answer, and to know it will not change his state, will not cure it. He is finished, he doesn't have nothing left. Lying in his hospital bed , tears runs along his cheeks. The heat of a hand on its shoulder surprises him. Who is he? There is Gai, and Lee in the room, he remembers . Tenten came to accompany the team of Chuunin charged to find his attacker, to the exact place of the attack.
Did somebody of other enter the room?
Feeling miserable, Neji moves his hand, touches the hand on his shoulder and goes up along arm in order to identify who try to reconfort him.
"It's me, Neji."
Lee? It's Lee which. . whereas Neji was always so hard with him, so scorning, so cold. He always looked him down. But now, strangely, the heat of the hand on his shoulder alleviates him a little. Neji says nothing.. Perhaps one day, he will be able to say him thank you, but Neji is not yet there.
The door snap brutally on the wall and a soft odor invades the room. An odor of flower, and an odor of girl.
"Neji, looks at what I have you. . oh, excuse-me, I. . " the cordial voice of Tenten tints sadness. "I bought flowers to you on the way, but I..." she hesitates, feeling guilty to bring a gift to be looked to a blind man.
Neji: "They smell very good"
Neji seems to hear the relief of the girl. Her soft smell approaches the bed and he hears her put the flowers in the vase close to him. Neji feels heated.
His friends are here. His friends. . For the first time he thinks of them in these terms. He was afraid to be alone in the darkness.He isn't alone, they are here. Then perhaps the life isn't finished. Perhaps he will be able to continue to advance.. Perhaps even remain Ninja. He can always listen, feel, touch. He can always move. There is always hope. He always has friends.
"Thank you"
