"It was my first mission with out sensei and I almost end up getting raped but I'm protected by my blind client who I'm supposed to be protecting! How is that ok?"
"Because you're not hurt and neither I'm I, try to focus on the positive instead of the bad Matsuri-chan."
"You were a nin before you were blind?"
"Hai but I'm going to live a life of a civilian in mist."
"Why? You can still fight so why are you leaving?" I sigh as I get up and she grabs my hand leading me back to the path while she gathered are things.
"I can't fight I'm blind, my blindness is a weakness to my village that I don't intend to burden them with."
"I
don't understand, sensei said a village is made up of every one
whether they are strong or weak."
"You're
young, one day you'll understand someday."
"You're
only what 14?"
"I'm 16 and a half and your still a child, trust me."
We got to the house and she guides me around the outside then the inside till I was fairly familiar with everything. I settled in quickly and by noon it was time for her to start head to mist where she would meet other Suna Nin to go home.
I stand on the porch looking out the path Matsuri was walking when she turned around and started talking.
"I don't know your name but I'll be waiting for you to go home. I know that some one like you can't stay useless for long. You'll find a way to thrive and stand out again."
"Some one like me? Again?"
"You're the type of person who can't stand to see people get hurt. You will gain the power to protect those that are unable to, that much I can see. I want to be that kind of person, so while you're here I will strive to become your equal and when we meet I hope that I'll be able to stand beside you to protect others. And I definitely know that you stand out because of that and I know you'll find away to help people again." I smile at her as I listen to her run off as I shake my head in amusement.
I wake up in a sweat and panic as I fall out of bed stumbling out of the room trying to find a bathroom but panic seizes me and I call out for help but no one answers but the night as I curl up on the floor and cry at my helplessness. My body is shaking as I try to calm my fears but the night's nightmare and the fact I'm really alone scares the crap out of me. My emotions made my chakra erratic as I release a huge amount of chakra that spreads through the house like gas. I blink as I realize I can sense everything in the house with my chakra but the act of losing so much makes me tired. I fall asleep curled in the fetal position on the floor in what ever place I'm in.
The next time I wake I can hear the birds singing so I'm guessing its morning so I begin crawling around till I find my bedroom. I dress in a simple midnight kimono with a black sash that makes up much of my wardrobe as I feel my way down stairs. I find my walking stick as I head to the kitchen and find it stocked with food so I take out what I hope is an apple but as it turns out its pear. I sit on a stool and I take a deep breath and continue eating the fruit as last nights events washed over me.
The nightmare was of the mission I had come back from as their deaths haunted me but the fact it caused me to go into in such a panic that it made me shutter. The only thing good about that night was my discovery of my super chakra senses. I finished eating and I took a spot on my back yard in the grass that's still a little wet from the morning dew. I take a mediation pose like Nisan had taught me so many years ago when it was the rare time he was kind to me.
I felt everything around me become clearer and I slowly released my chakra but this time I concentrated on having it as thin as I could get as I let it roam over the yard. I saw blackness but when my chakra hit and object it outlined it with blue as it clung on to my surroundings.
'Oi! Are you awake?"
My focus is broke as I turned my head slightly to the three kids- no they're genin at my gate.
"Hai. What can I do for you?"
"Were looking for the blind old hag we're supposed to do work for."
"Old
hag? Gomen but it's just me here."
"Kira
you shouldn't call people hags." I
felt a fourth presence and from what I saw in my chakra vision he was
an older man with grey hair.
"Hai sensei but where is the old woman?"
"I'm sorry for my student's intrusion but I was under the impression there's a blind woman lives here alone." I smile and sigh before I get up to face them.
"Well I'm the only person here and I'm blind so I suppose I'm the one you're looking for."
I hear the young ones gasp and I can feel the old mans stare that's probably of pity.
'Yahoo! We get to work for a pretty Girl!"
"Baka Kira!"
I listened to them fight as fond memories of my friends danced across my mind but I pushed those back as the sensei spoke.
"My name is Yodo and these are my three students, we will be working for you an entire year.
"I'm Kira the amazing Ninja and I'll be your future Husband!"
"Baka Kira! My name is Yuki and it's an honor to meet you sempai."
"Sem-pai?" I looked at the girl strangely but the last boy who hadn't said word spoke up.
