YAAAY! Time for Tenten-chan!
Being the bastard I am sometimes, I had to make Tenten-chan unique in some way. So I made her blind!
Blind ninja kick ass, but I just wish I knew what she looked like with her hair down.
Two cute girls in a row, GLEE!
I have to wonder however how I can write a girl's perspective to begin with.
Of course asking that after writing Tsunade and Hinata might make that question moot.
Anyway, here we go…
Please read and review.
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Disclaimer: Must I really go over this again? gets attacked by lawyers Gahh, FINE! I don't any of this except my own ideas. And no I really don't want to see if it can bend that way!
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Endless black,
Bottomless void,
Eternal darkness.
It's all the same to me.
Just another way to describe what I see all the time.
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It's quite terrifying, what a simple technique can do to a person if they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A mistake that drops summoned creature on top of the summoner.
Opening the celestial gates right before being totally immobilized.
Tripping and falling while fighting with a Hyuuga, making their attack hit somewhere other then expected.
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Neji and I were on patrol duty that day.
We had been told that the nukenin, Uzumaki Naruto, had been seen in the region.
Our orders were to kill Uzumaki on sight.
Why was that, I wonder.
Naruto did not leave the village of his own will, but was exiled.
How then could Konoha justify calling him a missing-nin if it was the only reason he was one?
...Fuck...
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When we first found Naruto, he was standing at the edge of training ground 7.
Where he first fought alongside pinky and the bastard.
Err, maybe 'fought alongside' isn't really the best description of. Maybe more like 'was used as cannon fodder for a scarecrow'.
Damn't, off-topic again.
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He was gazing down at the stone that held the names of Leaf shinobi killed in action.
Though his back was turned to us,
he waved to us, as if he was expecting us.
"Hiya, how have either of you been?"
Needless to say, both Neji and I were somewhat stunned. Though we both knew Naruto when he was one of us. But it's usually sort of unnerving when a nukenin speaks to you so casually. Especially when they're facing the other direction.
"Hey Tenten, been training hard? I bet you could beat Temari-san in a fight by now."
Very off the wall behavior, if you ask me.
Neither Neji nor I answered still.
The blonde continued,
"Hey Neji, how's Hinata doing?"
Neji finally spoke up,
"Naruto...she misses you."
Until that point, I don't think I'd ever heard Neji talk this way about his cousin.
Naruto said nothing for a few seconds, then turned and looked over his shoulder at us; and both Neji and I were floored.
He was smiling.
And there were tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Neji?" he began.
"Yeah?" the other boy answered.
"Tell Hinata..."
He closed his eyes for a few moments, visibly composing his thoughts.
I'll never forget the words he spoke next.
"Tell Hinata...that I'm sorry,...and that I miss her too."
Neji simply nodded.
All of us waited in silence for a minute or so.
"Ano...Neji?...If I died, would that make the people of this village truly happy?"
Hyuuga Neji, genius of his clan, and rookie of the year, had no answer.
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Finally, Naruto turned towards us.
"Well I guess you two are here to kill me, right? Let's get started before more people show up and ruin the fun, ne?
Neither Neji nor I answered. We just began to attack him with everything we had.
And it happened.
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Naruto stood between the two of us. While he appeared fairly beat up, Neji and I looked much worse.
Naruto threw two kunai at Neji, who began to execute kaiten to deflect them.
Right back at the blonde.
What Neji came to realize after that fight is that he might have used too much chakra in his technique.
The earlier mentioned blade pierced straight through Uzumaki Naruto, and into me.
The sight of a kunai bursting from the back of an orange jacket was the last thing I ever saw.
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When I woke up a day later in the hospital, I immediately noticed the change.
I was, and would be for the rest of my life, totally blind.
If Naruto had moved out of the way of that kunai, it's velocity would not have decreased and...
Well, my name would currently be engraved on the monument at training ground 7
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Author's notes: You know, I actually wrote this chapter to show how some of the remaining rookie 9 feel about Naruto's being exiled.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to put as much emphasis on the present as I intended too, but I think Tenten focusing on her last visual memory actually worked out pretty well.
Another thing I wanted to show was important was how while Naruto no longer cared about protecting the village as a whole, there were still those that he cared about. And since Tenten had never treated Naruto as bad as a lot of other characters did, he respected her as well. That's why he let himself get hit with the kunai.
More author's notes would qualify as liking the sound of my own voice, so I'll leave it at this, and beg you pathetically to review.
Please, please, please, please review! Having 1 less then 50 reviews at 8 chapter's drove me absolutely insane!
My next chapter will be written more in monologue style rather then remembering past events, so if you didn't like it this chap, then flame me anyway, it's still a review!
Bwahahaha!
Until next time,
Ja ne