Naruto Primer: Uzumaki Naruto

Glasses?

Naruto needs help.

When throwing the shuriken, Naruto would always fall short of Sasuke and Sakura.  Sasuke could hit every target with exact precision.  Even Sakura could hit the targets with no problem!  But, for some reason, every time Naruto threw his weapons, they missed.  Not even just by a little bit.  They would often miss by great distances.

This, of course, frustrated Naruto, especially since he wanted to beat Sasuke and it was just shameful to be worse than a girl.  Especially if it was Sakura.

After one session, Kakashi asked Naruto to stay after he had sent Sasuke and Sakura home.

"Naruto, I can't help but notice that your aim is…well, getting worse." Kakashi started off, getting right to the point.

"I don't know what it is!" Naruto said angrily, punching his palm.  "Am I really all that bad?" 

Kakashi didn't know exactly how to respond to that.  Sometimes the truth shouldn't be spoken.

"I just can't see the targets…" Naruto whined.

"Can't see them?" Kakashi said.  "They're clear in front of you.  Everyone else can see the targets just fine.  It's not like they're concealed."

"I don't know what it is!" Naruto explained.  "It's like…I see them, but then I don't.  And then I throw the kunai and they're not where I thought they were."

"Hm…" said Kakashi, rubbing his chin.  "Perhaps it is not a problem with the targets.  Maybe it's a problem with your eyes."

"My eyes?" said Naruto.

"Have you ever considered glasses?"

"Glasses?!  Me?!  No way!!"

"If you truly need glasses then not having them is going to truly handicap you when it comes to being a ninja.  Just think of what it'll be like to fight and be able to see everything clearly."

With that, Kakashi decided to leave.  Naruto was left there to ponder about whether or not he would actually follow through.  He didn't want glasses because he didn't want to look like a dorky ninja, but if he didn't get glasses then he would never become more than a genin.  A ninja must have aim! 

But he didn't always remember having bad vision.

Maybe he was part of an advanced bloodline and he didn't even know it!

He quickly dismissed that thought from his head almost as fast as it entered…

So Naruto started on his way home only to stumble across Sasuke and Sakura.  "Hey!!" yelled Naruto, angry that they might have potentially heard about the fact that he may need glasses.  "You guys were spying on me!"

"No, we just decided to wait up for you for some inexplicable reason." Sakura replied. 

"What did Kakashi say?" asked Sasuke but you could tell he didn't care.  But then again, he could have just been making sure that Kakashi wasn't planning to give Naruto any private training sessions or telling Naruto that he was better because Sasuke knows that he is all around so much better than Naruto… so much better than everyone for that matter…

"It's none of your business!" said Naruto.

"Does it have anything to do with the fact that you missed every single target in the training session today?" asked Sakura.

Naruto has a very bad poker face.  "No." he said.

"I was thinking…" Sakura continued.  "If you just opened your eyes while you were throwing the shuriken, maybe you'd be able to hit the targets every now and then."

"Open my eyes?" said Naruto.  "…Were they closed?"

"…Yeah." Said Sasuke.

"Oh." Said Naruto.

And the moral of this story is: Don't…don't run with scissors…with your eyes closed.  In general, don't close your eyes unless you're sleeping.  Or if someone is telling you to close them because they have a special surprise for you.  Or if you're playing hide and seek.