"We were informed you were a powerful Nin in your time but I don't see it."
"Naoya-kun please be nice to Hinata-san."
"Powerful Nin huh? Ah who knows? But that was in my past and I'm like this now so don't worry about such things and please call me Hinata-chan." I smile at them before I sit down and return to meditation.
"What do you want us to do then?"
"Hmm, what ever you like." I smile at them before I concentrate again but what shocks me is that when the kids are training I can see them and whatever their chakra touches.
Hmm so I can sense what ever chakra touches like a bat with sound waves? The more I watch the more I can pick out details in chakra. When it tenses I can tell they're reading an attack and when it loosens they're trying to fake an attack. The chakra changes every second and I can tell what there going to do ahead of time by studying it. The chakra does the same thing in each of them like it's a second nature, hmm this is quite interesting.
I wave them off as they leave and I crawl into the office and I explode my chakra into a thin layer like I had been practicing on the kids this afternoon. I grabbed a quill and I expelled chakra to see the quill in more detail but I was focusing on the pen as it glowed before I dropped it in surprise.
I was concentrating on the pen and accidentally infused my chakra into it making it visible to without having to shower my chakra around it. Could I do that with ink? Would it stay so I could read it later? Or should I infuse the scroll instead?
I spent time experimenting with the quill, ink and the scrolls till I heard the birds singing and I realized I'd stayed up through the night. I rolled my neck to get the cricks out but I was pleasantly surprised to find I wasn't tired.
I found my way to the fridge as I showered it with my chakra and this time I made myself a proper breakfast before I went out into the yard.
"Good morning Hinata-san!"
I smile at the girl and the others with their good morning.
"Good morning minna, did you have a good night?"
They started telling stories except the blond boy who started training alone.
"Ah! Hinata-Koi I just realized something!" I couldn't help but blush at the boy's brazen words but Yuki punched him the head for me.
"Ah but my sweet fiancée is all alone at night so one of us should stay here and help her right?" He was punched into the ground and I chuckle at the familiarity of it.
"Ah Hinata-chan it would do this old man great ease if you let Naoya-kun stay here with you for a while." I
"What Naoya! Here with my future wife! I forbid it!" I cringe as I feel the earth break at Kira's impact into the earth but he's up in seconds forbidding such things.
"Sensei I don't want to be a burden on Hinata-san." Those words strung a deep cord that made my mouth move before my brain.
"Of course you're welcome Naoya-san." Then before I knew it the old man sent the three to go get Naoya's things and I was left alone with Yodo-san.
"Tsunade is a very old friend of mine Hinata-chan; she told me the truth about what happened to you. I have great respect for you and your heart."
"My heart? Maybe I was tired of seeing things?"
"You may think that but we know that is not the truth or else you would have refused Naoya-kun because of your nightmares."
"There's something about him that's familiar to me."
"His father abuses him, I'm sorry but I used you as an excuse for him to go somewhere safe. And from what my old friend tells me I believe you can help him where no one else can."
"How can I possibly help that boy like this?"
"What blind? Hinata-chan people underestimate the blind but I believe there is something in you that will not giving up helping those in need. In order to do that you have to overcome your own fears and doubts quicker then others. Others let those fears and doubts eat away at them and they change into what they think they are. You have more will power, if you wish I would like to help you explore this new path and I have no doubt the others would like to as well."
I smile at him and I tell him about everything I've experimented with and he seemed interested as he gave me suggestions and ideas to experiment on.
"Hinata-chan might I advise to start sharpening your other senses so you could save your reserves for other things? I have some exercises to help you."
I smile and nod as he begins going over exercises for me to try with hearing, touch and smell when the others arrive back at the house.
"I am back my love!" I smile at him and I hear a thump, I panic wondering what happened to the boy but the others laugh and tell me he fainted.
Yodo gets the others to help my as they bring things to test my smell and feeling before Yodo calls it a day.
Naoya guides m into the house and I shower the kitchen with my chakra so I can cook us a meal.
'Why do you need us if you've been blind so long?" I'm washing the lettuce but I can tell he's sitting on the stool watching me.
"I've been blind for a week Naoya-kun so I'm not use to it and there are a lot of things I can't do." I focus on his chakra and from its action I can tell he's surprised and I little awed.
