first id like to apologize to the original fans of this story but after a long reread through i felt it was a bit too comedic as to what i had in mind. i mean don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with comedy but the original had a lot of comedy and with what i had planned i decided to make this a more mature story less comedy at least.

The Gift of Mercy
Chapter 2 : Carrying on

flashback

"happy birthday saeko!"
"thank you naruto"
saeko looked at the direction where naruto was her milky onyx eyes not seeing anything it was merely a habit of hers around naruto most of the time she would keep her eyes closed.
she wore a simple kimono it what was most comfortable and she liked it most as it showed her heritage, she was an uchiha after all.
today was her 11th birthday yet first thing in the morning naruto showed up to wish her a happy birthday, no one else knew or cared.
hearing naruto talk about how he met a nurse studying to be a doctor she thought to herself, no one wants to be seen with her ..the blind uchiha a cruel joke.
had she had the gift of sight she would have loved to follow in her deceased parents footsteps and become a kunoichi. but being born blind she was an outcast among her clan once her parents died when she was 7 she was left alone in her parents home. it was only till about 6 months ago she heard a crash in her back yard in the late hours of the night.

she clicked her tongue using the echo to find anything out of place. she would make out a figure in her mind a small 7 year old boy was looking in her direction he sounded exhausted. the smell of sweat the fast beating of his heart he was scared he must have been running away from something .
she soon found out from naruto he was the kyubbi's junchuriki. she saw him as a person unlike the mob he was running away from , and naruto treated her like a normal person dispite her being the blind uchiha. the rest is history as naruto took a liking to her and both enjoyed each others company almost everyday

"the doctor agreed"

saeko was cut off from reminicsing for a moment when she realized she had tuned out the young boys conversation. so naturally the only thing she would reply with was .

"wait what?"

"yup the doctor agreed to do an eye transplant already have donor eyes ready"

"what who,how did you..even pay for it?"

"i provided valuable research samples for him blood,skin hair samples , he was extremely interested about my healing progress"

"your healing?"

"well yeah i heal really fast but the doc told me it has a huge potential hes been recording and keeping logs he hopes to create medicine from his research"

"so this real?"

"yes youll be able to see the world"

saeko could feel tears rolling down her cheeks she never thought she would have a chance to see the world she hugged the boy in front of her breaking down her usual calm composure. naruto hugged the taller girl as she cried tears coming nonstop a bit of a red tint adorning his whisker marked cheeks as he wasnt really familiar with people being so close to him. saeko cried for a bit before finally calming down.

"when is it?"
"right now"
"so soon?!"
"its my birthday gift to you it will only take a few minutes the recovery takes a couple hours so by tonight youll see "
"well i have to get ready then"
"nonsense you look pretty as you are"
"fine"

naruto held onto saeko's hand and pulled her along the vacant streets it would be hours before the streets would be filled with bustling with merchants and villagers going on about their day.
coming to a stop in front of the hospital naruto quickly led her through a labyrinth of hallways before coming to a stop spotting the silver haired teen wearing glasses and a doctors coat he was looking for
waiting till he was away from who he thought was his father the doctor he watched the apprentice from afar before he was left alone.

"YO kabuto!"

getting the attention of kabuto the teen looked around before signaling to follow him, leading them into a room with 2 makeshift surgical tables from reclining beds a small stand next to the beds was a couple scapels and other various surgical tools at the ready.
motioning for saeko to sit down naruto aided her in finding the chair making sure she was comfortable

(naruto,kabuto,saeko)
"im kinda scared"
"dont worry miss i promise ill have you seeing before noon "
"dont worry ill be here the entire time "
"ill be quick since i technically shouldnt be doing this "
"thanks doc"
"thanks doctor"
"ill administer anesthesia please count from 100 backwards "
"100...99..98..97..96..95... ninety fo..."

the room went completely silent.
kabuto quickly made use of his medical ninja training to implant the donor eyes into the young girl nothing he couldnt handle if it could be done in the field with no sterile equipment on a ninja he could do it no problem.
"ugh hope master finds use for this research"
kabuto finished up within 30 minutes he needed to else his father would find out he was preforming surgery without a license or being a doctor but a mere apprentice he would be banned from ever becoming a doctor if caught. More likely he would be disowned and thrown in jail but his master told him to aid the boy in exchange for research samples.
much easier than abducting him considering he goes missing and it would be noticed and traced back to him blowing his cover as a mole.

naruto awoke to the wierdest smelling odor filling his nostrils. once he regained his composure he realized his eyes were open but he saw nothing but darkness that was the deal he would be the one to give his eyesight to saeko. he knew it would come to this its why he had saeko teach him the tongue clicking technique "for fun" but really he was preparing himself for what he was going to do.
"naruto remember this is also a test to see if your healing factor works on foreign tissue if this works you will be saving millions of lives" kabuto lectured him but he knew if it failed he would never regain his eye sight.

"let yourself out i have to help father with a couple patients your friend will wake up soon "
kabuto could be heard leaving the room naruto "looked" around before hearing the soft breathing of a sleeping saeko. clicking his tongue he was able to navigate himself to the side of her bed albit with a bit of fumbling.
"mmm" saeko stirred a bit while naruto waited for her to wake up. soon enough saeko slowly woke up all she saw was darkness

"it didnt work?"
"try opening your eyes "
"oh right"

saeko gasped she looked at the bright smiling blond boy before him her now cerulean blue eyes swelling with tears she could not hold back.
"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!"
"no problem saeko happy birthday"
"NONONONONONONO NARUTO I LOVE YOU!"

saeko pulled the smaller boy into a bone crushing hug which he happily accepted nothing seemed ordinary to her colors popped out vibrantly she saw her own reflection for the first time her brilliant cerulean eyes welling up with tears of joy soon the boy pulled her out of the hospital she was extactic everything caught her attention. naruto clicked his tongue every once in a while to save her the realization of what he had done.

flashback end

Present time

location: ?

"where are we naruto"
"
no clue kiyomi"
"konaha was this way"
"yeah but all these trees everywhere"
"are we lost? ask for directions"
"
who are we possibly going to ask?"
"i dunno what about
her?"
"
who?"

"eep"

turning his gaze over to a rustle in the bush naruto was a bit amazed at kiyomi for being able to detect her. he had very little perception to begin with being locked up for years does that to a person.
his thoughts were interuppted as the the one who made the sound was trying to run away quickly he willed a nearby pebble to whiz right past the person the second it did that person quickly pulled up her hands in surrender.

"ddont hhurt me"

the girl seemed to be around his age a konaha headband around her neck and a heavy looking tan sweater that seemed out of place for the weather her eyes a milky white her hair in a hime cut tears visible in her eyes she was scared. naruto recognized her she was hinata hyuga an old friend of his.

"hina-chan what are you doing here?"

hanata blinked a couple times surprised by her attacker and looked at him up in down no one but one person had ever called her that and he hadn't used that nickname in ages.
all she saw a weird girl hiding behind a tree and the boy long blond hair high,end ninja gear,onyx eyes whisker marks on his face suddenly it clicked.

"nna-naruto?"
"the one and only"
"you cant be i just saw you before the chunnin exams naruto has blue eyes"
"what? i used to have blue eyes ... long story"
"are you really naruto?"
"yes ive been chained up for a while"
"prove it"

hinata relaxed for a bit but naruto could see a bit of a fire in her milky eyes sighing deeply before he spoke

"we met in the forest you had run away from a couple of bullies then they found you luckily i found u and laid down the smack down"

only naruto would know that the real naruto would know that hinata jumped and hugged the blonde boy knowing he was the one and only real naruto tough she remembered naruto losing that fight but her bullies got bored and left them alone.

"guys"
"not now kiyomi having a moment here"
"guys"
"kiyomi not now"
"naruto"

"kiyomi not n..."
naruto stopped mid sentence as he saw what kiyomi was bugging him about she was currently a hostage as a spiky haired orange clad doppelganger held a kunai knife to her throat
onyx black eyes met cerulean blue each one looking into the other both of them identical one was locked up while the other roamed free taking the originals place

"what do you want?"
"you to come back to the facility"
"whats your name?"
"naruto"
"your real name"
"naruto uzumaki"
"im naruto uzumaki the real one,your mission was to take my place whats your real name?"
"subject B8"
"bait?"
"yes"
"...FUCK!"

naruto wide eyed quickly turned around to find a couple incoming kunai sailing towards him while two masked ninja popped out from the trees hinata instinctively pulled out a kunai to defend herself as well as getting closer to the real naruto. she knew there where too many to block yet the boy didnt dodge he stood still as the kunai neared she feared for his life and her own but the knives stopped, turned right around and flew through the skulls of both the masked ninja landing with a sickening thud blood started pooling .

naruto turned his attention to his doppleganger his blue eyes staring straight at him a kunai pulled itself from a nearby corpse floated over naruto's shoulder and pointed itself ready to embed itself into its target.
quickly kiyomi bit her captors forarm giving her enough time to slip free from his grasp and leave him with no bargaining chip he was ready to fight after all he had proper ninja training his original was malnourished physically and mentally exhausted he would have no problem taking him back to the facility.

"i know you arent a perfect copy they never could clone me perfectly"

subject B8 put his hand to his face and pulled his face tore off along with portions of his scalp revealing a disfigured face muscles visible his missing lips causing him to look like a grinning skull

"eww put your face back on"

multi shadow clone jutsu

naruto's eyes flashed a clouded red almost pink color as B8 duplicated himself now making this a 3 on 2 battle hinata readied herself as well

"no i can take him on myself"
naruto smirked as he felt knowledge flow into him from the battle he felt it some sort of familiarity as if he had ninja training as if he knew the jutsu but he had never used a jutsu before ...until now.

multi shadow clone jutsu!

50 narutos appeared a couple taking a step back to protect kiyomi and hinata if need be
the 3 B8 clones instinctively took a step back he had read the file on his original religiously but nothing was in there about him knowing any jutsu at all, hell chakra control tests showed he was completley inept at chakra use ...he suddenly realized his chakra use was crap because the facility kept him under a cocktail of drugs to inhibit any attempts at escape.

he had made a terrible mistake.

cursing the researchers at the facility for an amateur mistake he knew he was done for it was almost as if in slow motion the original naruto's clones spread out in front of him he was powerless to stop them.
a whizzing was heard and he winced as he recieved a dispelled clones memories , death was painful.
another one was down and his death was similar, and now he was the only one left nothing to substitute himself with and no other jutsus in his arsenal maybe being naruto uzumaki was a curse instead of a blessing.

B8 looked upon the real naruto before mouthing the words

"good luck"

B8's body was torn apart by a barrage of stones going through his flesh at high speed each stone going through muscle,bone and various organs like a knife through butter
the army of clones dispelled itself after the deed was done nothing was left only a large splatter on the ground showing where someone used to be.

"uh oh oh boy"

naruto swayed a bit before falling to the ground in a slump unconcious and a bit of blood dripping from his nose and eyes leaving hinata and kiyomi in an awkard silence niether of them had any clue what to do hinata had to regroup with her team mates surely they were wondering where she was and would be soon looking for her

she had to regroup but what to do,with him? she turned to naruto what of him? he had no chance if he was found afterall his hair stood out showing he was a completely different naruto from the one the konoha 11 knew.
Worse yet he just murdered the naruto they all knew ,which was some kind of actual clone grown in a lab to take his place. hinata knew there must be sinister forces within konaha working for some kind of goal. she doubted the hokage knew as he treated the clone as well as he had always treated naruto.

what should she do ?

she kept asking herself over and over the other girl seemed to just be poking the boy with a other naruto wore a bright orange jumpsuit the entirety of the chunnin exam hopefuls saw him there was no way she sould pass this naruto off as the one they saw that stuck out like a sore thumb, it also didnt help that the imposter naruto basically called out everyone out.

this naruto was clad in milataryesque clothing and seemed much more serious and there was no way they would buy that naruto grew his hair in a matter of hours.

she could tell them he unleashed his fullpower and his hair grew out due to his power,mentally slapping herself hinata knew this was not an anime, nor the time for jokes his life was in her hands since the other girl was kind of an airhead.

"who dont you cut his hair and throw it in a scroll we got them here"
hinata jumped with an "eep" the wierd girl had completely snuck up on her she was undetectable most likely due to her being deep in thought.
though her opinion of the girl changed maybe she was not an air head after all. she grabbed his hair and with a kunai quickly sheared it as close to the impostors hairstyle. now naruto actually looked like the naruto they knew only difference being the outfit which was fine. maybe she should change his clothes after all she knew the impostor had a spare in a scroll.

her face heated up a bit thinking about undressing the blonde. she looked around the ground and found the impostors scroll unpacking a fresh new orange jumpsuit.

her face was putting a tomato to shame.

hinata asked kiyomi for help the girl seemed unfazed by undressing naruto...just what type of relationship did she have with naruto? putting her slight jelousy aside she gasped at the scars naruto bore on his person all incredibly faint as if they had healed quickly some seemed like puncture marks she saw on addicts but he did not seem under any drug influence. he must have been in a hospital or something more likely experimentation.

within a minute they had both changed hinata nearly fainted when changing his pants since apparently he was going commando kiyomi was unfazed ...just what type of relationship did she have to be so comfortable with him she knocked those thoughts out of her head since it was serious at the moment.

"he looks like the clone now"
kiyomi said next to hinata's ear again making her jump not execting the girl to be there that girl was undetectable she didn't seem to have a presence at all considering she seemed very cheerful and not shy at the moment.

quickly putting all of narutos original belongings in a scroll and putting it inside his item pouch she was done at least, and just in the nick of time.

"Yo hinata we came to look for you. whoa what happened to naru.."
kiba came into view though he stopped mid sentence and sniffed the air a bit noticing the smell of blood. shino came out as well his eyes covered by his glasses obvious he was on alert as he scanned naruto a couple meters away from him a giant bloodstain someone had died and it looked like naruto did the deed, at least that was what he concluded eyeing the unknown civilian girl as well as noticing naruto's orange suit was pristine. he sensed no chakra coming from the girl even his insects could not sense any hint of it.

"ugh that was intense too many and ill get overloaded with information need to practice that kiyo.."
naruto stopped talking looked around mainly kinda irked at his sudden change in attire he looked like his noticed hinata's flustered face she changed him and saw his... feeling a bit of heat going to face he realized she had basically helped him reintegrate into konaha. should the appearance of a second naruto been known they might have lynched both of them.

"sup kiba shino and hinata thanks for covering me while i was out"
smirking at her red face he needed to figure out what was going on and why hinata was in the forest in the first place

hinata was explaining what had happened to her team well a well edited version of what had happened she was attacked and naruto took him out with his shadow clones.

"thanks for helping hinata" kiba almost yelled out
"thank you naruto" shinos voice was clear but monotone
"you should get back to sasuke and sakura naruto" hinata discreetly told him who his team was

"alright i should head over take care hina-chan shinni and kiba"

naruto and kiyomi walked past the group and headed towards the treeline
"naruto you dropped your notepad" hinata quickly gave him a slightly bloodied notebook
"thanks but its not mine" he whispered to the lavender eyed girl

"trust me your NEED it" hinata emphasized how he needed it so in the end naruto grabbed the notepad not fully knowing what it was and once again headed to take his leave

this time he bumped into shino
"god dammit shinni don't you know it freaks me out your too quiet"

"my dearest friend take this kiba is a dolt but your team will notice you are not the naruto they know" shino pulled his glasses off and handed them to naruto which he took with a smile

"thanks shino"

another chapter done im hoping to bring out another chapter in 2 weeks but